Drop Yourself

Drop the feverishness, you are in the world for a very short time, sixty, seventy maybe eighty, ninety years, compared to the the length of time, Earth, and our Universe have existed it is very, very insignificant. Make good use of the time you have in your body, my guru used to joke about it, when someone ask him, how to avoid being used by others? He laughed and said 'Be useful.' he said being kind or loving doesn't mean that you drop your ability to discern, but to give help where help is needed. If you pamper your child and give your child everything he or she wants, then the child may grow up to be a problem to the society. You need to be strict or loving when it is appropriate, and if it is necessary, you may at times need to punish him or her.

A friend told me that he would not get angry with anyone because he doesn't want to hurt anyone. This is because he feels hurt when others got angry with him, maybe he should be asking himself why others got angry at him and what did he learned from the experience instead of only learning that it hurts, and not do it to others. But like your own spoiled child, if someone needs to be shown anger, would you be kind enough to do it or would you just walk away because you are not sure if it is the right thing to do and it is safe not to.

Do not always see one side of a coin, there are actually two, so flip over your thinking once in a while and see another view of the same issue. Take the journey to the heart, no need to go around the world to find peace, it is right where the heart is. Many people want to be on the spiritual path, but they do not know that there is much work to do on this path back to the heart. There is no airy, fairy road to heaven, just this plain rugged road to the heart.

Many keep themselves safe by hiding behind self created jails, following rules and regulations design to keep them out of trouble. Staying behind their self made jails for so long they got used to it and forgotten about it. But when they told to break out, they actually refuse to leave their jail and even defend their jail from being broken. No need to worry, what you create is yours to keep, it is you that is in the jail and no one else. Be Happy!

Thank you
LOVE
Alan

Two of my favorite actress of the 80's Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin