SadhakaRay
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My Tagline:
Our life is a physical manifestation of our thoughts.
My Interests:
Meditation, God, Interfaith issues, Gardening, Yoga, Recovery
Who Inspires Me:
Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati (www.SwamiJ.com) through the ancient teachings of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and his own experiences has opened my eyes.
My organizations and affiliations:
www.centerfornondualism.org
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Mindful
About Me
When we look in the mirror today, we see the result of lots of yesterdays. We are looking into the past. We don’t see the future. Who will we be tomorrow? We can’t tell by looking at the face in the mirror. Actually, whatever we think about today is creating who we will be tomorrow. If we put our attention on the positive areas of our life and feel genuine gratitude and joy with those positive areas, more positive will manifest in our life. What we thank about, we think about. What we think about we bring about because energy flows to where attention goes.
Feeling good about our future starts by feeling good about ourselves today. Curing depression does not prevent suicide, giving a reason to live does. I believe it was Rollo May who said, “Depression is the inability to construct a future.” Exploring the vastness of our own inner space, our own thoughts, dreams, and expectations to get comfortable with ourselves as a being on a journey does wonders to build a positive framework for our future.
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: Crisis Intervention/Mental Health
Relationship Status: Single
Faiths:
Spiritual but not religious
Faith Description: Council Member of the Center for Nondualism, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
SadhakaRay's Journal
Posted: May 20, 2008 9:43 AM
I find myself face to face with a quandary. How do I accept that the ultimate power over everything that was, is, and forever will... (more)
Finding Happiness Through Helping Others
Posted: May 10, 2008 1:06 PM
When doing things for other people, there are two rules to follow if you ever expect to be happy: RULE ONE: Don’t keep... (more)
Personal Philosophy of Counselling
Posted: May 10, 2008 11:45 AM
Allow me to present the following hypothetical situation: I’m driving my car and all of a sudden I look around and realize... (more)
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Thanks! - June 15, 2008 - 09:09 PM
Thanks for welcoming me as a friend here! I enjoyed your journal post about mysticism and sobriety. I too have spent much of my life deeply and feelingly inspecting/exploring those funny wrinkles in the oneness, contradictions with intuition, in other words, s--- that just doesn't seem to fit, or where my soul cries out "What is this?" As hard as those places are I relish them and the opportunity to have been on the inside at all, feeling my way through the darkness, but becoming familiar with unspoken reality directly. Power is a huge and fascinating aspect of many of these troublesome aspects of life, as you mention. The "powerless" thing is a bit of an oversimplification, as you imply. I think the point is that our logical thinking "me, myself, and I" monologue is at least almost powerless in the sense that no matter how much we can talk sobriety or any other intention, we can find ourselves suddenly jumping in to the very thing we thought we were trying to avoid with both feet. And it's like "Oh, no, not this s--- again!" So the powerlessness is perhaps more the acknowledgement that we are LIMITED minds within a great all encompassing wholeness that is one vast UNLIMITED consciousness, which veins off into each one of us. As long as we remain conscious that there really is no part of ourselves that is any way truly separate from anything else, then we can keep an edge on that ridiculous "me, myself, and I" dialogue, and keep a feeling of true power in the "surrender" of our thinking mind as we welcome the help of the "higher power" which is really just Ourself (whichever vein of the whole we may be). Anyways, sorry to jumble, but the point is, I empathize with the struggle, and appreciate the humility of saying, "I get it, I get it, but there's still this thing that keeps bugging me." We are all parts of the same whole researching this vast thing that is Ourself. Happy to be in touch with others here living this work and play. Peace, Ty