My Karma

Some people say, don't get yourself caught up in other people's karma. In other words don't interfere when you see something happening, just be a detached observer. But I realized that everything that we are witness to is to some degree, whether it's 1% or 100%, our own karma otherwise we wouldn't be witness to it. We have to be a detached observer and decide what percent belongs to us, take responsibility for that percent and transform it. First I change and then my world changes. This attitude of it's not my karma and rejecting it is judgmental. It has to be your karma because you were witnessing it. Every situation and person in front of you comes to mirror to you something that you need to change within your own self.

Carol Biberstein

True royalty lies in humility

Expression:

The one who is humble never reacts but responds in the right way to situations or challenges. Thus there is royalty visible in all words, actions and behaviour. So there is newness visible in the way of
responding to situations.

Experience:

When I am humble I am able to be beyond the influence of praise and defamation. This is because I am stable in the state of my self-respect. Also because of this I am able to bring about newness and I am able to be creative in responding to situations too.

BK Industry Wing

Does God Exist?

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving a God who would allow all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."

"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

Anonymous

Heaven and Hell

A big tough samurai once went to see a little monk. "Monk," he said in a voice accustomed to instant obedience, "teach me about heaven and hell!"
The monk looked up at this mighty warrior and replied with utter distain, "Teach you about heaven and hell? I couldn't teach you about anything. You're dirty. You smell. Your blade is rusty. You're a disgrace, an embarrassment to the samurai class. Get out of my sight! I can't stand you!"
The samurai was furious. He shook, got all red in the face, was speechless with rage. He pulled out his sword, raised it above him, preparing to slay the monk.
"That's hell," said the monk softly.
The samurai was overwhelmed. The compassion and surrender of this little man who had offered his life to give this teaching to show him hell! He slowly put down his sword filled with gratitude, suddenly peaceful.
"And that's heaven," said the monk softly.

Anonymous

Experience Meditation

Meditation is more an experience than something that you do, more a process than an achievement, more an ongoing inner journey than a destination. Take your time, be patient with yourself and always be ready to go back to spiritual basics, to the true identity of the self (a pure, powerful peaceful soul), which is the foundation of everything.

(Excerpt from "In The Light of Meditation" by Mike George)

Taming the Stressed Mind

Even in ancient times, the mind was understood to be extremely difficult to control. It was said to be like the wind: you could never catch it, or hold it - it went where it wished and no human being could become the master. In other instances, it was said that the mind was like an elephant; extremely powerful but equally gentle and patient, able to do a lot of work for its master. However, when an elephant turns wild, its gentleness and patience completely disappear an it destroys and damages everything in its path. When the mind is under stress, it resembles a wild elephant; it has no control and cannot be controlled.

Taming the mind is regarded as a great art requiring time, attention, practice and, above all, a sincerity of heart where individuals truly want to change their way of thinking. To relax, to be positive, to be peaceful and kind all require a change in out thought patterns and this can only happen when we look deeply within. However hard they try, other people cannot change us; we must have personal realization and the desire to make changes through our own effort. Permanent and positive change cannot be imposed from outside; it is something that we choose.

Meditation is the discovery of that point of silence within, like a compass needle that guides us in the right direction at the right time. To become silent, to be still in the ocean of hectic, noisy action, is a choice many people are now making. When this is achieved, this stillness acts on the mind like oxygen, giving the breath to both understand and enrich life. Of course, action is a necessity, an expression of ourselves through time, relationships and the roles we play. However, if we do not sometimes stop and take a breath of silence, then mind begins to suffocate, thoughts speed like bullet trains and the brain feels as if it is in a pressure cooker. Emotions erupt and react like volcanoes, the eyes become dizzy with mountains of information and the head feels like a rollercoaster. This is stress. The mind needs to come up for air, to leave the jungle of pressures, deadlines and speed and slow down and find the point of silence within.

Meditation is the method to find that point which recharges the mind with peace, clarity and balance.

(Excerpt from "Eastern Thought for the Western Mind" by Anthony Strano)

Enjoy Your Life

You must enjoy your life. However, the meaning of enjoyment is not that you can do whatever you feel like and remain carefree. That pleasure of temporary happiness through words, that pleasure of temporary relationships and connections is different from the stage of eternally being an embodiment of happiness. Do not consider that to be pleasure. "We say whatever we want, we do whatever we want, we are in pleasure." Do not become those who experience pleasure for a temporary period by pleasing yourself. Remain in eternal, spiritual pleasure. This is living accurately. Enjoy yourself, but be knowledgeable about the philosophy of karma. Only then will you experience what you wish to, as you wish to. Do you understand what you have to do? Be knowledgeable about the deep philosophy of karma.

Bapdada

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