thoughts to share

burake 279 posts May 19, 2010 3:29 AM	Hi everybody here I want to share my thoughts I had recently. It is (at least it seems to me so) a long journey. I mean the journey of discovering self. It is I think always useful to share what we find with others with the hope it will inspire them to new discoveries. I am recently thinking about thoughts and emotions. Thoughts seem to be not the level one can work on himself as they express what we percieve or live but don't have power. They seem for me more like expressions of emotions and that is where we can try to keep our work on. When I say you I am happy this is an emotion and cannot be transformed to "your world" with mere words. You hear the words but don't live the same emotions with me. Just as when I am said or fearful these will just be words for you and you wont live the same thing with me. Therefore thoughts are like things "on the surface" and do not deserve the focus of our energy and attention. Where we can bring the change is the emotions that we have. By mere thoughts we cannot "take ourselves out of a deep emotional hole", this I think knows everybody. To say somebody who is said for example because of the loss of somebody "life is going on or don't be so sorry life is beuatiful etc." never works. One has to deal, actually everybody has to deal in his or her life with emotions and not with "thinking". This is a challenge because the powerful life energy easily slips out of our fingers, our attention is easily drawn away from it and deals with thoughts; a stupid way of waisting our life energy. The way to happiness or unhappiness is drawn by emotions. The thoughts just appear in our mind as an expression of them and we must learn to move beyond them.
burake 280 posts May 19, 2010 3:34 AM	A friend told me that emotions are the colours we paint our world with. We are the artists and create our perception of the outer world which is only a reflection of the inner world with colours. The thought which is offered here for the rational mind won't help much but the emotional meaning behind it guess.
burake 281 posts May 19, 2010 4:02 AM	I just read in the thread colurs what aireal wrote. I was a little confused about the idea of remembering colours when we are in negative emotions. Remembering the right colours will not take us out of our inner inability but it is rather remembering that level on which these feelings cannot exist I thought to myself.
burake 284 posts May 30, 2010 6:50 AM	What we read (for example the teachings of P'taah) may always stay on "minds level". They are always good as wayshowers but "we have to find our truth". That's why I wanted to emphasise the importance of our own experiences on our journey. I think this BB is a wonderful place to share the results of our own experiments with ourselves as they can be inspiring also for others. What do we observe, what changes in us and our inner being, what do we "discover" about self? These seem to be questions worth to think about...
burake 285 posts May 31, 2010 12:10 AM	I recently thought like this: Why am I reading P'taah? Why am I keep on asking questions about enlightenment? I am seeking for something. I have the desire to become more. The interesting point is that that what I am seeking for, is "too much mine" to be asked questions or to be "looked for". It is the mind asking "how do I, what must I do, etc.". It is about noticing this "looking for" and giving it up. It is about ignoring these questions and searching and trusting that it will somehow be good. In the moment I give up the search, that which I am looking for "will come" to me. Without effort, without anything. I look for my "own truth" as something which can be gained through efforts. When I am aware of this I also notice that something which I can gain I can also loose. And I notice that this cannot be what I am looking for. That which is mine is always mine, it must be like this and it cannot be what I am looking for. I say to myself "I don't want a truth which can be "lost". It is too weak, too "without ground" to be my truth...
burake 286 posts May 31, 2010 1:00 AM	Another important point seems to me to be this: The understanding what we first have from teachings like of P'taah is always "wrong" and has to be left. We have our own perceptions of the "world, universe etc." which is itself limiting and is the only thing preventing us from seeing the bigger truth. It is our world which we have gained through our experiences in life (probably in many lives). When I read something in P'taah I always come at first to an understanding which is based on my current beliefs and understandings of the universe which are limiting. So they are "wrong" or I should better say "limiting" and do not serve the purpose I am here for. So what is to be done is "giving up" this first meaning (which is the meaning we put through our ego) and "continue". This is the biggest challenge because it is required to "step into unknown". This is really about courage and trust which are for me synonymous with "love". As P'taah always says "we know the answers on some level" and we just have get out of our own way... Much love to you all
burake 288 posts Jun 03, 2010 1:39 AM	This thought comes again and again: There is nothing to "do". There is even nothing to "look for". What I am looking for I already have. There is no lack and there is no need for "searching for a grander truth". The only thing "to do" is let go of the belief that this is not so... everything is already perfect.
burake 289 posts Jun 03, 2010 4:02 AM	This is about hope: We live in a world in which it is easy to focus on negative emotions and thoughts. It is easy to judge, to blame, to fear. I recently started to tell myself: it is Ok when I just forgot who I am and have thought/felt like this. Important is to continue. Important is to create something beautiful, some kind of happiness or love or joy. Even if it is a small and seemingly unimportant thing this is what we are here for. The day we die we won't be judged for nothing. But we will know (I already know) that the purpose of this life will not be fullfilled if we could not create worthiness in moments of unworthiness, courage in moments of fear. What have we created towards joy, happiness, worthiness, only this counts when one consideres this life as an opportunity to grow. It is a time period between birth and death with only this meaningful goal...If we find ourselves in difficult situations we are not supposed to blame us for dwelling there but on some level supposed to continue and focus on beauty and joy if we want to grow...
burake 290 posts Jun 03, 2010 7:38 AM	This is about feelings: What can we do when we are unhappy? I keep on asking myself. I think "the things which are the reasons to our unhappiness and which are in the outside world" we cannot change or at least it will not be very easy to do this as they can be very different and wide ranking. What we can change is our own perception of the things and even our own feelings. If we could keep our attention on our feelings without judging them...
burake 293 posts Jun 13, 2010 12:07 PM	This is about meditation: When I find myself in a situation in which I am afraid about something that could happen I discovered that it helps to get to a kind of meditative state of being of the NOW. When we are in the NOW we cannot be afraid about something which can happen. One sees that all the things which we are "afraid of" are in the future and the truth is there is no such thing as future. When I am afraid of losing my job I simply come to the NOW, we could call this also the centre point of our being and the fear simply vanishes. The same is also for judgements and self accusations. They all live in our head when we leave the NOW. In the NOW there is nothing bad, dangerous, even wrong which souldn't have been done. In the NOW; I AM...
burake 294 posts Jun 14, 2010 4:28 AM	I had a funny thought today; negative emotions like fear, judgement, accusations actually do not exist. By resisting them, labeling them as "unwanted, negative, bad "we put our life energy in them and we do create them - and then start believing that they exist...
burake 296 posts Jun 17, 2010 6:29 AM	To become more, or get enlightened we must stop "struggling". It is not about "doing" but just about "becoming" we often hear. We often tend to "think" we are not enlightened, we often tend to think, we don't have what we are looking for and then think we must "do" this and that in order to "solve this problem". But the challenge is about being still and "remembering" that we have never lost what we are looking for. And this has nothing to do with a struggle...The same must be for asking questions I think to myself sometimes...Asking questions to those who are in their journey ahead of us (like P'taah)...Those who've been on this path before us...When I look closer I see that "doing and struggling" for our bigger part is nothing else then saying the universe I am not perfect in this now and here and on this way preventing us from reaching that what we are looking for...Because the universe supports us without judgement for what we choose to be...The same thoughts I sometimes have also for asking questions...We ask questions and hope that something "outside of us" will give us the answer to that. This again is saying the universe "I dont have the answer" and the universe says Ok if you choose so you can live forever in this belief I will support your thoughts and idea constracts which you feed all the time with your underlying emotional energy... And this cannot be the way leading home...I still believe in asking questions as they can help us form our "intuition". I still believe in books like of the P'taah which "when we are inside ready to accept it" remember us about our bigger truth...But I sometimes also think like in the thoughts I have offered above... Last Edited on 17-Jun-2010 6:31 AM
Reese 325 posts Jun 18, 2010 5:58 AM	Hello burake. I really enjoy your sharing your thoughts with us. I resonate with your journey in all ways. Since I have been on my human journey for 86 years, I have become weary of 'wandering around' for what is life all about and now just surrender to who I am and allow it to happen. For me, I don't think I could have arrived at this awareness in earlier years....too many exciting and interesting things to do. While deep inside I have known who I am, it has taken third dimension experiences in time to have enough understanding to allow expansion. Life is still unbelievably exciting yet in different ways. Keep on keeping on (a family saying)....it is well worth living today at this time in history. With much love, Namaste, Reese
burake 298 posts Jun 18, 2010 8:02 AM	Thanks Reese, I hope you enjoy your journey too...