Why are you put-off when you see wrong?
Why are you provoked to react or respond when you see evil? Remember, evil has in it the potential to become good and good has in it the liability to turn evil! There is no fire without a wisp of smoke; there is no smoke, without a spark of fire. No one is fully wicked, fully infallible or fully perfect. Take the world as it is, never expect it to conform to your needs or standards. The treasure that is undoubtedly the most precious in the universe is the quality of equanimity and unruffled-ness (shantham). Practise this and make it your natural reaction. The Goddess of Victory smiles only on the heroic, those who make lions of themselves; those resilient, brave and self-confident warriors. If you secure the Grace of the Lord, then you will be reinforced with so much strength, that you can carry out even the most difficult tasks.
SSB
I have met an old friend, who works in health care and he is assisting dying in one of those exit places.
I was glad that we met and talked, but at night in the inner view it didn't look good at all. It felt very scary, it was about violent death and above his head was death in person in black with a reaper.
That is not the kind of inner view which gives us peace of mind. And if he would not have said that he works for one of those places, where we can exit life because we don't find it anymore okay to be alive, if we have reason enough and they call that dying with dignity.
At least in the inner view it had not much to do with dignity, but with violence and death was above his head, how awful, how awkward.
That was not a very comforting feeling. If he would not have said that he worked for one of those places, it would have been even more scary, because I would probably think that death will come and get him soon. But it was not about him, what was in the air is the group, many people died like that.
And at the same time it was violent death, that means killing, if consciously or not, that is how it felt.
It is his work environment that reflected that way in the inner view and I guess he should better find another job.
Whatever they use to explain what they think is dying with dignity, we are that lost in the mind and have no more believe at all to be able to think it is only a matter of our poor life in that very moment and the sickness in our body?
And at the same time it was violent death, that means killing, if consciously or not, that is how it felt.
It is his work environment that reflected that way in the inner view and I guess he should better find another job.
Whatever they use to explain what they think is dying with dignity, we are that lost in the mind and have no more believe at all to be able to think it is only a matter of our poor life in that very moment and the sickness in our body?
They sell it as dying with dignity, forcing death, but in the insight there is no doubt about it that it is killing human beings.
As our mind is not really able to know the time of death and we don't know why suffering and if we don't go through the process of dying a normal way, also suffering has a meaning and maybe it is just that suffering which is the best benefit for our next life to get rid of bad Karma. But as they have no notion of Karma and it is just about suffering and they think only in terms of suffering and not life, which is going on, they don't consider that everything has a meaning and that they should rather get ready for a better next life. How scary it is to see that present in the inner view, the only comparison coming in my mind is the guillotine.
As our mind is not really able to know the time of death and we don't know why suffering and if we don't go through the process of dying a normal way, also suffering has a meaning and maybe it is just that suffering which is the best benefit for our next life to get rid of bad Karma. But as they have no notion of Karma and it is just about suffering and they think only in terms of suffering and not life, which is going on, they don't consider that everything has a meaning and that they should rather get ready for a better next life. How scary it is to see that present in the inner view, the only comparison coming in my mind is the guillotine.
That thought for the day is just the right words to remember that in everything bad is also the potential of good and that good can turn into evil.
There is no fire without a wisp of smoke; there is no smoke, without a spark of fire. No one is fully wicked, fully infallible or fully perfect. Take the world as it is, never expect it to conform to your needs or standards. The treasure that is undoubtedly the most precious in the universe is the quality of equanimity and unruffled-ness (shantham). Practise this and make it your natural reaction.
Don't you think it is just telling us to not worry, facing such an awful hidden reality in today's 'perfect', modern world?
The world is as it is and we should not expect it to conform to our needs and standards. And we should remember the most precious treasure in the universe, the quality of equanimity. If we focus on equanimity, we will not kill the body, but get rid of the disturbing mind which makes it that difficult as it seems to go on..., it is just a matter of attitude and believe and obviously, lack of believe and religion.
The world is as it is and we should not expect it to conform to our needs and standards. And we should remember the most precious treasure in the universe, the quality of equanimity. If we focus on equanimity, we will not kill the body, but get rid of the disturbing mind which makes it that difficult as it seems to go on..., it is just a matter of attitude and believe and obviously, lack of believe and religion.
Practise this and make it your natural reaction. The Goddess of Victory smiles only on the heroic, those who make lions of themselves; those resilient, brave and self-confident warriors. If you secure the Grace of the Lord, then you will be reinforced with so much strength, that you can carry out even the most difficult tasks.
We know that ignorance is the worst of sins and we see it all over, it is the result of ignorance that those people are the victims of their own mind, thinking they are doing good to themselves, when in reality they are doing the worst they can do.
I guess what was the most scary about it, because it looked like that, because there are lots of people involved. If it would have been one person, it would not have been that bad.
It is organized suicide, legalized and hidden behind the believe that we have the right to decide our own death and its time and to judge about what is to die with dignity and what is not. That is all mind only.
It is organized suicide, legalized and hidden behind the believe that we have the right to decide our own death and its time and to judge about what is to die with dignity and what is not. That is all mind only.
If we would be more intelligent, we would focus on life and not death, doing our best to the last breath to realize who we are to get to the higher realization of our real self and the divine purpose in life, instead of focusing only on that very moment and getting out of suffering and thinking it is all done with the death of the body.
If the body dies, the mind is going on and probably it is better we don't know how those people are going to face that reality after death, but one thing is sure, there is no end to it if we get rid of the body, the suffering is going on only in a even worse way, because we don't have the body anymore to get rid of it. We don't kill the mind, when we die that way, we only kill the body and the problem is not the body, but the mind and we have to face the fact that the mind is that strong that it killed the body.
We should get rid of the mind and use the body in the right purpose as an instrument for self-realization.
With regular sadhana and meditation we get first aware of the mind and the difference between higher self and mind and we will get to the realization that it is all about self-control and not mind control.
If self-control is the level of the divine, mind-control is the opposite.
But in the inner view it felt like they were violently killed, it felt somehow like a killing machine, there was no end to it all night, one after the other, but as they are sick and also victims of our time, because they suffer and try to find a way out, it felt like the real wrong doers are the helpers, they who think they do good and help them to die with dignity ... how foolish to believe that!
Only little thinking is needed to realize that it cannot be possibly okay to decide over life and death in our own mind... !
If self-control is the level of the divine, mind-control is the opposite.
But in the inner view it felt like they were violently killed, it felt somehow like a killing machine, there was no end to it all night, one after the other, but as they are sick and also victims of our time, because they suffer and try to find a way out, it felt like the real wrong doers are the helpers, they who think they do good and help them to die with dignity ... how foolish to believe that!
Only little thinking is needed to realize that it cannot be possibly okay to decide over life and death in our own mind... !
Practise this and make it your natural reaction. The Goddess of Victory smiles only on the heroic, those who make lions of themselves; those resilient, brave and self-confident warriors. If you secure the Grace of the Lord, then you will be reinforced with so much strength, that you can carry out even the most difficult tasks.
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