Mohan Kabir's musings: Are you hooked to growth?To evolve as a human bein...

Mohan Kabir's musings: Are you hooked to growth?To evolve as a human bein...: Are you hooked to growth? To evolve as a human being, to become mentally stronger and no longer suffer as much emotionally, you need to know...

Are you hooked to growth?

To evolve as a human being, to become mentally stronger and no longer suffer as much emotionally, you need to know how to handle pain.

Pain is inevitable in life, and being able to meet the pain with a new state of mind changes how the pain affects you. Burn away the pain, embrace the pain, and watch it change. I got through to what was weighing me down. I was going through guilt on account of some unwise decisions that I had taken and I wanted to change my relationship to the pain I was feeling emotionally. One thing I learned, when the intention isn’t pure, things are somehow even more painful!

I sat in meditation in full lotus pose and focussed without moving for one hour (tapasya). It was physically painful as well. I decided to take it head on.

I went into intense psychedelic states. I was sweating at times, cold at times. I was joyous at times, and even feeling like I was on fire at others.

It was incredible..

When I finished, I felt like I burned off heavy stuck energy that was causing me to suffer about the situation I was going through.

Mohan Kabir's musings: Are my values all mixed upCourtesy: A friendLast ...

Mohan Kabir's musings:  Are my values all mixed upCourtesy: A friendLast ...:   Are my values all mixed up Courtesy: A friend Last night I dreamt I was in Macys looking to buy a pair of socks. As I walked in I noticed ...

 Are my values all mixed up

Courtesy: A friend

Last night I dreamt I was in Macys looking to buy a pair of socks.

As I walked in I noticed a sweater with a price tag of $3000. Next to the sweater were a pair of Jeans for $4000 .The socks were $8000 !!

I went looking for a salesperson and found one in the jewellery Dept.

She was showing a man a $11 Rolex watch. I looked in the glass case and there was a 4 carat diamond ring for $7 .

Shocked I asked the salesperson "How could a Rolex watch sell for $7? ,and a cheap pair of socks sell for $8000"?

She said "Someone snuck into the store last night and changed the price tag on everything."

"Everyone is confused, people are acting like they have lost their sense of value."

"They are willing to pay lots for things of little value and very little for things of great value "

"Its like they don't know what is really valuable and what's not."

I hope we get the price tags back on right soon, I hate seeing people pay way too much for things of little value."

I woke up startled..!!

Maybe life is like my dream.

Maybe someone snuck into our lives and changed the price on everything..!!

Maybe they marked UP the value of fame and money and power.

And put a huge discount on the value of Love , Kindness , Family , Friends.

Maybe We are all living this dream.

I hope we wake up..

A story on the Value Systems in life. 😊

Mohan Kabir's musings: Rediscover the real youIn a large temple north of ...

Mohan Kabir's musings: Rediscover the real youIn a large temple north of ...: Rediscover the real you In a large temple north of Thailand's ancient capital, Sukotai, there once stood an enormous and ancient clay Bu...

Rediscover the real you

In a large temple north of Thailand's ancient capital, Sukotai, there once stood an enormous and ancient clay Buddha. Though not the most handsome or refined work of Thai Buddhist art, it had been cared for over a period of five hundred years and had become revered for its sheer longevity. Violent storms, changes of government, and invading armies had come and gone, but the Buddha endured.

At one point, however, the monks who tended the temple noticed that the statue had begun to crack and would soon be in need of repair and repainting. After a stretch of particularly hot, dry weather, one of the cracks became so wide that a curious monk took his flashlight and peered inside. What shone back at him was a flash of brilliant gold! Inside this plain old statue, the temple residents discovered one of the largest and most luminous gold images of Buddha ever created in Southeast Asia. Now uncovered, the golden Buddha draws throngs of devoted pilgrims from all over Thailand.

The monks believe that this shining work of art had been covered in plaster and clay to protect it during times of conflict and unrest. In much the same way, each of us has encountered threatening situations that lead us to cover our innate nobility. Just as the people of Sukotai had forgotten about the golden Buddha, we too have forgotten our essential nature. Much of the time we operate from the protective layer. The primary aim of Buddhist psychology is to help us see beneath this armoring and bring out our original goodness, called our buddhanature.

*This is a first principle of Buddhist psychology: see the inner nobility and beauty of all human beings.*

Mohan Kabir's musings: Make peace with your painAs I felt the dull ache ...

Mohan Kabir's musings:  Make peace with your painAs I felt the dull ache ...:   Make peace with your pain As I felt the dull ache at the pit of my stomach I realised: "this pain is also just an aspect of life&quot...