Dissatisfaction has a beautiful silver lining; You start growing.
There are only 2 paths for the inner growth;
a) Natural growth:
You go through various experiences, good and bad, and slowly learn from them. The so-called bad experiences give you detachment and the so-called good experiences lead to attachment. You oscillate between them and learn your lessons slowly. It takes you a long time to understand that happiness resides within you.
b) Revolutionary evolution:
You contemplate, meditate and thereby outgrow illusions and desires. It involves clear understanding, deep honesty and indomitable courage.
There are only 2 paths for the inner growth;
a) Natural growth:
You go through various experiences, good and bad, and slowly learn from them. The so-called bad experiences give you detachment and the so-called good experiences lead to attachment. You oscillate between them and learn your lessons slowly. It takes you a long time to understand that happiness resides within you.
b) Revolutionary evolution:
You contemplate, meditate and thereby outgrow illusions and desires. It involves clear understanding, deep honesty and indomitable courage.
(Continue from Day 11..)
4) Compassion
- One understands that without opening the heart, something will always remain missing.
- Selfless love becomes important now and one consciously takes steps to develop it.
- Passionate about a cause; but if he does not achieve the desired results, he gets put off easily.
- Might not be doing things for any selfish ends, but even this selflessness can become a cause of pain.
- Wants to bring about quick and lasting changes in the society and this is a hopeless desire. He gets burnt out with time.
- There comes a time in the life of a compassionate person when he starts searching for some more enriching avenues.
5) Introspection
- The mind turns inwards and starts asking questions about the nature of the self, the causes of unhappiness, the way to peace, what is real and unreal, etc
- This inquiry takes one to the most important question that one can even ask oneself "Who am I?"
- The process of evolution within the state of introspection can be slightly different for each person, it takes this shape
a) Studying self-help books
b) Turning toward spiritual texts or places or teachers
c) Practicing meditation
- Slowly, one recognizes that it is not possible to quiet the mind in meditation unless these concepts are also lived in day-to-day life.
a) Experiencing fulfillment within oneself, independent of X factors
b) Living in awareness, peace and love each moment
c) Helping others without expectations
d) Faith in teachings
e) Happy acceptance of people as they are
f) Learning to benefit from difficulties
g) Considering fulfillment more important than excitement
h) Considering purity more important than lust
i) Considering peace more important than anger
j) Considering detachment more important than attachment
k) Considering contentment more important than greed
l) Considering humility more important than pride
m) Non-interference in the business of others
n) Not blaming and criticizing others
o) Loving oneself in peace and in one's own
- As one progresses in meditation, one realizes that the notion of possession is only a dream
- Initially, it comes only for a short duration, but with practice, the duration of experiencing one's true identity with the 'eternal blissful awareness' becomes much more concrete.
- Until the experience of one's identity with the eternal blissful awareness becomes stable, it is called the state of introspection.
6) Enlightened
- State of Liberation
- The notion that 'one is a separate Self' is give up when the experience of union with the Cosmic Self takes place.
- It means that the three-fold differentiation between the knower, the known and the knowledge gets annihilated now. Only One remains.
- It is the experience of the Universal Consciousness, Blissful and Eternally Aware. Total and unequivocal surrender takes place.
- One always lives in non-forgetfulness of the Truth.
~ Ajay
4) Compassion
- One understands that without opening the heart, something will always remain missing.
- Selfless love becomes important now and one consciously takes steps to develop it.
- Passionate about a cause; but if he does not achieve the desired results, he gets put off easily.
- Might not be doing things for any selfish ends, but even this selflessness can become a cause of pain.
- Wants to bring about quick and lasting changes in the society and this is a hopeless desire. He gets burnt out with time.
- There comes a time in the life of a compassionate person when he starts searching for some more enriching avenues.
5) Introspection
- The mind turns inwards and starts asking questions about the nature of the self, the causes of unhappiness, the way to peace, what is real and unreal, etc
- This inquiry takes one to the most important question that one can even ask oneself "Who am I?"
- The process of evolution within the state of introspection can be slightly different for each person, it takes this shape
a) Studying self-help books
b) Turning toward spiritual texts or places or teachers
c) Practicing meditation
- Slowly, one recognizes that it is not possible to quiet the mind in meditation unless these concepts are also lived in day-to-day life.
a) Experiencing fulfillment within oneself, independent of X factors
b) Living in awareness, peace and love each moment
c) Helping others without expectations
d) Faith in teachings
e) Happy acceptance of people as they are
f) Learning to benefit from difficulties
g) Considering fulfillment more important than excitement
h) Considering purity more important than lust
i) Considering peace more important than anger
j) Considering detachment more important than attachment
k) Considering contentment more important than greed
l) Considering humility more important than pride
m) Non-interference in the business of others
n) Not blaming and criticizing others
o) Loving oneself in peace and in one's own
- As one progresses in meditation, one realizes that the notion of possession is only a dream
- Initially, it comes only for a short duration, but with practice, the duration of experiencing one's true identity with the 'eternal blissful awareness' becomes much more concrete.
- Until the experience of one's identity with the eternal blissful awareness becomes stable, it is called the state of introspection.
6) Enlightened
- State of Liberation
- The notion that 'one is a separate Self' is give up when the experience of union with the Cosmic Self takes place.
- It means that the three-fold differentiation between the knower, the known and the knowledge gets annihilated now. Only One remains.
- It is the experience of the Universal Consciousness, Blissful and Eternally Aware. Total and unequivocal surrender takes place.
- One always lives in non-forgetfulness of the Truth.
~ Ajay
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." ~ Buddha
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