I won’t be posting much on here for a while, and I’m not sure when I’ll be back.
A man came to Maharajji, and Maharajji asked him for some money for bricks for an ashram. The man said he had no possessions and went away. Later he came rushing to Maharajji, saying his shop was burning and that he would be ruined.
“I thought you said you had no possessions!”
“Oh, I was lying …”
“You are lying now. Your shop is not burning.”
The man went away and returned to his store - and found that only one bag of chili was smoking.
-From Miracle of Love, compiled by Ram Dass
Here Irina Tweedie explains how to practice the Sufi dhyana meditation.
Anonymous askedI myself am unemployed, so I am not at all qualified to give advise on job searching. All I can say is, as long as you don’t feel that the job is harmful to people and this planet, with the right perspective it can be supportive of your spiritual practice.
Remember that obstacles are necessary for spiritual development, without them we get too comfortable and stagnate. Any job will probably provide you with ample opportunities for developing patience, compassion, forgiveness, and so on. It is a matter of remaining mindful of these opportunities and benefiting from them.
I would also suggest wisely using the time that you are away from your job, using it on your spiritual practice and development, rather than wasting it away with trivial conversation and drinking and what not. Always be mindful that the only thing that matters at the time of death is your spiritual practice.
A job is usually required to provide for basic needs that serve as a foundation for spiritual practice, thus serving as a means to an end. I think being mindful of this can help transform almost any job to a spiritually supportive one.
(My apologies that this is all I can offer you.)
What are your New Year’s resolutions?
“Some think that social and personal injustice cannot be opposed without anger, or that not expressing anger is a sign of weakness. This is absurd. Anger is the real sign of weakness; it is the coward’s way out. It takes far more courage to resolve a conflict with love than with anger; if we allow the flame of anger in another’s mind to ignite our own anger, we and the world are lost.
When anger is stopped by its antidote, patience, and replaced by its opposite, love, there is no danger of suppression of emotions and subsequent psychological imbalance, there is only one result - happiness”
-From The Dharma Teachings of Venerable Thubten Gyatso. Read more here.
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