Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
— S W A M I V l V E K A N A N D A
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Personal Development for Smart People
— S W A M I V l V E K A N A N D A
, v N o w that w e ' v e explored the three primary principles of truth, love, and power, it's time to address the secondary principles of o n e - ness, authority, and courage. These secondary principles are derived from the pairings of the first three. Oneness is truth plus love. Author- ity is truth plus power. A n d courage is love plus power. These second- ary principles will help deepen your understanding of conscious living. T h e three-part combination of truth, love, and p o w e r is intelligence, w h i c h I'll address in Chapter 7. Oneness is the principle that results from combining truth and love. W h e r e a s love is the ability to connect by choice, oneness is the 69 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE recognition that being connected is your natural state. Love is choos- ing to connect. Oneness is knowing y o u ' r e already c o n n e c t e d . O n e - ness has no specific target; it's an omnidirectional feeling of connec- tion to everyone and everything at the same time. Oneness is pure unconditional love. O n e day several years a g o , I was having lunch in my backyard while w a t c h i n g some birds. I tried to imagine w h a t it w o u l d be like to experience a sense of total oneness. Soon I felt my consciousness ex- panding beyond my body. I instantly grasped that the birds in front of me w e r e just as m u c h me as my physical body w a s . My field of a w a r e - ness continued to expand, and I sensed that the wall at the e d g e of the yard was also m e . A n d finally this feeling stretched to encompass everything in my field of vision and b e y o n d . My consciousness was no longer localized; it w a s everywhere. I still saw everything through my body's eyes, but my inner senses told me I w a s m u c h more than this singular point of reference. I felt an intense surge of positive emotion, but it w a s so overwhelming that it knocked me out of that state. Although this experience lasted only seconds, it had a deep and enduring impact on m e . For several weeks, my mind struggled to catch up. I had to discard my old model of reality that assumed the world was made up of completely separate individuals and objects. I stopped seeing a world of independent individuals, and I began seeing reality as one giant body composed of individual cells. S o m e cells were totally unaware of the body and w e r e inadvertently competing against their fellows. But other cells noticed the body and w e r e working for its g o o d . T h e most intelligent cells understood that the health of the body and the health of the cells were inextricably connected. The body cannot survive without the cells, nor can the cells survive without the body. Oneness is the deep realization of this simple truth. W i t h some practice, I learned to re-create this joyful expansion of awareness at will. It w a s like listening to a familiar radio station. T h e station was always broadcasting, but I had to tune myself to the right frequency to hear it. I found that the easiest w a y to tune in w a s to ask myself, Where is the joy? That question w o u l d help me listen for the right frequency, a n d o n c e I got the frequency, the volume w o u l d gradually increase until I was feeling extremely joyful and c o n n e c t e d . 70 Oneness > T h e mind-set of oneness cannot be compartmentalized. It isn't some side project y o u add to your personal development to-do list, only to fade back into separateness w h e n y o u head to work the next day. If y o u resonate with oneness, it changes y o u from top to bottom. You can no longer continue treating everyone as completely separate from y o u . Let's go deeper into the principle of oneness by exploring its vari- ous aspects: empathy, compassion, honesty, fairness, contribution, and unity. Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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