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As an experiment, take it that behind every question there is a statement. We all know what we need, how and when we need it – and would like a more comfortable alternative. When giving advice, the first thing is to check whether the advice you are presenting is actually your working experience, or just …
Dear Friend, You wrote: “You have the power to enlighten people if they listen.” Thank you for your supportive and grateful comment. May I suggest that, for us to evolve, we are all getting the information we need – every moment. In each moment we are getting all we need to evolve. It is true …
Krishnamurti says: “If we have no beliefs with which the mind has identified itself, then the mind, without identification, is capable of looking at itself as it is – and then, surely there is the beginning of the understanding of oneself.” Using our normal way of describing, my experience is, at this point it is …
Please consider this possibility – especially as it is now being supported by science. We do not hear each other, we only hear ourselves. We assume we understand what the other is saying, and draw our conclusions – from what we just assume they mean. Here is the physical phenomenon. When you have a thought …
If we have any personal preferences, let alone desires, we are attaching ourselves to repeated suffering. Until we realise, for ourselves, that the only smooth passage is “Thy Will be done” the struggle continues. Of course, as the ‘Thy’ is also us – so we might as well get on with what wants to happen. …
A friend shared: I have a 16 year old son and I feel responsible for him. Every night he sits in front of the TV, he does nothing else. He has a lot of aggression and negative thoughts – he painted his room completely black. He says he wants to become a beggar. And it …