How Difficult

How Difficult it is to control the mind. How difficult it is to contemplate on the mystical names of the Lord. How difficult it is for the consciousness to separate from the body while living....How difficult.

Only your pure love can help oh Lord...only your gaze in my direction can help oh Lord...
Only your approval for my presence can help My Lord
Only yours to awaken my soul can help My Lord

Life can be fair or unfair - its a matter of relative comparison....
Life can sweet or sour - its a matter of taste
Life can be beautiful or ugly - its a matter of sight
Life can be musical or noisy - its a matter of listening
Life can be fragrant or pungent - its a matter of smell
Life can be smooth or rough - its a matter of touch

Duality is what keeps me apart from the Lord

Please Lord help me help me help me

your soul in distress

Radical and Paradoxical Thoughts in Spirituality 

It is rather interesting to note that spirituality is truly a way of radical thinking. 

Let's start with Christ when he said - " Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" and even "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".

Firstly, how can meekness and being poor in spirit enable anyone to achieve anything in life? But Christ says these words. This is clearly a paradox. 

Then Rumi, the most well know Sufi Master, talks of radical love which is like ivy that sucks every nutrient out of the tree before moving to another "victim". How is that love then? 

What are your thoughts on this? anyone out there? 

Sage Seeker

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray and Love

3 words that can make a man happy. But only if the words were turned around a little.

Pray, Love and Eat....

I prayed for a lovely wife, i found one and she loves me and i love her cuz her cooking is
amazingly delicious. I prayed, loved and ate. That only lasts for a couple of months...maybe
a year or two...until the kids come. And the kids are so wonderful.
for them its Eat, Play and Eat...that's all they do! For me its Eat, Shit and clean up (they eat the food, shit around the house and i have to clean it up!)

As they grow bigger, its Play, Pay and Pray... They play all day long and don't study much. I Pay for all the bills until i start praying .....to end all of this..

I work all my life now to make them happy (wife and kids) and all i do is Work, Work and Work.
Can't spend time with my wife...even though she spent all the money to keep herself slim and sexy.

Slowly the kids leave the house one by one and find it hard to live in the outside world..
Meantime, i am forced to retire and now i Laze, Walk (around the house) and Irritate (the hell out of
my wife)... the kids ask if they can come back...not because they love..but they can't afford the cost
of living out there... They meet someone and again they too Pray, Love and Eat....

Meantime, i am about leave this world... now i Medicate (to take care of the old age pains), Defacate (can't help it ..if i've got loose bowels at this age now), and Wait (for death to quickly come) ...


forget Pray, Love and Eat.... its Eat Pray and Love alright...

I want to eat as much as i want and whenever i want.. I pray i don't get married and have kids and i know i will Love my life if that happens...

Let's Eat Pray Love...
Sageseeker

Out..

Its Time to get back on line...and get things going

It's amazing that the world has so much to offer in terms of mysticism, spirituality, God, Science, Love and compassion- yet we still find something is missing, something not there, something we feel needs to be tailored for us. With all our expectations and wants in life, many of us are stuck with what is needed first rather than want we truly want.

There is so much talk about spirituality and that meditation, looking inwards is key to keeping our sanity in check, in keeping our balance between what is right for the body and mind and what is right for the soul, that we still don't want to get to it and do it.


There is the talk on law of attraction, Deepak Chopra's seven spiritual laws of success, SriKumar Rao's book on "Are you ready to succeed?", Wayne Dyer's book on "the power of intention, the Secret, .. and so on... tons and tons of books on how to use (or abuse) nature to fulfill your personal desires, that one starts to wonder that - if we were meant to read the books or listen to these "spiritual consultants" " then why are they not the richest men or women in the world, why do they make money telling others how to get what they want.... if they got what they wanted, then why bother telling the world about it. Perhaps nature wanted them to understand the concept but not share it because its a personal journey, its something you figure it out yourself. And shouldn't that be free? What is the cost of spirituality?

Personally, i don't have the answers. I know the realm of that spiritual kingdom is within ourselves and i think we all have a personal journey which God, or any other supernatural source up there, had a plan for us. For if He is all knowing, then He knows what is going to happen to us in the future, else He can't be an all knowing God. If i have to use law of attraction, or the power of my intention to get what i want... then the theory that God exists is defunct.

So, perhaps God actually wanted us to know the concepts of intention and attraction, so much so, he wanted to give us what we wanted, thinking it was us and not Him all along.

Well... lets see what happens... let me start manifesting the life i want... and see if it was mine in the first place....

signing off
Mystical Mo

Our journey forward

A king was interested in a girl who was supposedly a "low born" in the kingdom and many around him, including his mother, tried to influence him not to marry the girl. He had known the girl from young as a friend who helped him in many ways to avoid the wrath of the political infighting and his possible assassination while he was the crown prince. Many times he asked her to be his concubine as the queen was not able to bear him an heir. She found ways not to come to him. The queen was also fond of her for she had the king's interest at heart. But the politics around him, made it so difficult for the concubine to come into the fold of royalty. Finally, the king approached her and told her that he would not leave her home if she did not come with him to the palace. She searched within her heart and realized that she truly loved the king. So she ran to him and she said to him - that she is a low born and of a low caste - the only thing she can give the king is her loving heart and will be there by his side come rain or shine. The king with tears in his eyes said - he never wanted anything from her at all. But hearing from her that she could only give him his heart, he felt that all the kingdom's riches could not compare with that precious gift of hers for that was the only commodity that weighed the heaviest in terms of purity and sincerity. If he was to die that moment, he would have felt the most satisfied person in the world for he has tasted the purity of her love for he loved her so much.

This story which talks of love of the concubine for her beloved, is selfless, without condition and pure. If only we can give our Master, our Lord that love which is selfless, with no preconditions and pure, would we be able to taste the purity of His Love for us.

Our expectations when we help someone

We sometimes go our way to help someone in need. When the other person is down and really needs help, you feel wanting to help by providing an opportunity for him or her to start standing up on his/her own feet. But as the person gets stronger, the person develops other opportunities, he/she decides that you are not needed in their current equation of needs and wants. And so that person says good bye to you and leaves you in the lurch or without even a thanks, decides to take a hike.

How does that make us feel? Angry, disgusted, used, etc etc..
But there's another way to look at this - from the positive point of view. Our links and relationships with people we help should not start with expectations of loyalty and appreciation. As God creates everyone differently - as those who believe in the Karmic theory - everyone is moulded according to their previous karmas. In line with that theory also, our relationships are karmic - which means its when it starts - it has to end.

still under construction.....

What do we do when things don't go the way you want to

I think this has been a perennial question by many for a long time. Children typically blow tantrums and depending on the weakness of the parents (many times guised as love) give in to their demands. But as we become adults there's lots we want out of life but we are not sure about how to go about getting them. The question is do we know what we want vs what we need?
At different times in life, as we go on a journey of adventure and mystery of love, hate, envy, ambition, greed, passion, etc etc etc...i.e our life -  the demands by our mind (depending on the vitality of our physical body, senses and desires) on us begin to wear us down and we start asking why this and why that - why are things not going the way we want them to go.
Its all about expectations from life, expectations from the people around us, expectations from ourselves.
We may think we are doing the right thing in achieving the things we want - but will all that give us happiness. Many times, its the process of getting what we want that makes us unhappy, that makes us realize that its not that easy.

Depending on the intensity of our greed, our envy, our desires, our disappointments, our expectations and the degree of our happiness/unhappiness also is affected accordingly.