5. Compassion
A compassionate soul is worth more than a big pile of diamonds, for compassion can eliminate all the suffering of the world. Because of this, once all the suffering in the world will go away, everyone will start glittering tenfold than the most expensive and fine diamond or emerald jewel. Then, to express the gratitude for showing compassion in such a way, one can adorn himself with these most precious gems.
6. Fear or being foolish
Fear is the friend of foolishness, while confidence and trust are the friends of wisdom. When one loses his capacity of seeing clearly, which is seeing through the eyes of wisdom, foolishness or the distorted view of the mind takes its place and starts imagining scenarios that will usually never even happen. When unexplained fear arises, we lose confidence in ourselves, our self-esteem lowers drastically, we even sometimes lose contact with our immediate reality. The moment you notice that the scenery around you changes from being happy and content with your life as it is to fearful and weird dramas that usually are generated by the people or situations around you, or even sometimes by your own Ego-mind, you need to re-assert your position. You need to know that you are now being foolish. This very thing is that which saves you from a lot of trouble. The sky is always blue and beautiful, because of the color of the sea. Gray skies are there only temporarily. Knowing that and also feeling that deep in your soul is the point where you can break the fear that is developing around yourself. So always have an external reference like that, in troubled times. I have found it useful that when you feel unsettled, bringing back to mind a place where you've been and you felt safe, like for example sitting on a bench in the forest on a sunny day, breathing the fresh air and immersing in your book, is definitely one thing you can do to snap out of the fear projected by your Ego-mind, when it arises, for one particular reason or another.
Sometimes, unexplained fear, that is usually developed by our Ego-mind at the mental level and that has most of the time no base in our immediate reality can sneak up on you. That very moment know that what happens in your mind space isn’t real. It is only a temporary situation, that will clear away, once all the “problems” that generated it will subside and dissolve, as they always do. In the face of unexplained fear or obnoxious dramas, just be present, knowing that some things need to happen in order for other things to proceed further. Some things need to happen so people around you or even you can learn valuable lessons. Also, if you can, try to completely relax, feeling your whole body, maybe lying down on a comfortable sofa, feeling the peaceful space of the present moment. Any kind of body tension that you feel is actually your resistance toward the present moment. Try to remember this in any instance when you feel your body is building up tension. When you feel relaxed by having mind and body awareness, being grateful for the present moment, your resistance to being in the present moment dissolves, as being Now silences the Ego-mind and also the fear that the Ego-mind is projecting. Just be present, center yourself and be grateful for being Now.
So, Buddhists call being fearful as being foolish. To understand this at the mental level, you are not being wise, you are not seeing things clearly. See with simple wisdom that everything is all right as it is and that your mental projections that have generated this fear in the first place are merely a means to distance yourself from the immediate reality, to keep you locked in your mind. If you feel or know that the fear is generated by your own mind and its source is not external, know that these mental projections are rooted in your subconscious mind and that they need to emerge at the present time, in order for the mental field to clear up. Don’t fight them. Acknowledge these mental projections of fearful events, acknowledge gently your emotions and stay with them, observing them, while keeping a steady clear mind of wisdom. It is just a mental storm in a glass of water. It will pass, sooner or later. There is a temporary distortion of your view of the world which translates into fear. Nevertheless, the gray skies never stay there forever. Just see that at some point, the blue skies will soon appear while the gray clouds will slowly dissipate. That's all there is to it.
7. Being stuck
When you know you are stuck in your life it means that you are aware of that. Realizing this very thing is the trigger that gets you unstuck. The residual feelings of the emotional load that comes with that may be annoying or even unbearable, but the blockage has been lifted the moment you realized it. How you decide to proceed after that is your own choice. You can see yourself in action, undoing the ties that kept you locked in the past. Or you can forgive anyone that has ever hurt you or made you feel miserable in your life. Or you can send loving thoughts to the people that created this situation in your life that is the reason for you being stuck right now. The very realization that says “Hey, I’m stuck!” brings a valuable practice opportunity, for one who practices passionately on his spiritual path. Practicing can bring a lot of wisdom along the way and the spiritual practitioner can see with clear eyes the obstacles as being blessings in disguise. If you are serious about your spiritual path and your practice, you know that every mental or emotional blockage of any kind, resistance to what is or generally any hardship that you encounter during your day can always be seen as a lesson or a reason to train your mind more, by understanding your current situation with patience and acceptance. This is an opportunity to understand how your mind works and this is also an opportunity to practice the virtue of patience, so you can overcome these blockages with much more ease. Being stuck is thus, one of the greatest tools, in the hands of a spiritual practitioner.
8. Life
Life is the same as the present moment. It is eternal and ever unfolding. Looking for evidence of life’s creation you will always find that something else originated that “something”, and that something else is behind that too. Life has no beginning and no end. Life is an endless dance between form, energy and the unmanifested. Its language is love and compassion, kindness and peace.
9. Our pure minds
Our minds are like droplets of water in the Ocean of the Universal Mind. We can connect to the realm of the Mind which is eternal and contains Endless and Eternal wisdom, unfolding in all directions of time and space, pervading everything. The Ego-self, which is our “little” mind and which is still in use by many of us today which likes to promote separation and uniqueness in favor of Oneness, wants us to think that all the ideas that we have are ours, when in fact we are all connected, through our mind, to the Dimension of the Universal Mind, where we all interrelate at the mental level. We always share ideas through the Universal Mind Field, even if we are aware of that or not, we have our own ideas as well and we also receive insights and inspiration through the Universal Mind Field from advanced Ascended Masters and the Spirit world. The mind is a great tool to connect, to analyze, to discern, to think, to contemplate and communicate.
10. Oneness
The concept of Oneness is imprinted in our very Universe. It is one of the attributes of our Creator. In unity we stand together, we share valuable information, we share love, we co-create together with our Creator. Oneness promotes togetherness as opposed to separation. The concept of Oneness is the one thing that favors love and compassion. We are born on this planet to love each other and share experiences, be compassionate to one another and ride the infinite wave of life. In the vastness of the