If you can believe in enlightened pink elephants - you can believe in anything. Spirituality starts in your mind - if you mind can cope with incredible thoughts it can’t cope with incredible truths either.
Open your mind, expand your mind, cultivate your ability to think and imagine new possibilities … maybe then you get enlightened or trampled by an elephant on the way …
Yes, we are creatures ruled by time, rhythms and habits.
It start with our basic heart rate - the true rhythm of our lives.
The day & night pattern of our planet dictates our lifestyles, the need for sleep our awake times.
Our social life and whole society is built around rhythms, patterns, repeats and habits: work time, play time, quality time. We all have times and places for everything.
But there is the long time pattern of life itself: birth, life and death. We all sing and dance to that rhythm, either on a small human scale or cosmic one. Even suns and planets get born, have a life and burn out in the end. Even black holes end in another big bang.
Welcome to this Universe ruled by time, rhythms and patterns.
The true question is: do you design your own patterns of life or do you follow those patterns carved out for your by society, nature and other people’s expectations?
Time to rule your patterns, design your own patterns and enjoy time as long as it still ticks for you!
When you join this circus called a business career make sure you are ahead of everyone racing the circle.
Someone has to be the winner … maybe?
A photofest to celebrate all our women’s yoni (Wikipedia as usual):
The word yoni is the Sanskrit word for the ‘female reproductive organ’. Translated directly into English, it could mean vulva or vagina. It also has a wider meaning in religious and spiritual contexts, where its meaning is ‘creativity’. The yoni is also considered to be symbolic of Shakti or other goddesses of a similar nature.
Yoni is perhaps the most misused and misunderstood word from the ancient Indo-Aryanic language, Sanskrit. The word yoni was originally used more often in a spiritual sense rather than as a term to describe female genitalia.
How about some Yoni worshipping?
Can product mascots be spiritual? Can companies really sell themselves on a religious / spiritual agenda and company philosophy? Or should all commercial services and products be ‘clean’ and neutral?
Companies can certainly act in a nice and responsible as well as ‘moral’ way with their customers and the environment. But when it comes to my enlightenment - it’s only my business and nobody else’s …
We all have to go through a lot of shit to arrive at our dream destination. Just make sure that your final goal is worth the travel. Go for gold, don’t accept any mediocrity or other distractions from your hearts true desires …
No matter who much cuteness, pink and kitsch you stuff into your life - it will end. The question is: How much real substance do you want? How much effort are you willing to invest into you own life? And how much pain are you willing to endure to reach your full potential?
Sounds to harsh? Well then choose the way of modern consumerism and try to get the easy & fluffy ticket until death.
The easy way out will always be there.
If you are poor and stuck in some backwater place your choices are limited. To have a choice is a luxury - not many people enjoy that privilege.
But to develop different perspectives on life you need to have the luxury of self observation and time to reflect. And some brains and some education help too.
Many of our fellow humans are still simply trying to survive and lead a decent life - without a break to think about themselves, learn more about culture and spirituality - or having the resources to start a ‘new’ or ‘different’ life.
If you can afford all these things and you can think - than use these gifts. Otherwise you are wasting yourself and the chance to improve society. Self improvement is not a one way street - as part of a bigger community all bonuses and deficits are added or subtracted from the ‘big picture’.
No matter how old, traditional and pompous your ceremony is, enlightenment and any higher spirits won’t drop down on you automatically.
Usually it has quite the opposite effect: having received some spiritual recognition via ceremony is often like a blank cheque for ignorance. Why bother - I already got my holy approval.
As a sperm you already won the race with your father’s other competitors. But in the end you can only exit the game like every other player - dead.
For all the competition in life there is no real winning, no real first prize or looser. All you can do is breath, develop your potential, maybe clone yourself and raise your kids. Have fun and enjoy yourself on the way to your grave - because that’s the most you get out of it.
Often when people try to be scary it’s rather pathetic or simply funny. But what if you are scaring people without even trying? Are you projecting a hate shield to keep people away? Or are you a Guru, who’s insights scare the ignorant and stubborn? Or are you simply a mean spirit?
Being scary is not a compliment - it’s usually an ego deficit transformed into fear and violence.
New Age gurus and motivational trainers seem obsessed to hammer positive thinking and the idea of always constructing win-win situations in everybody’s minds.
Loosing or failing is one of the best ways to learn something. So failing is actually the best way to become a master at anything. Failure teaches us a lot.
But more important is the ‘deconstruction’ of the dualism of winning and loosing. Once you get rid of of the cultural and social pressure and concept of ‘being a winner’ or ‘being a sore looser’ life gets MUCH easier.
Once you get rid of this judgmental concept in your psyche you can go with your flow and open up your mind for creativity and collaboration without a ‘winning’ end result. Creating something excellent is not the same as winning a trophy.
There is a huge difference between being declared brilliant and being brilliant …
Just in case if you haven’t solved that tricky question for yourself - I can recommend this site with many answers, insights and arguments from very smart people.
Happy reading and thinking …
PS: Let me know if you have solved the question - I am still working on it!
Most esoteric types like to ‘go with the flow’. Extra effort or dealing with harsh obstacles or barriers don’t appeal to them. It’s always very cool and ZEN like to NOT want anything out of life or work to get SOMETHING.
But life is physical as well as metaphysical. Rewards for both planes of existence are worth some effort. And it is nice and rewarding to have accomplished something for yourself and others by NOT going with the flow.
People like Gandhi, Albert Einstein or Martin Luther didn’t go with the flow and waited for change - and they changed the world.
Achieving something means often to break your own comfort zone, work long hours and enduring serious pain. Often the result can be nothing, but sometimes it can be everything.
I find it very disturbing how simple and often primitive people imagine heaven and hell. I think any eternal being would know something better …
The lack of imagination of eternal bliss sounds more like hell to me.
Some problems may look terribly threatening, but you’ll might discover that they have only a ‘limited range’ in your life. Just because something has teeth it doesn’t mean it can bite you all the time and everywhere.
So try stepping back and get a bigger picture when something snaps at you.
There are days that simply suck. There is no cosmic nor carmic reason for it. So indulge your misery or simply decide to snap out of it. A happy psyche can create a happy day …
Being defeated in public is embarrassing. A tough thing is hard to overcome. But people love the comeback kid - but only if you are brave enough to learn from your defeat, stand up and try again.
Sometimes a forceful motivation for others to think can kill all thought process. Gentle teasing should be used at all times while dealing with humans.
I am just wondering if the Tree of Life is not just a bad joke? It already carries it’s own doom in it’s seed. Nothing is eternal, except our lust for illusions of happiness.
Just because you own an official Yoga mat and think that animals should be treated nicely this doesn’t make you a spiritual person. That humble feeling and that cosmic love everybody is talking about comes after selling out your ego, not buying new stuff for it.
No matter where Mr Crab goes - he always is at home. We also carry often a lot of baggage with us, but sometimes our minds won’t rest, feel safe or at home - no matter where we are. Maybe it’s time to work on that mental shell and get rid of it. A human can survive in all ‘nakedness’ - Mr Crab can’t. It’s our advantage - let’s use it to live without fear and burden.
Some spiritual disciplines are so focused on transcending everything that they can’t appreciate the silly side of life any more. If you can’t laugh no more, you are already dead and have to be reborn as a sitcom character. Laughter is good for the soul and an excellent tool to overcome fear.
Don’t try to be a Saint, try to be a proper Human first. Have you already developed your full potential?
You don’t need to save a whole country or lead some important peace negotiations. Sometimes a smile and a friendly gesture towards a total stranger can contribute to world peace. But most of all - make peace with yourself. Any inner war is worth pacifying. So go for your personal noble Nobel prize - you can only win!