We often think Life is an enigma, a deep mystery, a incomprehensible problem, but it is very simple if one holds the key. Mystery is just another name for ignorance, the more ignorant we are the more mystical life is. Just as a magician who has different tricks under his belt, and how we "wow" his performance, but once we understand and know the trick its no more a mystery. Similarly once we start understanding the mysteries of life and how we can unfold them as and when we want, we start understanding Life and it no longer appears mysterious.
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, mind and the soul. None of these three can live fully if either of the other is cut short of full life expressions. It is not right to live only for the soul and deny mind and body; and it is also wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul. We cannot live fully without good food, comfortable clothing, warm shelter, freedom and good work. Rest and recreation are also necessary to this life. We cannot live fully in mind without intellecutal companionship, which could be reading books, travelling places or travelling and observations. To live fully in soul, we must have love. Highest happiness is found in the things we love.
Let me elaborate more on the mind and the thoughts that are generated by this creative mind, as Buddha said once "
All what we are is the result of what we have thought".
We are constant thinkers, we can change our thoughts but we cannot stop thinking. It is the power to think that determines our state of living. The kind of thoughts that we register in our memories or habitually think attracts the same kinds of conditions. If we take the thought of success and keep it in mind, the thought elements of success will be attracted to us. We will be more focused on achieving success for "like attracts like."
Most of us think we must deal with the two forces that is good thoughts and other one being bad thoughts. But this is not correct and not true. For example, if we are feeling cold, we build a fire or find a warm place and enjoy the warmth of the fire or the warm place. As the warmth is build the cold dissapears, because cold is nothing but the absence of heat. So, this states that we actually don't have to deal with the negative thoughts, negative thoughts are nothing but the absense of positive thoughts. To be warm we direct our attention to create the warmth, we ignore the cold in thinking of heat. Similarly we can ignore negative thoughts by harvesting positive thoughts and just thinking positive "Be an optimist".
When our thoughts are aimless and imperfect, we create for ourselves confusion and agony. Aimless thoughts are like uncontrolled electric energy. An uncontrolled energy develops lightning which is destructive. Yet the same electric energy when channelled properly in a controlled environment harness wonders. The first question in our self development is "Are we controlling our thoughts or are the thoughts controlling us?" To gain all good things, we must first gain a disciplined, orderly and constructive state of mind. We will delay the good from coming to us if vent our feelings through impatience, temper, malice, hate, pride, envy, lies, dishonesty or any negativity that we keep within us. How often have you seen a person who cribs and in the same time he is successful?
Does it conclude that our problems are mental? Let us see. If we desire to gain wealth, we find that it is not a place or an environment. If it was so that all the people in one place or rather city would be rich and the people of another place or city would be poor. We find a mix of both in any place or city. Wealth is not the result of saving or being thrifty. Many penurious people are poor and many free spenders are rich. Wealth is not due to any certain business or job profile.
Mother nature teaches us to be organised and follow our instinct. For example a cat patienly waits for a mouse for hours, a hungry lion does not roar and lash in an effort to find his prey, instead he is quite and steals carefully upon his prey. This is the organisized method, the constructive method. We must stalk success or any worthwhile enterprise similar to the lion who stalks his meal. Man must work himself up to gain sucess, he will not just fall into it. When our ideas our organized, they are under our control. Our thoughts will be so arranged that they will work together as a single unit.
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner everyday, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore, the secret of all power, all achievement and all possible depends upon our method of thinking.
