Greed by raising expectations in men, serves only to whirl them about, like a vortex of the sea swallows marine animals.
Being over powered by greed, we are unable to reach the goal of perfection, like a bird entangled in a snare is kept from flight. Of all worldly evils, greed is the source of the longest sorrow. She exposes even the most secluded man to peril.
All our bodily troubles are avoided by abstaining from greed, just as we are freed from fear of night demons at the dispersion of darkness. As long as men remain in dumbness and mental delirium, they are subject to the poisonous colic of greed.
Men may get rid of their misery by freeing themselves from anxieties. The abandonment of cares is said to be the best remedy for greed.
I see no deeds in the world that endure to the final liberation of men. Actions proceeding from a fool’s desire for results serve only for their restlessness on earth. Even in old age, those corrupted by their greed will not accept sermons on their eternal concerns…I know not how to pass this state of human life.
Reflect carefully on the observations of Rama, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, on the vanity of this world. A cycle of four yugas starts with Satyuga, in which people live by the norms of Dharma. In Satya Yuga contentment is the chariot and Dharma is the driver. In Treta continence is the chariot and might is the driver. In Dwapar penance is the chariot and virtue is the driver. In Kaliyuga fire is the chariot and falsehood is the driver.
The cycle that starts with society’s unflinching adherence to Dharma ends with complete moral degeneration in Kaliyuga, wherein people burn in the fires of lust, anger and greed; relationships are built on narrow self-interest; and the affairs of society are run through falsehood, cunning and deceit.
I see no deeds in the world that endure to the final liberation of men. Actions proceeding from a fool’s desire for results serve only for their restlessness on earth. Even in old age, those corrupted by their greed will not accept sermons on their eternal concerns…I know not how to pass this state of human life.
Reflect carefully on the observations of Rama, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, on the vanity of this world. A cycle of four yugas starts with Satyuga, in which people live by the norms of Dharma. In Satya Yuga contentment is the chariot and Dharma is the driver. In Treta continence is the chariot and might is the driver. In Dwapar penance is the chariot and virtue is the driver. In Kaliyuga fire is the chariot and falsehood is the driver.
The cycle that starts with society’s unflinching adherence to Dharma ends with complete moral degeneration in Kaliyuga, wherein people burn in the fires of lust, anger and greed; relationships are built on narrow self-interest; and the affairs of society are run through falsehood, cunning and deceit.
Guia para escribir articulos cientificosrocapio1987
Este documento contiene una recopilación de recomendaciones que sirven a a hora de diseñar un articulo científico. se publica con el fin de acercar a los estudiantes a la escritura.
Etude comparative mur technique bois et paille et mur ossature bois ouate à p...Bois et Paille
I) Étude comparative de coût au m² pour une performance thermique identique entre :
- un mur poteau poutre isolation Paille
Et
- un mur ossature bois isolation ouate de cellulose
Comprenant un :
- Descriptif des matériaux et leur coût
- Descriptif des temps de pose par professionnels et leur coût
Permettant d’exploiter les différences :
- Pour la fourniture seule des matériaux
- Pour le temps de pose
- Le cubage de bois demandé
Our anxieties and cares are the offshoot of our wealth and possessions and they deplete the life-force share of creative vibratory elements ether and air, thus effecting the vital organs of our body (viz. mind and heart) that derive sustenance from these elements.
Temptation begins by capturing your attention. What gets your attention arouses your emotions. Then your emotions activate your behaviour, and you act on what you feel. The more you focus on “I don’t want to do this,” the stronger it draws you into its web.
Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting it. Once your mind is on something else, the temptation loses its power.
Spiritually, your mind is your most vulnerable organ. To reduce temptation, keep your mind occupied with God’s Word and other good thoughts.
We all remain here, as slaves sold to Fate and Destiny, and we are deceived by their allurements…Destiny, the faithful and obedient wife of Fate, is naturally fickle on account of her being a female. She is always bent on mischief and disturbing patience.
Everyone in this world is fond of affluence and pleasures, not knowing that these are only calculated to lead him to his ruin. All individual existences are liable to appear and disappear. All desires are chains to the world, and all worldly beings are constantly seen to be led away to where, necessarily, no one can tell.
The duration of human life in this world is being decreased in each generation in proportion to the increase of wicked acts. The desire of pleasure is as vain as the expectation of reaping fruit from a vine growing in the sky. Yet I know not why men of reason would not understand this truth.
I employed my mind to discriminate the nature of things, which gradually led me to discard all thoughts of sensual enjoyments.
What are worldly pleasures good for, and why do men multiply on earth? Men are born to die, and they die to be born again.
There is no stability in the tendencies of beings whether movable or immovable. They all tend to vice, decay and danger, and all our possessions become the grounds of our poverty.
We are sold by none, yet we are enslaved to the world. Knowing this well, we are spell-bound with riches, as if by the magic wand of Sambara.
The thought that consumes me like wildfire in the hollow of a withered tree is, “How is misery to be alleviated?” We must make an effort to end this slavery.
A man in tottering old age is ridiculed as an imbecile by his own sons and servants, and even by his wife, friends and relations.
“…so does old age seize the body with a tremor and fill all its limbs with the rust of diseases.” What then is the good of this miserable life, which lives subject to old age?
Rama’s observations are a reminder to all of us that due consideration and the right preparation for old age should be done while young.
Guia para escribir articulos cientificosrocapio1987
Este documento contiene una recopilación de recomendaciones que sirven a a hora de diseñar un articulo científico. se publica con el fin de acercar a los estudiantes a la escritura.
Etude comparative mur technique bois et paille et mur ossature bois ouate à p...Bois et Paille
I) Étude comparative de coût au m² pour une performance thermique identique entre :
- un mur poteau poutre isolation Paille
Et
- un mur ossature bois isolation ouate de cellulose
Comprenant un :
- Descriptif des matériaux et leur coût
- Descriptif des temps de pose par professionnels et leur coût
Permettant d’exploiter les différences :
- Pour la fourniture seule des matériaux
- Pour le temps de pose
- Le cubage de bois demandé
Our anxieties and cares are the offshoot of our wealth and possessions and they deplete the life-force share of creative vibratory elements ether and air, thus effecting the vital organs of our body (viz. mind and heart) that derive sustenance from these elements.
Temptation begins by capturing your attention. What gets your attention arouses your emotions. Then your emotions activate your behaviour, and you act on what you feel. The more you focus on “I don’t want to do this,” the stronger it draws you into its web.
Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting it. Once your mind is on something else, the temptation loses its power.
Spiritually, your mind is your most vulnerable organ. To reduce temptation, keep your mind occupied with God’s Word and other good thoughts.
We all remain here, as slaves sold to Fate and Destiny, and we are deceived by their allurements…Destiny, the faithful and obedient wife of Fate, is naturally fickle on account of her being a female. She is always bent on mischief and disturbing patience.
Everyone in this world is fond of affluence and pleasures, not knowing that these are only calculated to lead him to his ruin. All individual existences are liable to appear and disappear. All desires are chains to the world, and all worldly beings are constantly seen to be led away to where, necessarily, no one can tell.
The duration of human life in this world is being decreased in each generation in proportion to the increase of wicked acts. The desire of pleasure is as vain as the expectation of reaping fruit from a vine growing in the sky. Yet I know not why men of reason would not understand this truth.
I employed my mind to discriminate the nature of things, which gradually led me to discard all thoughts of sensual enjoyments.
What are worldly pleasures good for, and why do men multiply on earth? Men are born to die, and they die to be born again.
There is no stability in the tendencies of beings whether movable or immovable. They all tend to vice, decay and danger, and all our possessions become the grounds of our poverty.
We are sold by none, yet we are enslaved to the world. Knowing this well, we are spell-bound with riches, as if by the magic wand of Sambara.
The thought that consumes me like wildfire in the hollow of a withered tree is, “How is misery to be alleviated?” We must make an effort to end this slavery.
A man in tottering old age is ridiculed as an imbecile by his own sons and servants, and even by his wife, friends and relations.
“…so does old age seize the body with a tremor and fill all its limbs with the rust of diseases.” What then is the good of this miserable life, which lives subject to old age?
Rama’s observations are a reminder to all of us that due consideration and the right preparation for old age should be done while young.
This world (samsara) is as a whirlpool in the ocean of creation, and every individual body is as impermanent as foam, froth or a bubble, which can give me no relish in this life.
Knowledge is a burden to the unthinking, and wisdom is burdensome to the passionate. Intellect is a heavy load to the restless, and the body is a ponderous burden to one ignorant of his soul.
There is a vegetable life in plants, and an animal life in beasts and birds. Man leads a thinking life, but true life is above thoughts. Man must seek his liberation now while living in this very lifetime. Those who miss this golden opportunity are no better than old asses.
The body with its smiling face appears like a good plant bearing both good and bad fruit, but it has become home for the snake of greed and the crows of anger.
The mind is the architect and master of this bodily dwelling, and our activities are its supports and servants. It is filled with errors and delusions which I do not like.
It is no lovely house where the external organs are playing their parts, while its mistress understanding sits inside with her brood of anxieties.
The body lies like a tortoise in the cave of greed amidst the ocean of the world. It remains there in the mud in a mute and torpid state without any effort for its liberation.
What beauty is there in the body of a woman composed of nerves, bones and joints? She is a mere statue of flesh and a frame of moving machinery with her ribs and limbs.
Sexual desire, like a huntsman, has spread his nets in the form of women for the purpose of ensnaring deluded men like silly birds. A woman is nothing but a form composed of the five elements, so why intelligent men should be fondly attached to her?
Lust for the opposite sex is one of the major hindrances in the Spiritual Journey of the soul back to its Real Home. It has to be given up by both the sexes.
The observations of Rama are some of the suggestions to overcome the inherent attraction for the opposite sex. The key to overcome this temptation is not to pay attention to the attractive features of the opposite sex. And before casting a second glance one should activate these observations in the mind applied vice versa.
There is nothing in this world which the all-devouring time will spare. Time is constantly picking up the seeds of all four kinds of living beings from this unreal world…
At end of the world, time plucks the gods and demigods from their great tree of existence like ripe fruit. After a short rest and respite, time reappears as the creator, preserver, and destroyer of all who remembers all…
Wheel of Time spares none and continues to rotate. Time does not spare gods, demigods and even the three principal gods (creator, preserver and destroyer) then where do we stand as human being of limited intellect.
Rama is seeking help of two great sages of his time. It is high time that we pause and reflect on this issue. Imagine the momentum the Wheel of Time has on us. On our own we cannot stop the Wheel of Time. We shall have to seek the help of realized persons now, of our time, who have been successful in doing so.
Great Southern Streetwalking Nomads 1524 2286John Latham
A WORK IN PROGRESS
... Take me don’t take me, let me go with you away engulfed in your sea of joy - found interactive with a tribal family and foreigners inter-pollen and play. I don’t want to stop, simply to flow and break where necessary with a diamond facet in sync with a quasar edge to let it be the essence that nurtures a quoll, … whilst shining sanity to a witness who is a prisoner of war once leach ridden in a jungle ditch, formed at the base of a huge fallen tree whose fate was set by a bomb fallen at its other side. They are loved by many, the brave over-and-done stories of the hard won victories or the wasted lost battles that were part thereof; the lovers of the loved lean into the gloom finding a light, a warmth, an attitude, a valiance and characters to love. The story of a chapter of a life, the substance of desperate-sweat, endurance, genius, determination showing a success that one may like to share. It was here in the wind of mentality, yours and mine, the sole one; but stopping to manifest it here, I face but an echo of silence - just an error a ripple in our fluid. I am now again the pilot, my instrument keyboard, at one time a brush, is the glider in our wind. We unfold the wild wind of our angry hearts and roll out the moist words of our supreme joy. Retell me foreign gentleman … of the best way to prune the olive tree and I will explain the tapping of oil from the eucalypt and together we may see a quasar joining us through its veil. ... ./..
Ignorance is the spring of misery. Through ignorance one suffers afflictions and incurs great danger. Ignorance has its origin in covetousness. As covetousness grows, ignorance also grows. Ignorance exists there where covetousness exists.
Current COVID virus is a direct attack on the vital Link necessary for transfer of Energy to Form. Our willful engagement in the Greed-Deceit group of negative attributes at Shanks has given birth to this virus.
Life is going to be different post Corona. It is a message to the entire world that we must limit performance of our activity which is based on the Greed-Deceit group of negative attributes.
Disclaimer: This is the opinion of the writer. All are welcome to make further studies in this direction.
Brother, there are three evils most formidable of all: lust, anger and greed. The weapons of greed are desire and hypocrisy, of lust naught but woman; while anger’s weapon is harsh speech: so declare the great sages after deep thought. Woman is God's wonderful creation but to lust after her is not desirable.
Ansuya to Sita on Wifely Virtues from the Epic 'Ramayana' by Tulsi Das Ji. • The woman who deceives her husband and loves a paramour is cast for a hundred cycles into the worst hell known as Raurava. Who is as depraved as the woman who for the sake of a moment’s pleasure reckons not the torment that shall endure for a thousand million births?
Lord Mahadev - Uma discourse on Women's Duties from the Epic 'Mahabharata'. Uma concludes: 'Maheshwara, I do not desire Heaven itself if thou art not satisfied with me'.
No man even in anger, should do anything that is disagreeable to his wife, seeing that happiness, joy and virtue, - everything depends on the wife. A wonderful discourse from the Epic 'Mahabharata'.
Due to their natural disposition women cannot be regarded as offenders. It is the men who should be stained with guilt of any wrongdoing to women. A wonderful discourse from the Epic 'Mahabharata'.
Celibacy 4 - Right Company and Firm DecisionPardeep Sehgal
The sexual impulse has been there for countless lives, and you never know when it will rise again. Therefore, it is important to remain in the right company. If you go out of right company, because of the existing impulse, sexuality will start to sprout all over again.
What is nischaya (determined decision)? Nischaya means, no matter how powerful an army of worldly difficulties arises with attacks, you would not back off.
What is nischaya? It is to stop all other thoughts and come onto only one thought. If you make a firm decision, all the evidences will come together and make it happen. If your decision is not firm then the evidences will not come together and your goal will not be accomplished.
True understanding is one that produces results. All other understanding is unfruitful.
Mind, intellect, chit and ego should remain in brahmacharya. And if mind, intellect, chit and ego turn towards brahmacharya, then the external sexuality will shed off automatically.
The illusion of sex is such that it will sink all, even the one who thinks that he has no attachment to anything in the world. This illusion of sex has sunk great sages and masters from tremendous spiritual heights.
Celibacy 2 - Means of Attaining BrahamacharyaPardeep Sehgal
In sexuality, the more a person enjoys it, the more he has a burning desire for it. By not getting involved in the sexual act, one may become uneasy and unsettled for a month or two. But it is not possible for a person enjoying sex to get rid of the desire for it.
In case of excessive intake of ice cream the vomiting is the inhibitor and the act was from outside. But in case of sex the motivation for act is from within. Sex is in the mind and it derives its power from Ignorance (Illusion, Maya) whose charge does not diminish. Repeated indulgence in sex does not appease one’s hunger for its enjoyment.
The research of the scriptures done by people in our country, has led to the discovery that the path of brahmacharya is the best inhibitor to control the desire of sex pleasure.
Celibacy 1 - The Detailed Analysis of SexualityPardeep Sehgal
Brahmacharya means control of the Veerya. The vital force or Veerya is preserved only by one who is established in the practice of Brahmacharya. The vital fluid or semen is lost and wasted during sexual indulgence.
From food comes juice or chyle; from chyle comes blood and flesh; from flesh comes fat; from fat comes bones; from bones come marrow. Lastly, from marrow comes semen.
The Veerya comes out of the very marrow concealed in the bones. It is found in a subtle state in all the cells of the body. Mark here how precious the semen is! It is the last essence of food. It is the essence of essences.
In Yoga Shastra it is stated: "The falling of semen brings death; the preservation of it gives life." 'The nemesis of reproduction is death. The sexual act is essentially katabolic (or a movement towards death) in the male, and in parturition of the offspring it is katabolic for the female.'
"The future is for the nations who are chaste". Tom Mann
Listen! Rama, I am now telling you the secret of accomplishment. Of all the requisites for wisdom, Divine Grace is the most important. He who has entirely surrendered himself to the Goddess (Pure Consciousness by devotion through a true Guru) is sure to gain wisdom readily. Rama! This is the best of all the methods.
This method does not require other aids to reinforce its efficiency, as other methods do for accomplishing the end. This is hard for those whose minds are directed outward; and it is easy, sure and quick for devotees engrossed in the Goddess of the Self to the exclusion of all else.
My concrete form is the eternal couple - the Supreme Lord and Energy - always in undivided union and abiding as the eternal consciousness pervading the three phenomenal states of waking, dream and sleep, and reclining on the cot whose four legs are Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Protector), Siva (the Destroyer) and Isvara (Disappearance) and whose surface is Sadasiva (Grace) which is contained in the mansion known as 'fulfilment of purpose' enclosed by the garden of 'Kadamba' trees in the jewel island situated in the wide ocean of nectar surrounding the cosmos and extending beyond.
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Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Isvara, Sadasiva, Ganesa, Skanda, the gods of the eight quarters, their energies, other gods, celestials, serpents and other superhuman beings are all manifestations of myself. However, people do not know ME because their intellect is shrouded in ignorance.
I grant boons to those who worship ME. There is no one besides ME worthy of worship or capable of fulfilling all desires.
ADS6 - Different States of the Wise (Jnanis)Pardeep Sehgal
What kind of effort can avail to disclose the eternally self-resplendent consciousness?
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• Being coated with a thick crust of infinite vasanas (dispositions), it is not easily perceived.
• The incrustation must first be soaked in the running stream of mind control and carefully scraped off with the sharp chisel of investigation.
• Then one must turn the closed urn of crystal quartz - namely, the mind cleaned in the aforesaid manner - on the grinding wheel of alertness and finally open the lid with the lever of discrimination.
• Lo! The gem enclosed within is now reached and that is all!
Intellects are the cumulative effects of the predispositions acquired by karma. Effort is necessary so long as the predispositions continue to sway the intellect
Diversity is visible only in space, and this space is in the Self, which in turn projects it at the moment when differentiation starts although it is not then clear. Rama! Look within.
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• What you perceive as space within is the expanse wherein all creatures exist, and it forms their ‘Self’ or consciousness.
• What they look upon as space is your ‘Self’.
• Thus, the ‘Self’ in one is space in another, and vice versa.
• The same thing cannot differ in its nature.
• Therefore there is no difference between space and ‘Self’ - which is full and perfect Bliss-Consciousness.
The strongest fetter is the certainty that one is bound. It is as false as the fearful hallucinations of a frightened child. Even the best of men cannot find release by any amount of efforts unless his sense of bondage is destroyed.
An aspirant for wisdom first turns away from the pleasures of life and absorbs himself in the search for knowledge, which he learns from a master. This is hearsay knowledge.
In order to experience it, he ponders over it and clears his doubts. Then he applies the knowledge to himself and tries to feel his immortal being transcending the body, mind, etc., he succeeds in feeling his Self within.
Later he remembers the teaching imparted by his Guru that the Self being unqualified, cannot be differentiated from God and experiences his unity with the Universal Self. This is in short the course of wisdom and liberation.
If you infer its eternal light, then closely investigate whether the light is of itself or not. Everybody fails in this investigation however learned and proficient he may be, because his mind is not bent inward but restlessly moves outward.
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• As long as thoughts crop up, so long has the turning inward of the mind not been accomplished.
• As long as the mind is not inward, so long the Self cannot be realised.
• Turning inward means absence of desire.
• How can the mind be fixed within if desires are not given up?
Therefore become dispassionate and inhere as the Self. Such inherence is spontaneous (no effort is needed to inhere as the Self). It is realised after thoughts are eliminated and investigation ceases.
ADS2 - Cosmic Intelligence and Reality of the UniversePardeep Sehgal
All that is seen has an origin and there must therefore be an antecedent cause for it.
If a thing can appear without a cause there is no relation between cause and effect, and there can be no harmony in the world. A potter's work may lead to a weaver's products, and vice versa, which is absurd. Each occurrence must have a cause for it; that is the rule.
The universe must have a Creator, and He must be an intelligent principle, but He cannot be of any known type because of the vastness of the creation. His power is past understanding and is dealt with in the Scriptures, whose authority is incontrovertible.
This whole universe consisting of the mobile and the immobile, arises from, abides in, and resolves into Him. This is the final and well-known conclusion of the Scriptures; and the Scriptures never err. The guide by which one can apprehend the metaphysical and transcendental matters is Scripture alone.
ADS1 - The Story of Hemalekha and HemachudaPardeep Sehgal
Investigation is the root-cause of all, and it is the first step to the supreme reward of indescribable bliss. How can anyone gain security without proper investigation? A deliberating man always shines over others. Brahma is great because of deliberation; Vishnu is worshipped because of it.
Association with the Wise Must Precede "Vichara" – Deliberation – Self-Enquiry. A man undoubtedly reaps the fruits of his company. I shall relate to you a story to illustrate this:
"There was once a king of Dasarna by name Muktachuda. He had two sons: Hemachuda and Manichuda. They were comely, well-behaved and well-learned. At one time they led a hunting party, consisting of a great retinue of men and warriors, into a deep forest which was infested with tigers, lions and other wild animals…
Fie on human beings who appraise the foulest part of the body as the most delightful. If one should see beauty in that body-part which is wet with impure excretions, where will not man see beauty? Tell me!
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Hope of Salvation - Jude 1:24-25 - MessageCole Hartman
Jude gives us hope at the end of a dark letter. In a dark world like today, we need the light of Christ to shine brighter and brighter. Jude shows us where to fix our focus so we can be filled with God's goodness and glory. Join us to explore this incredible passage.
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
Discover various methods for clearing negative entities from your space and spirit, including energy clearing techniques, spiritual rituals, and professional assistance. Gain practical knowledge on how to implement these techniques to restore peace and harmony. For more information visit here: https://www.reikihealingdistance.com/negative-entity-removal/
2 Peter 3: Because some scriptures are hard to understand and some will force them to say things God never intended, Peter warns us to take care.
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Why is this So? ~ Do Seek to KNOW (English & Chinese).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma teaching of Kamma-Vipaka (Intentional Actions-Ripening Effects).
A Presentation for developing morality, concentration and wisdom and to spur us to practice the Dhamma diligently.
The texts are in English and Chinese.
A375 Example Taste the taste of the Lord, the taste of the Lord The taste of...franktsao4
It seems that current missionary work requires spending a lot of money, preparing a lot of materials, and traveling to far away places, so that it feels like missionary work. But what was the result they brought back? It's just a lot of photos of activities, fun eating, drinking and some playing games. And then we have to do the same thing next year, never ending. The church once mentioned that a certain missionary would go to the field where she used to work before the end of his life. It seemed that if she had not gone, no one would be willing to go. The reason why these missionary work is so difficult is that no one obeys God’s words, and the Bible is not the main content during missionary work, because in the eyes of those who do not obey God’s words, the Bible is just words and cannot be connected with life, so Reading out God's words is boring because it doesn't have any life experience, so it cannot be connected with human life. I will give a few examples in the hope that this situation can be changed. A375
Vain Traditions of Men that are Irrelevant to Bible
YV BKI CH17 Rama on Greed
1. 1
Yoga Vashishtha of Valmiki
Book I, Chapter 17
Rama on Greed
Book I, Chapter 17
Rama on Greed
Rama speaking:
1I see our vices like a flock of owls flying in the
region of our minds, under the darkness of our
affections, and in the longsome night of our greed.
2I am parched by my anxieties like wet clay under
the sun, infusing an inner heat by extracting its
soft moisture.
3My mind is like a vast and lonesome wilderness,
covered under the mist of errors, and infested by
the terrible fiend of desire that is continually
floundering about it.
4My wailings and tears serve only to expand and
mature my anxiety, as the dews of night open and
ripen the blossoms of beans and give them a
bright golden colour.
5Greed by raising expectations in men, serves only
to whirl them about, like a vortex of the sea
swallows marine animals.
6The stream of worldly greed flows like a rapid
current within the rock of my body, with
precipitate force and loud resounding waves.
2. 2
Yoga Vashishtha of Valmiki
Book I, Chapter 17
Rama on Greed
7Our minds are driven by foul greed from one
place to another, as dusty dry hay is carried away
by winds, and as moisture loving Chataka
cuckoos are impelled by thirst to fly about.
8It is greed that destroys all the good qualities and
grace that we have learned in good faith, just like
a mischievous mouse gnaws the strings of a
musical instrument.
9We turn on the wheel of our cares, like withered
leaves upon water, like dry grass blown by wind,
and like autumn clouds in the sky.
10Being over powered by greed, we are unable to
reach the goal of perfection, like a bird entangled
in a snare is kept from flight.
11I am so greatly burnt by the flame of greed that I
doubt whether this inflammation may be relieved
even by administration of nectar.
12Like a heated mare, greed takes me far and farther still
from my place, and brings me back to it again and
again. Thus it hurries me up and down and to and fro
in all directions forever.
13The rope of greed pulls us up and cast us down
again like a bucket into a well.
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14Man’s greed leads him about like a bullock of burden.
His avarice bends his heart as fast as the rope does
the beast, and it is hard for him to break.
15As the hunter spreads his net to catch birds, so
does our affection for friends, wives and children
stretch snares to entrap us every day?
16Greed like a dark night terrifies even the wise,
blindfolds the keen-sighted, and depresses the
spirit of the happiest of men.
17Our appetite is as heinous as a serpent, soft to feel, but
full of deadly poison, and bites us as soon as it is felt.
18It is also like a black sorceress who deludes men by
her magic, then pierces him in his heart to expose him
to danger afterwards.
19This body of ours, shattered by our greed, is like a
worn out lute, fastened by arteries resembling strings,
but emitting no pleasing sound.
20Our greed is like the long fibered, dark and juicy
poisonous vine called kaduka that grows in mountain
caves and maddens men by its flavour.
21Greed is as vain, empty, fruitless, aspiring, unpleasant
and perilous as a dry twig of a tree that bears no fruit or
flower, but is hurtful with its prickly point.
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22Venality is like a mean old woman, who from the
incontinence of her heart, courts the company of every
man without gaining the object of her desire.
23Greed is an old actress who plays her various
parts in the vast theatre of world in order to please
the different tastes of her audience.
24Parsimony is like a poisonous plant growing in
the wide wilderness of the world, bearing old age
and infirmity as its flowers, and producing our
troubles as its fruits.
25Our churlishness resembles an aged actress who
attempts a manly feat she has not the strength to
perform, yet keeps up the dance without pleasing
anybody.
26Our fleeting thoughts are as fickle as peacocks
soaring over inaccessible heights under the clouds
(of ignorance), but ceasing to fly in the daylight
(of reason).
27Greed is like a river during the rains, rising for a time
with its rolling waves, and afterwards lying low in its
empty bed.
28Greed is as inconstant as a female bird that
changes her mates at times, and quits the tree that
no longer bears fruit.
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29The greedy are as unsteady as a springing monkey
that never rests at any place but moves to places
impassable by others, and craves for fruit even when
satisfied.
30The acts of greed are as inconstant as those of chance,
both of which are ever on the alert, but never attended
with their sequence.
31Our venality is like a black bee sitting on the lotus of
our hearts where it buzzes above, below and all about.
32Of all worldly evils, greed is the source of the
longest sorrow. She exposes even the most
secluded man to peril.
33Greed, like a group of clouds, is filled with a thick
mist of error obstructing the light of heaven and
causing a dull insensitivity.
34Penury, which seems to gird the breasts of
worldly people with chains of gems and jewels,
binds them like beasts with halters about their
necks.
35Covetousness stretches itself long and wide and
presents to us a variety of colours like a rainbow.
It is equally unsubstantial and without any
property as the iris, resting in vapour and vacuum
and being only a shadow itself.
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36It burns away our good qualities as fire does dry hay.
It numbs our good sense as frost freezes the lotus. It
grows our evils as autumn does the grass. It increases
our ignorance as winter prolongs the night.
37Greediness is as an actress on the stage of the world.
She is like a bird flying out of the nest of our houses,
like a deer running about in the desert of our hearts,
and like a lute making us sing and dance at its tune.
38Our desires like great waves toss us about in the ocean
of our earthly cares. They bind us fast to delusion like
chains bind an elephant. Like the banyan tree, they
produce the roots of our regeneration, and like
moonbeams they put our budding sorrows to bloom.
39Greed is a jewel-encrusted box filled with misery,
decrepitude, death, disorder and disasters like a mad
drunken dance.
40Our wishes are sometimes as pure as light and at other
times as foul as darkness; now they are as clear as the
Milky Way, and again as obscure as thickest mists.
41All our bodily troubles are avoided by
abstaining from greed, just as we are freed from fear
of night demons at the dispersion of darkness.
42As long as men remain in dumbness and mental
delirium, they are subject to the poisonous colic
of greed.
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43Men may get rid of their misery by freeing
themselves from anxieties. The abandonment of
cares is said to be the best remedy for greed.
44As fish in a pond fondly grasp bait in expectation of a
morsel, so the avaricious lay hold on anything, be it
wood or stone or even a bit of straw.
45Greed like an acute pain excites even the gravest of
men to motion, just like the sunshine raises lotus
blossoms above water.
46It is comparable to bamboo in its length, hollowness,
hard knots, and thorny prickles, and yet it is entertained
with hopes that it might yield manna and pearls.
47It is a wonder that high-minded men have been able
to cut off this almost un-severable knot of greed by the
glittering sword of reason, 48because neither the edge of
a sword, nor the fire of lightening, nor the sparks of a
red-hot iron are sharp enough to sever the keen greed
seated in our hearts.
49It is like the flame of a lamp which is bright but
blackening and acutely burning at its end. Fed by the
oily wicks, it is vivid but never handled by anybody.
50Penury has the power of demeaning, in a
moment, the best of men to the baseness of straw
in spite of their wisdom, heroism and gravity in
other respects.
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51Greed is like the great valley of the Vindhya Hills,
beset with deserts and impenetrable forests, terrible
and full of traps laid by the hunters, filled with dust
and mist.
52One single greed has everything in the world for
its object, and though seated in the breast, it is
imperceptible to all. It is like the undulating
Milky Ocean in this fluctuating world, sweeping
all things yet regaling mankind with its odorous
waves.
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[Rama’s observations herein above are a lesson for all
seekers of Truth. “Greed by raising expectations in
men, serves only to whirl them about, like a vortex
of the sea swallows marine animals.”
“Being over powered by greed, we are unable to
reach the goal of perfection, like a bird entangled
in a snare is kept from flight.”
“Of all worldly evils, greed is the source of the
longest sorrow. She exposes even the most
secluded man to peril.”]
[Greed: An excessive desire to acquire or possess more
than what one needs or deserves, especially with
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respect to material wealth; excessive consumption of or
desire for food; gluttony.
Avarice: Extreme greed for riches; cupidity; insatiable
greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and
hoard wealth.
Venality: Prostitution of talents or offices or services
for reward; the condition of being susceptible to
bribery or corruption; the use of a position of trust for
dishonest gain.
Parsimony: Extreme care in spending money;
reluctance to spend money unnecessarily; frugality;
niggardliness; stinginess.
Churlishness: Having a bad disposition; surly.
Penury: A state of extreme poverty or destitution;
scarcity or lack; insufficiency.
Covetousness: An envious eagerness to possess
something; excessively and culpably desirous of the
possessions of another; extreme greed for material
wealth.
Anxiety: A vague unpleasant emotion that is
experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-
defined) misfortune; (psychiatry) a relatively
permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in
a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by
compulsive behaviour or attacks of panic.
Care: A burdened state of mind, as that arising from
heavy responsibilities; worry; mental suffering; grief.