A thief went to a buddhist monk Nagarjuna and said, “I am highly impressed with your ascetic life and willing to live too, but I am a thief and I can't leave stealing.”
Nagarjuna asked, “Who asked you to leave?”
The Thief said, “Whenever I go to any monk, they tell me to leave theft, then only I can start.”
Nagarjuna said, “Then they are not real monk, the truth is you can continue being a thief and also start your spiritual journey.”
The thief was very happy after listening this.
Nagarjuna said, “Just remember one thing whenever you do stealing just be conscious at that time, be aware what you are doing.”
The thief agreed.
After 2 days, he came and said, “You have put me in a big trouble, you have told me to be aware while Stealing and now when I am aware, and conscious I am not able to do any kind of theft. Now I don't want to be a thief, I want to lead a spiritual life, please accept me as your disciple.
Till you are not aware, conscious you are not more than a fool.
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Just a word/concept/semantics.
Everything is What Is. That should be full stop.
But the human mind, which feels separate, cannot help but evaluate and assign judgment.
Because it wants ‘control’.
So it makes illusory distinctions: ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ ‘right,’ ‘wrong,’ ‘perfect,’ ‘imperfect.’
Meantime, What Is remains What Is and makes no such distinctions.
So “we” say It’s ‘perfect.’
Not as in: ‘so good,’ or ‘ideal.’
But as in: There is exactly & only What Is, so it could only be exactly as It Is.
As always, words are hopelessly inadequate to describe the Absolute.
Semantics. Not worth discussing, really.
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When the nightmare is too difficult to endure in a dream, the dream breaks, and you wake up, and feel relieved.
Likewise, if any circumstance is too difficult to endure in life, remind yourself that you are the eternal Brahman, the infinite Self.
This helps you immediately withdraw yourself from the circumstances, pause as long as required, and then revert to handle the circumstance optimally.
The Spiritual person can withdraw himself/herself any moment while entanglement is the only way for others. The one who has the ability to withdraw can choose to remain calm in any circumstance.
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A soul is not a thing, it is not made from physical matter. It is a point of consciousness, an extension of Source/God energy, and in its descending through different dimensions it acquires “subtle bodies” - like a Russian doll, eventually coming into the physical reality and incarnating in physical bodies. Each subtle body is made of a different type of energy. Only the physical body is made from physical matter, the rest are non-physical energies. Each esoteric tradition has its own names for these subtle bodies, typically in past life regression and New Age circles we talk about etheric, astral, emotional, mental, karmic, and spiritual bodies. (again - they are not really “bodies”, but layers of different energies)
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It is not possible to be unhappy. It is possible to feel sadness, anxiety, pain.
The human mind is what it thinks and what it feels. A human is completely identified with the mind, therefore whatever the mind is, the human is. If there is sadness, the human is sadness. When there is anxiety, the human is anxiety. A human becomes the feelings, a human becomes the thoughts.
Enlightened one is not their mind. The mind is there, feeling what it feels, but the enlightened one isn’t it. The enlightened one feels it, but does not take it personally.
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AUDEN - 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"
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Older people with low blood levels of folate (vitamin B9) are 68 percent more likely to develop dementia and have a higher rate of death from any cause.
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“Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one’s own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive in a long-distance relationship. A cinematic image of nostalgia is a double exposure, or a superimposition of two images—of home and abroad, of past and present, of dream and everyday life. The moment we try to force it into a single image, it breaks the frame or burns the surface.”
–Svetlana Boym, Nostalgia and Its Discontents
Reflective nostalgia is exemplified by the displacement of immigrants, who may long for a home that no longer exists (or perhaps never existed). Restorative nostalgia, on the other hand, is a dangerous impulse to return to a “pure” (or nationalistic) state of a distant past.
Comfortably Numb
A fleeting feeling of nostalgia can lessen the perception of physical pain, apparently (Zhang et al., 2022)
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