Hi,
Welcome to the forth issue of Light-Up-Your-Life
Newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to guide you
as
you discover the very source of Happiness and Wisdom.
This source is so deep
that it is unaffected by the
conditions of your environment, your body and
mind.
In this issue we will discuss how to make life an adventure.
Changing from the inside is a real adventure, because you
don't know what the results will be until you experience
them.
This sense of surprise keeps life fresh and full of energy.
Also we have an article by a guest writer Vicki Woodyard,
"The Good Life". Vicki talks about staying inside your own
being.
If you have questions or comments please send an e-mail to:
michael@light-up-your-life.com.
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First a poem that stretches
beyond loss.
Today I found out that my friend passed away.
We had just spent the hour in meditation and
now like a flash of lighting in the sky he is gone.
But that space-like
presence that made his soul
thick with the incense of love, free from my
form and his; that clear liquid love that supports
the waves in the ocean as they rise, stay awhile
and then merge back into their source!
The water that always was, always is and always
shall be to the end of time. Who would have thought
that love was the glue that binds us to infinity; I hear
his voice through the either, "Remain as you are and
we will never stray apart."
And now a quote from a dialog with
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Question: I want happiness.
Maharaj: True happiness cannot be found in things
that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate
inexorably. Happiness comes from the self and can
be found in the self only. Find your real self and all
else will come with it.
Question: If my real self is peace and love, why is
it so restless?
Maharaj: It is not your real being that is restless but
its reflection in the mind appears restless because the
mind is restless. It is just like the reflection of the
moon in the water stirred by the wind. The wind of
desire stirs the mind and the 'me', which is but a
reflection of the Self in the mind, appears changeful.
But these ideas of movement of restlessness, of pleasure
and pain are all in the mind. The Self stands beyond the
mind, aware, but unconcerned.
From "I Am That"
Translated by Maurice Frydman
Copywrite © by Nisaragatta Maharaj
How to Make Life an Adventure
(How to be on vacation always)
What is an adventure? Just to go to a new place or to see a new thing
is not necessarily an adventure. In fact if you see new things in the same
old way, from the same place, then a trip to a new place could seem
boring. So the good thing about a vacation is not necessarily the
change in place. Rather it is the opportunity to step beyond your normal
boundaries and to see things afresh. So if you could discover an easy
way to step out of your normal boundaries and to see things afresh, then
you could be on vacation all of the time, or anytime you wanted to be.
This vacation would be at the source of bliss itself. When you experience
freedom that seems to carry you beyond your boundaries and limitations,
it feels like that's where you belong all of the time. This is what I mean
when I talk about bliss. When you're there, it feels like happiness
that is going to last forever. So what's the secret of staying there forever
free from the circumstances that seem to creep into your life?
When you come down to a state that feels limited, that seems to cramp
your style and feels restricted, what's going on? Thanks to
www.Light-Up-Your-Life.com, you now know the secret: the source
of happiness is right where you experience it. What's going on is that you
overlook the source of happiness, which is without limitations. What I am
saying here is that happiness is a state without limitations and that means
that at your very core you are without limitations.
Like the thief who didn't know that the money was under his own pillow,
this is the last place you might expect to find this expansive happiness,
but it is the easiest place to access it. Why don't we expect to find
happiness right where we actually experience it? Because we are used
to looking at objects in the world, not at ourselves; our senses are
designed to look out into the world and our body and mind are built to
act on what we sense. None of our five senses are designed to look at
the seer.
So first we throw the happiness that is rightfully ours outside and place
it in different objects. Then we run after them. Then we perceive
obstructions to our happiness.
This pattern occurs in the smallest as well as the largest areas of our
life. If we are hoping to go to our favorite country retreat for vacation
and our spouse wants to go to New York City, then we have a small
problem. If Hitler blames the Jews for the problems of Germany,
then we have a big problem. Once we identify what we think the obstacle
to our happiness is, then we tighten up and narrow down our focus in our
attempt to get rid of the obstacle. This could mean negotiating with our
spouse or, like Hitler did, attempting to get rid of the people who were
the apparent cause of his misery. Even what we call evil is just the search
for happiness.
For us though, this is where meditation comes in handy. Returning to the
source, you can take the sting out of your problem. This sting is the feeling
of loss, the loss of happiness. Standing at the source of joy, your happiness
is secured; life seems like child's play. If you decide to play marbles or not
play marbles with a child it makes little difference to your happiness. With
your happiness secured, the worry that seems to box us in and to limit us
goes away. This is real freedom. This is where life becomes fresh and new.
A real adventure.
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What would you do right now if you could do anything that you wanted to do?
Don’t answer—because
it is a trick question. There is no doer. Being knows
this. Being knows that doing arises from being as naturally as smoke rises
from a fire.
What is being? Being is being one with yourself and thus with the universe.
Being never misses the mark because it is the mark. Doing frequently drops the
ball because it has split itself off from the divine being that you are.
Guilt arises from doing without being. So does depression, fear, and all of
the negative emotions. If you want to end guilt forever, stop doing and just
be. Your guilt will increase for the simple reason that you have challenged
it. Give your guilt the old spiritual raspberry. Tell it to go for a long
walk on a short pier. But listen to something higher.
Guilt is good at almost everything except freedom. It succeeds in making you
conform to this world. It wins at making you do things that you don’t want
to
do. It turns your positive energy into bad energy. Sounds like you can do
without it—and
you can.
To return to the question of what you really want to do—you
know the answer.
You want to be whole and at ease with yourself. Guilt is bent on keeping you
from this goal. The way to end guilt is to know that you are being driven by
it unconsciously. Once you see it, it begins to evaporate like the evil witch
in The Wizard of Oz. Just looking at it ends its power over you.
The highest spiritual beings are those that refuse to give you advice on
worldly matters. They point you, instead, to your true nature. Ramana
Maharshi, Ramakrishna, Christ, the Buddha—all
were living examples of the one
Self that we all are. Just to gaze at a picture of Ramana Maharshi is to enjoy
the ease of your being.
Take a deep breath right now and be who you truly are. For this is what you
really want to do. You want to bless, not curse. You want to heal, not harm.
You want to give life, not death. And all you have to do is be.
We are sold a bill of goods about freedom being a physical thing. We see ads
of glorious cars that can take us anywhere that we want to go. We watch
television and see products that promise fulfillment. Don’t believe them
one
second longer. We are where we are supposed to be at any given moment. No one
can ever leave the Self for it is omnipresent.
So give up your mental picture of the good life and enjoy being as you are.
The good life or the God life.
Vicki Woodyard
http://www.bobwoodyard.com
You can't stop chasing happiness because that's who you are. All you
can do is find the source of happiness—your
own being. There you can
rest in peace.
Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments
at: Michael@light-up-your-life.com.
Sincerely,
Michael Gluckman