Abundance

which way is next?

I would love to say that when I help people it sticks. I am sure there are times when I have not made an impact right away after I am done helping. I have checked back with some of the individuals and they have gone back to their old way of thinking. I do not know where I am going with this post but I just had to start sharing what is in my heart right now. Sometimes we are compelled to start sharing as writers with no clear vision or intent. All I know is that People are always in my path feeling pain and it goes right through my heart. It is almost like I feel exactly what they are feeling.
This past week should have been a stressful one for me but it was a very happy time. I have been able to let go of some stumbling blocks and have a gateway of opportunity open to me. I walked away from a job that I was at for over 2-1/2 years. I enjoyed the people I worked with but had a different vision for my career. I was not enjoying coming into work no matter how much I lied to myself. I was not serving the purpose I have been so passionate about. It is important that when we are creating our lives we create situations for us that are edifying for ourselves and we are able to reach out to share and help others.
I have had a stream of ideas of what direction I will be taking on. I have a job lined up slated to start the first of October. I have a little bit of time to engage myself in alternative ways of income. It will take hard work but I am sure I will figure it out like I always do. I have been neck up in research and exploring every option I can think of. Hard work. I have the work ethic. I want to include speaking publicly, helping, mentoring and making myself available and open to helping people in whatever I decide to venture in. I am so happy at this stage in my life. I have so many positive things happening. Losing my job was one of them. I believe it will be a highlight. Finding another one or trying to figure out what is next in my life will be challenging but well worth the effort in finding the path there.
One thing this time off has left me to focus on is this website and building other ways to reach more people. I want to start create content on You Tube. I believe I can reach many other folks that would rather see eye to eye while I am speaking and seeing the passion I have for this genre. I love showing people how someone can truly care for them with no hidden agenda. I truly will succeed in reaching out to more of people like you. I am excited for this chapter in my life. If I do not continue from this moment in time forward after this article I must have died or something. Because I am so excited that I do not seeing anything else derail me other than that. I am a horrible typist, and my grammar is very bad. I don’t care. I still do not understand how I became a Pastor many years ago and was able to speak to people at a very young age. I had more balls back then then I have at present time.
I guess the point of this rant today I to let all of you reading know that I am ready to move forward and give more available content from my head. I need to give my heart and soul more places to vent and let go. I have been holding this god given wisdom inside for too long. It is time to let it go and allow someone or many benefit from it.
I love you all and I am looking forward to seeing you in YouTube Ville!!!!

PS…. Noting is impossible!!! Watch this….

Discourse on Happiness

I heard these words of the Buddha one time when the Lord was living in the vicinity of Savatthi at the Anathapindika Monastery in the Jeta Grove. Late at night, a deva appeared whose light and beauty made the whole Jeta Grove shine radiantly. After paying respects to the Buddha, the deva asked him a question in the form of a verse:

“Many gods and men are eager to know
what are the greatest blessings
which bring about a peaceful and happy life.
Please, Tathagata, will you teach us?”

(This is the Buddha’s answer):

“Not to be associated with the foolish ones,
to live in the company of wise people,
honoring those who are worth honoring —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To live in a good environment,
to have planted good seeds,
and to realize that you are on the right path —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To have a chance to learn and grow,
to be skillful in your profession or craft,
practicing the precepts and loving speech —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To be able to serve and support your parents,
to cherish your own family,
to have a vocation that brings you joy —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To live honestly, generous in giving,
to offer support to relatives and friends,
living a life of blameless conduct —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To avoid unwholesome actions,
not caught by alcoholism or drugs,
and to be diligent in doing good things —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To be humble and polite in manner,
to be grateful and content with a simple life,
not missing the occasion to learn the Dharma —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To persevere and be open to change,
to have regular contact with monks and nuns,
and to fully participate in Dharma discussions —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To live diligently and attentively,
to perceive the Noble Truths,
and to realize Nirvana —
this is the greatest happiness.

“To live in the world
with your heart undisturbed by the world,
with all sorrows ended, dwelling in peace —
this is the greatest happiness.

“For he or she who accomplishes this,
unvanquished wherever she goes,
always he is safe and happy —
happiness lives within oneself.”

Mahamangala Sutta, Sutta Nipata 1

Madness

What makes you mad?

 

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I Want To Be Unhappy!!!!

Is there any way we can be happy without effort. One day wake up and it is a feeling that we cannot run away from? Is there anyway where our learned trait and habits are that of a positive nature? Could we have success in transforming our mindset to that of loving all the time and not having a reason for it, with no effort and just because? What I know now in my present perceived reality is that there is little effort spent in being miserable. It is much easier to blame everyone else and including work, government, school, the milkman, the in-laws, and the person that cut you off this morning….. It is so easy and comforting to know we do not have to take accountability for our unhappiness. In the first place most of the time we have created our own damage to our psyche. We have conditioned ourselves to believe the perceptions we have allowed ourselves to listen to. There is a group of people that have visited Los Angeles this month from the Special Olympics. They did not choose their current state of being. Their being is perceived by the rest of the world as challenging and out of the normal in society, yet they are an amazing group of people performing amazing feats that a “normal” person cannot even begin to accomplish. They are truly special. They have attacked that exterior perception of themselves and internalized their view of themselves as amazing and powerful! If you watch any news reports about their games and see their faces, they are always happy. Are they challenged? Yes of course they are, but not in the way you think. They are challenged because of the general view of their state of being. They do know the difference between unhappiness and happiness. They do have a choice and know that either is available.

Effortless happiness is only achieved through quiet time or what is called meditation, or at least some inter thinking of ones being. Getting in touch with your essence so important if you are to find that internal happiness that is called love. We all have it inside us. It is our soul, essence, being, spirit, Conscious…..Yes conscious….. If we start to understand what we are about and how we are made we can stop suffering. WE will always experience. The perceptions of the experience will change. We can sort out the emotions and feelings and categorize them accordingly. We can wash our different negative states of mind with love and transform them into amazing experiences that strengthen us and shape who we can potentially be. It is hard work but worth the effort. It is harder to work towards that connection to our essence than to accept the vulgarity of pain and discomfort as “normal”.

I always tell people that they have a choice. To be happy or not. I always get the reply that I make it sound so easy. Where in that statement did I say it was easy? I said one or the other is our choice. The easy choice and most comfortable is unhappiness. There is no effort involved. No work. Just sit back accept and feel what the majority of the world is believing. Hard work is being uncomfortable, feeling the pain, conditioning you to something that is not”normal”. Inside us we have the drive that is our love for ourselves; a sense of the effort is good and just. We have a fire inside us that connects to the feeling of happiness and joy, when we experience it we do not feel our physical pains, we heal quicker, think logically, love everyone and it is reciprocated. We share our true inner selves with the world around us and it feels awesome!

 

Happy or Unhappy? Give it a try. I bet I am right. If I am not then don’t read this blog. I will still love you anyway.