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Being who you are

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Greyshaman
on May 3, 2008
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I’m thinking of broadening the areas I write about here. The problems with writing is that the form in which the text it is written in, in this case I mean this blog, slowly starts to dictate what you feel you can write about and what not to write about..

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.

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A lesson in attitude

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Greyshaman
on April 22, 2008
in The Net
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I read a beautiful little story today. It doesn’t say who the author were as many of these moral teachings often are without. Not rarely these text are retold old text from Buddhist or old Sufi teachings. But it would be nice to know where it came from. So if someone has information on the author then please say.

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

Happiness“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.

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Relaxation to music

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Greyshaman
on April 18, 2008
in Self help and The Net
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A bit of relaxation for us today

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?”

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Working with the negative mind

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Greyshaman
on April 14, 2008
in Consciousness and Self help
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A friend approached me the other day and expressed anxiety about the difficulties of becoming free of the constant stream of negative thoughts in the mind.

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. Continue reading ‘Working with the negative mind’