...On Being Human
hariḥ oṁ
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Namasté
on being human...
1. You will receive a body. You may like it, or hate it, but it's yours for the entire period this time around. A question that you may ponder is who received this body? Thus begins the lessons.
2. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or not, you may think they're irrelevant and stupid, but you will be given lessons just the same.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. At times you will feel a mistake has been made, that is part of the lesson. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. Failed experiments are just as valid as the experiment that brings success.
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go to the next lesson. In many cases multiple lessons are in process. Periodically, the lesson will be re-presented to see if you still remember it.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain a lesson. If you are alive, there are lessons being offered. If no lesson is being presented, it is likely that you are no longer alive.
6. There is no place better than 'here'. When your 'there' has become a 'here', you will simply acquire another 'there'. That will again look better than 'here'.
7. Others (people that is) are simply mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You are given the tools and resources needed. What you make of them is up to you; the choice is yours.
9. The ultimate answer lies inside you. One only needs to start the process of looking/experiencing within. If you continue to look outside your own realm then more lessons will be added.
10. You will (most likely) forget all this. This fact in and of itself is a lesson.
11. Once you fully wake-up the lesson plan has been completed. ( we end on number 11 owned by Rudra for obvious reasons)
praṇām
Last edited by yajvan; 26 October 2014 at 07:03 PM.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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