- If you ever crash your car into a body of water, however shallow it might seem, you should immediately start rolling your windows down (once the vehicle has fully submerged the pressure of the water against the door will make it impossible to open the door). You can either escape through the open window or wait for the pressure to equalize and open the door.
- If it's a brown bear, play dead. If it's a black bear fight. Black bears are scavengers and will think a dead body is a free food
- If you find more than one person unconscious, DO NOT APPROACH. There's possibly gas and toxins about, you'll just be another victim if you get too close. Phone the authorities and report it instead.
- If you ever get held at gunpoint and asked to get in a vehicle, you fight with everything you've got to not do that. Run zig zag, punch and kick, do whatever even if you die in the process. Because 99% of the time, people who get in the car do not come back. Especially if being moved from a public place to a private place. I read a statistical breakdown of what happened when people fled from a possible kidnapper with a gun. I can't remember exactly, but I think it said only 50% of the time will the attacker shoot, and if they do shoot, there's only a 25% chance they will hit you, and if they do hit you there's only a 10% chance it will be a fatal wound. So in the end there's less than a 1% chance that if you run you will die, whereas going with the attacker almost always results in death.
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Yes. It is very true! 🥰🥰🥰 I explain this to all of my clients, and it's so awesome to hear that coming from someone who isn't a spiritual teacher.
We don't ever really know if we are on the right path, but I can tell you indications of being on the wrong path:
- Things always going wrong, very wrong
- Depression, anxiety, internal crisis
- Very bad luck & blocked blessings
- Money problems
- Lack of passion & motivation
- Stagnation, just existing
- Lack of stability
- Feeling hopeless & aimless
- Failed attempts to do things you want to do
- Every relationship fails, moving to a certain place always falls through, you studied for a certain career & keep meeting brick walls unable to work in that field, every time you try to make friends or do the right thing, it blows up in your face
The universe has a way of turning us over on our heads if we continue to do things that aren't in our best interest, or things that are not good for us and keep us from our best life. If you're clinging to terrible, toxic people eventually everything in your life will become hard to deal with, jobs fall through, friends go away, the car always breaks down, just one thing after another. This is just one example.
Our idea of karma is all wrong. Karma is intended to steer us back on our correct path if we stray too far away. It isn't some tally of checks and balances
If you aren't learning the lessons you came here to learn in this life, you will simply repeat this in the next life until you get it right 😊
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asambhava bhavna , viparita bhavana
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Watch your mind compulsively seek out material pleasure and sense gratifications.
Ask what it wants, what it really wants underneath those desires.
Ask again.
What’s underneath that? Good.
Ask again.
What’s underneath even that. And underneath even that.
Be relentless and unflinchingly honest with your answer.
If you dig deep enough, like this, you will discover:
“Oh, my mind simply wants the state it was in before it had any desire at all!
That innocent, stasis, needs-for-nothing state of bliss it was already resting in, before the desire for material pleasure or sense gratifications even cropped up.
That primordial Peace, God’s empty floor, before I had the desire to dance on it, furnish it, adorn it
That eternal Now, before I even conceived of a ‘then,’ and a ‘What-can-I-do-next?’ or a ‘What can I fill it with?’
That’s what my mind is really reaching for.
It doesn’t want pleasures and gratifications.
It doesn’t want what it desires.
It wants desirelessness.
That empty, ripple-less Peace-beyond-all-understanding it already, always had, before I tossed ten thousand desire pebbles into it.
That crystal-clear transparency from top to bottom that it had before I stirred up all the mud & murk with my seeking-gratification stick.
You think you lost that Peace. So the mind compulsively runs around, trying material things, trying everything, looking for it again.
When will you finally stop running around and surrender yourself to enlightenment?
When you realize, no matter what outer pleasures you covet and successfully acquire
You are still going to die. Anyway. Very soon.
And all your ‘future’ pleasure seeking & enjoying will be over. For good.
But Now will always be eternal. And eternally peaceful.
Don’t wait for the ‘future.’
Die Now, surrender Now, and enter the eternal Now.
You don’t want what you desire.
Desirelessness is what you seek
- Teja
Yes, they do have pure consciousness aka awareness.
Or more precisely they have SENSE of ‘isness'.
In fact ‘enlightenment’ brings the same ‘isness' which is pure from pollution of our conscious mind.
After enlightenment, one starts living exactly like trees and flowers giving out fruits and fragrance.
Like
The compassion of Buddha and Jesus - it is just like wildflower - no one is passing by, no one even notices it in dense forest. It has flowered, standing alone and giving away its fragrance. It will give its fragrance, not because it has to be given to someone. It is just being given irrespective of who passes by or no one passes by.
The atma chaitanya jnana that destroys ignorance is shown to be distinct, superior and also the reason for all kinds of objective knowledge gained by the human mind and intellect in the text Laghu Vasudeva Mananam, said Sri R. Rajagopala Sarma in a discourse. The former, known as swaroopa jnana, is intuitive, direct and immediate that is not dependent on anything else. But the latter, vritti jnana, is what is known by the mind and its mental processes and includes Vedanta knowledge.
The term ‘jnana’ is used along vritti owing to the fact that swaroopa jnana is also present in it. Vritti or mental activity is only an instrument or ‘upadhi’ to aid knowledge accumulation and is not to be mistaken as capable of revealing atma chaitanya jnana. It functions just as the sense organ eye, by which one is able to see objects, people, etc. The eye by itself can only see. But the knowledge of what is seen is grasped owing to the mind. At times one may see many things but if the mind is not involved the understanding may not take place.
Swaroopa jnana is explained with the analogy of sunlight illumining the wall when it falls on it. But suppose it falls on a mirror fixed on it, the light gets reflected in different ways. But these differences are all from the sun alone for there is no other source of light. Also, it is shown that the knowledge that reveals objects in the waking and dream states is vritti jnana. But the experience of the deep sleep state as total non-awareness that one feels after waking is owing to the inherent swaroopa jnana. Swaroopa jnana thus reveals what is known and also what is unknown. Ignorance of atma is removed only by the light of the atma that enters the mental mode that has taken the shape of atma.
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