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?”
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’
Often there are reasons to quickly becoming free of heavy energy. This is energy that feels wrong to you, makes you uneasy and if not disposed of it will make you sick.
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. Continue reading ‘Becoming free of heavy (bad) energy’
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