PRINCIPLES OF ABUNDANCE

Feng Shui, Kaizan And Zen Abundance

• Our life has nine aspiration points and all are essential. They are: health, wealth, relationship, fame, children's growth, helpful friends, career growth, know-ledge and blessings.
• These are interlinked. Even if one aspiration point is missing you begin to feel uncomfortable.
• According to Zen masters there are five principles of abundance. They help us achieve our life aspirations in full.
• The first principle of abundance is: "God does not choose to discriminate while giving". For God everyone is equal. He gives all life aspirations. It is up to us to take whatever we want. We cannot blame God if any life aspirations are missing in our life. Then why are there differences between you, me and others? It is only due to two reasons. We create blockages in the mind and in the environment. Especially when we are young, we come across many people including teachers, friends, family members and others. All of them wish us good. But all have their limitations according to their circumstances and beliefs. These limitations they pass on to others also. Without awareness our subconscious mind accepts these limitations and these act as blocks in our thinking and in our growth.
• The second principle of abundance says, "Be a limitless person and accept the universe as it is". God has made you to get the best of everything in this world. You deserve it. There is no limit for your aspirations and dreams. If someone says, "It is not possible", it is his limitation, not yours.
• The third principle of abundance says, "Whatever be your intention you will get it". If you have strong intention, your efforts get adjusted to your intention and the universe ensures you achieve the same. When you have a strong intention of owning a house you somehow arrange finance. With only Rs 10,000 in hand you start looking for a new house and you find that within a short span of time you have managed the finance and moved to a new house worth several lakhs. According to Vaastu Shastra there are 32 directions in a house. Each direction is governed by a god or goddess. Whenever we speak something the deities say "Tathastu" — be it happen. The words that we speak also have energy.
• The fourth principle of abundance states, "Negative words multiply and come back to us hundred times. Positive words multiply and come back to us hundred times". When we say, "I am becoming poor", "People cheat me", "Children are not studying" or "No one loves or cares for me" — each sentence multiplies and comes back to us. For our life to be happy it is very essential to avoid negative words and use more positive words.
• Feng Shui, the Chinese science of balancing energies, and the latest Japanese management principle of Kaizan: Both have their roots in the fifth principle of abundance which believes "Clutter blocks energy". Clutter is anything which we carry in our life, which has no value for us now. We purchase a new shirt, wear it for some time and after a few years stop using it but still carry it in our storage space. This is clutter. Clutter can be anything — books, clothes, broken clocks, old electronic items etc. With awareness when we remove the clutter from our house, prosperity fills in. So, live in abundance.

60 years of Indian Independence

interesting article by Shashi Tharoor. Link to the article :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Gurcharan_Das_Time_to_free_schools/articleshow/2274711.cms

PHILANTHROPY IN NATURE

• Evolutionary scientists teach us that human beings have evolved through a long struggle in which only the fittest have survived. The fittest are those who pass on their genes.
• But it is a mistake to believe that life is a tooth and claw struggle where only the selfish survive. Yes, we have evolved from animals — we share 98.6% of our genes with chimpanzees — but nature is replete with dharma-like goodness.
• Wolves and wild dogs bring food back for their young who cannot hunt.
• Dolphins will help lift an injured companion for hours to help him survive.
• Blackbirds and thrushes give warning calls when they spot a hawk even if it risks their own lives.
• Similarly, human parents make huge sacrifices for their children with little expectation of return. So, it is wrong to view nature as an amoral law of the jungle.

Link to the article from which the above excerpt is tken :

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Gurcharan_Das_Time_to_free_schools/articleshow/2274711.cms

calibrate our life and celibrate

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2251762.cms
Life is celebration. In order to be able to experience the joy of celebration, you need to first learn to calibrate your life in a manner appropriate for celebration. Your life starts from a thought. The thinking process keeps generating thoughts. When you enact these thoughts you experience the fruition of your actions. Thought is the root and the outcome of action is the fruit. Life is evolving; it is changing constantly from the root to its fruit. Between the roots and fruits lie the trunk, branches, leaves, buds and flowers. These are our various thought processes. Thoughts make the mind. As are your thoughts and thinking, so is your mind. And that is your life. The 'tree' of life. Life also consists of feelings and emotions, called the manas or spiritual heart. Due to prana or the process of breathing, the spiritual heart is connected to the mind. In other words, feelings and emotions are linked with the process of thinking or its product, thoughts. This connectivity generates more thinking, creating thoughts that make your life emotion and feeling-based as well. The mind is the gateway to the brain which is the seat of intellect or buddhi. So once again, life reaffirms itself and reaffixes itself to the intellect. Your whole life revolves around your mind and intellect. Your mind and intellect together generate strong likes and dislikes — raag and dvesh — which create intense beliefs and disbeliefs. These lead us to love and hate relationships with fellow human beings and also with Divinity. When we understand this true aspect we can clearly see that our life is based on our mind, level of intelligence, strong beliefs and disbeliefs. Seers have established that we are a part of the Supreme Spirit. This is our link with the Divine source. We need to form our life around the Supreme Spirit, who is Parama, also known as the soul or atman. Soul also means spandana or vibrations. We need to get firmly established in the Divine source. We need to restructure our lives from being thinking-based to being vibrations-based. Just as an object vibrating at high speed does not allow even a single particle of dust to stick to it, intense vibrations of the soul blow away residual and negative thoughts, beliefs and disbeliefs. How should we convert our lives from being thought-based to being vibrations-based? To move from thought-based to vibrations-based life, seek the company of the holy and the wise, attend satsangs, read and assimilate wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Upanishads and other world scriptures and learn more about the lives of the accomplished. Practise meditation, mantra chanting or japa, and intense sadhana. Try to follow spiritual and divine traditions. By doing so the mind, intellect, beliefs and disbeliefs, likes and dislikes, which have prevented vibrations of the soul to be felt and experienced, recede to the background and there is a spontaneous ignition of soul energy that is released. This energy release brings out waves of bliss, where we feel immense happiness, satisfaction, joy and contentment. The transition brings a blissful life without worries. We experience a joyful, thoughtless state of being, full of peace and contentment. Life is without anxiety and fear. We calibrate our life and celebrate forever. E-mail: shrinimishamba@hotmail.com . Website: www.shri-nimishamba.org .

PART OF A WHOLE

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

CALIBRATE YOUR LIFE AND CELEBRATE

Our mind is a bundle of thoughts. The state of our mind decides the quality of our life. We convert most of the thoughts that arise in our minds into action. This produces the Karmic reaction which rules our life. So we see that the mind is the cause of our happiness or dissatisfaction. Our external surroundings, circumstances and relationships constantly make our mind oscillate between joy and sorrow. So our mental equilibrium is upset. When we are strongly grounded in our Spiritual Tradition, we have complete control over the mind. Regular practise of the Spiritual techniques taught by the Sages and Scriptures will help us to control our thought process and use it to generate a happy and contented life. Ordinary thoughts can be transformed into wise, dynamic and divine resolutions, which will transform our lives and bring success with effortless ease.
When we gain control over the mind, the desires which are the root cause of sorrow are eliminated. We let go of all expectations and accept each day as a gift from God. Life becomes joyous, expansive and meaningful.
A person’s profession, fame, wealth, health and success are determined by his Karma. Even if he succeeds and scales the peak in any field through hard work and training, and accumulates enough to satisfy all his material needs, he still lacks mental peace. Peace and contentment can be obtained only through the Grace of God or the Guru.
When we worship the Divine Mother, who is the creator and sustainer of all creation, the mind attains equilibrium. Our thoughts become pure and our actions are selfless. All the negative Karma is dissolved, and our life is shaped only by the good Karma that remains.
When we practise spiritual techniques that propel us towards the Divine Mother, we transcend all human limitations and spiritual awareness dawns within us. As we surrender completely at Her feet, She annihilates our ignorance. We attain a state of complete Oneness with the Cosmic Will and the entire Cosmos. This establishes us in everlasting peace, unconditional love and eternal bliss.”






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A NEW SCIENCE OF RELIGION & INTERDEPENDENCE

• Not many people will agree that it’s time for a new religion to emerge. But before going into that let’s have a re-look at what’s come to be known as the Gaia hypotheses, or Gaia theory.
• Named after the Greek goddess of the Earth, the theory was formulated in the 1960s by the research scientist James Lovelock. Lovelock believed that the so-called living and non-living components that go to make up the whole Earth actually constitute a new and emergent property which is more than the sum of its parts. In other words, “life” modifies the conditions on the planet to make conditions on the planet more hospitable via feedback it gets through “non-life”.
• Only together, can the two components comprise a true living organism. With this initial hypothesis, Lovelock claimed the existence of a global control system of surface temperature, atmospheric composition and ocean salinity.
• His arguments were that since life started on Earth, the energy provided by the Sun has increased by 25% to 30%; yet the surface temperature of the planet has remained remarkably constant when measured on a global scale.
• Also, atmospheric composition has remained the same too even though it should be unstable. And so has the salinity of the oceans, which is a mystery because river salts should have raised the level much higher by now than is observed.
• In spite of all this, however, mainstream science has had a tough time accepting that the whole Earth behaves as a single, self-regulating system composed of physical, chemical, biological and human components. It seems simply too pre-scientific, pagan and like some New Age religion.
• Especially since the theory almost posits endowing the planet with a kind of life of its own. Palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould, for instance, criticised Gaia as merely a metaphorical description of Earth processes.
• Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, claimed “there was no way for evolution by natural selection to lead to altruism on a global scale.” Be that as it may, the Earth is now beginning to get a battering despite science and paganism.
• Global warming is no discriminator of life or non-life. In order to survive, humankind now needs a totally new kind of religion which embraces the entirety of existence and the interdependence of all its parts. Or as Gaia itself proposes, the entirety of the universe and the interdependence of all its parts too.