Category — Stories for the Soul-A daily Inspiration

ONE:

Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall

Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye

Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat,

Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury the oncoming fear

Lust craves a chance at halting mortality and believes in the tempoary as real

Illumination lights only what needs to be illuminated for the awakening of the Self happens in the dark

Loss and learning go together, and love and liberation are good friends.

TWO:

Love was within us before we came and went, love was in the first cosmic form
and fell in the first rainfall, love was within us and will be when we forget that we once dwelt
upon the Earth, love was within the first rising spark of Wisdom and the clear sight of Compassion
and Love took the journey willingly into the dark matter and confusion of the temporal world in order
to evolve back to its own recognition again.

THREE:

The human race is a pathway in which Love plies its course,
a river that flows through time and space
creating diversity and matter, consciousness and place,
perception and awakening and the nature of living light
Love has made the chance for Life
when it embraced itself openly with Light,

for Love and Life make Light and from that all things are:

for in Light, Consciousness takes form

shrouding Love’s constant breath
and in that come the two eternal seasons, mortal life and mortal death
two great teachings of Love and Light
by which the Cosmos and Consciousness descend and create form

People often wonder… what is Karma?

Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.

If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.

People often wonder …what  is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.

Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.

Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.

People often wonder… what Reincarnation is…

Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.

In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.

Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus.  Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.

There was once a in India some time ago a great Guru who had many thousands of followers , he was regarded as a saint and a miracle worker.

Everyday at the same time he would come to a shady tree in his Ashram and chant and sing Holy songs to the many people who came. One day a dog turned up, stay just outside the Ashram’s gate.

The dog was a pitiful and writhing mess of parasites and pustules. However , whenever the Guru would chant and sing, the dog would join in howling with great vigour.

After weeks of this people began to complain about the dog to the Ashram’s official’s and then to the Guru himself. One man in a rage told the Guru, ‘whenever I come here to join in and pray and sing with you, that damn mongrel starts howling and disturbs my peace. I think it should be killed!’

At that the Guru asked the man to calm down . ‘Come,’ said the Guru, ‘let us all go go the gate and see what must be done.’ When the crowd and the Guru arrived they looked at the dog and the dog wagged his tail with delight when he saw the Guru.

The Guru began to sing, the dog began to howl. The crowd became enraged.

‘Don’t you know who this dog is?’ asked the Guru looking at the crowd.

‘No,’ said one, ‘its just a dog.’

‘No,’ said the Guru, ‘ that dog is my Guru, a great saint, he howls with far more devotion that I ever could, than all of you, he is completely focused on that.’ The Guru sung, the dog howled.

‘Yes, ‘ said the Guru ,’this dog has more devotion than any of us.’

Many months went by and the dog howled its sacred howl in the afternoons, and then one day the Guru died, and everyone was sad, but the dog howled in the afternoon praising the divine.

Then one day the dog went, it was believed that he met another dog and they had many children , all equally connected to the divine and that when they grew up they travelled this world far and wide on the path of devotion.