Showing posts with label awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awareness. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Aspects of Kindness
When it concerns wrongdoing, we are aware that it is wrong. We still go ahead. The aspects of kindness/compassion get subdued by the ego and the ego defies the goodness of the heart which we all have.
But goodness gets suppressed or
camouflaged when the ego comes to the forefront.
We need the awareness that the
ego is also a tool that is not all bad. It is sometimes a survival tool related
to our self-esteem. If we are not comfortable in our own skin, we may try to
seek self-respect through our egos. But maybe, there is another way. This one
could become a self-destructive exercise if we do not have the wisdom of
discernment of human beings.
The reason being that the ego does
not really recognize love in anyone else. It is self-consuming. Hence, the need
for wisdom. Otherwise, we may arrive at crossroads in relationships.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 25 September 2023
Consciousness
On the occasion of Buddha Purnima, let me dwell on the only sermon given by Buddha, in which he didn’t utter a single word. When he held up a flower, the whole congregation was silent, not understanding it’s significance, except one. Mahakasyapa looked at it intently and smiled. Buddha handed over the flower to him and said, “I have said what can be said and what cannot be said.” From that day Mahakasyapa became his successor.
In this ‘Flower Sermon’, Buddha
drew our attention to the importance of direct experience, shorn of
intellectual analysis. Flowers embody both form and formlessness. They arise
from the earth and return to it, drawing attention to the formless
consciousness of Oneness.
The simple act of seeing a flower
can usher in a meditative state of intense awareness
William Blake said it
wonderfully:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your
hand
And eternity in an hour.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 7 September 2023
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Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Monday, 10 October 2022
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Level of awareness
When you do the right thing by others, at whatever cost to yourself and your desires, there is an immediate raise in vibrations. You feel that your higher self has revealed itself. The joy is apparent. So, don’t do anything that directly or indirectly, has a detrimental repercussion on anyone. As a rule, this contaminates your energies. Don’t ever doubt this or defy this view, because there is enough evidence to prove this.
Contamination
of energies attracts more contamination. The Universe sends you more of what
you have because it only vibrates with what you ARE. It cannot discriminate,
like humans can.
You
are already with people and in places that you need to be with and in. No use
fighting this . It is karmic. It is meant to be. AND, if you leave your
prejudices aside, it is meant for your good. To learn to heal all the dark
aspects that people in your life are there to show you. You may not have a
memory of your karma but the people around you ably compensate for this. If
only you venture in that direction , which is not often.
And
also, if you stop hating and blaming, the truth is, you are always amidst your
soul groups which are “ coercing , “irritating” you into
Understanding
the reality, which you must be aware enough to understand.
Life
acquires a different meaning once you reach that level of awareness.
Surekha
Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Friday, 21 January 2022
Tuesday, 21 December 2021
Sunday, 5 December 2021
Soul Connections
“If I knew then , what I know now, I would
have handled my life so differently “!
How many of us have said this to ourselves
? But , the point is. We DIDN’T know.
And now, foolishly, we beat ourselves up ! Absolutely not required.
Each of us chose our mother before taking
birth. Why ? Because our agendas of life were connected. So, if the mother was
going through a rough time during pregnancy, the child starts with a birth
trauma.
The situation keeps changing . The parent
and the child too keep advancing in their journey. Sometimes, love binds them
together.
Often, neither is aware of the larger
canvas. But when one learns about soul connections and karma, that’s the
starting point of the healing. We can’t do anything about past but we can
definitely heal, heal,heal everything that we know is not right in our lives
and that of our loved ones.
The one thing we need the awareness and to
ask “why” , because only then will we find answers. Anything that does not feel
right in your gut, or intuition or thoughts, needs to be addressed. Not tucked
away somewhere.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Perspective
Unless we resonate with each other, I am comfortable within my own space and also in leaving you to your own space.
There is much merit in this thought
process. First of all, respecting the space of each other ensures an enduring
association between people. Not distancing due to some mistaken perspectives
but consciously proving the same space to others that you would like for
yourself. Simple enough on the face of it and until you keep it simple and not
encroach on personal space.
This desire to be close to people also
spells entering someone else’s energy . And sometimes, that person may not have
firm boundaries in place and may end up more vulnerable and easily affected
.
Energy poaching is as harmful as poaching.
Sometimes, Even more. So, this learning is a huge learning and is slated to
bring in more awareness.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Thursday, 3 June 2021
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Perception
Many of us live within a whirlpool of
repeated patterns, bringing the same results each time and those that get
embedded deeply bring either joy or grief. Those that cause grief need to be
examined afresh. Evidently, while attempting to make the right choices, we end
up making some wrong ones , too.
Most of the time, the tags
"right" and "wrong" refer to the results of our actions as materializing
in a feeling of joy or sorrow. But what we don't easily perceive is that if the
intentions are pure, the actions perceived as wrong can ultimately have a good
effect, because the "wrong" was a clouded perception.
If you have done your best, you will sleep
well every night.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 8 October 2018
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
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