How To Wake Up From Your Fevered Dream.Chapter 19
Here is yet another gem from the Buddha:
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love than yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere.You,yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love".
How strange, you may say. I thought we should be ignoring our self, having no ego, and here you are saying I've got to love my ego! This is surely contradictory?
It would, at first sight, appear to be,but you are not meant to love your ego,as why love something that is not real, and is only an illusion?. Your real self is hidden under the cloak of the ego and that is the one you should love.
The Dalai Lama teaches a simple but highly powerful exercise,that if done on a regular basis can change your life.All you have to do is the following:
1.As you breathe in -cherish yourself.
2 .As you breathe out- cherish all beings.
"We can never make peace in the outer World, unless we make peace within ourselves".Dalai Lama
"The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be." Dalai Lama.
"If you focus only on yourself and neglect others you will lose, but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself."Dalai Lama.
On the How Thoughts Effect Your Health site, Gwen Henkel claims that 70% of our thoughts are negative and repetitive, and that the majority of our responses are coming from our subconscious. Gwen Henkel also claims that our thoughts effect our D.N.A and this will effect your health and looks.
If you want to look more attractive, bear in mind what Audrey Hepburn, the actress claimed. She said that happy girls are the prettiest. She also said that if you want attractive lips, you should speak words of kindness: for loving eyes, see good in people: for a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
Regarding good looks and health Siddhartha Guatama says:
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly". And:
"In the end these three matter most: how well did you love?How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"
As stated in other posts, when you see your neighbour all you are seeing is his or her mask and costume.Underneath these -is you.Underneath our masks we are all one.
By loving yourself, you will find it is so much easier to love your neighbour, because you and your neighbour are really one. By the same token, by hating yourself, you will end up hating your neighbour. Haven't you noticed that when you are very happy in your life, you don't have any desire to moan about situations, or people in your life.
If you hate yourself you can't love anyone or anything.
"The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. This helps remove whatever fears and insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacle we encounter.It is the ultimate source of success in life" S.G.
Ghosananda says in her book:'Step By Step':"It is only by loving ourselves first, that we are able to extend our love to others; by loving ourselves we love the whole World."
We are not talking about loving your ego here, but about the real you, the hidden you.If love is all there is, it makes a lot of sense to love yourself.If you do, then you will find that not only will the dreams you dream in your eyes shut state be lighter and more positive, but also the dreams you dream with your eyes wide -open(your everyday state) will also improve.On top of this your looks should improve, so it's a winner on all fronts.
Remember the simple exercise:
1.As you breathe in - cherish yourself.
2.As you breathe out- cherish others.
Try it everyday.
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love than yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere.You,yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love".
How strange, you may say. I thought we should be ignoring our self, having no ego, and here you are saying I've got to love my ego! This is surely contradictory?
It would, at first sight, appear to be,but you are not meant to love your ego,as why love something that is not real, and is only an illusion?. Your real self is hidden under the cloak of the ego and that is the one you should love.
The Dalai Lama teaches a simple but highly powerful exercise,that if done on a regular basis can change your life.All you have to do is the following:
1.As you breathe in -cherish yourself.
2 .As you breathe out- cherish all beings.
"We can never make peace in the outer World, unless we make peace within ourselves".Dalai Lama
"The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be." Dalai Lama.
"If you focus only on yourself and neglect others you will lose, but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself."Dalai Lama.
On the How Thoughts Effect Your Health site, Gwen Henkel claims that 70% of our thoughts are negative and repetitive, and that the majority of our responses are coming from our subconscious. Gwen Henkel also claims that our thoughts effect our D.N.A and this will effect your health and looks.
If you want to look more attractive, bear in mind what Audrey Hepburn, the actress claimed. She said that happy girls are the prettiest. She also said that if you want attractive lips, you should speak words of kindness: for loving eyes, see good in people: for a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
Regarding good looks and health Siddhartha Guatama says:
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly". And:
"In the end these three matter most: how well did you love?How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"
As stated in other posts, when you see your neighbour all you are seeing is his or her mask and costume.Underneath these -is you.Underneath our masks we are all one.
By loving yourself, you will find it is so much easier to love your neighbour, because you and your neighbour are really one. By the same token, by hating yourself, you will end up hating your neighbour. Haven't you noticed that when you are very happy in your life, you don't have any desire to moan about situations, or people in your life.
If you hate yourself you can't love anyone or anything.
"The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. This helps remove whatever fears and insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacle we encounter.It is the ultimate source of success in life" S.G.
Ghosananda says in her book:'Step By Step':"It is only by loving ourselves first, that we are able to extend our love to others; by loving ourselves we love the whole World."
We are not talking about loving your ego here, but about the real you, the hidden you.If love is all there is, it makes a lot of sense to love yourself.If you do, then you will find that not only will the dreams you dream in your eyes shut state be lighter and more positive, but also the dreams you dream with your eyes wide -open(your everyday state) will also improve.On top of this your looks should improve, so it's a winner on all fronts.
Remember the simple exercise:
1.As you breathe in - cherish yourself.
2.As you breathe out- cherish others.
Try it everyday.
As Louise L Hay says in her classic,"You Can Heal Your Life."
" The main issue to work on is LOVING THE SELF. This is the 'Magic Wand ' that dissolves problems. Remember the time when you have felt good about yourself, and how well your life was going ?
Remember the times when you were in love and for those periods you seemed to have no problems.
Well, loving yourself is going to bring you such a surge of good feeling and good fortune, that you will be dancing on air."
Wouldn't it be great to be dancing on air ?
The next chapter will follow shortly.
Mike Selley.
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