The
art of wise living involves four steps plan purposrfully,prepare
prayerfully,proced positively pursue persistently. The joy of wise living
involves the art of joyous looking. You can look at the world with thoughts, you
can also look at the world without thought from a pure being. When we look at
the world with thoughts then we should be aware of the subtle pollution that
exists. Thoughts comes from memory is the representation of experience of the
past and so from the past we see the present hence pollution happens. It is not
natural that we look at the world through these thoughts ? if the answer so yes
then the possibility of a higher perception does not exist. We can say ordinarily we look
through thoughts however there is an extraordinary way of looking at life. Have
we not absorbed many physically challenged people doing extraordinary things of
life. We might have observed that mental setbacks are harder to cope weigh guan
the physical because it makes people ineffective they operate from the ‘i
can’t whether than i can they operate from scarcity rather than abundance.
They are rested in poverty consciousness rather than i prosperity consciousness.
We have to learn the art of coming from abundance rather than from scarcity.
Creativity happens in this space. What does being effective means? Effective
people learn to reduce stress. Increase happiness and increase potential. How to
reduce stress? There is external and internal stress. External stress involves
your eating habits pollution and erratic sleeping habits. Internal stress involves
attitudes beliefs dogmas and negative patterns. One has to learn the art of
handling them from a spiritual perspective. What do people really want in life?
Most of us are like a ship in ocean without a compass. What we want is success
is getting what we like and satisfaction. Success is getting what we like and
satisfaction is liking what we get. Reflect on the following exchange between a traveler
and a tourist guide, traveler-“what will be the whether at this point”
guide-“ the weather is going to be the weather that i like” traveler-“how
can you get a weather you like” guide- “i do not always get the weather i
like” therefore i learn to like that i get. so i get a weather that i like.
The art of getting what i like and liking what i get- this one should cultivate
through spiritual practice, the next important point we need to observe is that
most of us are searching for happiness. We search for happiness in the world of
object and things. However we fail to appreciate that the world of object can
give us pleasure but not happiness. People do not see this distinction hence
they suffer in life happiness really exists within the art of going within is
one of the arts we have to learn. One we discover the art of being happy within
then we will participate in the miracle called life. Have you seen the beauty of
the sunrise? Very few people experience the ecstasy of the sunrise. We live in a
beautiful world, but we still continue to live in small pond of misery. Even we
are pulled out of the pond of misery, we continue to be in our own misery for
each one is identified with his or her own misery. Once we learn the art of dissociating
ourselves from the idea of misery. We will participate in the sunrise the sun setting
we will participate in the twinkling of stars and the moving cloud's. The whole
world will became a source of joy.
