Powers of the Heart and Mind: Find Your True Strength

Seoul, South Korea

Strength. It is time for you to find ways to make yourself stronger. Persevere through the challenges that life throws at you, and not only never give up, but also stand tall as the victor. As it was once said, by someone not so long ago, when we enter into the adult world, many do not care how hard we tried, they care about the success that we have to show.

However, how hard you try is of importance to you alone.

Try your best. Put your heart and energy into all each task that is given to you, and compose a strategy for success. There is a parable: the man from the East met the man from the West. The man from the East asked, "How do you learn the truth?" The man from the West replied, "I open my eyes. How do you learn the truth?" The man from the East replied, "I close my eyes."

One is about education, knowledge, rational thinking, logic, and lessons from life.
The other is about self-reflection, intrapersonal understanding, and being aware of more than the material world.

To find strength in life, you can use both. To achieve success, learn as much as you can. Study your subject of choice at an intense rate. Use knowledge and facts as tools for you to build a strategy for achievement.

At the same time, always be aware of how your actions can affect other humans and the Earth on which we live. Be honest with yourself, and you will find reasons to be honest with everyone. For it through the honesty of self-reflection that allows us to recognize the origin of problems that have held us back from achieving success.

One must always use the heart, and one must always use the mind at the same time. These two should never be separated, for if they are, the heart will become nothing more than an organ that is used to pump blood, and the mind will be forgotten, and only the brain shall remain.

Use your cleverness for achievement. Use your knowledge to create a foundation. Use your ideas to find creative ways to make positive change in the world, for when the heart and the mind are working together, one will want to help one another. One will recognize that true strength does not come from physicality or from cleverness and manipulation, but from a united humanity all working together for the same cause of loving and protecting the planet Earth and the life among us.

Hindu Musings: The End of Spring, Eliminating Rage, and Future Dreams

Dr. Jordan Peterson gave the suggestion of spending 15 minutes per day writing...as a form of practice. Well, here it goes. My first day.

Good Day to All 

Spring was never waiting for us. Can one let evening come? How much rage can be compacted into a nanosecond? 

Why does the flame symbolize love? I once had a professor that had too many questions, but my answers only led to more questions. I wish I had the courage at the time to tell her I was only writing questions into my work, so she could see the answers more clearly. She wouldn't have listened anyway. 

Some spend their lifetime trying to find the meaning of life. Maybe in that process the flame begins to run out or the spark never ignited to begin with anyway. It has always been somewhat mesmerizing to think that you can control your own destiny, but you cannot make the flame last forever. When you have shared your warmth with another person, perhaps they might find comfort in it for a year or two, but all of sudden your warmth is not a blanket large enough for them, and their minds begin to wander.

Maybe we cannot control our own destiny, but maybe the rage can dissolve and sublimate. Looking back on the past, there are many lessons of life, but I once asked someone, would you trade your old mistakes for anything? This is from a song lyric, and it refers to finding the value in the life lessons that come from making mistakes. The person I asked that question to said no, absolutely not. I, on the other hand, am a little different. I would trade my mistakes for the past. Perhaps there is a certain sense of wisdom that comes from life lessons, but I am still the same person. It is not the value of the life lesson that has so much personal importance for me, it is choosing the pathway that has the least destruction. No matter what the consequence on my personal character, I would choose for destruction to be the smallest. That is what I would say if I could change the past, but I cannot, so I digress.

As we evolve into the world of technology and global communications, we can share messages and our daily life with someone from any corner of the globe within seconds, but one of the largest challenges that the world of virtual relations has never surpassed has been...what is the other person doing on the other side of their electronic device? When you meet someone in a virtual sphere, you do not know what other sparks and flames they have already ignited in their life....Are you just one of many candles around the cake? Or perhaps you are another log on their fire....or maybe you are the only light in their tunnel. The unknown can be a sense of wonder, but it can also lead to personal destruction. Nonetheless, we should never fear it.

Like any fire, no matter how much you tend to it, it can go out. A person who once shared nothing but kindness and adoration with you, has nothing left to give or say, and only keeps you around because there is no conflict to justify ending the connection. Until one day when the knot will either untie itself or the string will be cut without warrant. In the younger years, this used to be a sign of pain. The flame going out, and the cold sweeping in. The string cut, and your life falling.

As one gets older. It is neither of the two things, for people are not drops of fire, nor are they knots tied into string. They are human lives. Some selfish. Some self-absorbed. Yet as we grow older, we always learn that there all traits positive and negative are also found in ourselves. We are not evil, but we can commit evil. We are not dark, but the darkness is real if you can envision it. We do not want to hurt and bring destruction forward, but there are times when we all bring the destruction all the same. 

If peace is the removal of destruction from both the mind and the external world, let us choose the pathways that will rid of destruction and push us toward peace and mental clarity. The warmth that comes from reading the words of a lover is not warmth at all. It is a preoccupation. Bitterness confounds the past. Warmth is in the present for a moment, but the future is that of bliss if we choose to find a way. We must always ask ourselves, which pathway will bring the smallest amount of destruction and bring peace, even for just a moment.