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Power of Awareness!
Everyone's objective at every stage in life is - to succeed. Students want to pass exams, young adults want to be popular among their friends, adults want to succeed in their careers, young parents want to raise successful and bright children and the young-at-heart want to live in peace and happiness for the rest of their lives.
Life offers opportunities to everyone to succeed. However, these opportunities come packaged in obstacles. Obstacles are a colorful wrapping that cover opportunity. They may not appear colorful to some of us who live life wearing dark lenses of expectation over our eyes. In the Chinese language the word 'danger' when broken into its two components translate to 'obstacle' and 'opportunity.' However, when we become aware of the colors or lessons in the obstacle - they magically disappear and the opportunity is revealed. For example a butterfly needs to strengthen its muscles to fly. The struggle it goes through to come out of its cocoon is the exercise necessary for it to strengthen its wing muscles. It loses this beautiful gift of soaring to the skies and enjoying the nectar from different flowers if someone denies it the opportunity to go through the obstacle of exercising its muscles.
Association of the mind with any one of the senses gives it the energy to expand and increase its knowledge through experience. It is the law of nature to I N C R E A S E. Hence every animate and inanimate matter wants to increase its knowledge base to move to the next level. However, when the energy of attention is removed from the sense in question, then it does not go through the experience necessary to expand. For example, if you have a splinter embedded in your foot and it is very painful, no matter how hard you try to increase your knowledge of your taste buds by eating the most delicious meal in front of you, you will not be able to enjoy the experience because your attention energy is focused on the pain in your foot. Once you take measures to lower the pain and focus your attention energy on the delicious food then you will enjoy that experience.
This proves that the sense organs by themselves have no power without the energy of attention. Attention is nothing but awareness. Hence where ever you focus your energy of awareness you will experience expansion in that area. In other words, if your attention energy is on things that are not working out in your life then only those events will present themselves for you to increase your experience of things not working out. You can also choose to focus your attention on more happier and fulfilling thoughts so that that becomes your experience. It's your choice.
So what is awareness? How do we apply it to the areas in our lives that we wish to see an increase in - health, wealth, peace and happiness?
Before we understand awareness and how to apply it to our lives we must first identify the root essence of what we want or need. When you ask anyone what they want in life, chances are they may say that they want to make a lot of money. The essence, of wanting to make more money or buying clothes and comforts for the home, is happiness. Happiness brings contentment. Therefore contentment is the essence of wanting to buy things that make life comfortable or make more money. Actually the root essence of everything we want or need lies in our experience of contentment, peace, happiness and eternal bliss.
Buckminster Fuller once said, "Ninety-nine percent of who you really are is invisible." What you see as yourself in the mirror is only one percent of who you truly are. That one percent needs to experience, increase, become aware and eventually transcend all the wants and needs that it believes makes it complete. Once you transcend this belief and view it from a higher perspective you will realize and know that you experienced limitations in life because of your belief that you were incomplete without your wants.
As this realization dawns on you and converts into a belief which further converts into a knowing then you will learn to live life from the inside out. Miracles will be your reward for living life from the inside out. This happens through awareness.
To increase awareness for the purpose of expanding or creating the life you desire, finding someone who can initiate a spark that will light your inner lamp of awareness is a pre-requisite. Such a person, who has such a heightened level of awareness, can only give you the gift of a spark that will light the lamp of awareness within you. This person can come to you in various forms, like, a physical being, a book, an event, a dream, an article, etc.
Once the lamp has been lit it becomes your responsibility to protect the flame from extinguishing. Initially the spark that lights the lamp is just that, a spark. That spark has to create a connection with the wick and the wax of the candle. For the candle flame to be stable it requires a constant supply of liquid wax. For that to happen, the wick, embedded into the wax, will have to burn enough to melt the wax surrounding it so that it will start to feed the flame to become stable to withstand a light breeze. Without the willingness of the wick to burn, melt the wax which in turn, flows through the wick to feed itself to the flame, the spark can do nothing. However, once the wick is willing to lose its form and be used as a medium for the melted wax to flow through it to spread the light, only then can the spark be stable and burn bright.
Once the spark of awareness takes hold and burns brightly inside, you will feel the lesser emotions, like fear, greed, attachment etc., lose their grip on you and slowly disintegrate. Please remember, however, that until you awaken to the realization that 99% of who You truly are, what Buckminster Fuller calls, "invisible", you will have to supply the energy of awareness constantly to make sure that your inner candle flame does not flicker no matter what goes before you.
You can contact the author of the above article by email at rajangr@pacific.net.sg or by phone on +(65)-96672204
Life offers opportunities to everyone to succeed. However, these opportunities come packaged in obstacles. Obstacles are a colorful wrapping that cover opportunity. They may not appear colorful to some of us who live life wearing dark lenses of expectation over our eyes. In the Chinese language the word 'danger' when broken into its two components translate to 'obstacle' and 'opportunity.' However, when we become aware of the colors or lessons in the obstacle - they magically disappear and the opportunity is revealed. For example a butterfly needs to strengthen its muscles to fly. The struggle it goes through to come out of its cocoon is the exercise necessary for it to strengthen its wing muscles. It loses this beautiful gift of soaring to the skies and enjoying the nectar from different flowers if someone denies it the opportunity to go through the obstacle of exercising its muscles.
Association of the mind with any one of the senses gives it the energy to expand and increase its knowledge through experience. It is the law of nature to I N C R E A S E. Hence every animate and inanimate matter wants to increase its knowledge base to move to the next level. However, when the energy of attention is removed from the sense in question, then it does not go through the experience necessary to expand. For example, if you have a splinter embedded in your foot and it is very painful, no matter how hard you try to increase your knowledge of your taste buds by eating the most delicious meal in front of you, you will not be able to enjoy the experience because your attention energy is focused on the pain in your foot. Once you take measures to lower the pain and focus your attention energy on the delicious food then you will enjoy that experience.
This proves that the sense organs by themselves have no power without the energy of attention. Attention is nothing but awareness. Hence where ever you focus your energy of awareness you will experience expansion in that area. In other words, if your attention energy is on things that are not working out in your life then only those events will present themselves for you to increase your experience of things not working out. You can also choose to focus your attention on more happier and fulfilling thoughts so that that becomes your experience. It's your choice.
So what is awareness? How do we apply it to the areas in our lives that we wish to see an increase in - health, wealth, peace and happiness?
Before we understand awareness and how to apply it to our lives we must first identify the root essence of what we want or need. When you ask anyone what they want in life, chances are they may say that they want to make a lot of money. The essence, of wanting to make more money or buying clothes and comforts for the home, is happiness. Happiness brings contentment. Therefore contentment is the essence of wanting to buy things that make life comfortable or make more money. Actually the root essence of everything we want or need lies in our experience of contentment, peace, happiness and eternal bliss.
Buckminster Fuller once said, "Ninety-nine percent of who you really are is invisible." What you see as yourself in the mirror is only one percent of who you truly are. That one percent needs to experience, increase, become aware and eventually transcend all the wants and needs that it believes makes it complete. Once you transcend this belief and view it from a higher perspective you will realize and know that you experienced limitations in life because of your belief that you were incomplete without your wants.
As this realization dawns on you and converts into a belief which further converts into a knowing then you will learn to live life from the inside out. Miracles will be your reward for living life from the inside out. This happens through awareness.
To increase awareness for the purpose of expanding or creating the life you desire, finding someone who can initiate a spark that will light your inner lamp of awareness is a pre-requisite. Such a person, who has such a heightened level of awareness, can only give you the gift of a spark that will light the lamp of awareness within you. This person can come to you in various forms, like, a physical being, a book, an event, a dream, an article, etc.
Once the lamp has been lit it becomes your responsibility to protect the flame from extinguishing. Initially the spark that lights the lamp is just that, a spark. That spark has to create a connection with the wick and the wax of the candle. For the candle flame to be stable it requires a constant supply of liquid wax. For that to happen, the wick, embedded into the wax, will have to burn enough to melt the wax surrounding it so that it will start to feed the flame to become stable to withstand a light breeze. Without the willingness of the wick to burn, melt the wax which in turn, flows through the wick to feed itself to the flame, the spark can do nothing. However, once the wick is willing to lose its form and be used as a medium for the melted wax to flow through it to spread the light, only then can the spark be stable and burn bright.
Once the spark of awareness takes hold and burns brightly inside, you will feel the lesser emotions, like fear, greed, attachment etc., lose their grip on you and slowly disintegrate. Please remember, however, that until you awaken to the realization that 99% of who You truly are, what Buckminster Fuller calls, "invisible", you will have to supply the energy of awareness constantly to make sure that your inner candle flame does not flicker no matter what goes before you.
You can contact the author of the above article by email at rajangr@pacific.net.sg or by phone on +(65)-96672204
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