Life Is a Mystery To Be Lived
February 28th 2008 07:27
By Jafree Ozwald
www.ManifestingVibration.com
There are three basic responses to life. The first is resisting what is. Our body contracts, tightens in and constricts when we feel threatened, out of control or hurt in some way. The second is allowing what is. This is an experience of trust, release and expansion. We interpret life as a safe, loving and nurturing place, and we relax, let go. Our lives feel open and spacious. The third, which contains components of the first two, is a neutral non-identified response. When we are truly detached, we have no opinion, and are free from all forms of judgment and limitation of any experience that arises.
In each of these responses is the possibility of discovering your own awareness. So that we may essentially be able to experience more of our own existence. If you take a close look and notice, all three of these experiences happen to you everyday. On some subtle or intense level, your bodymind will contract with suffering, expand with joy, or not really have any particular response at all. It all depends on where your awareness is fixated on. Wherever your attention goes, the experience flows. If you are attached or avoiding certain people, thoughts, feelings or experiences you will create some form of suffering. Transcending suffering means embracing and releasing each of the three conditioned responses, immediately as they arise.
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Life is the school, love is the lesson. ~Bumper Sticker
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Our moods, attitudes, and personalities are formed by our perception of reality. The color of the blue sky may be very calming and soothing to some girl who is lying on her back in a warm field of grass, being absorbed by the deep blue yonder. An air traffic controller may not even notice the sky has any color at all, as he is panicking about two planes trying to land at the same time. A young child may not even know what the color blue is, and can be looking at the sky and not even see that there is anything there at all.
How often have you found yourself gripping with anxiety or fear over some situation you thought was going to happen yet never did? It's an everyday occurrence for many people who are caught in some form of over-identification from our hype-driven society. We all have been trained, programmed and conditioned to react (instead of responding consciously) to information that we hear, feel and see with an unconscious yet instantaneous contraction. Several years ago, many scientists did a study on human perception and found that we spend only 2% of our time in reality (the present moment). The other 98% of our time is spent in illusions our mind creates about the past and the future. We are completely missing the reality that is really happening now.
Every one of us (to some degree) has an inner "drama addict" who is unconsciously addicted to hearing about the latest town gossip, what terrible things are happening in the world, and even gets sucked into the thrill of watching some stressed out dramatic movie. We feel lost if life starts to become repetitive, dry or predictable. So we tend to create this tension in our mind by getting overly involved with drama around us and end up creating more problems for ourselves than were there previously. This unconscious saboteur programming, is what happens when we step out. When we avoid certain thoughts and feelings in our bodies about the life situations we are really in, we tend to replace them with these other dramatic illusions. We would rather live our entire lives in this illusionary dramatic world rather than let it go, face the unknown and live completely in the unknown, a state of formless non-identified Reality.
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"The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears. We are on the homeward journey. Everything in your life is grist for the mill of that journey." ~David Whyte
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My message to you today is that everything you experience in your is part of your path to awakening. All roads lead to Rome, and all paths lead to Enlightenment. Life is a mystery to be lived, enjoyed, and celebrated. Your future will contain both painful and pleasure full experiences. Yet how you choose to respond to this circumstances is always up to you! When you decide to dive heart-first into each experience fully, you will have the life you always wanted to experience. Your heart will be open, the mystery of life is revealed to you in each moment completely and perfectly as it always was.
So be aware when you are judging what someone may say next, or attempting to hold onto something that is already gone, your true unlimited self (that is exuberant with life) can only be found in this present moment. This presence that you are is this radiant source of bliss. It is the only place you can discover true freedom in your life. The here and now is the only place we will ever find it.
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~Osho
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~Osho
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There are three basic responses to life. The first is resisting what is. Our body contracts, tightens in and constricts when we feel threatened, out of control or hurt in some way. The second is allowing what is. This is an experience of trust, release and expansion. We interpret life as a safe, loving and nurturing place, and we relax, let go. Our lives feel open and spacious. The third, which contains components of the first two, is a neutral non-identified response. When we are truly detached, we have no opinion, and are free from all forms of judgment and limitation of any experience that arises.
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One of the greatest blessings to humanity is your sensitivity, your consciousness. ~Osho
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One of the greatest blessings to humanity is your sensitivity, your consciousness. ~Osho
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In each of these responses is the possibility of discovering your own awareness. So that we may essentially be able to experience more of our own existence. If you take a close look and notice, all three of these experiences happen to you everyday. On some subtle or intense level, your bodymind will contract with suffering, expand with joy, or not really have any particular response at all. It all depends on where your awareness is fixated on. Wherever your attention goes, the experience flows. If you are attached or avoiding certain people, thoughts, feelings or experiences you will create some form of suffering. Transcending suffering means embracing and releasing each of the three conditioned responses, immediately as they arise.
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Life is the school, love is the lesson. ~Bumper Sticker
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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works;
if from the head, almost nothing. ~Marc Chagall
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Where we focus our attention determines what we will experience. However, the essential key to life mastery is being present and open to experiencing each new moment, whatever it brings. Being aware of your body's signals that are always telling you when you are attached or in avoidance of anything. Just being an open vessel to experiencing life, in all its flavors and colors, we let go or needing to always be in control and start to flow with the river. High and low experiences will continuously happen through us. Yet whether we choose to resist the negative or hang on to the positive is what determines our freedom.If I create from the heart, nearly everything works;
if from the head, almost nothing. ~Marc Chagall
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away. ~Author Unknown
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away. ~Author Unknown
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How often have you found yourself gripping with anxiety or fear over some situation you thought was going to happen yet never did? It's an everyday occurrence for many people who are caught in some form of over-identification from our hype-driven society. We all have been trained, programmed and conditioned to react (instead of responding consciously) to information that we hear, feel and see with an unconscious yet instantaneous contraction. Several years ago, many scientists did a study on human perception and found that we spend only 2% of our time in reality (the present moment). The other 98% of our time is spent in illusions our mind creates about the past and the future. We are completely missing the reality that is really happening now.
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Research done on people who've had near death experiences has shown there are two questions that are always asked at the 'pearly gates' of heaven. #1 What did you contribute? #2 You compared to you, how much of your potentiality did you use? ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Research done on people who've had near death experiences has shown there are two questions that are always asked at the 'pearly gates' of heaven. #1 What did you contribute? #2 You compared to you, how much of your potentiality did you use? ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Every one of us (to some degree) has an inner "drama addict" who is unconsciously addicted to hearing about the latest town gossip, what terrible things are happening in the world, and even gets sucked into the thrill of watching some stressed out dramatic movie. We feel lost if life starts to become repetitive, dry or predictable. So we tend to create this tension in our mind by getting overly involved with drama around us and end up creating more problems for ourselves than were there previously. This unconscious saboteur programming, is what happens when we step out. When we avoid certain thoughts and feelings in our bodies about the life situations we are really in, we tend to replace them with these other dramatic illusions. We would rather live our entire lives in this illusionary dramatic world rather than let it go, face the unknown and live completely in the unknown, a state of formless non-identified Reality.
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"The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears. We are on the homeward journey. Everything in your life is grist for the mill of that journey." ~David Whyte
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So be aware when you are judging what someone may say next, or attempting to hold onto something that is already gone, your true unlimited self (that is exuberant with life) can only be found in this present moment. This presence that you are is this radiant source of bliss. It is the only place you can discover true freedom in your life. The here and now is the only place we will ever find it.
How to Increase Your Joy Vibration
100% over the next 90 days?
]Experience the 8 Habits 90 Day Manifesting Routine!!![]
It works miracles for everybody!
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