20 June 2006

Death is not the worst tragedy. To not be fully alive when we ARE here is the worst tragedy

A lot of people think that our President Nelson Mandela was the originator of the previous quote as he used it in his inauguration speech in 1994. Just think about it. If one man can make a difference to a country and then later become an international icon and make a difference to the world…. and that by spending 27 years in a 2 metre by 2 metre cell. Imagine the power that we have as free souls roaming the planet. Viktor Frankl wrote about his time in the Nazi concentration camps where he realised that eventually he was more “Free” than his captors. They could control his body and inflict pain on it but they could not control his MIND and THOUGHTS.

He started to observe why some people were making it in the camps and why some people where not making it in the camps.

I can lose all my possessions tomorrow. (After all it does not belong to me anyway. It is on temporary loan to me) I will never lose my experiences that I have gained. Because that is all that I can really have as a soul having a bodily experience and not a body having a spiritual experience (Man made religion) And besides with my current life experiences, I will make it all back again (worldly possessions and or my current "standard" of living) within 5 years.

Have you ever walked around a motorcar scrapyard and or a second hand shop and seen what shit people attach value to?? (SICK). This Audi A 6 that I have will one day stand in a scrap yard ready for spares. Do I use it and enjoy it and when the time comes… can I give it back to the planet??

Now we have low vibration souls (wat nog nie die lewe so lekker verstaan nie. Jy weet…. vang Highveld 94.7 op in die een oor en 702 in die ander oor en dan raas die koppie so ‘n bietjie) that will kill for little pieces of metal and little pieces of paper that some asshole in Pretoria has put a stamp on (that looks like a lion) and said .. OK folks, attach value to this here piece of paper and use it as an exchange to measure your worth as a human doing (not a Human Being)

Am I going to become another victim of crime by having some low vibration soul That we (as part of our trip here need to show some light) trying to force me out of my car as s/he wants it. Shit, ask me and I will give it to you.. Asshole. That is why I pay my insurance company money every month to have peace of mind.

Do I have to die to exchange a vehicle or pieces of paper? That is asking a bit much. What is a life worth? R10.00 or R5 Billion?? Or a Audi A6 that will inevitably end up in a scrapyard.

Quote from good old Vic in his book “Man’s Search for Meaning”

On Fulfilling One's Task

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how." p.127

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life - daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." p.122

FEAR…. The biggest obstacle within ourselves.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.....You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world....We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us......it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. by Marianne Williams

17 June 2006

Avoidance of Pain

Clyde Reid writes in his book Celebrate the Temporary:

“One of the most common obstacles to celebrating life fully is our avoidance of pain. We do everything to escape pain. Our culture reinforces our avoidance of pain by assuring us that we can live a painless life. Advertisements constantly encourage us to believe that life can be pain free. (But) to live without pain is a myth…. To live without pain….. is to live half a life. This is an unmistakable, clear, unalterable fact…. Many of us do not realise that pain and joy run together. When we cut ourselves off from pain, we have unwittingly cut ourselves off from joy as well.”

Who am I ?

You see, my dear ones, what keeps you separate from that intimacy is the fear that you are not good enough, not worthy of love or enlightenment, or all of the wondrousness of this world.

That fear is rampant upon your plane. It is the fear that you knew very soon after your birthing. It is the fear that was communicated to you by your parents, by mass consciousness, by all with whom you have contact in your day-to-days. As you understand that the true nature of you is divine and that what keeps you from the feeling of that knowing is simply fear, then indeed you may consciously choose a different way of being. You may say there is no doing involved here. None of this divinity or enlightenment business is about doing. It is about being who you truly are, however that is in any moment. You see, while you are hiding the reality of you, you cannot transform those facets of you which do not exemplify the highest idea of who you can possibly be. - P’Taah

12 June 2006

GOOD EARTH GONE BAD?

Just another lonely Planet. A failed experiment that God has abandoned. Moved on to some other part of the universe and is trying again. I read a Zen book once about a guy seeking enlightenment and asking his guru to help him as he had tried everything and still it eluded him. Even tried prayer and all sorts of religions. The guru said to him. Don’t bother God for he has his own problems, everything he makes, dies.

As you sow... so you shall reap!!

Living in a country (and a World) for that matter, where "The rich are getting richer and the poor.... are getting babies" I had a thought some time ago whilst driving in the car. (Where a lot of my profound thoughts occur) that…….

ON A ROUND PLANET, WHERE DOES ONE TAKE STOLEN GOODS?

Just a thought….