Monday, November 20, 2006

Unexpected Encounters

You think you are pretty much ok with life and that you know all the people you could know, you bump into a person, an entity or even a ghost that gives you a whole new perception of life. Or , you could give them a whole new perception of life. Every creature is a miracle of their creator.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Moments Passing

As time passes by, I begin to wonder how one should react to time. It is an amazing concept this time is. For some, years have gone by in a few months and for some months have only passed in years. For some, a day is but a moment and for others it is a 24 hour ordeal. Time is whatever I want it to be. Yes, that is what it is...

Monday, September 04, 2006

Manifestations

All that we experience, and all that we see, hear and touch are manifestations of an expression from the source of all life - God. So curse not the one that hurt you and praise not so much the one that benefited you.. Don't worry about the manifestation - go to the source directly and your life will be as you wish it to be.

Friday, August 18, 2006

changes

A time has come where all we see around is changes. Some people wishfully think that the changes will be according to their wishes. I , however, have concluded something else. I believe that changes occur each minute. Small, insignificant changes that create a huge change one day suddenly. The fact of the matter is, no one is really in control. Whatever happens is caused or allowed to be. There is a superior force that is running this whole show at all levels. I firmly believe that people who cause a huge change somewhere are not even aware of what they have done. One thing led to another, good or bad, it happened. Of course, this does not mean that they will not be judged like all humans will be. But we and them will be judged for the intention we had - and frankly not even for the act itself. Think about it.
At one time, when we saw the news - we would curse some leader or the other - but now I look at it and say only one thing: Praise Be to Allah. How can one person do all this? I cannot call him anything knowing the facts of life that I know. This person is a created entity. He did not choose his birth and he will not choose his death. He is subjected to life just like everyone else. Yes, he is in a position of power - but who put him there? We believe that stations are given by God right? One way or the other he was brought to where he is today and given the power to decide. Even when it comes to the decision making process - he is subjected. Would you disagree? Think of the times when you have to make decisions. How many processes you go through and how many people you seek advice from. He is subjected to the same. No matter how rich or poor you are, you remain human and thus subjected to the human condition.
Having said that, we come to a point where we would like to look deeper into life. We have left the surface and gone deeper. At the surface its many things and many judgments and many ideas - but when you go deeper - all that disappears. We enter the world of intention and belief.
Feelings stem from these two phenomena. The attention of the inner mind the longings and the desires. What we had sought and wanted and searched for. Worked on and begged for. Thus, all this unseen energy is then transformed into the seen through actions taken - and so we are held responsible or rewarded depending on how beneficial or damaging that act was or is. We often hear and see that many people committed the same crime and some got punished and others got away with it. Who is to say who is better off?
You see, life is a series of many events happening simultaneously. And that is the beauty of it all. That is the beauty of creation and its administration. We say again, all praise be to Allah. This one source of all life has created and then directed to a result all of his creation and that is what is going on. Passage of time is just the movement of all this creation into a direction willingly or unwillingly. And this has been proven time and time again through various events, miracles and common situations.
Knowing this, if one knows it indeed, why do we react? Why do we still react to anything at all? What is it that makes us react? The same phenomena of change and movement. These reactions often lead to a shift in the situation which was meant to be also. And thus the motion starts in that direction which then shifts to something else at some point in time. One realizes how it is all working very smoothly indeed.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Human Condition

It does not get any easier does it. The human condition. All that humans do , is because of the human condition. What is the human condition? It is basically the existence on earth. The fear of death. The affect of time. The concern. All this is the human condition. Can it be overcome. Yes! It can be.
The following is only for people who believe in a God. If you do not believe in a God, then you may not agree with a lot of what I have to say here.
You see, God created man. So every condition that man has to go through is from God. These conditions are signs of God. To put it simply, he is talking with situations that we may be in. The situation, good or bad - points out how we are perceived by him. What he is trying to say. It can get extremely complicated if try to get into the details of it WHILE we are living. We simply do not have time, since we are dealing with situations constantly. In most instances, we even forget that there is a God, let alone consider the possibility of him showing anything to us through the circumstance.
After a lot of frustration and going through a lot of different emotional situations, most of us lose it totally or are completely exhausted. And finally, we say - God what did I do wrong? BEEP! Wrong question. My suggestion: Do not ask questions - you may or MAY NOT get an answer so its a risk. Why take a risk?
Here is the solution: Ask for forgiveness regardless of the situation. Keep asking for it. Consider this, there is so much humans have no idea about - yet they are here - in this condition - the human condition. Seeking forgiveness for anything if anything and everything wrong we may have done during the day does many things to the mind and soul. It makes us better people and opens a new window in the mind. We see things more clear and thus the impact of the human condition is less. We can in fact reach a stage while alive on earth where we are no longer subjected to the human condition and thus are able to ordain things.
A great poet called Iqbal wrote: Raise yourself to a level so high, that before a decision is made God asks you - Say what be your will?
You raise yourself by seeking forgiveness and then going deeper into this relationship that will exist no matter what.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Lebanon

She has suffered forever for the actions of others living in her and around her. She is beautiful and loving. She welcomes everyone with open arms and makes sure that they are comfortable. She never hurt anyone, she never wanted to. She never could even if she wanted to - she was too forgiving.

For years, she was abused by her neighbors and for years she cried. Yet, when she could get even, she chose to forgive.

Even today, as she suffers the many blows she gets each day - all she says is: Please, do fix what you break. I am hurt as it is - don't hurt me more. I am lonely in a crowd. The one that inflicts you from me, is not from me. It could even be from you. And why do you want me to die? I hurt no one. I brought you beauty and love and I brought fruits few can bring. Why do you want me to die?

Friday, June 30, 2006

Pain - a friend...

Pain unlimited you have taught me to smile and showed me life. Oh pain, you are my friend and it is with you I see the true colors of life. You hold my hand and help me to grow into a mind that is far greater than what it was. Pain, had it not been for you I would continue in my perceptions of life that I used to have. The ones that introduced me to you. Oh pain, my friend , you showed me the people who were real to me and the ones that really did not care. OH pain, you taught me to respect the moments of happiness that you sometimes let us see.
Yes, had it not been for you , I would know not what pleasure is. You are a true friend if there was any. You can be pleasure if only we could see how nice you are to us.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Alone

To live alone is bliss. In this day and age, I think few people would disagree. Two people meet and feel they can spend the rest of their life together. One day, they realize that someone has to sacrifice something to make it work. And then , neither want to sacrifice anything and in fact want the other to accept how they are or what they seek.

Make sure, you are both walking in the same direction and not towards each-other. The Bump can hurt.

KSA has a very high divorce rate!

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Ghalib - One that Overcomes.

The great show that goes on each day..

Ghalib says:

A playground of children is this world to me
A show is on day and night in front of me..

He saw right through this life and realized, that not much of it is real. A lot of it is action based on assumption of what may be or could be.. and thus the show. But how did he see right through this life? By accepting all the pain and misery it has to offer in one go. He took it all in within a few years. This is possible for anyone, if they would dare like Ghalib dared. The risk is only one, you will either conquer all fear and pain - or you will totally lose your mind. One who can write as did this great poet definitely has come to his senses, rather than lose them!

The prison of life and sadness and sorrow , are in fact one and the same..
Why then before death , shall humans be saved from sorrow?

He defines this life as a prison which restricts the flight of the soul and confines it, while death is the door that lets it out.

Read more about the works of Mirza Ghalib, the poet of the Royal Court of India once upon a long ago.

The Solution

We hear so many people just complaining about what is around them. Is it not sad, that whatever is around them is their own creation? They indirectly or indirectly chose to be where they stand and then they complain , blaming an external force or person or situation. Sad. What is even more sad, is that they are totally unaware of the power they possess. And in fact its their choice to be where they are.

I have worked with persons claiming to be in impossible situations. At the end of our sessions, those persons were out of their situation and you know what? I did not do it for them, they did it themselves. I just guided them through the maze of the mind. From acceptance to realization to visualization, their issue ended. And they did it. At that point , it was proven to them beyond any doubt - that they have the power to change their own lives by changing what is in the mind. This theory is real and it is also backed by a verse in the Holy Quran which basically clearly states that Allah does not change the condition of a nation until they change what is in their hearts. Heart means the inner mind, soul. The essence of humans is their minds and its perceptions and beliefs. So its the belief system that we work with. We dig deep into the mind of the person and extract the poison. Poison which decays the brain simply by existing. Poison such as doubt, fear and wrong notions which in time become belief and directly affect choices and perceptions and eventually actions. And we all know, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So if you find yourself in an undesirable situation, try to work on finding out the action that you took, what you did that caused that situation to be. There is NO other answer to it. Yes, we can sit there and blame so many things and people, but sorry - that's not the solution. It is temporary ego relief. It is denial of fact.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Circles

Often people think that they have mastered life since no one is bothering them anymore. They may have even done it. But then, maybe they have not and they think they have done it! Or maybe they have just given up and found a station in life in which they can continue to survive and live on until they die. Who is to say if thats right or wrong? What is right or wrong anyway? We cannot know what is right or wrong. We think we do, but in reality we dont. Oh yes, i know - there are books sent from God that clearly define whats right and wrong and what a nut I am to say we dont know- right? Thats what you are thinking right? But what if I were to prove it to you from these holy books that what these books have said are wrong - have been made right for some people mentioned in the same books? Once again, we find ourselves sitting and thinking. What the books say is wrong, is definitely wrong - no doubt about it. But then the one doing it may not be bad either - right? Or maybe the one doing it, maybe doing it for the right reasons. So you see, we dont KNOW.
When do we really know? In fact, what do we really know? When the answer is - never and nothing, education has started. If the answer is this and that - then we are running in circles. Running in circle is chasing our own tail until we get too exhausted and pass out - in the case of the human condition - die.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

To Aphorisms

Bitter? Yes, sometimes we do get bitter - But I did not have a bitter response to you. I said"Thanks". Your comment opened a new window. I have been in a single dimension and this made me see everything from my perspective. You are right when you say " Its what we learn from each experience". Yes, nothing is simply random and everything is not self created and we can never know until we look deep into it. Bitterness happens when we close the so many other doors of the mind and frequently use the same one. So, you made me realize that and I do see that. We cannot conclude or assume - in doing so, we claim perfection. And that is a crime. It is a violation and an attempt to stunt the growth of our own being. So, my silence was reflection on your comment and this - what I say now is my realization. It is not a conclusion, it is a realization. So - Thank you for reading me and commenting. I write not to simply display, but to gain also. And you are doing just that! So... THANK YOU! :)

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Taking time - Aphorisms

Taking time to see other things- more meaningful and deeper things in life.. Taking time..
Time you cannot take. What you can take is - Take away what blocks your view of TIME. What blocks it? Fear of it and longing of its control. The desire to control each an every second. And the final giving in to it because of sheer exhaustion of all that hard work. BE. IT IS. IT WILL BE. You have that previledge. To BE. And when in that state, you have time. Ample time. Plenty of Time. All the time.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Thanking you My Lord

Today, I saw such beauty and peace and I experienced the height and limit of tranquility and I admired all this. I thanked you for all this. And then I looked at you, and when I looked at you, nothing else existed. And when there was nothing, there was no ME. There was just YOU, Thank you for YOU.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Love, Says she..

Love you.. Love me.. Oh I love you.. We all love. We love so much.. OMG!
Do we? Or are we just loving ourselves by loving someone else? Some calculated sacrifices, i.e, letting go of some things in life FOR that person automatically qualifies many as the one that truly loves..

Love is not that! Love is real.. When you don't have to keep reminding yourself and the other that you love them. Love is when you grow with them and they grow with you.. Love is union. Unity is an affect of a cause. A cause: We walk in the same direction so we are united. THINK!

Definitions

Same words: Love, Life, Death and Beauty and Brain and Normal .. abnormal.. Words dont change, meanings do. We define and redefine the same words, same situations , same moments as we grow. Grow? Or get hit harder and harder each time until we get to the essence of it. Thrown out of home and then lost in the puzzle and then pushed back to the home....Definitions .. change..words.. dont.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Letting Go

Let go of what?

Nothing goes that you let go off, for nothing was there that you were holding on to. Yet, it was constant. What IS , REMAINS. You never held it, and you never let it go. In your perception you did, but that was an illusion. This whole concept of having and losing. What you lost, was not there to begin with and what IS, will always BE. Think and reflect on this. You will conclude that there is no cause for sorrow, there is only joy and there is ONENESS and tranquility. There is eternity in two beings accepting the existence of the other. Maybe we play the game of having and then letting go because we are refusing to accept the very existence of what is being let go of.

Eternal is God, you never lose Him - you just get occupied with something else - He is Constantly THERE. Eternal are we, for though we may transfer from place to place, from earth to heaven or hell - we live, feel, see and hear. Do you accept that? If you do, then you lost nothing.

Friday, January 20, 2006

When the Worlds meet

Two different worlds. Many different worlds. Each person has their own world. "My world is different from your world" someone said to me. True. So very true. Even my world is different from my own brothers world. Worlds apart are we all from eachother , yet we co exist. And life is good as long as no one intrudes on the other's world. This world each one of us has, is our own unique perception of life. So , when two people come close and try and become one, their worlds meet. War of the Worlds! What happens when two worlds collide? A big BOOM and then a whole new world is created. But a lot depends on how each party sustains the boom. Who lives through it, and who does not. Maybe both wont. Maybe both will and ALL will if they have that one wonderful back up - ACCEPTANCE. Change in your world, or situations in your world require your acceptance. That's their main block into forming themselves into a whole new world. If you don't accept what is, what will be does not occur and a state of panic remains. Once you accept, change occurs in YOUR favor.

Message to Message

It was not the intention here to ridicule your fine perception, but to cleanse it from assumption. You took offense in a defensive message oh dear Message. Forgive me, to offend you was not the objective, to remove suspicions and assumptions was the goal. Assuming is basically giving space to darkness in the temple, the heart. This darkness causes a lot of destruction and results in more darkness. The assumption could have been mine, for maybe your words had other meanings.

I am sorry.

Energy

Humans came from the same place. A place. A level. An existence - a point. From an existence to an existence through various transfers of energy they came to be in this realm existing yet in other realms as they exist here. Something happens there, and something happens here each moment here and no moment there. Consciousness itself shifts realms many times in a single DAY. A single revolution of the sun and the moon, divided into various tiny and great events labeled as hours and minutes and seconds and milliseconds. A constant vibration of energy - giving, converting and executing yet combining. Causing interaction between entities and causing situations that become turning points or mere memorable or hated events. The medium for this realm is the body this energy is IN. It gives value to the action of that energy which is under the control of the conscious will or not under its control. If under control then an organization exists, an organization that balances and manages the transfers and many conversions of this limitless energy form to cause a favorable flow. If not under control, the energies subject themselves to ANOTHER consciousness, another entity which seeks to be unique and thus destroys your conscious will. Scary eh?

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Time and You

Time. It passes, flows and moves only forward. Never stops for a moment. Everything, everyone and anyone takes a break. Time does not. Time is not merely the routine motions of the sun and moon or the rotation of earth or all that astronomy - it is also YOU. When you are not at peace with yourself, Time is not at peace with you. When time is not at peace with you, you are not yourself. You move time and time moves you. How does one become ONE with Time then?
"The clock is ticking" , we are warned many times in this life. So what?? Why are you so distressed if the clock is ticking? Whats the ugly hurry? Your future? Or the Past that haunts you? The future you cant wait to see and the past you cannot let go of. And in doing so losing TIME, Losing NOW. For existing NOW is the only way Time gets the attention and respect it deserves from you and when it does, when you DO live in the NOW , Time takes a break for YOU - NOW.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Out of the Box

Out of the box means.. OUT OF THE BOX. What is the BOX? Its the limits you put around you. The boundaries. Its frustrating to see fear. Within and in others. Why do these boundaries that we set ourselves have to BE? I often hear things like " What will people say? " or " Oh this is how it is". What a loser thinking! I have seen in my life, that what was feared the most - DID indeed occur. And, what fear was avoided - never existed to begin with and thus nothing really happened. Amazing how this mind works. What you MIND, MATTERS. That's mind over matter for you. This BOX we are talking about here is virtual, but its impact is amazing. Can fix lives and can destroy lives. Question every move while making your little box!

Finding You.

I have found you I think. Somewhere in my being. I had searched the universe to find you and I had concluded that I could not find you. But then here you are, in me - around me. You never judged me, I judged you. You stood by me and I thought I was alone. You will not even say I was wrong, you simply say I knew not. Such LOVE! Thats why I have looked for you- calling it peace and calling it happiness, and so many other names, but its YOU. I have called you eternal, and you are so- but then you are you. And here you are, in me.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

The Right

Is it your right to ask for a right? Where I live, its a crime to ask for your right. Its considered a weakness. As men, we TAKE our rights. My concern now is the women. The people who smile and go through life in this desert without getting their rights. Accepting it to be life, when it is not life. It is someones perverted idea of how life should be so that only THEY can benefit from it. A land of double standards, deception and arrogance. But do we fear that? Should we? I dont think change can occur without acceptance of fact. And what is around and happening is fact. Once you accept it, you will understand it and once you understand it, you can change it. You can at least change your own world. You get your rights when you stop blaming and start searching and living and accepting. An outright NO leads to confrontation which leads to destruction. When has destructuon ever been the solution. Peaceful means require patience and pateince creates persistance and persistance can move mountains. Love yourself. Love yourself enough to gain and live in the wisdom of life. The formulas that always work will come to you once you acheive this state. When the high and mighty will shy away from imposing on you..

Saturday, January 14, 2006

What is Pain?

What is this life of unawareness? For what is happiness if their were no pain? How indeed would you define happinness if their was no pain? To celebrate life and to smile, one must know what pain is. And so pain does come. No one can claim total happiness.
Pain is the loss of control over anything dear to heart. But then , were you ever in control? You want to conquer it? Realize it. Realize what you are and then you will have conquered it all. Even the joy of happiness that reaches an extreme which leads you back to pain..

Reach Out

A night so quiet, so noisy and so dark yet so clear at the same time. Is this confusion or do you see clearly for the first time? Were you in an illusion or are you in an illusion? So many questions must be in your mind and so many doubts - yet you reach out to me. You seek. I seek also. I have sought. And I search. Maybe I have gone further into the jungle and made a pathway for those that have doubts yet the need to cross the jungle to follow. Follow not me, but a path. At least, there is a path. I can tell you that to this point that I have reached, I have cleared the way to it. So you will not meet the hurdles I met. You will not bump into stones I bumped into and you will not fall into pits I fell into. To this point where I am, the Path is clear..

Dark Secrets

I have seen people lie and live a lie till they die. Why? Fear of loss. It is just that - a fear of loss. Of dignity, of face or person or a life which they beleive to be the life they want. If they had to lie to have it , then it was not a life they wanted. Is your life based on a series of suppositions or is it based on facts? This is the place to say what it is and then find the right way out and the right way in to YOUR real life..

Welcome to Life

I would like to welcome you to life. Yes, you have lived so far - but then have you? I have found answers to questions people ask all their lives. Not knowing answers and having many questions for a long long time causes a lot of frustration and anger in us. This directs our lives, so we have so many issues going around the world. The common answer is : this is life.
Well, I have news for you. NO , this is NOT life. This is us giving in to failure.

Post your questions here and get a totally amazing percpective from me. You will be shocked and relieved at the same time. What may have been so complicated so far may indeed have a simple solution. A simple tweak in perception. Get out of the box!