HARI'S BACK THOUGHTS open for comments.

I believe that all wisdom and knowledge is garbage unless
it serves to give you peace, to make you happy, to get along with anyone
(not everyone) to give long-life, to atract good luck, good people, and to keep you content under all circumstances... this has been my motto since I started reading and writring, and my subject has been mainly that.

I was digging into my private on line journal and found out that I had
put the first ideas that came to me as I was trying to simplify the overly complicated issues of life. Perhaps many will find this overly simplistic, and others not, but regardless, it was great help in my more tense young years.
1975-2000


» The five precepts for enlightment or bondage.

The five precepts can be your friends or your enemies.
The negatives come by default, the positives take more effort.

SPIRITUAL.

MENTAL.

EMOTIONAL.

PHYSICAL.

MATERIAL.


What can you write about each of these?

 

The Spiritual is your self, who and what you really are.

The Mental is what happens every second, and where you have less control than you "imagine".

The Emotional is the result of many factors, including food, weather, company, plus what goes on in your mind, your passion and reactions.

Your Physical is your instrument, without which you could not act, or affect the world 'around' you.

Your Material is what you own or control, or wear, or acummulate.

 

If these were parts of the body, the self (spiritual) would be the head
the mental would be right hand and the emotional would be the left hand.
The physical would be the right leg and the material would be the left leg.

This visual image of the five precepts are there only for imagining them as in the shape of a star with five parts.

What's important is the order.
The head is the highest part of the body without which you cannot live for an instance...this also symbolises Spirit or self that which you are.
As the head is important to be and live, the self is what you cannot "be" without.

What I mean by this, is that Self is that which is YOU more than anything you can think is you. You can have your head cut off and your whole body dies, but no one can cut your self, your spirit or burn it. That which is immaterial cannot be hurt by matter.

TBC (to be continued)

 

There are too many overly-complicated schools of thought relating to truth and identity, when concioussness and the self are the only basic premises for self-realization, and both are the simplest things in this universe. If you understand this, then you understand everything and nothing. Then you are ready to journey into pure knowledge.

 

The Self is the center of the universe, your self, my self, God's self, every living entitie's self.

But what exactly is the Self?

Without going into deep intellectual analysis, the Self is YOU, and all that you experience.

The Self is your capital, your foundation, your home, your very experiences, the universe in your head, your dreams, your feelings and even more. Even experiences not experienced; that and more, is the Self.

Simply put, there's nothing that the self is-not, since it is the pivot of all experience and even the experience itself.

 

Standza no#2..

There is NOTHING more important than self-satisfaction.
If you are not self-satisfied, then you are a miser, a beggar, a sufferer, a pitiful case of the blues, a seeker, one who goes from door to door seeking recognition, approval, vindication, identity, value, position, honor, degrees, belonging, power, acknowledgment, grace, salvation, excuses, admirers, love.

How precious is the value of self-satisfaction! it is your highest achievement because it forces you to need a lot less.

 

Stanza no#3

Because we live complex lives, we need to end the mind, and see life beyond our small worry-thinking. When we can do that, we see life as is, and all worry ceases.

 

Yeah well said Hari; spiritual teachings can seem so elusive at times with a mixture of complex museings on the nature of ego etc.

Personally I struggled over the years trying to tie together everything I'd read in different scriptures etc and just craved some straight shooting clarity.

I concur that when that knowingness that everything is ok is present then spirituality does what it says on the tin..... If you were to have a rule of thumb of spiritual practice I'd dumb it down to the following:

Observe...

Observe all your thoughts and feelings, not from the perspective of right and wrong, but without judgement. Observe what makes you happy and sad and all the rest...

Observation in itself is expansive, observation in itself is transformational.

I've started a blog recently and have no idea where I'm going to take it, but it's just a journey at the end of the day,

Whatever's on your mind right now; good for you!


Grant

 

True.
To observe is probably the last thing we do indeed. Of course I mean to observe ourselves, since to observe anything else is actually distraction, and we are always observing and paying atention to something other that our own selves.

 

Stanza #4

Our sense of self, and how we view the world is dependent on our chemical state of mind. Mind works on food chemicals and prana, and what we take in affects everything we feel and do on a daily basis. No two people can see the same sunset, or could not see the same sunset if a sunset could repeat iself exactly.

To know why this well, constitutes knowledge.

 

I had a friend named Hari in the LA punk scene.

 

I knew a guy named Hari(he introduced himself to me and Mike my best friend a that time) but he never became my friend, my Best friend at the time liked him hanged out at his pad and talked a lot about him..He was a very popular hippie, then he became a junkie. I would never see him, he was like a legend I guess.