Elevated. Risen. Blossomed. The light shined down. All terms we have heard and know well in our hearts and mind. We know the truth behind them. And when we think of these words we may come to think of a general higher state of being. As what is elevated is above. What has risen is now tall(er). The blossomed flower of the plant is what it is known for and certainly does not sit at the bottom of the plant. Logically the light may not shine down if it is not above.
We look at the water more refined in it's matter than dirt. It sits elevated above the dirt. Try as we might, fling dirt into all we wish but if the water is more in substance than the dirt, the dirt will sink to the bottom and the water remains above it. If the water is heated and evaporated to even more of a refined matter, it turns to gas form. The elevated water now a gas rises above the Lower temperatured and less refined water. It becomes unseen to the eyes it becomes so refined as it rises to greater heights. It will remain at those heights, above the water, above the filth of dirt and cannot be lowered until it mixes with other elements and conditions in the sky to become water once more. At which time it may not hold it's position in the heavens any longer. It must return to the lower realms of Earth and take it's place amongst the other water and dirt.
If we think of this we may gain an understanding of Universal Law and how it works. We may know without doubt how to gain "higher ground" and Elevate ourselves. For the Law is all around us and what works for one of natures creation applies to all. What works for one individual will work for another if we place ourselves in the proper conditions.
Ask ourselves of this elevation and the conditions and environments we should seek. The male wishing to have a wonderful evening and impress his hearts desire drives the female to the highest point and parks his car. The worries are gone, as is the stress and thoughts of all that entails both their lives when in the city below. They feel at ease, in love, elevated in a higher state, both mentally and physically. Physical in the sense of they are above everyone else below in the city. And as they stare out at the city below they talk and think of the beauty of it. The lights and buildings, thought and love that went into creating such a beautiful site. While up here there is no consciousness of anything less than. It is only on the drive back down. One can almost guarantee it changes with altitude. As the homes and people in them are of "higher" class on the hill. As they descend towards the bottom the beauty of the structure of homes and neighborhoods lessen. The people in them are of more or less average intelligence. Still a sense of safety and relaxation as passing through. But as the descent increases the neighborhoods become more unstable, less beautiful, and the minds that dwell in them are felt in different manner. Crime, disorganization, lack of love and care and even violence may be seen. The beautiful lights seen above are gone as half dead street lights flicker on and off. Many of the buildings seeming so beautiful before now look run down, ragged, some even vacant when looked on the lowest points they now sit. The beauty seen at elevated heights, with elevated thoughts, now seems to leave even the most developed minds once they lower themselves into the underbelly of the city. The lesser thoughts are evident everywhere one may look. It becomes a battle for one to keep higher thinking of the beauty of this city when mingling amongst the roots beneath it's dark soil.
Whether we are conscious of it or not, Law governs us all. We are aware that the Law of Gravitation exists. It is accepted by all in all professions and all cultures. It cannot be denied by logically developed minds. Even a child quickly becomes aware of it's principles. So then be not surprised to know that higher, more refined thought can be found not only in elevated thinking individuals, but in individuals who do their thinking at higher elevations. Higher, more pure thought are drawn upward as much so as the refined water in gas form. Those who live at lower levels of the Earth find it hard to breathe at high altitudes not because of simply the air. It is because they have lived amongst inferior element that bogs down spirit. At high altitudes their spirit and mind are exhilarated while their physical body aims lower where it seeks to hold comfort in lesser than surroundings. Their are some who would scoff at this idea. Tibet is known world wide. The Dalai Lama is a man respected by all faiths and the temple can be found in the highest region of Earth with a physical elevation of 16,000 feet. Men and women from all walks of life looking for enlightenment have been drawn to it. In fact temples of all kinds and buildings of the worlds most successful businesses are built at higher elevations. Be it on Earthly structure or created by man.
The CEO of the company never has his office on the first floor of a 60 story building. It is always at the where, Top! Whether we are conscious of it or it is driven purely by our subconscious this is no mistake. The greatest, clearest, most driven minds will always be drawn to higher elevations. Both mentally ... and physically.
The manufacturing plants may sit at the bottom of the valley, but make no mistake, the offices of the elevated minds who are the success of these companies will always sit above at elevated heights. They know something that the workers in the valley do not. They do not refrain from constant mingling with workers in the valley because they think themselves better. They know that extended time below will mix their thoughts with certain elements and conditions that will, like the gases in the sky, change them to lower forms and send them from their elevated position. It is not personal or out of smite or ego. It is out of higher intelligence. And such minds desire greatly for those in the valley to raise themselves and elevate their minds, thus bodies, from the mental and physical "poor" house to the "pent" house elevated above.
My Kindest Regards
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing But the Truth
The Truth is the Truth is inside each individual. We all know the truth. "The TRUTH shall set us free" But it is not "knowing" the Truth where the freedom lies. It is the application of that Truth inside of us. Our heart is but an organ if it does not pump blood to every inch of the body. An arm, useless, if we do not use it and apply it. The body and all functions of it become frail, obscure, weak, and useless without ... use. So too does the knowledge of Truth inside the mind.
In addition to this simple fact is the next step in consciousness of Truth. Once we understand we must apply it, not simply know it. We must understand how to use the application. For if the heart knows it must pump blood ... but only pumps it to the leg not understanding its application is meant to be well-rounded and dispersed in ALL directions, and not simply in one, then failure of life is to come. More power comes with each conscious step of Truth. First we understand we must use it and the power that exists in it. Second we fine tune the application. We stumble, we misuse, we may take for granted or not fully understand it's application. We may use it in the wrong direction. Like a fire-arm, will we use it to bring pain and chaos ... or fire it into the heavens to signal the start of this planet's united race? This is the power of Truth, Universal to all, within each being. As the process of fine tuning and using the application of Truth, it becomes like a treasured automobile. It becomes quicker to act. More efficient. With ability to reach more places in less time. Safer with less chance of a wreck or injury in it. The comfort and joy when in it increases. The pleasure and desire more apparent within us when we sit inside and admire it. As does our desire to increase the fine tuning and build upon what we have already built.
Now we only move every lasting to the third step, the infinite step, of mastery. Of eternal growth and youth. Of continuous building of new and expanding material, that is building and application of greater and greater truth.
The Truth is a seed buried deep in each individual. Some seeds buried just at the surface. Some thousands of miles beneath. Some sprouting quickly in days, some taking years and years. Time is of no concern. Great Truths like the seeds of many beautiful plants need to be buried deeper in the soil and travel farther to reach the surface and blossom in all it's beauty. The trip and struggles through the deep soil and darkness it began in before the sun could fully shine on it was one that took longer to develop ... but make no mistake now. Now it is blossomed in grand exquisiteness. And though it took longer to blossom, it's roots lie deeper than the others around it. Roots now so deep and strong there is nothing that may destroy it. Cut it down, burn it, bring all force you may against it and the roots lie so deep you may not destroy it. It will come back again and again, outliving lesser Truths that try to overtake it. Try as they might lesser developed Truths may not outlive or out shine the perfect Truth, perfect harmonious thought.
Truth is not to be learned, not be read or taught, or shown or heard. Truth is to be realized. Realized, applied, and grown. It is not for anyone to teach. We may only attempt to inspire the Truth that is already within another individual. Acting as the Sun's rays giving warmth into the soil encouraging the seed to reach up to the surface where it is to blossom and live in the light and warmth of the heavens bliss.
-Gallagher
In addition to this simple fact is the next step in consciousness of Truth. Once we understand we must apply it, not simply know it. We must understand how to use the application. For if the heart knows it must pump blood ... but only pumps it to the leg not understanding its application is meant to be well-rounded and dispersed in ALL directions, and not simply in one, then failure of life is to come. More power comes with each conscious step of Truth. First we understand we must use it and the power that exists in it. Second we fine tune the application. We stumble, we misuse, we may take for granted or not fully understand it's application. We may use it in the wrong direction. Like a fire-arm, will we use it to bring pain and chaos ... or fire it into the heavens to signal the start of this planet's united race? This is the power of Truth, Universal to all, within each being. As the process of fine tuning and using the application of Truth, it becomes like a treasured automobile. It becomes quicker to act. More efficient. With ability to reach more places in less time. Safer with less chance of a wreck or injury in it. The comfort and joy when in it increases. The pleasure and desire more apparent within us when we sit inside and admire it. As does our desire to increase the fine tuning and build upon what we have already built.
Now we only move every lasting to the third step, the infinite step, of mastery. Of eternal growth and youth. Of continuous building of new and expanding material, that is building and application of greater and greater truth.
The Truth is a seed buried deep in each individual. Some seeds buried just at the surface. Some thousands of miles beneath. Some sprouting quickly in days, some taking years and years. Time is of no concern. Great Truths like the seeds of many beautiful plants need to be buried deeper in the soil and travel farther to reach the surface and blossom in all it's beauty. The trip and struggles through the deep soil and darkness it began in before the sun could fully shine on it was one that took longer to develop ... but make no mistake now. Now it is blossomed in grand exquisiteness. And though it took longer to blossom, it's roots lie deeper than the others around it. Roots now so deep and strong there is nothing that may destroy it. Cut it down, burn it, bring all force you may against it and the roots lie so deep you may not destroy it. It will come back again and again, outliving lesser Truths that try to overtake it. Try as they might lesser developed Truths may not outlive or out shine the perfect Truth, perfect harmonious thought.
Truth is not to be learned, not be read or taught, or shown or heard. Truth is to be realized. Realized, applied, and grown. It is not for anyone to teach. We may only attempt to inspire the Truth that is already within another individual. Acting as the Sun's rays giving warmth into the soil encouraging the seed to reach up to the surface where it is to blossom and live in the light and warmth of the heavens bliss.
-Gallagher
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
FORGET IT
The visionary has strong power in forgetfulness. Not in the sense of being a scatterbrain. His memory is very well indeed. What is meant is he has the ability to forget a great deal that MUST be forgotten. The masses of minds are fixed on what is and what has been done. Fixed on great precedence rather than great progress. To surpass or even mention the possibility of what can be done brings great ridicule from limited minds living on the greatness of the past with very little thinking for expansion of future. They forget that what was accomplished yesterday is history. It is no more. The child that is born begins to grow and expand in all aspects of life the second of his/her birth. No one may stop it. No one may change it. And we should not dwell in the fact that the innocent baby we fell in love with yesterday is today a "troubling" teen for tomorrow that phase may be gone and greatness surpassing birth, troubles, happy times and all may be brought forth from that child. What was of that child before does not change, but no longer matters as well, great or faulty. So it is with advancements in all things.
The "book read" intellects of the World typically criticize and many times genuinely dislike many of the innovators of new worldly things. Old thinking minds successful as they may be in their late years, body declining, argue with other like minds on TV and in the "Upper" social circle of what is being done "now-a-days." It is not a matter of what worked "then" ... it's about making something new "now". So many are too busy living in the past OR in what someone else has done. Who has done it the best. Even though any of us who failed the schooling of history can undoubtedly know that nothing done years ago is as far advanced as what is done today. Be it the building of buildings, technology, or even something as the physical being of man. This is not to take away from the beauty or accomplishments of yesterday. As many of the accomplishments paved and inspired the way for today, and many of them can still be seen today in original form or advanced form, just as the child who has grown to such magnificent planes.
The ones who bring greatness are the ones who take the inspiration of yesterday and make it into themselves today. They may study and admire for a time ... then forget it with their thought on what will be and no longer on what was. This is a simple yet seemingly daunting task of mind that is a prerequisite for truly high forms of success.
To use the example I commonly use, who of us have watched Football on Sunday? I have heard it numerous times from numerous announcers, coaches and players. When speaking of the quarterback they say what?
"He HAS to have short term memory!" "He has to have, almost, amnesia." "He's gotta shake it off and forget what happened last play!" ... etc, etc. Why?
If he dwells in the interception he may miss the fact that he just figured out how the safety is playing on the opposing defense and in doing so not make proper adjustments to be successful on the next drive. He may be thinking so much about the interception instead of a winning drive that he repeats only what has already happened instead of what is new to happen. Or perhaps it was not an interception and he scored. His mind is locked in on what has been working all game instead of what is going to work better currently. He is content in his success with no desire to change what is now history. What is often the result in this case? An interception instead of another touchdown. Because it is often the one who seems to be failing or "lacking" that has most desire and focus on change for the better while the successful one is content in his success thinking it will always work just as it did at birth. That is why often the ones seemingly with "nothing to lose" become the most successful. The desire, the passion, the thought of being superior pours from every pore in their being. In either case, the success ALWAYS depends upon a power to "forget". To forget, be it the greatness of yesterday, or the failure of yesterday and replace it with a thought of growth, superior knowledge and execution or wisdom.
To do what no one has done and in many cases even had courage enough to say out loud, is to go against what masses of minds believe can be done. It takes courage unbound. But, rest assured if you are thinking of attempting such a matter ... there are more who are behind you than you may think. There are more who have forgotten yesterday than you may think. More who are just as tired as you of the things "old minds" are so content in. They may not speak it out loud ... Hell, they may even criticize you while secretly thinking of your idea and it's success because of a lack of courage in them to face the criticism of the current culture. Make no mistake, no thought may begin to be materialized until there is enough silent demand for such a thought. Or in other words, until many minds are not only thinking of such a thing, but truly believe such a thing may be true and exist/come forth. As all supply must have demand in the material world, it is no different in the mental.
Great men of yesterday were in past times considered to be crazy, irrational and other negative terms we like to use. They all faced criticism and doubt. They had mental and physical abuse sent their ways in droves often times and they summoned not only the strength to ward it off, but to overcome it. As well it's documented in many instances it payed a toll on mind and thus body. We refer to men not who simply copied or improved some one else's work. We refer to innovators. To visionaries. To men "ahead of their time". Who were concerned with what everyone else was doing about as much as nature is concerned with whether you or I think it should rain today or not. As much as the Sun is concerned with whether we think it should shine less than it is. Minds that were concerned very little with precedence even when that precedence was set by their very mind. They knew that it had nothing to with them or the man next to them. With what was "known" and "understood" thus comfortable to the masses. They knew the greatness that came yesterday from they or any others was but a stepping stone to greater success. At the peak of their accomplishments I can promise us all they were thinking about what was going to be done today to improve tomorrow with a forgetful mind of what they did yesterday.
The Innovating Bruce Lee once wrote:
"I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me."
Of the named Martial Art he is credited with innovating: "If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it."
So we may forget who did it, what it was called, or what it was yesterday, as today it is something more, perhaps improved upon or replaced by someone different, called something else. What I write today may be worth nothing today, something tomorrow, and but an infant manuscript to myself and others in 20 more revolutions of the Earth around the Sun. So it is with everything, we forget the good to remember the better. We empty the cup of stale water so it may be filled with fresh. I suggest anything that does not bring joy in mind is not worth remembering at all.
My Kind Regards
The "book read" intellects of the World typically criticize and many times genuinely dislike many of the innovators of new worldly things. Old thinking minds successful as they may be in their late years, body declining, argue with other like minds on TV and in the "Upper" social circle of what is being done "now-a-days." It is not a matter of what worked "then" ... it's about making something new "now". So many are too busy living in the past OR in what someone else has done. Who has done it the best. Even though any of us who failed the schooling of history can undoubtedly know that nothing done years ago is as far advanced as what is done today. Be it the building of buildings, technology, or even something as the physical being of man. This is not to take away from the beauty or accomplishments of yesterday. As many of the accomplishments paved and inspired the way for today, and many of them can still be seen today in original form or advanced form, just as the child who has grown to such magnificent planes.
The ones who bring greatness are the ones who take the inspiration of yesterday and make it into themselves today. They may study and admire for a time ... then forget it with their thought on what will be and no longer on what was. This is a simple yet seemingly daunting task of mind that is a prerequisite for truly high forms of success.
To use the example I commonly use, who of us have watched Football on Sunday? I have heard it numerous times from numerous announcers, coaches and players. When speaking of the quarterback they say what?
"He HAS to have short term memory!" "He has to have, almost, amnesia." "He's gotta shake it off and forget what happened last play!" ... etc, etc. Why?
If he dwells in the interception he may miss the fact that he just figured out how the safety is playing on the opposing defense and in doing so not make proper adjustments to be successful on the next drive. He may be thinking so much about the interception instead of a winning drive that he repeats only what has already happened instead of what is new to happen. Or perhaps it was not an interception and he scored. His mind is locked in on what has been working all game instead of what is going to work better currently. He is content in his success with no desire to change what is now history. What is often the result in this case? An interception instead of another touchdown. Because it is often the one who seems to be failing or "lacking" that has most desire and focus on change for the better while the successful one is content in his success thinking it will always work just as it did at birth. That is why often the ones seemingly with "nothing to lose" become the most successful. The desire, the passion, the thought of being superior pours from every pore in their being. In either case, the success ALWAYS depends upon a power to "forget". To forget, be it the greatness of yesterday, or the failure of yesterday and replace it with a thought of growth, superior knowledge and execution or wisdom.
To do what no one has done and in many cases even had courage enough to say out loud, is to go against what masses of minds believe can be done. It takes courage unbound. But, rest assured if you are thinking of attempting such a matter ... there are more who are behind you than you may think. There are more who have forgotten yesterday than you may think. More who are just as tired as you of the things "old minds" are so content in. They may not speak it out loud ... Hell, they may even criticize you while secretly thinking of your idea and it's success because of a lack of courage in them to face the criticism of the current culture. Make no mistake, no thought may begin to be materialized until there is enough silent demand for such a thought. Or in other words, until many minds are not only thinking of such a thing, but truly believe such a thing may be true and exist/come forth. As all supply must have demand in the material world, it is no different in the mental.
Great men of yesterday were in past times considered to be crazy, irrational and other negative terms we like to use. They all faced criticism and doubt. They had mental and physical abuse sent their ways in droves often times and they summoned not only the strength to ward it off, but to overcome it. As well it's documented in many instances it payed a toll on mind and thus body. We refer to men not who simply copied or improved some one else's work. We refer to innovators. To visionaries. To men "ahead of their time". Who were concerned with what everyone else was doing about as much as nature is concerned with whether you or I think it should rain today or not. As much as the Sun is concerned with whether we think it should shine less than it is. Minds that were concerned very little with precedence even when that precedence was set by their very mind. They knew that it had nothing to with them or the man next to them. With what was "known" and "understood" thus comfortable to the masses. They knew the greatness that came yesterday from they or any others was but a stepping stone to greater success. At the peak of their accomplishments I can promise us all they were thinking about what was going to be done today to improve tomorrow with a forgetful mind of what they did yesterday.
The Innovating Bruce Lee once wrote:
"I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me."
Of the named Martial Art he is credited with innovating: "If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it."
So we may forget who did it, what it was called, or what it was yesterday, as today it is something more, perhaps improved upon or replaced by someone different, called something else. What I write today may be worth nothing today, something tomorrow, and but an infant manuscript to myself and others in 20 more revolutions of the Earth around the Sun. So it is with everything, we forget the good to remember the better. We empty the cup of stale water so it may be filled with fresh. I suggest anything that does not bring joy in mind is not worth remembering at all.
My Kind Regards
Monday, December 24, 2012
The Instrument
The instrument, or tool, is defined as a means by which something is done, an agency. An implement used to facilitate work. So then examples are given...
We do not say the extravagant violin is the most beautiful, greatest, supreme violin that plays more beautiful music than any other on Earth above all else! Why? Because we know placed in the hands of someone who knows nothing of playing it will bring very little in the form of "music" to our ears. We know that in fact someone knowing very little may actually even harm the instrument, place it out of tune, possibly damage it if they are extremely crude in their knowledge and mishandle it treating it like a guitar or an instrument it is not. Aside from us all knowing this instinctively, we also will know the following. We know that a more refined "player" having more refined thinking and knowledge of the art which is the playing of this instrument, will bring about the most beautiful "music" the violin is capable of playing. And having opposite the crude knowledge of the one previously mentioned, will bring opposite results to the violin. Instead of playing it "out of tune" ... They may "fine tune it" to a degree far surpassing even the one who has made the violin. They may take a masterpiece of an instrument from birth, and raise it even a higher plane than it's creator.
As also we give further suggestion to understand fully what is offered for thought here. The fact that a "lesser" instrument, staying with the violin for familiarity's sake, is played by the refined mind or the crude mind, the results are fairly identical. The crude thinking, lacking understanding of the art, will play the violin of less refined quality in the same poor fashion as the refined violin with no discernible difference. As the refined thinking, having high understanding of the art, will make a violin made of lesser refinement sound like one made more refined than even the creator, or anyone else around, imagined it could ... Even if the one playing it is somewhat less comfortable with what he is playing, being more used to playing higher quality or "refined" instruments.
When writing I try to use clear examples I know to be true that show clearly what I suggest without being of myself. As when you refer to "I" the chord of the ego is struck and people tend to concentrate on "He thinks his "I" is better than MY "I" and the focus is not. That is for another suggestion ... With that said I give yet another example breaking a "general rule" I often keep and give personal experience, thus experiment, that is proven by myself over many years.
As I have held a profession of Chef/Cook for extended time now, I may offer this. That in early years, the first half of a decade if looking to put in a perspective of time, I used what I consider, inferior or less refined tools...namely, knives. Always being a perfectionist, and quite a "competitor" in those times I always strived to improve technique and my personal skills above those I watched. I studied technique and practiced quite often much of what I wished to acquire using the "less refined" tools I had readily at my disposal... To my dismay I struggled to execute much of it to the degree I wished or desired. At first upset with myself, but being a keen observer of all details, also noticed in many instances the "instruments" being used by those I "studied" did not match mine. So I studied the "instruments" and got suggestions and feedback of experience from those who I felt had balance of opinion and experience in the matter. In other words, people I felt had expertise in use as well as general function of the instrument. I acquired a couple knives considered more refined and resumed my techniques I wished to improve. Without doubt, techniques I found difficult to improve, let alone master, improved exponentially with more refined tools. The ease and speed, or time needed, to improve was considerably different. It is concluded that superior tools will improve results of even the simple minded, inferior skilled, of us ... though as my skill has progressed of my own accord so too has the capabilities of all tools I use, refined and not so much, alike. And noted the more refined my personal skill and general refinement of self, the more I am drawn to greater refined tools, their proper uses and avoidance of misuses, and maintenance with my own personal refinement (of my own hand or done by someone I trust) of said tools as they advance in "age" in my possession. I find passion in offering education and experience to those who may misuse or are clearly in ignorance of their tools no matter the refinement of them. And it is clear to see why the more "refined" of us cringe many times when we see an instrument built with great thought, detail, and passion in great refinement being used by the cruder of us in a manner not showing respect to the tool it was built with. It is not a personal matter, nor material matter, that may raise the hair on our arms, the temperature of our blood, the brow or expression of our face when we witness this. No, it is a subconscious feeling that the seasoned and unseasoned alike feel the connection of maker and user in disharmony. It's not so much the use of the material (knife), or misuse in this instance, it is the lack of harmony in thought between the one who has created the instrument and the one who possesses now the instrument. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we feel the grave mistake being made by the one wielding such an instrument not to, or worse, care to, have understanding of the value and gift of such an instrument placed in their possession. We feel a disconnect/misuse of a law, not made of man, but applying to all men.
The suggestion of mind comes as so. It is easy to see as I found, that using a more refined instrument may send to you knowledge, understanding, inspiration, passion and qualities held in the making of that instrument when you hold that instrument. Some may say this is unlikely. Again lets observe facts we've considered not only here, but in our own experience. The making of a superior instrument requires a superior knowledge and understanding of how that instrument should be used. Picking up a superior violin is not going to make you a master violinist, no more than picking up a knife made with decades of knowledge and hand forged precision is going to make you a master chef. BUT, if even the least skilled of us at either mentioned art picks up either the hand crafted knife or violin and say they do not feel in some way the passion and inspiration built into those instruments above the ones cheaply, or simply, made with inferior thought, understanding, passion, etc we can safely disregard it as untruth. And if we use the "superior" instrument the better, more substantial, and quicker the growth of the mind using it seems to come. Though it is ultimately the person (mind) that will determine the connection between it and the instrument and ultimately "MAKE" the instrument ... we find the instrument is made by mind, not the person (or mind) made of instrument. Be it that a higher mind needs a more refined instrument to fully express itself.
As stated from the start the instrument should never become the end or held above mind that wields it. It is simply a "means" as defined from beginning. It is the subordinate and not the master. As money will not buy "happiness" as many a rich man has died just the same or in worse condition as the poor man. The violin is not the supreme, it is simply an instrument for the supreme (mind) to express itself to high degree. The more refined the instrument being used, the more refined and of higher vibration and plane may the mind bring forward. As even those not consciously knowing of an art, can FEEL the difference of the violinist playing on a refined instrument as apposed to the unrefined instrument. As such without superior instrument, the superior mind, spirit, being may not express itself fully.
This is an understanding that is valuable to have because what happens if we can not build a refined instrument for ourselves? If we lack respect for the refined instrument given to us? If it is our being's highest desire to express ourselves in the highest forms, but it is clear we require higher forms of instruments to fully do so, it is logical that our minds will seek to refine or build a superior instrument and if unable, or destroying such instrument in our possession, seek a new instrument all together. If our business is a that of a chef, violinist or any other profession it does not end when our instrument breaks, we have outgrown it, or need a more refined one to express increase in our skills and become more efficient... correct or not? So it is if our body becomes worn out and of no use to our thought, when it is laid to rest is it not true our thought carries on? Are words, thoughts in motion, of a thousand years plus still not in existence today regardless of the mouth of those words being no longer here? Is it not then clear our body is simply an instrument and not the supreme? A means and not an end? If it is the mind that controls and makes the instrument, what does that say about us? Intelligent implication holds limitless truth even if limiting minds are considering it. So all minds alike in every form of growth I place this for consideration.
Kindest Regards
We do not say the extravagant violin is the most beautiful, greatest, supreme violin that plays more beautiful music than any other on Earth above all else! Why? Because we know placed in the hands of someone who knows nothing of playing it will bring very little in the form of "music" to our ears. We know that in fact someone knowing very little may actually even harm the instrument, place it out of tune, possibly damage it if they are extremely crude in their knowledge and mishandle it treating it like a guitar or an instrument it is not. Aside from us all knowing this instinctively, we also will know the following. We know that a more refined "player" having more refined thinking and knowledge of the art which is the playing of this instrument, will bring about the most beautiful "music" the violin is capable of playing. And having opposite the crude knowledge of the one previously mentioned, will bring opposite results to the violin. Instead of playing it "out of tune" ... They may "fine tune it" to a degree far surpassing even the one who has made the violin. They may take a masterpiece of an instrument from birth, and raise it even a higher plane than it's creator.
As also we give further suggestion to understand fully what is offered for thought here. The fact that a "lesser" instrument, staying with the violin for familiarity's sake, is played by the refined mind or the crude mind, the results are fairly identical. The crude thinking, lacking understanding of the art, will play the violin of less refined quality in the same poor fashion as the refined violin with no discernible difference. As the refined thinking, having high understanding of the art, will make a violin made of lesser refinement sound like one made more refined than even the creator, or anyone else around, imagined it could ... Even if the one playing it is somewhat less comfortable with what he is playing, being more used to playing higher quality or "refined" instruments.
When writing I try to use clear examples I know to be true that show clearly what I suggest without being of myself. As when you refer to "I" the chord of the ego is struck and people tend to concentrate on "He thinks his "I" is better than MY "I" and the focus is not. That is for another suggestion ... With that said I give yet another example breaking a "general rule" I often keep and give personal experience, thus experiment, that is proven by myself over many years.
As I have held a profession of Chef/Cook for extended time now, I may offer this. That in early years, the first half of a decade if looking to put in a perspective of time, I used what I consider, inferior or less refined tools...namely, knives. Always being a perfectionist, and quite a "competitor" in those times I always strived to improve technique and my personal skills above those I watched. I studied technique and practiced quite often much of what I wished to acquire using the "less refined" tools I had readily at my disposal... To my dismay I struggled to execute much of it to the degree I wished or desired. At first upset with myself, but being a keen observer of all details, also noticed in many instances the "instruments" being used by those I "studied" did not match mine. So I studied the "instruments" and got suggestions and feedback of experience from those who I felt had balance of opinion and experience in the matter. In other words, people I felt had expertise in use as well as general function of the instrument. I acquired a couple knives considered more refined and resumed my techniques I wished to improve. Without doubt, techniques I found difficult to improve, let alone master, improved exponentially with more refined tools. The ease and speed, or time needed, to improve was considerably different. It is concluded that superior tools will improve results of even the simple minded, inferior skilled, of us ... though as my skill has progressed of my own accord so too has the capabilities of all tools I use, refined and not so much, alike. And noted the more refined my personal skill and general refinement of self, the more I am drawn to greater refined tools, their proper uses and avoidance of misuses, and maintenance with my own personal refinement (of my own hand or done by someone I trust) of said tools as they advance in "age" in my possession. I find passion in offering education and experience to those who may misuse or are clearly in ignorance of their tools no matter the refinement of them. And it is clear to see why the more "refined" of us cringe many times when we see an instrument built with great thought, detail, and passion in great refinement being used by the cruder of us in a manner not showing respect to the tool it was built with. It is not a personal matter, nor material matter, that may raise the hair on our arms, the temperature of our blood, the brow or expression of our face when we witness this. No, it is a subconscious feeling that the seasoned and unseasoned alike feel the connection of maker and user in disharmony. It's not so much the use of the material (knife), or misuse in this instance, it is the lack of harmony in thought between the one who has created the instrument and the one who possesses now the instrument. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we feel the grave mistake being made by the one wielding such an instrument not to, or worse, care to, have understanding of the value and gift of such an instrument placed in their possession. We feel a disconnect/misuse of a law, not made of man, but applying to all men.
The suggestion of mind comes as so. It is easy to see as I found, that using a more refined instrument may send to you knowledge, understanding, inspiration, passion and qualities held in the making of that instrument when you hold that instrument. Some may say this is unlikely. Again lets observe facts we've considered not only here, but in our own experience. The making of a superior instrument requires a superior knowledge and understanding of how that instrument should be used. Picking up a superior violin is not going to make you a master violinist, no more than picking up a knife made with decades of knowledge and hand forged precision is going to make you a master chef. BUT, if even the least skilled of us at either mentioned art picks up either the hand crafted knife or violin and say they do not feel in some way the passion and inspiration built into those instruments above the ones cheaply, or simply, made with inferior thought, understanding, passion, etc we can safely disregard it as untruth. And if we use the "superior" instrument the better, more substantial, and quicker the growth of the mind using it seems to come. Though it is ultimately the person (mind) that will determine the connection between it and the instrument and ultimately "MAKE" the instrument ... we find the instrument is made by mind, not the person (or mind) made of instrument. Be it that a higher mind needs a more refined instrument to fully express itself.
As stated from the start the instrument should never become the end or held above mind that wields it. It is simply a "means" as defined from beginning. It is the subordinate and not the master. As money will not buy "happiness" as many a rich man has died just the same or in worse condition as the poor man. The violin is not the supreme, it is simply an instrument for the supreme (mind) to express itself to high degree. The more refined the instrument being used, the more refined and of higher vibration and plane may the mind bring forward. As even those not consciously knowing of an art, can FEEL the difference of the violinist playing on a refined instrument as apposed to the unrefined instrument. As such without superior instrument, the superior mind, spirit, being may not express itself fully.
This is an understanding that is valuable to have because what happens if we can not build a refined instrument for ourselves? If we lack respect for the refined instrument given to us? If it is our being's highest desire to express ourselves in the highest forms, but it is clear we require higher forms of instruments to fully do so, it is logical that our minds will seek to refine or build a superior instrument and if unable, or destroying such instrument in our possession, seek a new instrument all together. If our business is a that of a chef, violinist or any other profession it does not end when our instrument breaks, we have outgrown it, or need a more refined one to express increase in our skills and become more efficient... correct or not? So it is if our body becomes worn out and of no use to our thought, when it is laid to rest is it not true our thought carries on? Are words, thoughts in motion, of a thousand years plus still not in existence today regardless of the mouth of those words being no longer here? Is it not then clear our body is simply an instrument and not the supreme? A means and not an end? If it is the mind that controls and makes the instrument, what does that say about us? Intelligent implication holds limitless truth even if limiting minds are considering it. So all minds alike in every form of growth I place this for consideration.
Kindest Regards
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
12-12-12
On the twelfth hour of the twelfth minute with twelve seconds passing on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of two thousand a break occurred or rather an opening .......
Monday, December 10, 2012
From "Love thy self" essay from a dear friend and wise spirit
This is a share coming from my very close friend Prentice Mulford. Soul touching words written:
"The Infinite as we demand will give us wisdom and light to know what we owe to ourselves. People have been over-ridden with the idea of the "duties" they owed to parent, relative, or friend. The road to heaven has been marked out as one full of sacrifice and self-denial for the sake of others, and with little good or pleasure for self.
If Christ should be taken as an example in this respect, we find a very different course inferred. When charged with lack of attention for his mother he asks, "Who is my mother?" When the young man pleads as an excuse for not immediately following Christ, that filial duty demanded he should go and bury his father, the Messenger of a new and higher law said, "Let the dead bury their dead." In other words, "if father or mother or sister brother are steeped in a life-long course of trespass and sin---if their lives have been one continual violation of spiritual law, bringing the inevitable penalty of disease and pain---if they are hardened and fossilized in their false beliefs, and regard your opinions as visionary and impractical, you cannot without injury have fellowship with them." If you pretend for sake of peace to agree with them you, are living a lie, and when you act or live a lie you materialize it and put it into your body, where it is a breeder of pain and unrest. If others cannot see the law of life as clearly as you, and in their blindness go stumbling on and filling themselves with decay and disease, it is not in the line of the highest justice that you should be called on to nurse them every time they are sick, to absorb their sick and unhealthy thought, to give them your life and vitality (for this you do when you think much of anyone), and to be dragged down with them. You are not responsible for their blindness. Nor can you open their eyes and make them see what is proven to you to be truth. Only the Infinite can do that. You do those who are in this lower and material current of thought no real good in ministering to them physically or spiritually. You may, having the stronger mind, bolster them up for a time, and throwing your mind in theirs give them your strength, but you cannot do this always, and when your influence is removed, as some time it must be, they will fall back to their old condition. What then have you accomplished? You have taken so much of your force out of yourself that you owed to yourself, and have taught them to depend on you and not on what every one must learn to depend---the Supreme Power. Let the dead then who are still above ground bury their dead. Give them a thought and wish for their highest welfare whenever you do think of them and leave them in God's care.
But when you put the Higher Love into yourself---when you reserve your forces to raise yourself higher in the scale of being---when it is your aim and unceasing silent prayer to be raised out of the current of the lower and material thought of physical disease---when you aspire to have every sense and faculty refined and strengthened beyond the present lot of mortals---when you begin to realize through the proofs coming to you that these are possibilities, then you are a real benefit to everyone. You are then proving a law. You are showing that there is a road out of the ills which afflict humanity, and when others, seeing these things evidenced in your life, ask how you obtain them, you can reply:
"I have grown, and am ever growing into a higher and happier condition of mind and body through knowledge of a law, and that law is as much for you to live by as for me."
Kindest Regards
"The Infinite as we demand will give us wisdom and light to know what we owe to ourselves. People have been over-ridden with the idea of the "duties" they owed to parent, relative, or friend. The road to heaven has been marked out as one full of sacrifice and self-denial for the sake of others, and with little good or pleasure for self.
If Christ should be taken as an example in this respect, we find a very different course inferred. When charged with lack of attention for his mother he asks, "Who is my mother?" When the young man pleads as an excuse for not immediately following Christ, that filial duty demanded he should go and bury his father, the Messenger of a new and higher law said, "Let the dead bury their dead." In other words, "if father or mother or sister brother are steeped in a life-long course of trespass and sin---if their lives have been one continual violation of spiritual law, bringing the inevitable penalty of disease and pain---if they are hardened and fossilized in their false beliefs, and regard your opinions as visionary and impractical, you cannot without injury have fellowship with them." If you pretend for sake of peace to agree with them you, are living a lie, and when you act or live a lie you materialize it and put it into your body, where it is a breeder of pain and unrest. If others cannot see the law of life as clearly as you, and in their blindness go stumbling on and filling themselves with decay and disease, it is not in the line of the highest justice that you should be called on to nurse them every time they are sick, to absorb their sick and unhealthy thought, to give them your life and vitality (for this you do when you think much of anyone), and to be dragged down with them. You are not responsible for their blindness. Nor can you open their eyes and make them see what is proven to you to be truth. Only the Infinite can do that. You do those who are in this lower and material current of thought no real good in ministering to them physically or spiritually. You may, having the stronger mind, bolster them up for a time, and throwing your mind in theirs give them your strength, but you cannot do this always, and when your influence is removed, as some time it must be, they will fall back to their old condition. What then have you accomplished? You have taken so much of your force out of yourself that you owed to yourself, and have taught them to depend on you and not on what every one must learn to depend---the Supreme Power. Let the dead then who are still above ground bury their dead. Give them a thought and wish for their highest welfare whenever you do think of them and leave them in God's care.
But when you put the Higher Love into yourself---when you reserve your forces to raise yourself higher in the scale of being---when it is your aim and unceasing silent prayer to be raised out of the current of the lower and material thought of physical disease---when you aspire to have every sense and faculty refined and strengthened beyond the present lot of mortals---when you begin to realize through the proofs coming to you that these are possibilities, then you are a real benefit to everyone. You are then proving a law. You are showing that there is a road out of the ills which afflict humanity, and when others, seeing these things evidenced in your life, ask how you obtain them, you can reply:
"I have grown, and am ever growing into a higher and happier condition of mind and body through knowledge of a law, and that law is as much for you to live by as for me."
Kindest Regards
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
What is Home
I often pull definitions from what is considered a globally recognized dictionary. This is so we THINK about exactly what it is we are discussing or considering rather. As the "definition" of definition is stated #1 as:
1.
Ah, so our "personal" property are stored in our house or apartment? What property is this? A T.V.? A computer? A dresser? Clothes? Things any of us may purchase anywhere in the world? If your house or apartment burnt to the ground would your family not have a place to stay? Would they not find another such house or apartment to feel "comfortable" in? Comfort is a feeling, a state of mind, not a house or apartment. Let someone kick open the door while you sleep and but snatch the T.V. from your wall or stand and all the "comfort" you have built over perhaps years in that physical building is all but gone, is it not? Is the T.V. what you work for? Was it really all that protected? Is it even worth protecting? After you lose that comfort or perhaps even grow tired with monotony of said "comfort" ... is it still a place where you wish to go? Is there not many of us who dread "going home?"
If any of this resonates with you, I suggest that the work, building, or if not happy with the actual job you carry out day to day ... that the house or apartment you seemingly "reside" in ... is not your home. Many of us all the time are in our places or work, in our houses, at friends houses, sitting outside on a park bench and we are there ... but we are not really there. We are in our minds somewhere far, far away. Or perhaps right down the street. Or perhaps seeming nowhere at all. This is where our element, our TRUE quality always resides. Always lives. Our mind inside our brain and brain within our body. So in a physical sense, our person in our home. Our ever moving house. Moved from one physical background to another. But we see I mention "house" ... as certainly home and house do not correspond as one. Our body, or even brain, simply the house. Housing our home. Our home is the mind. This is where we truly live. The pure schooled intellects will say:
"Yea this has all been said before. Bunch of psychological ramblings and none of this truly helps anyone of lesser intelligence."
Then use pure logic. If you are thinking of anger, if you are thinking agitated, if you are thinking wrongly, does it not show in your mood? Are you not living externally what you are living internally? Some intellects with great will power will say:
"I can keep composed on the outside while angry on the inside. No one may know what I am thinking."
Oh but unlike the "old" days when people were less privy to feelings and could not pick up on inner emotions, spirit, this being left for only children who were not so bogged down with falsities "adults" believe, people are tapping back into their instinctual minds outside of "childhood." And more and more people are able to "feel" you are upset or living miserable, unhappy, when you may not show it so openly outwardly. And using the pure logic and the physical senses lets take it a step further if you still do not believe others may feel you "living" in your mind. Lets use your own body as the example. Lets evaluate your muscles. Your blood, your temperature. If you want to go on physical science alone, lets do so. Lets look at physical science and see if it does not prove that your temperature, blood, and muscles do not change when living in some form of anger, agitation, or wrong thinking inside your mind. Or that it is not different when living in a relaxed, happy, harmonious condition in your mind. That we may not sow a seed of one kind and reap another is scientifically exact. We cannot plant an apple seed and get an orange tree anymore than we may plant despise in our mind and reap happiness without in our body and actions.
So today my consideration I put forth is that of a home. To make definite, distinct and clear what a "home" truly is a global translation is provided below. Not by myself, as who am I to decide, but as a general Earthly whole. And from there after that is established in our minds I will proceed with my consideration.
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1Home
noun \ˈhōm\
Definition of HOME
2
: the social unit formed by a family living together
3
a : a familiar or usual setting : congenial environment; also : the focus of one's domestic attention <home is where the heart is>
b : habitat
b : habitat
4
a : a place of origin
-Webster's Dictionary a Global Standard for "definition"
"Home is a place of residence or refuge.[1] When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can live and store personal property." -Wikipedia the #5 site in the world
Then it is important we define "Reside" or "Residence" since it is clearly in connection with "home"
Re·side
intransitive verb \ri-ˈzīd\
re·sid·edre·sid·ing
Definition of RESIDE
1
a : to be in residence as the incumbent of a benefice or office
b : to dwell permanently or continuously : occupy a place as one's legal domicile
b : to dwell permanently or continuously : occupy a place as one's legal domicile
2
a : to be present as an element or quality
b : to be vested as a right
b : to be vested as a right
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So first and foremost we define and make clear that is a place where we reside. This is global, or "Universal", clearness no matter what language we pronounce "home" in, it is "One's place of residence". As if you asked a billion people I am quite certain as a general whole the definition given would be along this wording, if not for certain Webster's would be changing it.
Secondly we see from the number 5# site in the world that is non-profit powered by people from around the world together with common bond that we think of it as a "place of residence or refuge."
"to dwell permanently or continuously" also "to be present as an element or quality"
So presenting the monotonous general "conscious" intellectual side of things I'll proceed to the greater intellect and intuitive side of my consideration.
We ask ourselves, where do we reside? Where is our residence? The house? The apartment? The building we work? Is this where we dwell permanently? Is this where our "element or quality" is always present? Surely when we are home we are there. It's where we "live". Surely many of us "live" in our work. What is our work? What we do for a "living". Ha, again we could go back to overall general consciousness of what "living" is ... but clearly if we think but for a moment even those of us with little schooling, perhaps those of us with little schooling knowing better, understand that the general "perception" of making a "living" is clearly flawed. Supposedly we are at work to make a living and therefore reside in our work. But how many of us are truly residing there while at work? How many of us are making the "living" we desire deep within us? How many of us have our "element" or true "quality" with our bodies at work? Certainly there are some, but I would suggest that there are few when considering the billions of human beings in physically living bodies who "reside" on the Earth. Certainly the ones who can say "yes" live in their work and are most successful. Our work most certainly is NOT the "building" where we work. I cook for a "living," in the general term of the word currently, and must my work be done in our restaurant? Clearly not. With this considered, is it our house or apartment were we continuously dwell? Where our full "element or quality" always reside?We may say:
"Well, not every second. But it's where I sleep, where I store my personal property as stated above. Where I keep all my things. Where my children, wife or husband, and I are comfortable. It is where all we work for is kept and placed and protected in. It's where I want to go when I leave work or places of entertainment or vacation."
Ah, so our "personal" property are stored in our house or apartment? What property is this? A T.V.? A computer? A dresser? Clothes? Things any of us may purchase anywhere in the world? If your house or apartment burnt to the ground would your family not have a place to stay? Would they not find another such house or apartment to feel "comfortable" in? Comfort is a feeling, a state of mind, not a house or apartment. Let someone kick open the door while you sleep and but snatch the T.V. from your wall or stand and all the "comfort" you have built over perhaps years in that physical building is all but gone, is it not? Is the T.V. what you work for? Was it really all that protected? Is it even worth protecting? After you lose that comfort or perhaps even grow tired with monotony of said "comfort" ... is it still a place where you wish to go? Is there not many of us who dread "going home?"
If any of this resonates with you, I suggest that the work, building, or if not happy with the actual job you carry out day to day ... that the house or apartment you seemingly "reside" in ... is not your home. Many of us all the time are in our places or work, in our houses, at friends houses, sitting outside on a park bench and we are there ... but we are not really there. We are in our minds somewhere far, far away. Or perhaps right down the street. Or perhaps seeming nowhere at all. This is where our element, our TRUE quality always resides. Always lives. Our mind inside our brain and brain within our body. So in a physical sense, our person in our home. Our ever moving house. Moved from one physical background to another. But we see I mention "house" ... as certainly home and house do not correspond as one. Our body, or even brain, simply the house. Housing our home. Our home is the mind. This is where we truly live. The pure schooled intellects will say:
"Yea this has all been said before. Bunch of psychological ramblings and none of this truly helps anyone of lesser intelligence."
Then use pure logic. If you are thinking of anger, if you are thinking agitated, if you are thinking wrongly, does it not show in your mood? Are you not living externally what you are living internally? Some intellects with great will power will say:
"I can keep composed on the outside while angry on the inside. No one may know what I am thinking."
Oh but unlike the "old" days when people were less privy to feelings and could not pick up on inner emotions, spirit, this being left for only children who were not so bogged down with falsities "adults" believe, people are tapping back into their instinctual minds outside of "childhood." And more and more people are able to "feel" you are upset or living miserable, unhappy, when you may not show it so openly outwardly. And using the pure logic and the physical senses lets take it a step further if you still do not believe others may feel you "living" in your mind. Lets use your own body as the example. Lets evaluate your muscles. Your blood, your temperature. If you want to go on physical science alone, lets do so. Lets look at physical science and see if it does not prove that your temperature, blood, and muscles do not change when living in some form of anger, agitation, or wrong thinking inside your mind. Or that it is not different when living in a relaxed, happy, harmonious condition in your mind. That we may not sow a seed of one kind and reap another is scientifically exact. We cannot plant an apple seed and get an orange tree anymore than we may plant despise in our mind and reap happiness without in our body and actions.
The truth behind "Home is where the heart is." Is very real. Where we place our heart and mind are very much where we live. In fact, it's the only place we live. Mind is the only place we are always fully in our own individual element, be it wonderful or miserable. It is the only place we may store true "personal" or for better term 'Individual' belongings. Belongings no one may take from us without our permission. No matter how much physical force they may transfer to us, not matter if they give immense threats or immense love, they may not have what is in our mind unless we give it to them. And if we do, what we give makes no difference if not given in love, out of love, as all the value of it exists only in love. Like the T.V. stolen from the home that the perpetrator gets caught with and is arrested for. Or that he sells for money only to have that money stolen from him. Our true property is kept in the housing of the mind like the physical property is kept in the housing of our bodies. Our true property, all that we truly work for, is stored in our home. And we may not lose it as long as we are aware of where our home is or we choose to give it up for something better we choose to place in our home.
Considering where our home truly exists I will attempt to extend into where our homes were and where we should seek our homes today and beyond in a later writing.
My Kindest Regards
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