You cannot put your attention on scarcity, trouble, problems, difficulties, obstacles, limits and so on and expect to achieve clarity, inspiration or happy outcomes. Focusing on the problems you have is like keep moving the mud in the river with the intention to find your lost coin. You will never find it!
Everything takes place first in the mind which, by nature, is formless and shapeless like free water, but capable to take the form of any bowl or container. Bruce Lee said: "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend".
In order to be formless and shapeless like water and able to get set into the form you like, you must first learn how to teach your mind to become still and empty. It is then that clarity will arise and you will be able to see and finally find what, deep inside of you, you were looking for, but which you really didn't know on the surface or conscious level.
Once you've got there, focus all your attention only on that, and forget about what you don't want. Of course, you know it because it makes you feel bad and unease. So, never again pay attention to it by thinking or talking about it. Doing so would strengthen what you don't like and be like attempting to find something lost in the river by turning the mud over and over.
What you want is peace, love and happiness in abundance. Just focus on them only . Allow your mind to take their form, and let those things that trouble you (problems) take care of themselves. That is what Jesus meant by saying: "Allow the dead to bury their own dead" – Matthew 8:22 (18-23) and Luke 9:60 (57-62).
Matthew 8:18-20: "When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, 'Teacher, I will follow you werever you go.'
"Jesus replied, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'
"Another disciple said to him, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.'
"But Jesus told him, 'Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead.'"
These are very interesting passages in the bible that, when quietly understood, may clarify lots of things in our life.
As stated in the second paragraph, everything takes place in the mind, that can take any shape, just like water. In the scriptures, reference is made to a lake! The crowd that is refered to here represents problems in our mind, where their only reality is. As for the other side of the lake, it stands for any good thing that may deserve all your attention.
Here, Jesus advises us to let behind us all trouble, to let go of all the problems in our mind, and focus only on their opposite, or the other side of the lake, where you can find peace, happiness, joy, security, abundance, beauty, love, etc. Your mind, therefore, would move from one form into another endlessly.
Now, instead of moving continuously from one form into another, which apparently is a big waste of time, my advice would be that you focus your energy only on Christ, or God. Because in Him, lies everything you would ever need for peace, happiness, joy, abundance, love, etc. That's why I call Him "All In One" or "Shortcut" for a fulfilled life.
Think about it...
...And stay synchrinized.
Everything takes place first in the mind which, by nature, is formless and shapeless like free water, but capable to take the form of any bowl or container. Bruce Lee said: "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend".
In order to be formless and shapeless like water and able to get set into the form you like, you must first learn how to teach your mind to become still and empty. It is then that clarity will arise and you will be able to see and finally find what, deep inside of you, you were looking for, but which you really didn't know on the surface or conscious level.
Once you've got there, focus all your attention only on that, and forget about what you don't want. Of course, you know it because it makes you feel bad and unease. So, never again pay attention to it by thinking or talking about it. Doing so would strengthen what you don't like and be like attempting to find something lost in the river by turning the mud over and over.
What you want is peace, love and happiness in abundance. Just focus on them only . Allow your mind to take their form, and let those things that trouble you (problems) take care of themselves. That is what Jesus meant by saying: "Allow the dead to bury their own dead" – Matthew 8:22 (18-23) and Luke 9:60 (57-62).
Matthew 8:18-20: "When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, 'Teacher, I will follow you werever you go.'
"Jesus replied, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'
"Another disciple said to him, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.'
"But Jesus told him, 'Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead.'"
These are very interesting passages in the bible that, when quietly understood, may clarify lots of things in our life.
As stated in the second paragraph, everything takes place in the mind, that can take any shape, just like water. In the scriptures, reference is made to a lake! The crowd that is refered to here represents problems in our mind, where their only reality is. As for the other side of the lake, it stands for any good thing that may deserve all your attention.
Here, Jesus advises us to let behind us all trouble, to let go of all the problems in our mind, and focus only on their opposite, or the other side of the lake, where you can find peace, happiness, joy, security, abundance, beauty, love, etc. Your mind, therefore, would move from one form into another endlessly.
Now, instead of moving continuously from one form into another, which apparently is a big waste of time, my advice would be that you focus your energy only on Christ, or God. Because in Him, lies everything you would ever need for peace, happiness, joy, abundance, love, etc. That's why I call Him "All In One" or "Shortcut" for a fulfilled life.
Think about it...
...And stay synchrinized.
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