Beautiful Religion

When you have spare time like waiting for a plane, try to imagine someone who can not see any goodness within you. It is better if you have a person who keeps harming you along your life. The clearer the image of the person the better. Once his or her face is very clear inside, pay attention to the reaction of your body, thoughts and emotions. From the tight chest, a tense mind, until the disturbing emotion.

Most people usually run away from the last negative signs of their body, thoughts and emotion. Some like to drink coffee, some others choose to eat chocolate. That is why they are circling around from one suffering to another suffering. If you are interested in growing into a beautiful and a deep soul as well, look clearly and cleanly (by which read: without judgment, wthout bad and good, without resistance) to the tight chest, tense mind, and uneasy feelings. Meet the inner discomfort like well-experienced gardeners encountering dry leaves that are in the process of metamorphosizing into beautiful flowers. Say “Yes” sincerely and truthfully. Initially there is an inner fight within, one uncomfortable energy fight against the other uncomfortable energy. Again, learn to say “Yes” to all inner discomforts.

Transforming Suffering into Holy Teachings

In nature there is a law that keeps working. He who touches water will get wet, anyone who touches fire will be burnt. In Eastern philosophy, this law is called the law of karma. This law also causes human beings to be reborn again and again. Especially because for most common people, they were born because they still have karmic debts. Sadly, many people do not pay back their karmic debt, instead they create new karmic debts.

The Thrown Away Gift

Any anxious souls bring a stench that could be easily sensed by anyone whose meeting them. It shows that the related person has been keeping way too many negative inner conversation. As one of the signs, nearly all these restless souls tend to always refer themselves as a “victim”, and define whoever whom hurt them as the “enemy”.

Year after year, starting from childhood to teenagehood, teenagehood to adulthood, adulthood to elderhood, nearly all inner conversations involve the constant battle between the victim and the enemy. Although the appearance of the enemy keep on changing, yet, from time to time, the inner quarrelling has never been stopped.

Healthy and Holy Body

Having encountered thousands of suffering friends in meditation sessions, it is very clear that their light is getting darker and darker. Without substantial change in lifestyle, those bodies which are very poor of light will step into the land of suffering. To facilitate spiritual friends, here are some materials of reflections.

Many people who complain, when they wake up in the morning, their body is not fresh but tired. One of the reasons, this type of person is usually in a hurry in chewing their food. As a result, a lot of energy is taken up by the stomach to digest food during the night.

Any friends who spend a long enough time around wealthy people know, the more wealth they collect the darker the light of the body. This often happens because the accumulated wealth is often followed by the accumulation of tension (stress). In the story of many well-known celebrities in the West, many of them who end their lives with an overdose as medication.

Transforming Wound Into Light

Referring to the findings of Dr. Judith Orloff in The Empath's Survival Guide, one fifth of all the human population on earth are empath. A type of person who has many more seeds of empathy than the average person. The bad news, this type of human can easily be injured. The good news is that the empath are the people with the most potential which can be invited to illuminate the world.

Wounded childhood, quickly feeling sorry for others, as children they cry more often than the other children, their friends often called them too sensitive, the parents repeatedly advise that person to be much stronger to face life, often being touched to hear the suffering of the world. These are some signs of the empath.

Bright Old Age

There are increasing numbers of aging people who need much more attention. Not only is their body sleepless, their souls are also restless. To serve many spiritual seekers, it is worth contemplating to divide life into two chapters. Suppose we are blessed by the age of 80, the first 40 years are chapter one. The next 40 years are chapter two.

In the first chapter the body is still strong, the concentration is also still strong. For that reason, it is easy to understand that in the beginning of life humans are hungry to accumulate many things. Sadly, too many people whose bodies have entered the second chapter, but how they grow is still like the first chapter. The end is predictable, life collapsed bringing a lot of sadness and sorrow.

Dancing With The Shadow

Law and social norms especially, often make people hide and suppress emotions that are considered to be bad and negative. On the surface, these habits can indeed make a person look more civilized. But in the depth of the person, this is what keeps the soul away from being happy and healthy.

Quoting from well-known psychologist Carl G. Jung, emotions that are suppressed and hidden for a long time, will follow someone as a shadow everywhere. If it is not properly expressed, the last shadow will appear to the surface in the form of fear, sadness and sorrow. It is not impossible that it will grow into deep suffering.