പുതുവര്‍ഷം!
പിറക്കുംവര്‍ഷമെല്ലാം പുതുവര്‍ഷം
പിറവിക്കതീതമാണനന്ത കാലം !
പിറന്നതിന്‍ ലകഷ്യമതൊന്നു മാത്രം
പിറന്നോരെല്ലമിതോര്‍ത്തിടേണം !
പരാപരപ്പൊരുളേ നിന്നെ നോക്കി
പാര്‍ത്തിടും ഞാനീ പാര്‍ത്തലത്തില്‍ !
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
BE FILLED!
Empty the earth was
To be filled ready it was.
From above came the voice
"Let it be" was the voice
Emptiness was filled
The earth was thrilled!
Creatures in infinite variety
Living in untoled gaiety
What a wondreful sight
The beauty it brought!
Empty yourself oh,man!
Boast nothing of your own!
Know yourself created
From nothing that existed.
By heaven be filled Brother!
By bliss be thrilled dear!
- Silvester Ezhumala
Empty the earth was
To be filled ready it was.
From above came the voice
"Let it be" was the voice
Emptiness was filled
The earth was thrilled!
Creatures in infinite variety
Living in untoled gaiety
What a wondreful sight
The beauty it brought!
Empty yourself oh,man!
Boast nothing of your own!
Know yourself created
From nothing that existed.
By heaven be filled Brother!
By bliss be thrilled dear!
- Silvester Ezhumala
Friday, December 14, 2012
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
പലസ്തീനിലന്നു പാതിരാവില്‍
പാരിന്‍റെ രാജാവ് പിറന്നതിപാവമായി
പാവങ്ങളിലേറ്റം പാവമായി
പശുത്തൊഴുത്തില്‍ കിടന്നതോര്‍പ്പിന്‍
പാരാകെ നേടാന്‍ നെട്ടോട്ടമോടും
പാരിന്‍റെ മക്കളേ ,കണ്‍തുറക്ക!
പ്രപഞ്ചമാകെ നിറയും മഹത്വമേ ,
പ്രപഞ്ചശില്പിയാം ക്രിസ്തുവേ ,തൊഴുന്നേന്‍!
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Food and You!
Food and You!
You are what you eat, because what you eat makes your mind, makes your body, makes your senses, gives you qualities.If you are non-vegetarian your posture will be different, if you are vegetarian your posture will be different; .because the body is built by your food. It is not an accident. Whatsoever you are putting in the body, the body will reflect it. When you eat meat you are not only taking food, you are allowing a certain animal from which the meat has come to enter in you. The meat was part of a particular body; the meat was part of a particular instinct pattern. The meat was the animal just few hours before, and that meat carries all the impressions of the animal, all the habits of the animal. When you are eating meat your many attitudes will be affected by it. And if you are sensitive you can become aware that whenever you eat certain things, certain changes immediately come. You can take alcohol and then you are not the same. Immediately a new personality has come in. Alcohol cannot create a personality, but it changes your body pattern. The body chemistry is changed With the change of the body chemistry, the mind has to change its pattern and when the mind changes pattern a new personality has come in.One should become aware, that whatsoever one is eating must be such that it doesn’t make one’s body heavy. This heaviness is not concerned with weight: sometimes you feel that you are weightless, as if you can fly. So the food that can give you the feeling of weightlessness is the right food. The food that gives you the feeling of being burdened is not the right food. All non-vegetarian foods make you more rooted in the earth; you cannot fly. Vegetarian foods give you wings; you have an inner feeling that you can just levitate, you can just go out of gravitation. Food is right if it is non-gravitational. If you can feel non-physical in it, it is good. Really, the body is felt only when it is heavy; when you have the feeling of heaviness inside, only then you feel the body. When the body is not heavy with wrong foods, you are bodiless. That’s why when the body is diseased, when the body is ill, you feel it; when it is healthy, you don’t feel it. You feel your head only when there is a headache; when there is no headache, there is no head.
You are what you eat, because what you eat makes your mind, makes your body, makes your senses, gives you qualities.If you are non-vegetarian your posture will be different, if you are vegetarian your posture will be different; .because the body is built by your food. It is not an accident. Whatsoever you are putting in the body, the body will reflect it. When you eat meat you are not only taking food, you are allowing a certain animal from which the meat has come to enter in you. The meat was part of a particular body; the meat was part of a particular instinct pattern. The meat was the animal just few hours before, and that meat carries all the impressions of the animal, all the habits of the animal. When you are eating meat your many attitudes will be affected by it. And if you are sensitive you can become aware that whenever you eat certain things, certain changes immediately come. You can take alcohol and then you are not the same. Immediately a new personality has come in. Alcohol cannot create a personality, but it changes your body pattern. The body chemistry is changed With the change of the body chemistry, the mind has to change its pattern and when the mind changes pattern a new personality has come in.One should become aware, that whatsoever one is eating must be such that it doesn’t make one’s body heavy. This heaviness is not concerned with weight: sometimes you feel that you are weightless, as if you can fly. So the food that can give you the feeling of weightlessness is the right food. The food that gives you the feeling of being burdened is not the right food. All non-vegetarian foods make you more rooted in the earth; you cannot fly. Vegetarian foods give you wings; you have an inner feeling that you can just levitate, you can just go out of gravitation. Food is right if it is non-gravitational. If you can feel non-physical in it, it is good. Really, the body is felt only when it is heavy; when you have the feeling of heaviness inside, only then you feel the body. When the body is not heavy with wrong foods, you are bodiless. That’s why when the body is diseased, when the body is ill, you feel it; when it is healthy, you don’t feel it. You feel your head only when there is a headache; when there is no headache, there is no head.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
New Wine
At the marriage in Cana, where Jesus was present, the old wine ran out. The old wine was made with human effort, over a period of many years - but it could not meet the need. This is a parable of life under the law - the old covenant. The old wine runs out; and the Lord has to wait until it runs out before He can give us the new wine. "For the Lord God says: Only in waiting for Me will you be saved. ... but you say, We will get our help from Egypt (human strength)! So you will be chased by your enemies. ... And the Lord is waiting for you (to come to an end of yourself) and to come to Him, so that He can show you His love; He will conquer you to bless you. ... Blessed are all those who wait for Him to help them'' (Isa. 30:15-18 Living Bible).
When we have tried and tried and tried to live in victory and failed repeatedly, this is the lesson that God is trying to teach us: "You cannot have victory in your own strength." As long as you are under the law, you will be ruled by sin. The chief work that God seeks to do in each of His children is to break down the strength of self totally. Jesus waited for the old wine to run out, at Cana, before He did His miracle. He is waiting now for our strength to come to an end. All our failures and defeats are meant by God to bring us to the end, for He can manifest His power perfectly only in our weakness (2 Cor. 12:9) - Bro.Sac poonen
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Truth about Relationships
Relationship is needed only because you can’t be alone, because you are not yet capable of meditation. Hence, meditation is a MUST before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love. Then your love is no more a need but a sharing, no more a necessity. You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share — and sharing is beautiful.
Relationship is a thing: you cling to it. Relating is a flow, a movement, a process. You meet a person, you are loving, because you have so much love to give — and the more you give, the more you have. Once you have understood this strange arithmetic of love: that the more you give, the more you have…. This is just against the economic laws that operate in the outside world. Once you have known that, if you want to have more love and more joy, you give and share, then you simply share. And whosoever allows you to share your joy with him or with her, you feel grateful to him or her. But it is not a relationship; it is a riverlike flow.
No relationship can satisfy, because every relationship begins with great hope, and that is not possible to be fulfilled. Yes, that hope can be fulfilled, but it can be fulfilled only when you have fallen in love with the whole. No part can fulfill it. When you have fallen in love with the total, when the merger happens with the total, only then will there be contentment. There will be nobody who is contented, there will be simply contentment. And then there is no end to it.
To be in relationship and become dependent is the sign of weakness. And to escape to the Himalayas or to some Catholic monastery because of the fear of becoming dependent is again the sign of weakness; it is cowardly. To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is. The new man will be courageous.
That’s what happens in every relationship. Rather than giving you contentment, it gives you a tremendous discontentment. Each relationship fails in this world — and it is good that it fails; it would have been a curse if it was not so. It is a blessing that it fails. Because each relationship fails, that’s why you start searching for the ultimate relationship with God, with existence, with the cosmos. You see the futility again and again, that it is not going to be satisfied by any man, by any woman; that each experience ends in tremendous frustration, begins in great hope and leaves you in great hopelessness. It is always so, it comes with great romance and ends in a bitter taste. When it happens again and again, one has to learn something — that each relationship is only an experimentation to prepare you for the ultimate relationship, for the ultimate love affair.
If you move into a relationship when you are feeling lonely, then you will exploit the other. The other will become a means to satisfy you. You will use the other, and everybody resents being used because no man is here to become a means for anybody else.
Whenever you move in any relationship out of loneliness, the relationship is already on the rocks. Even before it has started, it is already on the rocks. Even before the birth, the child is dead. It is going to create more misery for you. And remember, when you move from your loneliness you will fall in relationship with somebody who is in the same plight, because no man who is really living his aloneness will be attracted towards you. You will be too below him. He can, at the most, sympathize, but cannot love you. One who is on his peak of aloneness can only be attracted towards somebody who is also alone. So whenever you move out of loneliness, you will find a man of the same type; you will find your own reflection somewhere. Two beggars will meet, two miserable people will meet. And remember, when two miserable people meet, it is not an ordinary addition, it is a multiplication. They create much more misery for each other than they could have created in their loneliness.
Out of your unhappiness you seek the other; then the relationship is going to be wrong. Seek the other out of happiness, and then the relationship will never be wrong. Seek out of happiness. First meditate, first feel your own being, first pray. First grow into love; otherwise what are you going to do when you have found the lover? Then you don’t know what to do.
Whenever you are sexually related you are afraid, because sex is really not a relationship, it is an exploitation. If you are attached to a woman or man sexually, you are always afraid that this woman may go to somebody else, this man may move to somebody else. There is no relationship really, it is just mutual exploitation. You are exploiting each other, but you don’t love and you know it, so you are afraid.
Have a sexual relationship only when you have a loving relationship, so love and sex become associated. And love is a greater centre, a higher centre. Once sex is hitched to love, it starts moving upwards. Once you feel that you are loving, then never go to pray in a temple or in a mosque or in a church — that is foolish. Then again do the same as you did in the first place: your first prayer has to happen with your beloved or with your lover. Either before you make love, let there be prayer; or, after you have made love, let there be prayer; or — and the third is the best — while you are making love, let there be prayer. - Quoted
Relationship is needed only because you can’t be alone, because you are not yet capable of meditation. Hence, meditation is a MUST before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love. Then your love is no more a need but a sharing, no more a necessity. You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share — and sharing is beautiful.
Relationship is a thing: you cling to it. Relating is a flow, a movement, a process. You meet a person, you are loving, because you have so much love to give — and the more you give, the more you have. Once you have understood this strange arithmetic of love: that the more you give, the more you have…. This is just against the economic laws that operate in the outside world. Once you have known that, if you want to have more love and more joy, you give and share, then you simply share. And whosoever allows you to share your joy with him or with her, you feel grateful to him or her. But it is not a relationship; it is a riverlike flow.
No relationship can satisfy, because every relationship begins with great hope, and that is not possible to be fulfilled. Yes, that hope can be fulfilled, but it can be fulfilled only when you have fallen in love with the whole. No part can fulfill it. When you have fallen in love with the total, when the merger happens with the total, only then will there be contentment. There will be nobody who is contented, there will be simply contentment. And then there is no end to it.
To be in relationship and become dependent is the sign of weakness. And to escape to the Himalayas or to some Catholic monastery because of the fear of becoming dependent is again the sign of weakness; it is cowardly. To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is. The new man will be courageous.
That’s what happens in every relationship. Rather than giving you contentment, it gives you a tremendous discontentment. Each relationship fails in this world — and it is good that it fails; it would have been a curse if it was not so. It is a blessing that it fails. Because each relationship fails, that’s why you start searching for the ultimate relationship with God, with existence, with the cosmos. You see the futility again and again, that it is not going to be satisfied by any man, by any woman; that each experience ends in tremendous frustration, begins in great hope and leaves you in great hopelessness. It is always so, it comes with great romance and ends in a bitter taste. When it happens again and again, one has to learn something — that each relationship is only an experimentation to prepare you for the ultimate relationship, for the ultimate love affair.
If you move into a relationship when you are feeling lonely, then you will exploit the other. The other will become a means to satisfy you. You will use the other, and everybody resents being used because no man is here to become a means for anybody else.
Whenever you move in any relationship out of loneliness, the relationship is already on the rocks. Even before it has started, it is already on the rocks. Even before the birth, the child is dead. It is going to create more misery for you. And remember, when you move from your loneliness you will fall in relationship with somebody who is in the same plight, because no man who is really living his aloneness will be attracted towards you. You will be too below him. He can, at the most, sympathize, but cannot love you. One who is on his peak of aloneness can only be attracted towards somebody who is also alone. So whenever you move out of loneliness, you will find a man of the same type; you will find your own reflection somewhere. Two beggars will meet, two miserable people will meet. And remember, when two miserable people meet, it is not an ordinary addition, it is a multiplication. They create much more misery for each other than they could have created in their loneliness.
Out of your unhappiness you seek the other; then the relationship is going to be wrong. Seek the other out of happiness, and then the relationship will never be wrong. Seek out of happiness. First meditate, first feel your own being, first pray. First grow into love; otherwise what are you going to do when you have found the lover? Then you don’t know what to do.
Whenever you are sexually related you are afraid, because sex is really not a relationship, it is an exploitation. If you are attached to a woman or man sexually, you are always afraid that this woman may go to somebody else, this man may move to somebody else. There is no relationship really, it is just mutual exploitation. You are exploiting each other, but you don’t love and you know it, so you are afraid.
Have a sexual relationship only when you have a loving relationship, so love and sex become associated. And love is a greater centre, a higher centre. Once sex is hitched to love, it starts moving upwards. Once you feel that you are loving, then never go to pray in a temple or in a mosque or in a church — that is foolish. Then again do the same as you did in the first place: your first prayer has to happen with your beloved or with your lover. Either before you make love, let there be prayer; or, after you have made love, let there be prayer; or — and the third is the best — while you are making love, let there be prayer. - Quoted
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Are you discouraged?
Are you discouraged?
Then the people of Judah said, "The work crews are worn out, and there is too much rubble. We can't continue to rebuild the wall." Nehemiah 4:10 (GWT)
Discouragement is curable. Whenever I get discouraged, I head straight to Nehemiah. This great leader of ancient Israel understood there were four reasons for discouragement.
First, you get fatigued -- You simply get tired as the laborers did in Nehemiah 4:10. We're human beings and we wear out. You cannot burn the candle at both ends. So if you're discouraged, it may be you don't have to change anything. You just need a vacation! Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is go to bed.
Second, you get frustrated -- Nehemiah says there was rubble all around, so much that it was getting in the way of rebuilding the wall. Do you have rubble in your life? Have you noticed that anytime you start doing something new, the trash starts piling up?
If you don't clean it out periodically, it's going to stop your progress. You can't avoid it, so you need to learn to recognize it and dispose of it quickly so you don't lose focus on your original intention.
What is the rubble in your life? I think rubble is the trivial things that waste your time and energy and prevent you from accomplishing what God has called you to do.
Third, you think you've failed -- Nehemiah's people were unable to finish their task as quickly as originally planned and, as a result, their confidence collapsed. They were thinking, "We were stupid to think we could ever rebuild this wall."
But you know what I do when I don't reach a goal on time? I just set a new goal. I don't give up. Everybody fails. Everybody does foolish things. So the issue is not that you failed - it's how you respond to your failure.
Do you give in to self-pity? Do you start blaming other people? Do you start complaining that it's impossible? Or, do you refocus on God's intentions and start moving again?
Finally, when you give in to fear, you get discouraged -- Nehemiah 4 suggests the people most affected by fear are those who hang around negative people. If you're going to control the negative thoughts in your life, you've got to get away from negative people as much as you can.
Maybe you're discouraged because of fear. You're dealing with fears like, "I can't handle this. It's too much responsibility." Maybe it's the fear that you don't deserve it. It's the fear of criticism. Fear will destroy your life if you let it. But you can choose to resist the discouragement. Say, "God help me get my eyes off the problem - off the circumstance - and keep my eyes on you."
Then the people of Judah said, "The work crews are worn out, and there is too much rubble. We can't continue to rebuild the wall." Nehemiah 4:10 (GWT)
Discouragement is curable. Whenever I get discouraged, I head straight to Nehemiah. This great leader of ancient Israel understood there were four reasons for discouragement.
First, you get fatigued -- You simply get tired as the laborers did in Nehemiah 4:10. We're human beings and we wear out. You cannot burn the candle at both ends. So if you're discouraged, it may be you don't have to change anything. You just need a vacation! Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is go to bed.
Second, you get frustrated -- Nehemiah says there was rubble all around, so much that it was getting in the way of rebuilding the wall. Do you have rubble in your life? Have you noticed that anytime you start doing something new, the trash starts piling up?
If you don't clean it out periodically, it's going to stop your progress. You can't avoid it, so you need to learn to recognize it and dispose of it quickly so you don't lose focus on your original intention.
What is the rubble in your life? I think rubble is the trivial things that waste your time and energy and prevent you from accomplishing what God has called you to do.
Third, you think you've failed -- Nehemiah's people were unable to finish their task as quickly as originally planned and, as a result, their confidence collapsed. They were thinking, "We were stupid to think we could ever rebuild this wall."
But you know what I do when I don't reach a goal on time? I just set a new goal. I don't give up. Everybody fails. Everybody does foolish things. So the issue is not that you failed - it's how you respond to your failure.
Do you give in to self-pity? Do you start blaming other people? Do you start complaining that it's impossible? Or, do you refocus on God's intentions and start moving again?
Finally, when you give in to fear, you get discouraged -- Nehemiah 4 suggests the people most affected by fear are those who hang around negative people. If you're going to control the negative thoughts in your life, you've got to get away from negative people as much as you can.
Maybe you're discouraged because of fear. You're dealing with fears like, "I can't handle this. It's too much responsibility." Maybe it's the fear that you don't deserve it. It's the fear of criticism. Fear will destroy your life if you let it. But you can choose to resist the discouragement. Say, "God help me get my eyes off the problem - off the circumstance - and keep my eyes on you."
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Are you trying to please everyone?
Are you trying to please everyone?
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone". Romans 12:18 (NIV)
Have you realized that there are some people you can't please? No matter what you do or what you try or how nice you are to them. You just can't please everybody.
But the Bible tells says you don't need to please everybody. "It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you." (Proverbs 29:25 LB) It's an emotional trap when you start worrying about what other people think. We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't even like -- all because we think we must be likedby everyone in order to be happy. That's foolish!
Jesus said, "I only seek to please Him who sent me." (John 5:30 LB) Even Jesus didn't try to please everybody. One person wants it to rain; another doesn't want it to rain. Even God can't please everybody. Only a fool would try to do what even God can't do.
In Luke 6:26 Jesus said, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you." (NIV) That's probably because the only time everybody's going to speak well of you is at your funeral!
I meet Christians all the time who must live with someone who makes life crazy. Every day they face someone who is an EGR (extra grace required). They say, "I try and try to make peace with this person, but I fail and I feel so guilty." The fact is, it may not be your fault. It may be the person you're trying to make peace with is just flat out difficult.
Give that person to God and focus on pleasing Him.
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone". Romans 12:18 (NIV)
Have you realized that there are some people you can't please? No matter what you do or what you try or how nice you are to them. You just can't please everybody.
But the Bible tells says you don't need to please everybody. "It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you." (Proverbs 29:25 LB) It's an emotional trap when you start worrying about what other people think. We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't even like -- all because we think we must be likedby everyone in order to be happy. That's foolish!
Jesus said, "I only seek to please Him who sent me." (John 5:30 LB) Even Jesus didn't try to please everybody. One person wants it to rain; another doesn't want it to rain. Even God can't please everybody. Only a fool would try to do what even God can't do.
In Luke 6:26 Jesus said, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you." (NIV) That's probably because the only time everybody's going to speak well of you is at your funeral!
I meet Christians all the time who must live with someone who makes life crazy. Every day they face someone who is an EGR (extra grace required). They say, "I try and try to make peace with this person, but I fail and I feel so guilty." The fact is, it may not be your fault. It may be the person you're trying to make peace with is just flat out difficult.
Give that person to God and focus on pleasing Him.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Reducing Stress
Reducing stress
If you don’t change the situations or thought patterns that are causing the uncomfortable, "red flag" emotions, you will continue to be triggered by them. Also, while you are not dealing with the emotions you are feeling, they can cause problems with your physical and emotional health.
Rumination, or the tendency to dwell on anger, resentment and other uncomfortable feelings, however, brings health consequences as well. So it’s important to listen to your emotions and then take steps to let them go. :
Understand Your Emotions.
Look within and try to pinpoint the situations that are creating the stress and negative emotions in your life. Negative emotions can come from a triggering event: an overwhelming workload, for example. Negative emotions are also the result of our thoughts surrounding an event; the way we interpret what happened can alter how we experience the event and whether or not it causes stress. The key job of your emotions is to get you to see the problem, so you can make necessary changes.
Change What You Can.
. Cut down on your stress triggers, and you’ll find yourself feeling negative emotions less frequently. This could include cutting down on job stress, learning the practices of assertive communication (so you don’t feel trampled by people) and changing negative thought patterns through a process known as cognitive restructuring.
Find An Outlet.
Making changes in your life can cut down on negative emotions, but it won’t eliminate your stress triggers entirely. As you make changes in your life to bring about less frustration, you will also need to find healthful outlets for dealing with these emotions. Regular exercise can provide an emotional lift as well as an outlet for negative emotions. Meditation can help you find some inner "space" to work with, so your emotions don’t feel so overwhelming. Finding opportunities for having fun and getting more laughter in your life can also change your perspective and relieve stress. Find a few of these outlets, and you’ll feel less overwhelmed when negative emotions do arise
To born again Christians
Try to live a life filled with the Holy spirit. A spirit filled life is the best means to control ones negative emotions and reduce stress.May God bless You,dear!
If you don’t change the situations or thought patterns that are causing the uncomfortable, "red flag" emotions, you will continue to be triggered by them. Also, while you are not dealing with the emotions you are feeling, they can cause problems with your physical and emotional health.
Rumination, or the tendency to dwell on anger, resentment and other uncomfortable feelings, however, brings health consequences as well. So it’s important to listen to your emotions and then take steps to let them go. :
Understand Your Emotions.
Look within and try to pinpoint the situations that are creating the stress and negative emotions in your life. Negative emotions can come from a triggering event: an overwhelming workload, for example. Negative emotions are also the result of our thoughts surrounding an event; the way we interpret what happened can alter how we experience the event and whether or not it causes stress. The key job of your emotions is to get you to see the problem, so you can make necessary changes.
Change What You Can.
. Cut down on your stress triggers, and you’ll find yourself feeling negative emotions less frequently. This could include cutting down on job stress, learning the practices of assertive communication (so you don’t feel trampled by people) and changing negative thought patterns through a process known as cognitive restructuring.
Find An Outlet.
Making changes in your life can cut down on negative emotions, but it won’t eliminate your stress triggers entirely. As you make changes in your life to bring about less frustration, you will also need to find healthful outlets for dealing with these emotions. Regular exercise can provide an emotional lift as well as an outlet for negative emotions. Meditation can help you find some inner "space" to work with, so your emotions don’t feel so overwhelming. Finding opportunities for having fun and getting more laughter in your life can also change your perspective and relieve stress. Find a few of these outlets, and you’ll feel less overwhelmed when negative emotions do arise
To born again Christians
Try to live a life filled with the Holy spirit. A spirit filled life is the best means to control ones negative emotions and reduce stress.May God bless You,dear!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
CURE TO ANXIETY
A Cure to Anxiety
Bokuju, a Zen master lived alone in a cave.He would sometimes say loudly, “Bokuju” — his own name, and then he would answer, “Yes, I am here.”
His disciples used to ask him, “Why are you calling ‘Bokuju’, your own name, and then saying, ‘Yes sir, I am here’?”
He said, “Whenever I get into thinking, I have to remember to be alert, and so I call my own name, ‘Bokuju.’ The moment I call ‘Bokuju’ and I say, ‘Yes sir, I am here,’ the thinking disappears.”
This can be a wonderful cure to anxiety. Just as Bokuju tried to wake himself by calling his name, you can try your own name. When you feel deep anxiety, just call your name and then reply, “Yes sir, I am here,” and feel the difference. The moment you call yourself, there is a jerk. The continuous flow of thinking is interrupted. Anxiety will not be there. At least for a single moment you will have a glimpse beyond the clouds. Once you know that if you become alert, anxiety disappears, you have come to a deep understanding of your own self and the mechanism of inner working.{ Quoted}
Bokuju, a Zen master lived alone in a cave.He would sometimes say loudly, “Bokuju” — his own name, and then he would answer, “Yes, I am here.”
His disciples used to ask him, “Why are you calling ‘Bokuju’, your own name, and then saying, ‘Yes sir, I am here’?”
He said, “Whenever I get into thinking, I have to remember to be alert, and so I call my own name, ‘Bokuju.’ The moment I call ‘Bokuju’ and I say, ‘Yes sir, I am here,’ the thinking disappears.”
This can be a wonderful cure to anxiety. Just as Bokuju tried to wake himself by calling his name, you can try your own name. When you feel deep anxiety, just call your name and then reply, “Yes sir, I am here,” and feel the difference. The moment you call yourself, there is a jerk. The continuous flow of thinking is interrupted. Anxiety will not be there. At least for a single moment you will have a glimpse beyond the clouds. Once you know that if you become alert, anxiety disappears, you have come to a deep understanding of your own self and the mechanism of inner working.{ Quoted}
Controlling emotions
Controlling Emotions
When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in questions, but remain centered.
If hate arises for someone or against someone, or love arises for someone, what do we do? We project it on the person. If you feel hate toward me, you forget yourself completely in your hate; only I become your object. If you feel love toward me, you forget yourself completely; only I become the object. You project your love or hate or whatsoever upon me. You forget completely the inner center of your being; the other becomes the center.
This sutra says when hate arises or love arises, or any mood for or against anyone, do not project it on the person in question. Remember, you are the source of it.
I love you — the ordinary feeling is that you are the source of my love. That is not really so. I am the source, you are just a screen on which I project my love.
You are just a screen; I project my love on you and I say that you are the source of my love. This is not fact, this is fiction. I draw my love energy and project it onto you. In that love energy projected onto you, you become loveable. You may ot be loveable to someone else, you may be absolutely repulsive to someone else.
Why?
If you are the source of love then everyone will feel loving toward you, but you are not the source.
I project love, then you become loveable; someone projects hate, then you become repulsive. And someone else doesn’t project anything, he is indifferent; he may not even have looked at you.
What is happening? We are projecting our own moods upon others. That is why, if you are on your honeymoon, the moon looks beautiful, miraculous, wonderful. it seems that the whole world is different. And on the same night, just for your neighbor, this miraculous night may not be in existence at all. His child has died — then the same moon is just sad, intolerable. But for you it is enchanting, fascinating; it creates passion. Why? Is the moon the source or is the moon just a screen and you are projecting yourself?
This sutra says, when a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question — or on the object in question. Remain centered.
Remember that you are the source, so do not move to the other, move to the source. When you feel hate, do not go to the object. Go to the point from where the hate is coming. Go not to the person to whom it is going, but to the center from where it is coming.
Move to the center, go within. Use your hate or love or anger or anything as a journey toward your inner center, to the source. Move to the source and remain centered there. Try it! This is a very, very scientific, psychological technique.
Someone has insulted you — anger suddenly erupts, you are feverish. Anger is flowing toward the person who has insulted you. Now you will project this whole anger onto him. He has not done anything. If he has insulted you, what has he done? He has just pricked you, he has helped your anger to arise — but the anger is yours. If he goes to Buddha and insults him, he will not be able to create any anger in him. Or if he goes to Jesus, Jesus will give him the other cheek. Or if he goes to Bodhidharma, he will roar with laughter. So it depends.
The other is not the source, the source is always within you. The other is hitting the source, but if there is no anger within you it cannot come out. If you hit a buddha, only compassion will come out because only compassion is there. Anger will not come out because anger is not there.
If you throw a bucket into a dry well, nothing comes out. In a water-filled well, you throw a bucket and water comes out, but the water is from the well. The bucket only helps to bring it out. So one who is insulting you is just throwing a bucket in you, and then the bucket will come out filled with the anger, hate, or fire that was within you.
You are the source, remember.
For this technique, remember that you are the source of everything that you go on projecting onto others. And whenever there is a mood against or for, immediately move within and go to the source from where this hate is coming.
Remain centered there; do not move to the object. Someone has given you a chance to be aware of your own anger — thank him immediately and forget him. Close your eyes, move within, and now look at the source from where this love or anger is coming. From where?
Go within, move within. You will find the source there because the anger is coming from your source. Hate or love or anything is coming from your source.
And it is easy to go to the source at the moment you are angry or in love or in hate, because then you are hot. It is easy to move in then. The wire is hot and you can take it in, you can move inward with that hotness. And when you reach a cool point within, you will suddenly realize a different dimension, a different world opening before you. { quoted}
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Samhaara Doothanസംഹാര ദൂതന്‍ സംഹാര ദൂതന്റെ കാലൊച്ച നാട്ടില്‍ സന്തതം കേള്‍ക്കുന്നു , ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നുവോ നീ? രാഷ്ട്രീയ വൈരാഗ്യ ചെകുത്താന്‍ പിടിച്ചവര്‍ രാപ്പകല്‍ ചോര കുടിക്കാന്‍ നടക്കുന്നു ! കത്തികറാര വടിവാള്‍ ബോംബുകള്‍ കൊണ്ടുനടക്കും ക്വൊട്ടേഷന്‍ ഗുണ്ടകള്‍ ! മനുഷ്യര്‍തന്‍ രൂപം ധരിച്ചു നടക്കുന്ന മനുഷ്യത്വമില്ലാത്ത ദുഷ്ടകാപാലികര്‍! അവര്‍ക്കുവേണ്ട തെല്ലാം കൊടുക്കുന്നു , അറിയാത്ത ഭാവത്തില്‍ 'സംപൂജ്യ 'നേതാക്കള്‍ ! ഉയരുന്നമ്മപെങ്ങന്മാര്‍തന്‍ നിലവിളി ഉയരുന്നനാഥക്കുഞ്ഞുങ്ങള്‍തന്‍ മുറവിളി ! നെഞ്ചുപൊട്ടി വിളിക്ക നാം ദൈവത്തെ നീതിയാം ദൈവമേ ,പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്ക,സത്വരം! -എസ്.എഴുമല June 2012 , H.L.M -centre Kaloor,Kochi -682 017
Useful Fight
Useful Fight
There is no need to fight with others — it is a sheer wastage of energy. There are many things inside we have to fight against: the ego, greed, violence, ambitiousness, possessiveness, and so on, so forth. These are the real enemies — fight with them. And the art of fighting with them is meditation.
Watch them, be aware of them, because there are a few things which simply disappear by watching. If you can be aware of your anger the anger will disappear. Try it and you will be surprised. Just watch it arising, see the cloud surrounding you, trying to pull you in, making every effort to seduce you. Just remain aloof, a watcher on the hills, far away, just a witness and you will be surprised; within minutes the cloud is gone. And when the cloud of anger goes without affecting you, you fall into such a beautiful silence which you may not have known before at all. It is the silence that follows the storm. It is really penetrating, it goes to the deepest core of your being. It is a great nourishment for the soul.
So watch the inner enemies, meditate on the inner enemies, and slowly slowly they start dying of their own accord. A moment comes when you are there and there is nothing to watch. A contentless consciousness — that is the ultimate peak of meditation. You have won, you are victorious.
There is no need to fight with others — it is a sheer wastage of energy. There are many things inside we have to fight against: the ego, greed, violence, ambitiousness, possessiveness, and so on, so forth. These are the real enemies — fight with them. And the art of fighting with them is meditation.
Watch them, be aware of them, because there are a few things which simply disappear by watching. If you can be aware of your anger the anger will disappear. Try it and you will be surprised. Just watch it arising, see the cloud surrounding you, trying to pull you in, making every effort to seduce you. Just remain aloof, a watcher on the hills, far away, just a witness and you will be surprised; within minutes the cloud is gone. And when the cloud of anger goes without affecting you, you fall into such a beautiful silence which you may not have known before at all. It is the silence that follows the storm. It is really penetrating, it goes to the deepest core of your being. It is a great nourishment for the soul.
So watch the inner enemies, meditate on the inner enemies, and slowly slowly they start dying of their own accord. A moment comes when you are there and there is nothing to watch. A contentless consciousness — that is the ultimate peak of meditation. You have won, you are victorious.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Earth quake 11-4-2012
ഭൂമികുലുങ്ങി
ഭൂമി കുലുങ്ങി , രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ നടുങ്ങി
ഭൂമിതന്നവസ്ഥ പിന്നെയും തെളിഞ്ഞു!
ഭൂമി കുലുങ്ങിയാലെല്ലാം കുലുങ്ങും
ഭൂനിക്ഷേപങ്ങളൊക്കെയും കുലുങ്ങും!
ഭൂമിവെട്ടിപ്പിടിച്ചു മുന്നേറുന്നവര്‍
ഭൂമിയില്‍ നിക്ഷേപംകൂട്ടി വയ്ക്കുന്നവര്‍
ഭൂമിയില്‍ ശാശ്വതമില്ലെന്നോര്‍ക്കുവാന്‍
ഭൂമിയെ കുലുക്കുന്നിടക്കിടെയീശ്വരന്‍!
- എസ്.എഴുമല
ഭൂമികുലുങ്ങി
ഭൂമി കുലുങ്ങി , രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ നടുങ്ങി
ഭൂമിതന്നവസ്ഥ പിന്നെയും തെളിഞ്ഞു!
ഭൂമി കുലുങ്ങിയാലെല്ലാം കുലുങ്ങും
ഭൂനിക്ഷേപങ്ങളൊക്കെയും കുലുങ്ങും!
ഭൂമിവെട്ടിപ്പിടിച്ചു മുന്നേറുന്നവര്‍
ഭൂമിയില്‍ നിക്ഷേപംകൂട്ടി വയ്ക്കുന്നവര്‍
ഭൂമിയില്‍ ശാശ്വതമില്ലെന്നോര്‍ക്കുവാന്‍
ഭൂമിയെ കുലുക്കുന്നിടക്കിടെയീശ്വരന്‍!
- എസ്.എഴുമല
Friday, February 24, 2012
ഉത്ഥാനം
ഇരുളിന്റെ ശകതികള്‍ നൃത്തമാടി
ഇനിവരില്ലെന്നവരാര്‍ത്തു പാടി .
നസ്രായനേശു മരിച്ചുപോയി
നാടിന്റെ ശല്ല്യമൊഴിഞ്ഞു പോയി!
കുന്തം പിടിച്ചവര്‍ കല്ലറക്കല്‍
കുന്തംപോല്‍ രാപകല്‍ കാവല്‍ നിന്നു.
കല്ലറക്കല്ലു മെല്ലെയുരുണ്ടു നീങ്ങി
ഉത്ഥിതനേശു പുറത്തു വന്നു!
കണ്ടില്ലപ്പൊഴും കുന്തം പിടിച്ചവര്‍
കുന്തംപോല്‍ പിന്നെയും കാവല്‍ നിന്നു!
മരണത്തിന്നാകുമോ പിടിച്ചു വയ്ക്കാന്‍
മരണാധികാരിതന്‍ കല്പന ധിക്കരിക്കാന്‍ ?
മരണത്തെ ജയിച്ചുയിര്‍ത്തെഴുന്നേറ്റ
മാനവരക്ഷകാ കൈതൊഴുന്നേന്‍ !
- S.E {2012}
ഇരുളിന്റെ ശകതികള്‍ നൃത്തമാടി
ഇനിവരില്ലെന്നവരാര്‍ത്തു പാടി .
നസ്രായനേശു മരിച്ചുപോയി
നാടിന്റെ ശല്ല്യമൊഴിഞ്ഞു പോയി!
കുന്തം പിടിച്ചവര്‍ കല്ലറക്കല്‍
കുന്തംപോല്‍ രാപകല്‍ കാവല്‍ നിന്നു.
കല്ലറക്കല്ലു മെല്ലെയുരുണ്ടു നീങ്ങി
ഉത്ഥിതനേശു പുറത്തു വന്നു!
കണ്ടില്ലപ്പൊഴും കുന്തം പിടിച്ചവര്‍
കുന്തംപോല്‍ പിന്നെയും കാവല്‍ നിന്നു!
മരണത്തിന്നാകുമോ പിടിച്ചു വയ്ക്കാന്‍
മരണാധികാരിതന്‍ കല്പന ധിക്കരിക്കാന്‍ ?
മരണത്തെ ജയിച്ചുയിര്‍ത്തെഴുന്നേറ്റ
മാനവരക്ഷകാ കൈതൊഴുന്നേന്‍ !
- S.E {2012}
Friday, January 13, 2012
THE LAW IN THE UNIVERSE
Each creates of its kind
Thoughts are forces. Each creates of its kind. Each comes back laden with the effect that corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause.
"Then let your secret thoughts be fair—
They have a vital part, and share
In shaping words and moulding fate;
God's system is so intricate."
And in a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world. Live only in the thought of love for all and you will draw love to you from all. Live in the thought of malice or hatred, and malice and hatred will come back to you.
"For evil poisons; malice shafts
Like boomerangs return,
Inflicting wounds that will not heal
While rage and anger burn."
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind. This is an immutable law. Every thought you entertain has moreover a direct effect upon your body. Love and its kindred emotions are the normal and the natural, those in accordance with the eternal order of the universe, for "God is love." These have a life-giving, health-engendering influence upon your body, besides beautifying your countenance, enriching your voice, and making you ever more attractive in every way.{ Quoted}
Thoughts are forces. Each creates of its kind. Each comes back laden with the effect that corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause.
"Then let your secret thoughts be fair—
They have a vital part, and share
In shaping words and moulding fate;
God's system is so intricate."
And in a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world. Live only in the thought of love for all and you will draw love to you from all. Live in the thought of malice or hatred, and malice and hatred will come back to you.
"For evil poisons; malice shafts
Like boomerangs return,
Inflicting wounds that will not heal
While rage and anger burn."
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind. This is an immutable law. Every thought you entertain has moreover a direct effect upon your body. Love and its kindred emotions are the normal and the natural, those in accordance with the eternal order of the universe, for "God is love." These have a life-giving, health-engendering influence upon your body, besides beautifying your countenance, enriching your voice, and making you ever more attractive in every way.{ Quoted}
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
HEAVENLY BLISS
ആനന്ദ സ്വര്‍ഗ്ഗം
നിറയട്ടെ ,ക്രിസ്തു നിന്നി,ലപ്പോള്‍
നിറയും നീയാനന്ദ സ്വര്‍ഗ്ഗത്തിലാകും.
നിറവിന്റെ നിറവാം ക്രിസ്തു നിന്നില്‍
നിറയുവാന്‍ നീയൊരുങ്ങിടെണം
പാപിയാണെന്നറിഞ്ഞു നിന്റെ
പാപം ക്ഷമിക്കുവാനപേക്ഷിച്ചിടെണം .
പാപപരിഹാരകനേശുവപ്പോള്‍
പാപം ക്ഷമിച്ചു നിന്നെ ശുദ്ധനാക്കും .
ക്രിസ്തുവാം യേശു നിന്‍ ജീവിതത്തില്‍
കര്‍ത്താവായി വാഴുവാനര്‍ത്ഥിച്ചിടെണം
പാപവഴികളെല്ലാം വിട്ടു നടക്കണം
പാപശീലങ്ങളുപേക്ഷിച്ചിടെണം
ക്രിസ്തുവിന്‍ വചനം ഭക്ഷിച്ചിടെണം
ക്രിസ്തുവിന്നാത്മാവാല്‍ തീര്‍ക്കണം ദാഹം.
ക്രിസ്തു നിറയും നിന്നാത്മാവിലപ്പോള്‍,
ക്രിസ്തുവില്‍ നീയാനന്ദസ്വര്ഗ്ഗത്തിലാകും !
- എസ്.എഴുമല
നിറയട്ടെ ,ക്രിസ്തു നിന്നി,ലപ്പോള്‍
നിറയും നീയാനന്ദ സ്വര്‍ഗ്ഗത്തിലാകും.
നിറവിന്റെ നിറവാം ക്രിസ്തു നിന്നില്‍
നിറയുവാന്‍ നീയൊരുങ്ങിടെണം
പാപിയാണെന്നറിഞ്ഞു നിന്റെ
പാപം ക്ഷമിക്കുവാനപേക്ഷിച്ചിടെണം .
പാപപരിഹാരകനേശുവപ്പോള്‍
പാപം ക്ഷമിച്ചു നിന്നെ ശുദ്ധനാക്കും .
ക്രിസ്തുവാം യേശു നിന്‍ ജീവിതത്തില്‍
കര്‍ത്താവായി വാഴുവാനര്‍ത്ഥിച്ചിടെണം
പാപവഴികളെല്ലാം വിട്ടു നടക്കണം
പാപശീലങ്ങളുപേക്ഷിച്ചിടെണം
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