Σάββατο 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
BLOCKS IN THINKING
ΑΔΙΑΦΟΡΙΑ
Αδιαφορια, ηττοπαθεια, ωχ-αδελφισμος, υποταγη.
Πισω απ' ολα ο φοβος. Που του δινει υποσταση η υλη, το στενο προσωπικο συμφερον και η ταυτιση με καλπικες αξιες.
Φοβικοι, υποδουλοι, ... ακηδες, ανθρωπακια.
Με τετοιους κραδασμους δεν ερχεται η ανοιξη. Η βαρυχειμωνια, το σκοταδι, τα δεινά ερχονται και επανερχονται σαν καταρα. Αδεια η ζωη, χωρις νοημα, χωρις ουσια. Αριθμοι, στατιστικες, λογια και επιλογες χωρις περιεχομενο.
Σε μια γη που γεννησε ηρωες, ποιητες, ανθρωπους του πνευματος. Σαν σταγονες βροχης στην ερημο της αδιαφοριας μας, στην αβυσσο του φοβου μας, στην απεραντοσυνη της ιδιοτελειας μας.
Νικος
Πισω απ' ολα ο φοβος. Που του δινει υποσταση η υλη, το στενο προσωπικο συμφερον και η ταυτιση με καλπικες αξιες.
Φοβικοι, υποδουλοι, ... ακηδες, ανθρωπακια.
Με τετοιους κραδασμους δεν ερχεται η ανοιξη. Η βαρυχειμωνια, το σκοταδι, τα δεινά ερχονται και επανερχονται σαν καταρα. Αδεια η ζωη, χωρις νοημα, χωρις ουσια. Αριθμοι, στατιστικες, λογια και επιλογες χωρις περιεχομενο.
Σε μια γη που γεννησε ηρωες, ποιητες, ανθρωπους του πνευματος. Σαν σταγονες βροχης στην ερημο της αδιαφοριας μας, στην αβυσσο του φοβου μας, στην απεραντοσυνη της ιδιοτελειας μας.
Τετάρτη 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
WHAT ELSE?
Someone has posted this:
"There are people who want love
and there are people who break hearts.
Shocking!
We all search for love
and they get it and throw it away"
ALWAYS REMEMBER: Love is within. So, choose to give, without expecting anything in return. Give without any 'wants'.
And if some cannot receive, if some are not interested in receiving, if they are unable to appreciate what is being offered, if they dance to a different tune, there are so many others around in need. Some will be ready to respond!
Remain open, keep walking, keep loving. :)
"There are people who want love
and there are people who break hearts.
Shocking!
We all search for love
and they get it and throw it away"
ALWAYS REMEMBER: Love is within. So, choose to give, without expecting anything in return. Give without any 'wants'.
And if some cannot receive, if some are not interested in receiving, if they are unable to appreciate what is being offered, if they dance to a different tune, there are so many others around in need. Some will be ready to respond!
Remain open, keep walking, keep loving. :)
Σάββατο 21 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
IN LOVE!
IN LOVE!
Your so-called love is a bargain. You want to use the other person and the other wants to use you, so there is a mutual bargain -- a contract. Neither you love him, nor he loves you. He loves himself, you love yourself. You use the other, he uses you. This is a kind of settlement, adjustment. You call it love. These adjustments don't go very far, they cannot go very far. Sooner or later you are fed-up with the person, and he or she is fed-up with you. You have looked into each other, you have explored each other, and now there seems to be nothing new any more. So interest has waned, love starts disappearing. Then you tolerate at the most, because of past promises, because of past commitments. You have to carry it somehow. That's what happens to all kinds of so-called marriages. It is not love, it was not love ever, it was a kind of deception. And the deception is created by chemical changes in your body. It is as chemical as taking a drug. Certain hormones, certain chemicals, are released in the bloodstream and you feel an illusion arising and you start seeing things which are not there. When you fall in love with you start seeing things which are not there. Nobody else is seeing them, only you. And the other person starts seeing things in you; your chemistries are helping each other. You are dreaming -- dreaming with open eyes; it is a kind of daydream. Soon it will be shattered, soon the reality will assert.
Only after we have found ourself love is no more a need. We can be happy alone. Our happiness is as perfect alone as when we are together with somebody else. Our happiness no more depends on anybody else. Now we can share, now we can give.
Your so-called love is a bargain. You want to use the other person and the other wants to use you, so there is a mutual bargain -- a contract. Neither you love him, nor he loves you. He loves himself, you love yourself. You use the other, he uses you. This is a kind of settlement, adjustment. You call it love. These adjustments don't go very far, they cannot go very far. Sooner or later you are fed-up with the person, and he or she is fed-up with you. You have looked into each other, you have explored each other, and now there seems to be nothing new any more. So interest has waned, love starts disappearing. Then you tolerate at the most, because of past promises, because of past commitments. You have to carry it somehow. That's what happens to all kinds of so-called marriages. It is not love, it was not love ever, it was a kind of deception. And the deception is created by chemical changes in your body. It is as chemical as taking a drug. Certain hormones, certain chemicals, are released in the bloodstream and you feel an illusion arising and you start seeing things which are not there. When you fall in love with you start seeing things which are not there. Nobody else is seeing them, only you. And the other person starts seeing things in you; your chemistries are helping each other. You are dreaming -- dreaming with open eyes; it is a kind of daydream. Soon it will be shattered, soon the reality will assert.
Only after we have found ourself love is no more a need. We can be happy alone. Our happiness is as perfect alone as when we are together with somebody else. Our happiness no more depends on anybody else. Now we can share, now we can give.
MIND NOISE
Your mind goes on making noise, you look into it, you watch it: You go into its noises - they have some message for you. You go into its dreams - even if they look absurd they convey something from the unconscious to you.
Just by cutting those messages you are not going to get anywhere - because you are cutting your own unconscious. When you still your mind you are doing one thing: you are stilling your unconscious. You are saying, 'I don't want to hear.' But the unconscious has something valuable to say to you.
The whole of psychoanalysis is a proof for it, that the unconscious has something to convey. And the unconscious is more in tune with existence than your so-called conscious. And the conscious tries to force the unconscious not to say anything. But is this the silence you call peace? Boiling within, a volcano within, getting mad within? This is not silence!
Just by cutting those messages you are not going to get anywhere - because you are cutting your own unconscious. When you still your mind you are doing one thing: you are stilling your unconscious. You are saying, 'I don't want to hear.' But the unconscious has something valuable to say to you.
Πέμπτη 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
MEANINGLESS
Sartre, Kafka, Camus -- they say life is meaningless, life has no meaning. Immediately, philosophers bubble up who say life is meaningless. It happens only when?
When there is time to think. When there is no time to think, life has infinite meaning. Small things have meaning -- to have a shelter, to have food for your children, to have clothes for your wife, when you don't have enough to survive life has meaning. There are so many essential things you don't have, and because you don't have them there is not much time to think and much meaning around you. So meaning goes on existing.
When you have more than you really need, meaning falls flat on the ground. There is so much time to think. That's what is happening when people have more. They become very bored. Boredom has settled!
A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF UNIVERSE
There is one fundamental law in universe - you cannot give what you don't have.
Knowledgeable key figures of our society seem to be unaware of it.
There is a beautiful story of Mahatma Ghandi in this regard.
A woman brought her child to the Mahatma for his help. After inquiring what the problem was the mother told him. 'Please tell my child to stop eating sugar as he is diabetic and it will cause him harm'. Ghandi told her to come back in a week.
When the two returned a week later Ghandi told the child to stop eating sugar. The mother then asked him, 'Why didn't you tell him that last week and save us the journey to come back again?'. Ghandi replied, 'Last week I was still eating sugar'.
:)
Knowledgeable key figures of our society seem to be unaware of it.
There is a beautiful story of Mahatma Ghandi in this regard.
A woman brought her child to the Mahatma for his help. After inquiring what the problem was the mother told him. 'Please tell my child to stop eating sugar as he is diabetic and it will cause him harm'. Ghandi told her to come back in a week.
When the two returned a week later Ghandi told the child to stop eating sugar. The mother then asked him, 'Why didn't you tell him that last week and save us the journey to come back again?'. Ghandi replied, 'Last week I was still eating sugar'.
:)
Τετάρτη 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
‘If you don’t reward truth, you are rewarding lies'
‘If you don’t reward truth, you are rewarding lies'
This is why this society is in such a mad space.
Everybody is teaching you to be truthful, and nobody is rewarding you for being truthful, so they create a schizophrenia.
Every politician goes on lying to the people, giving promises which they know they cannot fulfill.
And in every court it is not the truth that is victorious, it is the more efficient, more argumentative advocate who wins the case. It does not matter whether he is in favor of the truth or against it.
This is why this society is in such a mad space.
Everybody is teaching you to be truthful, and nobody is rewarding you for being truthful, so they create a schizophrenia.
Every politician goes on lying to the people, giving promises which they know they cannot fulfill.
And in every court it is not the truth that is victorious, it is the more efficient, more argumentative advocate who wins the case. It does not matter whether he is in favor of the truth or against it.
Τρίτη 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
TODAY IS SUCH A DAY!
"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day"
Rumi
Today is such a day"
JUST A WORD!
Place, time, people!
They don't always coincide.
Communication is of essence.
We often assume, conclude, get upset, before explaining, without allowing, before giving a chance! Hiding, self creating issues, when there is none. Destroying possibility. Waisting life.
When it could have been so easy.
Just a word sometimes makes the whole difference.
Try it
They don't always coincide.
Communication is of essence.
We often assume, conclude, get upset, before explaining, without allowing, before giving a chance! Hiding, self creating issues, when there is none. Destroying possibility. Waisting life.
When it could have been so easy.
Just a word sometimes makes the whole difference.
ΚΟΡΟ'Ι'ΔΙΑ
Αποφεύγω την ουσία,
φοβάμαι τα συγκεκριμένα,
προτιμώ τ' αφηρημένα,
μα δική μου η κορο'ι'δία!
Νικος
φοβάμαι τα συγκεκριμένα,
προτιμώ τ' αφηρημένα,
μα δική μου η κορο'ι'δία!
Νικος
SYNTHESIS
You are a psychologist.
Yes, a little better than the body is the mind - a little better than the materialist is the person who believes in the mind.
Yes, a little better than the body is the mind - a little better than the materialist is the person who believes in the mind.
CHOLESTEROL & HEART DISEASE
Excessive protein consumption leads to the thickening and congestion of the basal membranes of the blood vessels. Protein deposits in the blood sinusoids hinder serum cholesterol from leaving the bloodstream. Therefore, the liver cells “assume” that there must be a shortage of cholesterol in the body. This perceived “shortage” stimulates the liver cells to raise cholesterol production to abnormally high levels (some of the cholesterol is needed to heal and protect injured parts of the arteries). This extra cholesterol enters the liver bile ducts with the intention of being taken to the small intestines for absorption.
However, because the membranes and openings of the sinusoids are clogged with accumulated protein fiber (collagen), most of the extra cholesterol never makes it there and, instead, is caught in the bile ducts.
Asians generally have a low-protein but high-fat diet, and rarely have high cholesterol. On the other hand, high cholesterol is very common among those whose diet is rich in meat and milk protein.
FROM MY FORTHCOMING BOOK "Total Health & Wellbeing"
Nicos Pavlides
Practicing Ayurveda
THE RIGHT BALANCE OF ATTENTION & AFFECTION
Life is always limited. Let it be. Freedom, happiness, is not contained in any particular experience, however glorious. All experience is time bound. Whatever has a beginning must have an end.
But one is always free of experience, when on the right balance of attention and affection. Then, whatever we think, say, or do, this sense of affection remains the ever-present background of the mind.
Παρασκευή 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
ΟΛΑ ΓΥΡΩ
ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ!
Όλα γύρω,
έχω τώρα πιά αντιληφθεί,
μ' εξυπηρετούν να ωριμάσω.
Γιά διαφορετική ζωή,
γιατί να πολεμάω;
Νικος
Όλα γύρω,
έχω τώρα πιά αντιληφθεί,
μ' εξυπηρετούν να ωριμάσω.
Γιά διαφορετική ζωή,
γιατί να πολεμάω;
Νικος
Oh My Friend!
Our enjoyment and engagement with life is not the problem.
It becomes one when the underlying unity is forgotten.
There is only one unity.
It becomes one when the underlying unity is forgotten.
There is only one unity.
Πέμπτη 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
VITAMIN D
What is important to know is that our body produces vitamin D when we expose it to the sun for a few minutes each day. So, sunbathing for a few minutes each day, preferably before 10am and after 18.00 does the trick and you get a healthy sun tan as a bonus
ΦΙΛΙΑ ΜΟΝΟ
ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ! ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ ΚΑΙ 13, ΑΛΛΑ ΜΗΝ ΣΑΣ ΑΠΑΣΧΟΛΕΙ!
ΦΙΛΙΑ ΜΟΝΟ
Νά 'χες κουράγιο ν' ανοιχτείς,
το θάρρος ν' αφεθείς,
τρωτή στη μοίρα να παραδοθείς!
'Οσο και να σ' εκτιμώ,
τα καμώματα σου τα περιφρονώ,
φιλία μόνο προσδοκώ.
Νικος
ΦΙΛΙΑ ΜΟΝΟ
Νά 'χες κουράγιο ν' ανοιχτείς,
το θάρρος ν' αφεθείς,
τρωτή στη μοίρα να παραδοθείς!
'Οσο και να σ' εκτιμώ,
τα καμώματα σου τα περιφρονώ,
φιλία μόνο προσδοκώ.
Τετάρτη 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
Η ΠΡΟΘΕΣΗ
H πρόθεση γυρίζει το κλειδί,
τ' αποτέλεσμα μην σε απασχολεί,
εμπιστεύσου την ροή,
αποδέξου την πλοκή,
μυστήριο προτίμα την ζωή.
Νικος
τ' αποτέλεσμα μην σε απασχολεί,
εμπιστεύσου την ροή,
αποδέξου την πλοκή,
μυστήριο προτίμα την ζωή.
Νικος
IMMUNTITY
Positive feelings, speech and behaviour, love, joy and appreciation, result in better immunity.
Factors that do not are:
Negative emotions of any kind
Stress
Hurrying
Excessive exercise (the weak feeling one gets from too much exercise)
Very light diet
Staying awake through most of the night
Injury or body trauma
Alcohol
Overexposure to wind and sun
Factors that do not are:
Negative emotions of any kind
Stress
Hurrying
Excessive exercise (the weak feeling one gets from too much exercise)
Very light diet
Staying awake through most of the night
Injury or body trauma
Alcohol
Overexposure to wind and sun
PLAY IT!
Life is a game. Play it.
Respect yourself first and then all others but play it.
Unhappiness is not the sensations or feelings, however strong, that arise from living life.
Unhappiness is the result of our expectations. They almost never happen the way we expect.
This is suffering!
Respect yourself first and then all others but play it.
Unhappiness is not the sensations or feelings, however strong, that arise from living life.
Unhappiness is the result of our expectations. They almost never happen the way we expect.
This is suffering!
Τρίτη 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!
The experience of life is based on belief that translates possibilities into reality.
Create the right kind of belief. Nothing is impossible.
Create the right kind of belief. Nothing is impossible.
Προσωπικός Ελικώνας
την άνοιξη όπως Νάρκισσος γουρλωμένος να κοιτώ.
Η ηλικία, η θέση μου τέτοια δεν επιτρέπουν.
Ρίμες ταιριάζω το πρόσωπό μου για να δω,
τον ζόφο για να κάνω ν' αποκτήσει ηχώ.
SEAMUS HEANEY
Προσωπικός Ελικώνας
για τον Μάικλ Λόνγκλεϋ
Δευτέρα 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
THINK AGAIN
THINK AGAIN!
It is amazing how much money is spent at hypermarkets on packaged food of no life force, no real nutritional value, chemically altered from how nature intended at the detriment of health when one can spend so much less on vegetables, fruit, whole grains and nuts.
Brainwashed by commercials and fashion most empty their pockets to destroy their health!
It is amazing how much money is spent at hypermarkets on packaged food of no life force, no real nutritional value, chemically altered from how nature intended at the detriment of health when one can spend so much less on vegetables, fruit, whole grains and nuts.
Brainwashed by commercials and fashion most empty their pockets to destroy their health!
ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΟΜΑΔΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΥ
ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΟΜΑΔΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΥ
Επαναρχιζουν απο την Παρασκευη 20.09.2013 και καθε Παρασκευη, οι συναντησεις ομαδικου διαλογισμου στο Serenity House, κοντα στο Junior School και πισω απο το Υπουργειο Εξωτερικων.
Οι συναντησεις αρχιζουν στις 8 μμ.
Ολοι ευπροσδεκτοι, αρχαριοι και μη. Διδεται σχετικη καθοδηγηση. Η συναντηση διαρκει περιπου 1 ωρα συνολικα, με περιπου 25 λεπτα διαλογισμο (αναλογα με την συνθεση της ομαδας) με σχετικη εισαγωγη και λιγη κουβεντουλα μετα.
Εισφορα 1 ευρω το ατομο, για τα εξοδα του χωρου.
Μια εμπειρια που αξιζει να δοκιμασετε και να κανετε μερος της ζωης σας.
Κυριακή 8 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
ΤΟ ΚΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΥΑΛΟΥ
Ολα έχουν τέλος και σκοπό,
και μαζύ με το προσωπικό,
αγαπώ το οικουμενικό.
Το κύμα του γυαλού,
ποτέ δεν λέει όχι του ωκεανού.
Νικος
και μαζύ με το προσωπικό,
αγαπώ το οικουμενικό.
Το κύμα του γυαλού,
ποτέ δεν λέει όχι του ωκεανού.
Σάββατο 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
ΑΝ ΝΑ ΥΠΕΡΒΩ
Αν ν' αποδεχτ' αδυνατώ,
πέρ' από κανόνες ν’ ανεβώ,
τα πιστεύω μου να υπερβώ,
πόσ' αλήθεια ζώ;
Νικος
SUGAR & CHEMICAL SUBSTITUTES!
SUGAR & CHEMICAL SUBSTITUTES!
Children who drink too much soda are hyperactive and suffer from mental disorders.
The more soda, the greater the hyperactivity.
Parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), hyperactivity and other behavioral problems better remove the following from their children’s diet: cookies, cupcakes and sugary breakfast cereals.
Processed foods contain vast quantities of chemical additives such as food colorings, which have time and again been linked to ADHD and hyperactivity in children.
The more soda, the greater the hyperactivity.
Parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), hyperactivity and other behavioral problems better remove the following from their children’s diet: cookies, cupcakes and sugary breakfast cereals.
Processed foods contain vast quantities of chemical additives such as food colorings, which have time and again been linked to ADHD and hyperactivity in children.
Παρασκευή 6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
WHAT AM I?
WHAT AM I ?
There must have been some, rare perhaps, moments in your life when you felt that some deeper, most intimate part of you was observing your thoughts, perceptions or emotions. You may have noticed it when all by yourself, totally relaxed, perhaps in nature, walking in a forest, swimming, diving, fishing, watching the sunrise, the sunset or looking up at the stars. It may have occurred whilst you were extremely happy or desperately sad. Or perhaps at a time when you had utterly surrendered to love. It may have surfaced whilst facing danger, risking your life or confronted with a most serious situation.
To some it appears as out of nowhere inspiration at times of deep, pinpoint concentration and the intense will to create or serve, free of any attachment.
I would like to clarify that i am not referring to any kind of internal dialogue. That is the conversation our mind is having with itself. Our core on the other hand is silent, non involved, immovable, rooted, unshakable, a background witness of our thoughts, perceptions and feelings, of all. Despite being in the background, our core remains our most intimate, deepest connection, our very self, our foundation in those rare moments of awareness. That which lies beneath thought and feeling. You may think of it as awareness or the part of you experiencing life. Without it, nothing would register. No feeling, no thought, nothing. We tend to take it for granted as it is so intimate. It is in fact our very core. Our nature appears or surfaces when we turn our mind inwards.
To attain this thought-free state, ......
From my forthcoming book "Total Health & Wellbeing"
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
There must have been some, rare perhaps, moments in your life when you felt that some deeper, most intimate part of you was observing your thoughts, perceptions or emotions. You may have noticed it when all by yourself, totally relaxed, perhaps in nature, walking in a forest, swimming, diving, fishing, watching the sunrise, the sunset or looking up at the stars. It may have occurred whilst you were extremely happy or desperately sad. Or perhaps at a time when you had utterly surrendered to love. It may have surfaced whilst facing danger, risking your life or confronted with a most serious situation.
To some it appears as out of nowhere inspiration at times of deep, pinpoint concentration and the intense will to create or serve, free of any attachment.
I would like to clarify that i am not referring to any kind of internal dialogue. That is the conversation our mind is having with itself. Our core on the other hand is silent, non involved, immovable, rooted, unshakable, a background witness of our thoughts, perceptions and feelings, of all. Despite being in the background, our core remains our most intimate, deepest connection, our very self, our foundation in those rare moments of awareness. That which lies beneath thought and feeling. You may think of it as awareness or the part of you experiencing life. Without it, nothing would register. No feeling, no thought, nothing. We tend to take it for granted as it is so intimate. It is in fact our very core. Our nature appears or surfaces when we turn our mind inwards.
To attain this thought-free state, ......
From my forthcoming book "Total Health & Wellbeing"
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
ATTACHMENT!
In my mind, living life is the only way to overcome attachment.
Experiencing, growing along, learning whilst remaining open, adventurous, inviting, always loving, in love with life and all existence.
Becoming a child again, living in innocence.
Allowing a few minutes each day to reflect on ourselves in silence, in emptiness, helps.
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
Experiencing, growing along, learning whilst remaining open, adventurous, inviting, always loving, in love with life and all existence.
Becoming a child again, living in innocence.
Allowing a few minutes each day to reflect on ourselves in silence, in emptiness, helps.
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
BAD & GOOD, LOVE & HATE!
BAD & GOOD, LOVE & HATE!
There is envy, hate, brutality in the human mind and heart, an absence of compassion, of love.
But when do we divide life into good and evil? When we are rational.
Which means that what we see is what we expect to see based on what we have experienced in the past.
When there is complete attention, when we are totally aware, alert, watchful, there is no such thing as evil or good; goodness then is not a quality, not a virtue, it is a state of love. When there is unconditional, pure love, there is neither good nor bad, there is only love. When you really love somebody, you are not thinking of good or bad, your whole being is filled with that love. It is only when there is lack of complete attention, of love, that there comes the conflict between what I am and what I should be. Then that which I am is evil, and that which I should be is good.
Watch your own mind and you will see that the moment it stops to think in terms of becoming something, there is a state of total attention, which is goodness. So, the essence of being positive is when there is total absence of something regarded as actual. All those things are not love (desire, pleasure, fear). Only then love is, with its compassion and intelligence.
From my forthcoming book "Total Health & Wellbeing"
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
There is envy, hate, brutality in the human mind and heart, an absence of compassion, of love.
But when do we divide life into good and evil? When we are rational.
Which means that what we see is what we expect to see based on what we have experienced in the past.
When there is complete attention, when we are totally aware, alert, watchful, there is no such thing as evil or good; goodness then is not a quality, not a virtue, it is a state of love. When there is unconditional, pure love, there is neither good nor bad, there is only love. When you really love somebody, you are not thinking of good or bad, your whole being is filled with that love. It is only when there is lack of complete attention, of love, that there comes the conflict between what I am and what I should be. Then that which I am is evil, and that which I should be is good.
Watch your own mind and you will see that the moment it stops to think in terms of becoming something, there is a state of total attention, which is goodness. So, the essence of being positive is when there is total absence of something regarded as actual. All those things are not love (desire, pleasure, fear). Only then love is, with its compassion and intelligence.
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
Πέμπτη 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
LIFE IS A GAME BUT .......
Having played the game of life long enough, we sooner or later come to realize, one way or another, sometimes through pleasure, at other times through loss and pain, that lasting contentment, complete satisfaction and happiness are not to be found in any sensation or possession.
They surface as we share, as we exceed ourselves to serve, to reach or attain values such as pure, unconditional love and compassion.
Then what appears as loss, is in fact gain, assessed in other terms which are not easy to quantify, describe or measure.
From my forthcoming book "Total Health & Wellbeing"
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
They surface as we share, as we exceed ourselves to serve, to reach or attain values such as pure, unconditional love and compassion.
Then what appears as loss, is in fact gain, assessed in other terms which are not easy to quantify, describe or measure.
From my forthcoming book "Total Health & Wellbeing"
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
THOUGHTS - on being happy!
THOUGHTS - on being happy!
I read: "The real cause of suffering is self-identification with the limited. Sensations resulting from this, however strong, do not cause suffering. Suffering is caused by the mind, bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking: 'I am this', 'I am that'. Then the mind fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated."
Think! How many times have you said to yourself, this is too good to be true BUT ... it is not going to work, there are so many 'things' against it?
So, what if it does not last? What if it ends after a couple of weeks, months, or years? What lasts forever, anyway? And if anything does, is its experience rendering all other experiences that do not last, not worthwhile?
The reason most would reject the idea of such possibilities is the fear of loss. Attachment is the reason. But it is possible to live without attachment. In fact true living is always beyond attachment. When we truly exist, we are content in the knowledge of loosing, we accept that nothing is forever. Possessions, jobs, relationships. The only thing that leaves a lasting impression is pure love in our hearts.
So, being happy does not mean rejecting life, opportunities, by being unwilling to play, to risk.
Life is a game. Play it. Respect yourself first and then all others but play it.
Unhappiness is not the sensations or feelings, however strong, that arise from living life.
Unhappiness is the result of our expectations. We attach to them, limiting ourselves and our life, yet they almost never happen the way we expect.
This is suffering!
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
I read: "The real cause of suffering is self-identification with the limited. Sensations resulting from this, however strong, do not cause suffering. Suffering is caused by the mind, bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking: 'I am this', 'I am that'. Then the mind fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated."
Think! How many times have you said to yourself, this is too good to be true BUT ... it is not going to work, there are so many 'things' against it?
So, what if it does not last? What if it ends after a couple of weeks, months, or years? What lasts forever, anyway? And if anything does, is its experience rendering all other experiences that do not last, not worthwhile?
The reason most would reject the idea of such possibilities is the fear of loss. Attachment is the reason. But it is possible to live without attachment. In fact true living is always beyond attachment. When we truly exist, we are content in the knowledge of loosing, we accept that nothing is forever. Possessions, jobs, relationships. The only thing that leaves a lasting impression is pure love in our hearts.
So, being happy does not mean rejecting life, opportunities, by being unwilling to play, to risk.
Life is a game. Play it. Respect yourself first and then all others but play it.
Unhappiness is not the sensations or feelings, however strong, that arise from living life.
Unhappiness is the result of our expectations. We attach to them, limiting ourselves and our life, yet they almost never happen the way we expect.
This is suffering!
Nicos Pavlides
Ayurvedic Consultant
Τετάρτη 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013
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