Buddha

“Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?”~Buddha

Our surroundings influence us...

This is a beautiful post to read: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/a-nonreligious-man-virtually-eliminates-local-crime-with-nothing-more-than-a-buddha-statue/ 

It is common knowledge that a person’s surroundings play a vital role in sculpting the mind, ideologies, and thought process of an individual. A stunning example of this is found in the case of the Buddha statue of Oakland, California.

Since the statue was erected, the overall crime-rate in the area had dropped by 82%. Official 2012 police statistics explain that “robbery reports went from 14 to three, aggravated assaults from five to zero, burglaries from eight to four, narcotics from three to zero, and prostitution from three to zero.

A PURE BRIGHT CRYSTAL

 

In your heart is a pure bright crystal. The heart is surrounded by the ruins of your false thinking. You have forgotten your true nature. You have forgotten the pure bright crystal of your shining heart. You are here to remember. Now. In this lifetime. Not in some other. You are here to wake up. This is your divine destiny. This is the reason you incarnated on earth. Now! To wake up now.

Are you a nemophilist?

How beautiful to be a nemophilist!

Never be afraid . . .

Reverence and Time

Practice Reverence Message #3 In a series . . .
Reverence: deep respect for someone or something, awe, wonder, love. 
Reverence combines profound respect with love or devotion. 

Our time on this earth is meant to be used for spiritual advancement. We waste time when we spend it not being present in our life. Whatever you do, even if you sit and watch TV for 5 hours or drink beer in a bar, at least do it consciously. Be aware that you are sitting in the chair. Be aware of what you are experiencing as you watch the TV, of your emotional responses. Be aware of how your body feels. Only through awareness can we begin to understand ourselves. When we perform actions with awareness, we are aware of their effect upon us. Then maybe we won't want to sit in a bar and drink beer because we will realize that it really isn't much fun. We will use our time wisely. We will learn how our actions effect us. This will naturally lead us towards healthy actions that increase our sense of health and well-being. So have some reverence for the time you are given to spiritually evolve here on the earth. Whatever you do, ask yourself, am I reverencing my time on earth by living my life with awareness?

WORDS OF REVERENCE

The words that we speak hold a certain power. When we speak with reverence, we avoid hurtful words. We avoid profanity. We avoid sarcasm. We avoid using words to demean another human being. And we notice when our words are hurtful, profane, sarcastic, and demeaning. We become aware of how much it hurts the beauty within us when we use the power of speech in hurtful, profane, sarcastic, and demeaning ways. Awareness is everything. Awareness guides us away from pain toward reverence for the beauty within us, the beauty that gives us everything we need, the beauty that is the center of life.

PRACTICE REVERENCE

I am posting the daily messages here, also, at least for awhile....because these are such important reminders for living a life of true and profound reverence....but I will add more to them here in your classroom. Please, as students of the school, be sure to show up here and read these messages. If you want to experience deep inner transformation, you must show up and do the work.