The Most Touching Beauty

Some spiritual friends whose souls grow old understand that when they were young, they were attracted by skin deep beauty. Eyes, lips, nose, favorite shirt color, style of speech are some of the outer things on the surface that makes immature souls attracted to each other like metal pulled by a magnet.
And once souls grow rich after being deceived here and there, being fooled from one place to another, by then someone begins to force themselves to look into a far deeper beauty behind the skin. As has appeared many times in the meditation sessions, some friends who find their spouse in the meditation session bring simple but profound lessons.

Beautiful Flower Inside

 "Am I normal?", that's a client's question to a psychologist in the West. This question was very touching. Especially because behind this question is hidden doubts, fears and sadness. Deeper than that, there is self-rejection. A series of rejections that can grow into suffering and illness.

At different levels, all human beings have this type of doubt and fear. It is a long result of people's scolding, insults, humiliation and criticism for decades. To provide a gift of understanding, in developing countries education is something new, the awareness of psychological and spiritual sides of life are also new, even friends in the West who are touched by education much earlier also experience something like this.

In plain language, people are called normal if they are compatible with most of the norms of society. To the extent that society supports the growth of the soul within, a normal title like this is required. Sadly, many members of society are not sensitive enough to understand, that their words and deeds can easily hurt the others souls. As a result, the normal title of another person can be very harmful.

The True Friend

True friend is a very close family which is chosen by the heart, that's one of the old and sacred legacies of Tibetan elder. While biological families (parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts) are given without being able to choose, but the true friends are naturally chosen through a long selection process of the heart.

This message is very important especially in the midst of the rapid rise of divorce rates everywhere, the meaning of family getting narrower here and there (it includes only husband, wife and children), the number of people who have sympathy and empathy for others are decreasing everywhere, the presence of true friends is truly needed. Without the presence of a true friend in old age in particular, life would be like a dry and arid garden.

For that reason, it is important to open the eyes of sensitivity as soon as possible, to see the people around who have the potential to be transformed into true friends. The golden moments that often help in this regard are the cycles of times when life fall into a deep valley of shortcomings and limitations.

Loosening the Grip of Mind

Being gripped so fearfully by the mind, that is the main characteristic of dangerous souls. In the moment when they are sure that they are true, then they dare to destroy the lives of many people. In the time when they do not see any truth in the other's religion, then those people send explosive bombs. Whenever they think that they have no guilt, then they stop the marriage. These are stories of the journey of dangerous souls from time to time.

Spiritual seekers who are blessed to see the clear and the clean souls inside, will deeply understand that violence, anger and chaos are not the temptations of the devil. But it is the result of the strong grip of the mind. To put it more precisely, a mind that has not been touched by the beautiful light of meditation. A mind which is full of duality such as sad-glad, sorrow-joy and wrong-right.

Before the same spiritual chaos visits you, it's worth contemplating on the following three meditative materials, especially to make the grip of the mind loosen from time to time. The first material of contemplation, every time you meet people learn not to feel more important than the others. Either because of wealth, social status, fame or education. Whenever you meet people, throw away all forms of thoughts that make you feel higher than the others.

Like a spinning wheel, a higher person on this day will be lower on another day. Beautiful flowers at one time will become rubbish at other times. Beautiful faces at a young age will be wrinkled in old age. Either you like it or not, either you perform rituals or not, that is the law that works in nature.

The second material of contemplation, no matter how accurate your information is, no matter how clear your logic is, keep reminding yourself that logic and head are not everything. Borrowing the old heritage of philosophers, truth is like a broken mirror. And the fragments are scattered everywhere. Not only in your head and your religion, but also in the other people's heads and religions.

To be honest, when it comes to reality, people are like the three blind men who hold three different parts of the same elephant body. The blind person who holds the elephant's trunk will think that this is snake. The blind man who touches the elephant's feet suspect that this is a trunk. The blind man who leans on the body of the elephant will think that it is a wall.

While the strongly gripped mind will asks "who is right among the three?", a clear and clean mind will silently asks: "what kind of creatures in which in one part resemble a serpent, on the other part is like a trunk, while in another corner is shaped like a wall? ". This is exactly what is called thinking in synthesis. Not being paralyzed by analysis.

The third material of contemplation, in the West there is an old phrase like this: "learn to use someone else's shoes." To put it more simply, whenever you feel disturbed inside - either offended or humiliated - leave some space to feel the pain of the others. Especially because when you're hurt, the one who hurts you also has pain inside.

On the path of compassion, the disciples are recommended to always see the network of suffering behind the harming enemies. It can be a wounded childhood, immature parents, or a school which is full of problems. In short, the injuring person does not stand alone. They are closer to "victims" of violence rather than an actor of violence.

After deeply embodying these three materials of contemplation, slowly but surely the grip of the mind will relax from time to time. The good signs are simple, the lips are no longer easily speaking the negative sides of the others. Emotion is no longer easily burned by harsh words. And the mind begins to be able to rest in the silent space between the two ideas. With such a soul garden inside, naturally a person will grow into a beautiful soul.

Author: Guruji Gede Prama.

Photo Courtesy: Twitter @Drc_19.

Proofread By: Kirsty Spence.

Three Ladders of Peace

At the end soul needs only peace, that's the spiritual message which is often heard in the deep spiritual world. The Vedic scriptures even explicitly mentioned: "Peace is the highest form of God". Although these messages are very old, people have done too many rituals, but peaceful souls are still very rare everywhere.

An increasingly complicated environment is one of the reasons behind the scarcity of peace. The harder the grip of desire and power the rarer peace will be. The endless race to always be called more is also a form of peace poison. But above all, the most important factor is how beautiful one's inner soul garden is inside.

Spiritual friends who grow deep on the path of meditation understand, the first ladder that peace seekers must pass is an old drama about a false self. To make it more concrete, try to imagine someone who has ever injured your soul deeply. An unstable mind, burning emotions, disturbing anger, spontaneous lips that are telling a bad story, that's the concrete form of the false self.

The Meaningful Trails (20)

Whenever the conscious mind along with its logic and senses is not being helpful, ask for a help from the subconsciousness. When both are not much helping, meet your own higher and sacred self. That is what the old saying says. Sadly, only very few humans who have the ability to communicate with the subconsciousness. The number of people who are able to meet their Greater Self is even more less. In this regard, the book of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer titled "Your Sacred Self" can be used as a reference. The book is being written in a very popular way, thus makes it easy for an average person to understood. There are three pathways that being recommended. First, change the feeling of inadequacy in life with the feeling of abundance. Secondly, transform a sinful life into representing the face of a luminous soul. Third, evolve the strong desire to achieve more in life into a life free from desire. It might seems simple in words, yet living it, is far from easy. Moreover in the era where people in their everyday life are being tempted by advertisements and neighborhoods that sound this way: "You will be happier by having more". The results are clearly seen around us, the presence of anxious and restless souls that are really heart-touching are found everywhere. In the West, there is a finding of a researcher: "While in many developing countries people cannot eat because of being entangled in poverty, in the developed countries that economically wealthy the number of people who cannot eat is also significantly increased. Definitely not because of poverty, they cannot eat as of living in fear.”

The Meaningful Trails (19)

Words have the potential to become both the source of danger and also the source of Light. It is what the deep souls discover. Therefore, most of those with a deep soul choose to remain silent in smiles, rather than drowning in words. As a reflection, one of the important reasons that made the world become dark and dreary is because there are way too many people whose unaware of the potential  danger of words. In the moment when a person is upset and being rude, furthermore if the harsh words are then being broadcasted by a world-class media, it will not only make the garden within the soul arid, yet will also drought the earth. On top of that, the world that has been made small into the size of a global village by the social media is also affecting and prolong the effects of harsh words. Like causing a small motion in one part of the spider web, it is only a matter of time until those inappropriate words return to the respective person in the form of a wounded soul. Some friends whose deeply exploring hypnotherapy share a secret, even the mistakes that being made hundreds of years ago, in a few cycle of previous births, might cause a major depression in the present life.