But, there are still things that are unknown, and dare I say that it should stay unknown and be dearly guarded from our inability to let things be.

In Peru there are some 15 tribes that are unknown to the public. These tribes are made up from nomadic, small family groups that move around frequently, with the common denominator that they all shun outsiders. Perhaps the faith of thousands of tribesmen in the past have not gone unnoticed to these last tribes on the earth..?

Just last October Indians were spotted from a plane in the south-eastern region of the Amazon rainforest.

“During the plane’s second pass, one of the Indian women, carrying arrows and accompanied by a small boy, gestured aggressively, whilst the rest of the group sought refuge in the undergrowth.” [source]

We should ask ourselves, why do they shun us so much?
Perhaps they simply know that contact with us will inevitable lead to their own extinction?

It is estimated that there are over 100 tribes around the world that choose to reject contact with the civilized world. Everyday they face dangers from logging companies trying to take their land, environmental pollution and diseases from which they have no natural immune defense. And not to mention the overwhelming culture clash from the apparent dangers of trying to be apart-of the civilized world.

As human beings we have a responsibility to them and ourselves to do what we can to help. We must because there are no one else that can. Many people understand that this is an age where there just isn’t much more room for mistakes.

These are the last true guardians of the Earth
and when they are gone - we are gone.

More information about lost tribes can be found at Survival International

Even though the music is very good, I wouldn’t have posted it if it wasn’t for the great lyrics. It’s pure poetry; the words express with such sincerity and heartiness the human desire to reach for the stars and to be true to ones dreams.

Lyrics:
Dear little lad
Here’s the story of my life
I lived on the moon (repeat)
Grey flying snakes along
Mountains of destiny while
The three tailed monkeys
Were drawing the stars
Light from the Sun and I
Hide myself on the dark side, alone
I’ve run so far
To find my way
Then I dream again.. alone

Dear little boy, listen
To voices of your soul
It showed you the way of
Silence and peace
Follow your thought and fly
Choosing all the things that you desire
Giant waves, fireflies..
Your dream will be your only shell
Your secrets, your hiding place, my son
Don’t let them try
To crush your brain
Let you go far
..my son

Isn’t that funny and strange at the same time? I think it is school psychology in it’s most basic form, and I don’t like it.
You see, the normal circumstances in which I feel at home talking about various subjects such as spirituality and everyday events is with you looking at you. This particular settings certainly takes a bit of time to get used to and it also takes time until you start to understand what it is that you are suppose to do with it.

Well, the warrior in me is starting to awake and is up for the challenge. To constantly tear down your own barriers and change thought processes is one of my favorite subjects. And it seems it is time for yours truly to live as he learns, as they say.

This is also a fundamental basics in living a spiritual life. You can’t grow if you feel you need to exclude parts of your being from yourself or everyone else. You are just the being you are, and your actions very much dictates your spiritual growth. You should never underestimate the power of doing.

But then again, isn’t it possible that this were an actual tale from an old peoples home, or couldn’t it?

“The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window.

“I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”

“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged.. it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it … “It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away … just for this time in my life.

Old age is like a bank account … you withdraw from what you’ve put in .. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.”

Good story and good advices don’t you think.

Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk across because of a puddle of water. The elder of the two monks went up to a her lifted her in his alms and left her on the other side of the road, and continued his way to the monastery.

In the evening the younger monk came to the elder monk and said, “Sir, as monks, we cannot touch a woman?”

The elder monk answered “yes, brother”.

Then the younger monk asks again, ” but then Sir, how is that you lifted that woman on the roadside?”

The elder monk smiled at him and said “I left her on the other side of the road, are you still carrying her?”

We all know that there are a constant ongoing thought process where negative thoughts get repeated over and over again. It’s mainly the same sad unproductive thoughts telling you that whatever you are is of no value, or that you won’t succeed in anything that you want to do.
The mind can be very cruel in this way. Sometimes it might even seem as if the mind is your own enemy, constantly trying to keep you on the ground, preventing you from standing up.

There is no doubt that an uncontrolled mind can hurt you. Or as the Buddha said in the Dhammapada:

Your worst enemy cannot harm you
As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

The mind is Change. Everything that the mind is, is what is around it. If the world around the mind changes, then naturally the mind changes also. No wonder that we feel that the mind seems to work against us rather then with us. If the mind is so easily influenced by whatever it focuses on, then naturally there are many pains and worries that you will face if you identify with your mind.

A way to find peace

Understand that you are not your mind!
When the sea of troubles and worries arises, ask yourself:

Is this me? Am I this trouble, this worries? What am I?

Then wait for the answer within you and rest in this truth that always is delivered to you.

The mind is very much like a disorderly troublesome child. And anyone that has been or knows any children also realizes that; as much as you want to: There really isn’t much you can do to straiten or train them. They will do as they please and the only thing you can do is to simply be there for them and to love them.

The way to become free of the worries in your mind is to deal with them as if you were a grown-up helping a child: Gently tell your mind that you realize that it feels bad, that you acknowledge that it seems to think that everyone is against it.. But don’t try and point out the errors or try and help it. This simply won’t work!
The only thing left to do is to gently acknowledge whatever the mind chooses to concentrate on, and to love it as a troublesome child.

The ever humble and gentle spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle also have something to say about being present and centered in the daily life that I wanted to share.

Just remember one thing while developing.

Your mind, or your little ego “child”, doesn’t understand what you are trying to do. The mental structures that you always thought have made up who you are: such as the mental picture of what people thought of you in school, the working professional you take upon you when you are at work, or even your own mental card house that describes the inner essence of who you always thought you’d were:

- Will react badly to this change.

Upon this new path always remember that you can’t “discipline” yourself into becoming aware or to develop. The only thing you can do is to gently love yourself through hardships and troubles and then watch it grow.

Don’t blame yourself to hard when you feel you don’t succeed. Be yourself and love yourself. That is the only thing you can ever do.

Have you ever been in company of someone or a group of people where the energy just didn’t feel right? It might also have been that everyone else seemed perfectly fine and it felt to you as if you were the only one who noticed this dense energy around you. Or at least it seemed liked it at the time.
As we all know we are very good at hiding pain and we often think that we are the only ones who feel bad or have problems. Keeping up appearances is important as we all know..

A little definition on heavy energy

There are many views and takes on what energy is. Science has it’s strictly scientific views whereas medicine men, shamans, sorcerers and the likes have an extended understanding of what defines it and more importantly; how energy affects people. I won’t go into a debate on why I know it to be like I do. I simply want to say that there are two types of energy that influences us daily:

Energy that feels heavy, and energy that feels light
.. and understand that there might not be two people that feel the same energy alike.

But then again most people can actually agree that some energy always seems to feel light or it feels heavy. For instance, think of the feeling you would have if you went into a slaughterhouse on a busy day. You would quite possibly feel a lot of heavy energy in there. And then take another situation where you would get a kiss from somebody and then most people would feel light energy.

You might notice that I don’t go into the debate on whereas there is positive or negative energy? If you did notice the lack of, you are quite right. I don’t and it is counterproductive to debate it. That is much more a likable issue for philosophers to discuss this then it is fruitful to shamans.

There is heavy energy and there is light energy. And heavy energy you always want to get rid of as quickly as possible.

There are many ways to get rid of heavy energy, many involve sending energy to Mother Earth and that’s perfectly fine. She loves heavy energy and always takes it right off your hands. But the easiest way to get rid of heavy energy for anyone is simply to physically move it away from you.

Naturally you’d first want to move away if you can from a situation or a place that has heavy energy. This is only a natural reaction. But the other way is to physically free yourself from it by moving your body or limbs.
Shrug your shoulders, shake your arms, stretch your body intensely and jump up and down a couple of times. You can even move your tongue discretely around in your mouth and you wont get noticed! Anything that involves physical movement frees the body from heavy energy. Standing still or ignoring the feeling of heavy energy makes it accumulate until you can’t free it in an easy way, and then you need help from somebody who can do it for you.

Add the benefits you already know from proper and regular exercise to this new understanding that it also frees up heavy energy, and there is no good excuse why you wouldn’t take that walk in nature today.

Leaving you with a favorite quote from Alan Watts:

“The inability to accept the mystical experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit — to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”

“According to Charlie Greer “the National Science Foundation put out
some very interesting statistics (…) the average person thinks about
twelve thousand thoughts per day. A deeper thinker (…) puts forth
fifty thousand thoughts daily.” [source]

Have you ever counted your own thoughts, started to put labels on them? That’s one about cars, and there’s another about mortgage plans, oh that’s the one about fears again.. That last one just doesn’t seem to go away.

You’ve never counted them? Well, neither have I. But I have realized time and time again that most thoughts are just reruns and repetitions of old thoughts. The most frequent thoughts that come up are mostly the same every day.

It can be a tricky thing to change old thought patterns. Especially if you want to stop negative thoughts from appearing. The best way is to confront them in an objective way. But don’t put to much energy into it. See the thought, hold it for a second and then let it go. Don’t work through them over and over, don’t dwell and turn them and look at it from every possible direction;

Just watch one more time, hold - and let it go.

A story about sand castles

Some children were playing beside a river. They made castles of sand, and each child defended his castle and said, “This one is mine.” They kept their castles separate and would not allow any mistakes about which was whose.

When the castles were all finished, one child kicked over someone else’s castle and completely destroyed it. The owner of the castle flew into a rage, pulled the other child’s hair, struck him with his fist and bawled out, “He has spoiled my castle! Come along all of you and help me to punish him as he deserves.” The others all came to his help. They beat the child with a stick and then stamped on him as he lay on the ground… Then they went on playing in their sand castles, each saying, “This is mine; no one else may have it. Keep away! Don’t touch my castle!”

But evening came ; it was getting dark and they all thought they ought to be going home. No one now cared what became of his castle. One child stamped on his, another pushed his over with both hands. Then they turned away and went back, each to his home.

Sand Castles - from the Yogacara Bhumi Sutra, translated by Arthur Walay.

Six Words of Advice from Tilopa

Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.