consciousness

When you became completely conscious of the consciousness you are in,
then you are out of it....

what is the purpose of education?

what is the purpose of education?

I was thinking about this question. There are many things which are important. But I was thinking what is the top of the piramid?...the thing from where all else cames from?....

And it flashed in my mind that the purpose of education is to know who you (really) are.

All else might be secondary......

It seems to me this is common with spirituality, as we could say that the purpose of spirituality is to know who you (really) are.........

And now....what?

"everything that you understand,you can only understand through concepts"

"Everything that you understand,
you can only understand through concepts"

(Nisargadatta Maharaj)

It should be VERY important that we are aware of this limitation.......

solidarity

I was reading about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and I wanted to share a couple of paragraphs:

"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."


"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway."

And also I found her inner doubts, very likely a product of her intense inner search and questioning:

"Where is my faith? Even deep down ... there is nothing but emptiness and darkness ... If there be God—please forgive me. When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul ... How painful is this unknown pain—I have no Faith. Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal, ... What do I labor for? If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true."

have we human beings solidarity by nature?

I look in the dictionary, and I found that solidarity comes from the french "solide" (solid), almost implying that solidarity comes from a sense of unity of "all one"......

(From the dictionary: Solidarity, from French solidarité "mutual responsibility," a coinage of the "Encyclopédie" (1765), from solidaire "interdependent, complete, entire," from solide (solid))

solidarity...to a girl in Pakistan

She is 7 or 8 years old. One can see the distress in her face. Probably she is hungry, maybe she got separated from her family. But she is helping her little brother. I can see how she supports her right thumb in her left sleeve. Probably she has been carrying him for hours and her arm is tired. She has put her own scarf over him to protect him from the rain. They are both soaked....but she goes on....

My affection for you, little girl. You simbolize the best of us. I hope all goes well with you.

(Picture by Adrees Latif on the flooding in Pakistan)
(dedicated to E.G.)

“To be the best me I can be today.”

I am subscribed to a Multiple Sclerosis association, and in a mail arrived today they tell the story of Jim Dunlap. His story is one of courage and strength. Jim was a former professional bike racer and cycling team manager who is now forced to cope with the everyday struggles of living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

The unexpected and uncontrollable symptoms of MS have created new and unforeseen obstacles for him. His ability to walk was first encumbered by the need for a cane, and now he relies on a wheelchair to get around.

To Jim what is important is to accept the obstacles that arise every day and “To be the best me I can be today.”.

(Dedicated to the many, many anonymous heroes living everyday life, the mother that takes such care for her babies, the truck driver exhausted at the wheel because he loves his sons, the people that endure long hours of physical pain or dissability, the people in a monastery or with a normal life that are trying to advance this conscioussness......etc, etc, etc. )

silence

Is silence just the absence of sound?

The obsolete consciousness II

On August 6th 1945, at 8:15 a.m. local time, the plane Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb onto Hiroshima. Just 43 seconds later it exploded 1,900 feet above the city, killing 140.000 people.

One part of this obsolete consciousness had learned how to obtain energy by splitting matter. Another part had decided to use this knowledge to fight another part of the same consciousness, divided by something called nationality. Another part flew over Hiroshima and dropped it..... Then a part of the consciousness celebrated the success with joy and another part was crying with pain......

(see a re-enactment in this video)