Do we have likes and dislikes or do likes and dislikes have us? As unconscious beings, lives and dislikes control our lives. Conscious beings are masters of likes and dislikes. When lives and dislikes are under your control, they will serve you.
It is wrong to say that we have to live only in the present. One needs to consider time as past, present and future. Some people operate from the past, some are future-oriented so they mostly operate from the future and some are present-oriented. To be wise involves balancing the three-time periods...when required you have to take reference from the past or consider the future. Hence balancing time is very essential.
Do not reject the past or the future also do not only live in the past or the future. Learn from the past, enjoy the present and plan for the future. Be present in the past and thereby, learn from the past. Be present in the future,thereby, plan for the future, being alive in the present, you will enjoy the present.
It is said that one of the reasons Hitler lost the war was because he did not learn from the history. He attacked Russia in winter, had he learnt from the past he would have known that Napoleon had lost many of his men by attacking Russia in winter. One can learn from the past as well as from the future, taking care not to be imprisoned by both. Similarly, while planning for the future do not loose the present and miss the wisdom of the past or the opportunities of the future. Hence one needs to be balanced with reference to time. Decide on your priorities in life. Prioritize your own priorities. Establish your peak performance or time during a day, monitor your low performance time. Do any important task at your peak performance time.
Do any less important task at your low performance time.
Identify your time wasters, learn to delegate work. Enjoy your work and you will find there a lot of time.
Review your priorities from time to time. We the people who are good at time management. Time will melt into timelessness, use time to go beyond time. We live in two worlds, a world of the mind which is in time, a world beyond time that is timelessness. When we are in sleep or in samadhi,we go beyond time and experience timelessness. One must have the wisdom to use the mind and the wisdom to go beyond the time. In state of deep joy, we are beyond our mind.
Mind is a bundle of thoughts. More than heart-attacks we suffer from thought-attacks.
When thoughts attacks us, we become victims of thought it is like employing someone and then being thrashed by him. You should be master of the mind, rather than mind being your master. You should use the mind rather than let the mind use you. The very intention to be master of your mind will give you the wisdom of how to use the mind.
Discourse by Swami Sukhabodhananda
(From my collections)
It is wrong to say that we have to live only in the present. One needs to consider time as past, present and future. Some people operate from the past, some are future-oriented so they mostly operate from the future and some are present-oriented. To be wise involves balancing the three-time periods...when required you have to take reference from the past or consider the future. Hence balancing time is very essential.
Do not reject the past or the future also do not only live in the past or the future. Learn from the past, enjoy the present and plan for the future. Be present in the past and thereby, learn from the past. Be present in the future,thereby, plan for the future, being alive in the present, you will enjoy the present.
It is said that one of the reasons Hitler lost the war was because he did not learn from the history. He attacked Russia in winter, had he learnt from the past he would have known that Napoleon had lost many of his men by attacking Russia in winter. One can learn from the past as well as from the future, taking care not to be imprisoned by both. Similarly, while planning for the future do not loose the present and miss the wisdom of the past or the opportunities of the future. Hence one needs to be balanced with reference to time. Decide on your priorities in life. Prioritize your own priorities. Establish your peak performance or time during a day, monitor your low performance time. Do any important task at your peak performance time.
Do any less important task at your low performance time.
Identify your time wasters, learn to delegate work. Enjoy your work and you will find there a lot of time.
Review your priorities from time to time. We the people who are good at time management. Time will melt into timelessness, use time to go beyond time. We live in two worlds, a world of the mind which is in time, a world beyond time that is timelessness. When we are in sleep or in samadhi,we go beyond time and experience timelessness. One must have the wisdom to use the mind and the wisdom to go beyond the time. In state of deep joy, we are beyond our mind.
Mind is a bundle of thoughts. More than heart-attacks we suffer from thought-attacks.
When thoughts attacks us, we become victims of thought it is like employing someone and then being thrashed by him. You should be master of the mind, rather than mind being your master. You should use the mind rather than let the mind use you. The very intention to be master of your mind will give you the wisdom of how to use the mind.
Discourse by Swami Sukhabodhananda
(From my collections)
I completely agree with your writing in your blog and sincerely try to implement the thoughts in my routine life
ReplyDeleteVery well-written mami!! It indeed is a golden mantra that can be deployed in every sphere of life be it household or professional.
ReplyDeletePeople often blame destiny, when things do not work out.
But the fact of the matter is correct balance of your past, present and future; a combination of experience, preparation and right opportunity can make everything possible, every dream come true and success and happiness very much within one's control!! very inspiring indeed...