Peaceful Decision

"You are free to choose, but you are not free to the consequences of your choice", that is the message which is often heard in the world of decision making. When it comes to life in particular, any decision have consequence, some even make life more complicated from time to time. One who make decision with dirty mind will experice dirty life as well.

That is the reason why the wise often deliver a message like this: "Do not ever make a promise when you are too happy, do not ever make important decisions when you are deeply sad". Especially because when emotions are extreme, the mind is far from clear and clean.

In the moment when the mind is far from clear and clean, any decisions will make life more complicated from time to time. And all important decisions are recommended to be made when the mind and the emotion are perfectly balance in the middle.

That is why one meaning of meditation is an art to always come back to the middle. When the mind is too chaotic or too peaceful, learn to be back to the middle. When emotion is too sad or too happy, learn to be back to the middle. It is similar to tune the strings of guitar. If the strings are too tight, it can be broken, if the strings are too loose, it does not produce any sound.

Transforming Anger Into Flower

The energy that has great power to destroy at any age is the energy of anger. Suppose the leader of super power country which possess the nuclear weapons is furious, within few minutes the planet Earth will be destroyed simply because of the anger of that person.

For that reason, it is understandable if anger is prohibited in all religion. Not only because of the destructive power of anger, but also because anger makes soul journey worsening from time to time. Acharya Shantideva ever mentioned, the kindness that has been accumulated from life to life can be destroyed by one moment of burning anger.

That is why, the very important homework of all spiritual seekers is how to heal anger. As an important field of study, anger has been approached through variety of perspectives. And meditation has a very powerful tool which is called being a compassionate witness.

Whenever anger burns your emotion, try to remove your footwear. Then walk slowly step by step on earth. At the same time learn to witness that all negative things like anger and all positive things like delicious food are appear and disappear like footsteps.

Moreover, the huge energy is not only hidden in the sky. It  is also deeply hidden here on earth. As we all know, all the garbage that are thrown into earth are processed into beautiful flowers and fruits by mother earth.

Words That Heal The Soul

Following the coming age of freedom which is supported by the presence of affordable technological devices such as Facebook, Twitter and blog, a lot of people like to express their ideas and emotions in public space. Do not talk about the ordinary people, even the President of big countries can be openly criticized  in public.

Of course there is the positive sides of freedom like this. It is like water which fail to flow for years in huge pipe, suddenly the pipe is opened. It brings a flood of ideas and emotions here and there. On the one hand there is a healthy medium for channeling people emotions, on the other hand the cosmic order here and there are increasingly saddening.

As has been long discovered in the field of psychology, the unresolved emotions which have been accumulated for years can disturb the long term health. From this point of view, expressing ideas and emotions in public space help the healing process of society.

Holy Water of Peace

One of the beautiful message of Upanishads is : "I lost my self in searching. I rediscover myself in the service to the others. In the depth of service, the servant and the served are one".

Any spiritual seekers whose spiritual eyes are opened will see, there are so many souls who are get lost nowadays. Suicide rates are rising everywhere, victims of drugs are increasing, there is no sign that corruption will stop. These are some examples of the lost souls.

Much deeper than that, many people who plunge into lower realms after death. Those who are very tricky reborn as snakes, those who like to fight reborn as wild dogs. And after being reborn there, they're not only deeply suffer, but also very difficult to them to be back as human beings.

In contrast to the lost souls who deeply hungry and thirsty, the shining souls who has return back home are not only far from hungry, they also find beauty in the service to others. It does not matter it is a large-scale services such as Mother Teresa, or small-scale services such as mothers who take good care of children at home. These kind of shining souls find deep beauty in service.