Look for new things to learn every day. I have a habit of saying out loud when I discover something new, “That’s the new thing I learned today.” I am on the lookout for something new each day. When you are on the lookout for something you have not seen, heard, or felt before, it jumps out at you, if you are aware and alert.
Jesus spent time in India, the Himalayas, and Tibet. His famous Sermon on the Mount comes straight out of The Upanishads of India. Jesus would have had to travel to India prior to his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 to have had his words carry the same meaning so closely stated.
The book, Living In Freedom & Love Without Conditions by Phyllis M. Brooks, mentions that Joseph of Arimathea was a trader of tin and was the uncle of Jesus. He took Jesus on several merchant trips by boat and by land to India during those eighteen missing years of Jesus life, from ages twelve to thirty, but you have never heard about in today’s bible. When you read about his travels to India, and learn what Jesus learned, you discover that the sages of India over two thousand years ago embarked on an experiment that is worth repeating today. This is the reason The Upanishads rolled off the tongue of Jesus so easily at his famous Sermon on the Mount. There are enormous amounts of Wisdom in The Upanishads.
Rather than focusing on the outside of life, Hindu and Buddhist sages focused on what is inside humanity, consciousness, and the Energy that lies within each one of us. They discovered the changeless reality of what this book (IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS) is about, what Aldous Huxley called Perennial Philosophy, the Eternal Well-Spring of the Eternal Universal Life Force Energy.
Can you discover this deepest part of you, the God-realization that dwells within you, as Jesus taught?
You and I deal with the Four Forces every day. Think of your own energy system. There are days when your mind is bright, and your body is filled with energy. These days you can move mountains. After you have completed your tasks, you feel the need for rest and recouperation, or at least a cup of tea. If you allow yourself to go deeper, you can contemplate, meditate, and pray, earning you the rewards only the angels experience, bringing your Soul to new heights of spiritual awakening.
But it is not spiritual escapism you seek. It is integration that is important. Only then might you feel the necessity for grounding your body, mind, and spirit. This is not only for the monks in monasteries, nor only for Jesus in union with the Father. You can ground this mountain top experience by being firmly planted right where you are, in the middle of your life. You cannot ascend until you are fully grounded here on Earth. Bloom where you are planted.
Most people go to holistic counseling for a drugless therapy that places them more in control of their runaway life, like a merry-go-round, spinning in circles with no end in sight.
What is the one thing that helps more than any other?
Knowing that what you focus on grows until it becomes its own animal that can either help or hurt you. It’s the “animal” within you fed by your thoughts that grows. Will you feed the negative or positive thought?