self improvement – Page 2 – Inspired by and dedicated to Jivanmukti and Siddha Param-Para

Ignorance, the root of evil

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil. Because of the ignorance people think they are superior, and they know better. The ignorant is lacking common sense and he’s falsely assuming that his/her truth is the ultimate truth and that’s what gives them the idea that they can impose their so called truth onto others. It happened continuously throughout time.

The wiping of almost all the indigenous population in North and South America, Australia and the rest of the world, sais it all. We assume that our God is more righteous than the other person’s God, that if they look underdeveloped from the technological and natural resources exploitation point of view, then we are better and we have right of life and death onto them, yet I know for sure that sometimes indigenous population although looking rudimentary, were very advanced in a spiritual way, being connected with the nature and the higher realms of existence. But how can we realize that, when we are ignorant? Impossible. The ignorance makes one person who lives close to the north pole say, that the giraffe that he just saw in a picture, is a fantastic animal which doesn’t exist. Are we able to really draw a parallel and see how similar we are with that person? We are also denying things that we’ve never seen before, just because it’s easier to deny than to change the whole system of values that we are having. If you read the previous article you must remember that excerpt from the Lao Tzu’ masterpiece about the rigidity and flexibility. I have lived it myself, fantastic things were proven correct and things that I took for fundamental truths were proven to be fake, low manipulation of a world who’s trying to keep us ignorant. Ignorant people are very easy to be manipulated, because one can use their rigidity to feed them with more lies, planting disinformation programs which viruses us, and the more we are virused, the least chances of recovering we have.

Ignorance pushes people to impose themselves and their beliefs, because they fail to see the futility of forcing anything onto anyone, since we are all going to evolve when time is right. Look at USA and their imposition of their way of seeing things to other countries, because of greed and ignorance and superiority complex. Greed comes also out of ignorance because we are not aware of the fact that whatever we are acquiring extra, than what we’re supposed to have, we are going to have to pay for it in a different way, with health, lots of effort and otherwise. So by approaching life with greed we are creating the possibility for all the potentially bad situations to come our way, to “pay” what we’re taking, and it’s not for us to have.

Occasionally things are coming to us on their own. You’ll always recognize what’s meant for you or not, that doesn’t mean we have to wait for charity. A higher vision have to be there, work, and a certain degree of comfort also. Whatever you get through honest gaining and working, as gifts and all the naturally and morally acquired things and money are meant to be yours, but when there’s unscrupulous way of getting something, that thing will bear a heavy price tag which no ignorant person is ever aware of.

In order to make sure that we are not ignorant, we have to learn to accept that we might not know anything or whatever we know may be wrong. The humbleness is key to letting go of ignorance. Also huge amounts of patience has to be there because tens of years of ignorance can’t be undone overnight.

Live like there’s no tomorrow

There is no tomorrow indeed. There’s a perpetual moment of now replicating itself over and over with just small variations. The main unchanging constant in this simple equation is consciousness, although it is eternally improving and evolving. Otherwise everything is perishable and illusory and all can end at any point.

I also have to give you the advice that I gave to myself, that helped me go through and above selfishness and other distortions of the consciousness: Do everything like being watched… Meaning when you serve, serve selflessly but with dedication like you would like to be served and even better, when you do whatever you will be doing, do it full heartedly and with dedication like someone is watching you and giving you grades according to your behavior. Whenever we allow our beings to go low, to go with animal instincts or lower programs that have virused our being, we risk our evolution, we risk of losing the path or taking it on a detour mode, detour which can be months, years, or even lives. It is very fulfilling ego-wise to go with one feelings of righteousness and entitlement, but the stronger these feelings, the harder is to experience true spiritual freedom, because these programs are veiling one’s true vision and the way one perceives life, creating a dark web which acts like a veil in front of our very eyes, which due to their limitation they may deceive even without the veil, but much more when these distortions are there in a veil form.

But now since I said about doing everything like being watched, I must remind you that you have to dance like nobody sees you. 🙂 The meaning is: be free in expressing yourself truly because real expression of one true self beyond victimization or righteousness, anger or any other emotion, helps one realize who he/she truly is. The world we’re living in is a world of chameleons, people without a true core, who do not even realize that they have no true goal or vision in life, they are just floating in a distorted way and going with whatever mainstream media, TV, or social programing are inoculating to us, dreaming about riches, having cars, houses, gadgets, kids and other mainstream ideas. We are a world of hypocrites trying to put down the one we consider low or wrong or inferior and praising the one who we fear or who shows more self-esteem, based on bookish knowledge and other devoid of real importance information for our further spiritual growth, and exit from this illusionary world.

We are constantly believing that the external world is bad or good according to our limited understanding about life, but the reality is that everything is just a projection of inner distortions that are deeply hidden in our DNA, the very Karma which gives us challenges and experiences which are supposed to help us understand and evolve beyond our limited way of perceiving the world we’re living in.

Trying to change people that surround us is just a silly attempt of a child. It’s the same like trying to destroy the wall socket with a hammer, because we introduced a needle in it and we got electrocuted. The socket does what it was designed to do, offer electricity, but it was us who plug the needle in. So who is to be blamed? The same goes for external triggers and stimuli (people) that bring “bad” experiences into our lives, they are just triggers. Trying to change the trigger is the same like trying to destroy the socket. Instead, try not to react to those buttons that are being pushed, try not to stick needles into wall sockets, and you won’t get electrocuted. Likewise stop reacting to people triggering you, take a different approach, learn the lesson that is to be learned and start growing out of old patterns because unless you manage to evolve out of them and transcend the old behavioral patterns, there can be no real evolution. As soon as one stops reacting to external triggers, the triggers will disappear from your life or stop affecting you, because their purpose has been met. It is a very hard way of evolving, because there is a need of truthfulness to ourselves and there is a need for huge doses of courage and sturdiness. Also huge amount of Grace through the Guru or other more evolved people than us in our lives is required, to be able to walk over the ocean of Samsara(life that we know made of illusion and ignorance).

May all of you who are dedicated to finding your true self, be blessed to find That and may you recognize the power inside yourself and overcome past distortions which were obstructing your way!

Stop being too serious

By being too serious you transform everything that happens into your life in a worse version of what it is already.

Learn to laugh in the face of problems. Take it easy and remember that everything is an illusion, extremely well elaborated, but still a mirage. First of all our 5 senses are too limited for us to properly understand the realm that we are living in, in a way closer to what it really is.

Our mind is always completing the fragmentary picture that the senses transmit and the missing parts are just invented, and projected according to previous experiences or memories. So whatever we may think we know, see, feel, taste, smell it’s either partially or totally counterfeited by the mind. So let’s enjoy life diverting our attention from what may be wrong, let’s learn to smile and enjoy life as it is, accepting whatever comes our way with ease, and with a broad smile on our faces.

Too much seriousness comes from rigidity and stiffness and I would like to quote Lao Tzu- Tao Te Ching chapter 76:

“The living are soft and yielding;
the dead are rigid and stiff.
Living plants are flexible and tender;
the dead are brittle and dry.

Those who are stiff and rigid
are the disciples of death.
Those who are soft and yielding
are the disciples of life.

The rigid and stiff will be broken.
The soft and yielding will overcome.”

I feel like saying “Amen to that” 😂.

So take everything with a pinch of love and smiles, let go of control, since control it’s only an illusion and we can’t control anything but our own behavior, and even that not fully since we are slaves of addictions, needs, desires, predigested informations fed to us previously, and we’re lacking awareness.

Of course, there are moments when we need to be serious, but even then let’s not exagerate and even if externally we look serious, let’s smile continuously inside, knowing who we are and that we are experiencing and that is all a game, but a game in which we have to immerse fully adapting to the game rules but bringing in, a touch of freedom and nonconformism that slowly slowly can influence the outcome of the game and the rest of the players.

Whenever you feel disappointed, down, depressed or just bored, come back to read this article again and you’ll refresh, removing the clouds from your sky!

Fighting for likes and the door to the next level

Nowadays system of creating addicts out of everyone, is based on the era of the electronic games in which one tries go to the next level. It’s the main motive the growing number of sexual perversion in the world . That’s why they invent new ways of satisfying their fetishism, and on the path for next level, sometimes reaching sickness level, not knowing when to stop. It may work for games but in real life this program transforms people in addicts who’s next dose must be higher, better or newer. That’s why they’re unable to be with only one woman/man because this sickness is spreading throughout all the levels of their lives, starting to confuse the world with a computer game, so the approach becomes similar.
The happiness that people dream about achieving one day, is no longer reachable since we raise the level of expectations continuously. We dream about having the latest gadget, and as soon as we have it we forget the struggle and desire that made us fight for, and want that thing so much, and we create a new object of desire. We start also continuously projecting our “happiness“ onto the next thing, being unable to stay in the present moment and enjoying what we are already having.
Sometimes there’s no next level, stop right there, look around and realize that you’re happy already, you have more than one needs, you are alive! Count your blessings, remember to thank Life, the Universe, the Highest Power, whoever you want or believe in, for what you are having. A grateful approach is the key for experiencing blissful being in whichever situation.
The right approach to losing the addictive behavior and violence, is to say to oneself that we have to become like a loving mother in the approach towards everyone, still offering love and healthy boundaries in the same time.
A mother will never attack the child and whatever punishment or denial of things towards the child, they are for his own sake.
Social media is creating sickness and unnatural order through the apparatus of likes, share, and comments.
Many people nowadays are addicted to the social media and to “likes“. They’re unrelentingly searching for a way of getting likes for their pictures and posts, sacrificing erratically their privacy for this shot of endorphines, which “likes” give them for the time being. It has been proven that like the drugs, these responses are creating a release of a cocktail made of dopamine, serotonin, endorphin and oxytocin, all of which are creating a state of temporary “happiness“. This is, like the gaming addiction, already creating new ways to perceive the life in a very distorted and unnatural way. People start seeing the life in the same manner, becoming dependent on the other individuals likes and becoming depressed or aggressive when the other people are manifesting their dislike or disapproval towards them. We may become easy to manipulate, because people can dissimulate liking us in order to control us. It’s pure chemistry, so it happens to some degree on an unconscious level. So don’t be harsh on yourself if you are under this effect, because we all created this link between the release of the chemicals creating the feeling of happiness, by enjoying social media. It takes a lot of courage and awareness to be able to let go of games and social media. Facebook became the most popular because they use this psychological warfare tactics to the maximum, offering both the games and the like receiving system in the same time.
Oscar Wilde said:
“ You will continue to be unhappy as long as you think that your happiness depends on someone else.”
So start learning to enjoy both, criticism and like. Learn to be yourself regardless of people’s opinions about you, and start enjoying being on your own, having moments with yourself, knowing that you have to be content and happy for the fact that you are already perfect. You don’t need any object nor activity to be that. Start to make your own decisions unrelated to what advertising you see, what popular posts on Facebook say or whatever other manipulative techniques are out there.
Good luck!

P. S. Give me a shot of happiness drugs by hitting “follow” button 🙂 and if you liked it, give me a star 🌟

Thank you!

Why I started this blog

My main motive is to remind everyone including myself why we came here (why we incarnated to this realm). Remind others and to myself to search and find the life purpose, refresh the memory and know that we need to have a higher vision, not having a car and house and 2-3 kids, that’s a very basic vision. A vision that inspires us to be better versions of ourselves which can also include the secondary type of vision about having a good family life and all although those secondary needs are fulfilled by life itself without the need for us to worry about. Most of the things that I bring into discussion here are already known, they are already there, hidden in the “maybe later” shelf of our being. This blog is definitely not for everyone especially not now, some may “wake up” and remember who they truly are, and what they need to do to improve their lives and evolve, some may be too lazy and say “well, it sounds right but I like to indulge and enjoy my life”. I am not saying that life is not to be enjoyed, but if the activity that we’re enjoying has some side effects and the biggest of all may be cutting out the branch that we’re sitting on, then we have to know that it’s not appropriate for us. Others may decide that it’s too early, too hard, or whatever other reason. Remember it’s about personal choice.

It is sometimes very hard, almost impossible, but Life has a sense of balance and it will never give you only “lemons”.

Sometimes after years of fighting own distortions, past traumas, old patterns and bad programing of the society’s “ministry of propaganda”, through the exponents: Mass Media, Parents (who are deluded and deluding themselves), the schooling system, we may get upset and disappointed that nothing ever changes and it seems like it’s a futile endeavor. These are all tricks of the “Matrix”. Give it some time and you’ll remember and realize how much you progressed, also I also remind myself and all that no matter how much we transform and evolve, there will always remain something worth improving.

It’s enough to wish to begin the work with ourselves and everything will start to unfold, everything will come your way, information, means, and the right people.

And when you hear something that clicks inside, or it seems that the information was already there, it’s but a confirmation that you’re on the right track.

I provoke you all, dear readers to let me know what do you think about this idea and about the blog and your point of view related to them and what would make a nice topic for me to address.

I need your opinion and regardless if it’s positive or it may be criticism, it will offer me the needed material to learn and improve my way of expressing and your experience with this blog.

Enjoy,

The Writer

Why we have to abandon violence? Part II

We can’t deny that violence is in us, it’s a part of us as well as kindness is part of us. All polarities are represented in our being, but the choice is still ours to make.
We all are capable of killing or just hurting other being. Only the conjuncture can pull out that unfortunate potential response in us.
Awareness is a must, time is crucial in these cases. More you give time before automatically answering to a situation, fewer chances of becoming violent there are. Breath rarely and deeply many times before making the decision to strike. Remember that violence is the attribute of lower(animal like) beings, who are unable to recognize the destructive force of such bad decision.
Going against the animalistic nature, deciding to create peace in a belligerent situation, will give the person an impetus for further evolution. Is Sometimes instant and the potential enemy transforms into a friend, in the same time getting to learn a lesson of peace prevailing. Sometimes the result appears later on.
Now we also have to be aware that violence is a pattern in our behaviour so deeply rooted that it takes a lot of time and Grace to be able to overcome it, so no need to feel guilt if you are not managing to stop yourself from becoming violent first time, actually it took me thousands of times to become less violent, and the impulse is always there, trying to take over, because like I previously said already we have good and bad inside us, and they’ve always been there. Accept that you have both currents inside, but how we act is always a matter of personal choice.
So don’t be harsh with yourself if you don’t manage to do it at once, especially if you were habitual to get violent. But no matter what, you can choose to step away from the old patterns which are “helping” you to sabotage your own life.
Another trap is that when we manage to transcend the animal inside, we may start having bad experiences, because the low vibration egregor is not allowing us to leave easily, so we may face all kinds of problems, because the “old demons” we let go, want to come back to you and continue “helping” you to self destroy. Patience is the key, but what is for sure, it won’t last forever and you will be picking the fruits of your evolutionary steps that you’ve made.
I am writing this from my own experience and I once again emphasize that it’s definitely not an easy path. It’s the path of the courageous, persevering and patient people.
Throughout the time, if we manage to override the violent response, our life is going to improve, we will lose unnecessary people from our life and better quality people will show up instead. And this goes similarly with whatever unnecessary, bad habits or behaviour we had acquired, but we get rid of.
Like in school, when we think that we achieved something, learned something, or we got rid of unnecessary traits, Life is going to test us, to show if we indeed have learned the lesson, or we are just assuming that wrongly. And the prize for removing of unnecessary traits or behaviour will be different for everyone: for some will be bliss, for other will be getting a better life partner, a new job, financial gain, appreciation and so on, but beware because the prizes may create a new trap of their own!

Why we have to abandon violence? Part I

The essence of the evolution of the individual is taking full responsibility about everything that is happening in our lives.

It doesn’t matter who provokes us, who triggers us, what they say or do. The only thing that matters for us from the evolutionary point of view is our reaction to the “trigger”. We are responsible for own actions and reactions regardless of who did what to us, or who said whatever. We can of course try to find excuses and explanations for violent reactions or other lower vibrational endeavours. What we have to know is that there is no valid excuse for being aggressive. Aggression creates aggression. Brutality is not to be excused.

Violence comes from fear. Although it may sound not real, but indeed violence is a reaction to fear. Fear of losing someone, of being misinterpreted, fear of loosing status, fear of death, fear of getting hurt, … For some it may start making sense. But in order to make sense, courage to accept that we may not be perfect, knowing that we’re most of the time behaving ,inappropriate has to be there.

When one automatically goes with the violent instinct, the situation most of the time degenerates and it may spiral negatively with very bad repercussions following.

Let’s say someone calls us idiots, and we decide to punish them for saying that, and we hit that person. No good thing can come out of that choice of you to become violent. Let’s take some potential consequences: person falls and dies- jail for the aggressor. Person falls and hurt themselves badly… Jail and/or vengeance from the victim who decides to strike back; the person hits us so hard that we die; a fight is born and both get really damaged and the enmity will be for ever, each time they’ll see each other will try to hurt one another; there a multitude of other similar scenarios and none of them is positive. Even let’s just say that you hurt him, and everything goes cold, he forgets, you forget and life continues like nothing happened, still the bad deed will be creating bad situations in your life because somewhere deep inside our being we judged ourselves for doing that.

But all the above situations can be avoided by knowing that you are not an idiot (or whatever the other person calles us) , but deciding to allow the aggressor to have their opinion. Anyway, You can bless(say something peaceful) him, you can just turn around and go, or you can say thank you, … Each of these choices will astonish the aggressor who subconsciously or not consciously was trying to provoke you but it will defuse the potential dangerous situation spirals up. So we always have a choice to avoid any problems, or to go with the old instinct of violence, which is pulling one down, lower and lower because one low vibration actions attracting more and more bad decisions and actions. The aware person can always change the way they are acting consciously.