8 Lost Secrets To Live Your Life By December 21, 2007
Posted by Geoffrey Wilson in : Health Tips, Meditations, Personal Freedom, Philosophy, Psychology, Wisdom Notes , trackbackLost Secret #1
Each of us is a soul animated by spirit and comes to earth in order to cultivate enlightenment. Once upon a time as the story goes, the floor of heaven opened and all souls went tumbling down through the worlds. Many came to earth of course and formed the consciousness of homo sapiens… housed in the flesh and bones of the human body.
Without knowledge of this secret, the purpose of your life may become confused and as a result you may get distracted and lose your focus.
Lost Secret #2
Soul moves through the endless ages accompanied by the karma acquired from birth to birth. There are several different kinds of karma and each must be worked off (eliminated) before a human being can leave this life permanently.
Without knowledge of this secret, you may fail to reconcile cause and effect in which case you will continue to be the effect rather than the cause of your life.
Lost Secret #3
The opposite is implied in everything. Therefore, it is better to avoid developing preferences for either this or that. In order to see the truth then, one must hold no opinions for or against anything.
Without knowledge of this secret, you may develop bad habits such as the strengthening of prejudices in which case you will experience the conflict of the opposites.
Lost Secret #4
Problems are nothing more than our reactions to things. We become unhappy because we react instead of responding without judgment.
Without knowledge of this secret, you may never experience freedom from judgement in which case peace and harmony will elude you.
Lost Secret #5
We get attached to our feelings, especially when we’re flying high, and we hope it lasts forever. It doesn’t of course, and this is what makes us feel miserable. It is better to see through the things of the world and accept impermanence for what it is without wanting to argue about it.
Without knowledge of this secret, you may find it difficult to adapt to change and consequently get fixated about things. The world is impermanent. Soul is not.
Lost Secret #6
Anger, passion, anxiety, sorrow, and fear, are just reactions to what is going on externally – that is to say, on the outside. In ancient times, they were called the five thieves and the sages made it a point to restrict their influence by cultivating the five virtues of benevolence, compassion, sincerity, true sense, and wisdom.
Without knowledge of this secret, you may become a victim of emotional excess and lose your relationship to personal stability.
Lost Secret #7
The soma/psyche (body/mind) relationship can be understood easily by likening it to a coin. On one side of the coin, are thoughts and emotions arising in our minds. On the other side of the coin, are the respirations (breath) and sensations (pleasures, aches and pains) associated with our bodies.
By observing these carefully, as front and back, we can actually observe the nature of our mental impurities. This is called insight meditation and was discovered by Gautama Sakyamuni (a.k.a. the Buddha).
Without knowledge of this secret, you will not see that whatever has a front also has a back and that the bigger the front, the bigger the back.
Lost Secret #8
You must be able to sink your breath to the lower belly. That’s where the power is. Vital force comes from the waist… the waist is everything! That is why it is important to use the mind instead of force so that the vital energy will follow in the wake of the mind and circulate over the body. This is what is called being lithe in appearance and powerful in essence.
Without knowledge of this secret, you may find it difficult to maintain balance because if the vital force doesn’t follow the mind, chaos ensues and the body becomes confused.
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