Teacher: Christopher Hansard /teacher/132346/christopher-hansard Every aspect and experience of our life, each memory, fear, success, dream or aspiration, is a gift that holds within it the magic of health, happiness and sacredness. True health has nothing to do with doctors or healers of any type. It is to do with inner purity, power and patience. This comes by understanding the value in our suffering.
It means that we have to work hard as we go through the process of physical, psychological and spiritual change. This is the hardest thing that any person can do and you can only do it on your own. Of course there are others who can help, but ultimately it's up to you. As you heal yourself you will begin to find your own insight into the nature of knowledge and into the love that exists in all of humanity.
Every person is sacred. Every person is Love encapsulated into a special form and personality. Knowing this, even a little connects each of us to happiness because happiness is a taste of the sacred in all things. Simply by the act of starting to heal your life, you spark the healing of others and of the world in which we live.
You don't need to force this idea on other people. The puiet act of living in accordance with who you are and who you can be allows the natural influence of goodness to grow. As this goodness finds its own expression in other people there comes with it wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge of the natural world and of the inner workings of human nature, of the power of mind and thought in the material world. Ngagpas were the first beings of the ancient world to have this knowledge.
They passed it on, not just to their descendants but into the psyche - the spiritual core - of all humanity. Humanity at large - which includes all of us - has been sick for a very long time. We have forgotten our intrinsic nature. We have lost sight of the knowledge that along with our instinct for survival are the instincts of spiritual wisdom, healing and happiness. When we forget that we have these qualities of inner wisdom we become unhappy.
Unhappiness makes us sick. And so the cycle continues. All we have to remember is that we, all of us, are the cure. As you start to understand your mind and the nature and limitations of your thought, you will - sooner or later - come to a place of consciousness which is vast and out of your normal experience.
Our normal experiences are dependent upon our everyday mind. The everyday mind believes that it has an everyday consciousness so it becomes shy, doubtful and needy, and feels impotent. Exposed to the raw pain of this, many people do not have lives at all: life is an iceberg and they are underwater.
Others build an apparently successful life because they contrive to stay on top of the iceberg by dint of paying no attention to the fact that they will slowly melt into this vast consciousness and disappear. Yet in this everyday self is an essence of higher consciousness that is uniquely who you are. It pervades all things, from sea to sky, from the first to be born and the last to die and you are in communion with all things.
Every day becomes one day, a day of gladness and beauty that reinvents itself as you do through the natural delight of creation. How is this achieved? By developing the ability of balance. This is not the weighing of one thing against the other, or the unskilful action of running from one action to the next, but knowing that true balance comes out only in the spaces between moments.
You must not believe in time, but in the effects of time. In order to know balance, we must know our history. This is not just the passing of events, personal, social, cultural and global, but also the engraving of our consciousness upon our selves. As a species, our biggest injustice to each other and to ourselves - beyond cruelty, war or disease - is that we forgot our interconnectedness with all living creatures.
We pull ourselves back into the everyday mind and believe we are separate from others, above, below, different and therefore not responsible. We are not. We are all the face of whatever God we believe in. Although we are all born and die with inequalities, we must strive to attain a common equality that lies not in external achievements but in the spiritual, the unity and the beauty of our humanity. We are love, wisdom and compassion.
We are our greatest achievement and our greatest degradation. We are mystery and clarity. We are the great laughter that anyone can hear when we listen closely to the workings of the universe in nature and our hearts. We are the universe, the cosmos rising up to recognize ourselves.
We are the cosmos in descent, bringing down spiritual wisdom to be used in the world of time and everyday mind. From infancy, all of us search for an animating principle or experience in our lives. We do this through stories, beliefs and events which are redolent with significance and value. Things beyond our imagination somehow support it, allowing us to transcend our everyday minds.
This is the interface where impossible things can be actual and meaningful, where wonder and faith intermingle. Where all things are acknowledged. Many people consider faith crazy and ridiculous, and it is exactly this. When we have faith, we can move beyond the set beliefs of our society into the absolute freedom of pure consciousness.
The starting place is to go back to the outlook we had as children. Most of us know that young children believe in everything and it is in this mind set that we can develop discernment and consciousness and discover faith. The first step to faith is the belief in all things, the second is the experience that Everything believes in each of us.
This exists within us now. We know this, yet we are afraid. We have this ready to experience, yet we shy away. Opening the door to it is our gift to ourselves. This is the Tibetan art of living. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Typed from the book: The Tibetan Art of Living ~ by Chris. Hansard ~ Tibetan Bon Practitioner Group:
Source:http://lightworkers.org/wisdom/christopher-hansard/171301/you-are-a...
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