Why the ego and egolessness when it comes to healthy eating? Modern humans believes that they the owners of the food because they have earned or bought it. The thought that human beings own the food is nothing but an ego and this ego is a major hindrance to a good thought, eventually, good thoughts and good behaviour leads to spiritual growth.
According to the scripts, food plays an important part in lowering our ego, and we must never think for a fraction of a second that we have earned the food, but is provided by God. It is also said that how we earn the food, how we cook the food, how we eat the food, and how we behave after what we eat contribute to our journey towards egolessness.
In the end, I do want to mention that although yogic diet completely denies non-vegetarian food, and recommends sattvic food, it is an individual choice and preference. Eventually even after eating sattvic food, if our behaviour is non-sattvic non-vegetarian it beats the purpose of the Sattvic wholesome food. Our non-sattvic behaviour is considered to be full of Ego and is a major hindrance to our health and spiritual growth.
So next time when you think about wholesome food as a part of your health regime, think deeply of the role food plays in making us wholesome as an egolessness human being.
The Daily Guardian is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel thedailyguardian and stay updated with the latest headlines. The roses of St. Such is the power of spiritual love. Hours spent in front of a computer screen at my home in Egypt have been interspersed with moments of release outdoors, where I have planted and trans-planted, fed and watered, a new garden of love. With time, it should grow into a beautiful, productive space, inviting to insects and birds: Perhaps this is a fitting tribute to the Conference.
And it should add to the variety and goodness of our table, no bad thing in these days of plastic-wrapped veg and fruit, in-season or out of season, with shocking carbon footprints and unproven claims to freshness. Covering COP sessions has been demanding, with press conferences, protests, and so many presen-tations.
Predictably, technical glitches have tried the nerves even as I give thanks to the internet for the extraordinary privilege of being able to take part without being physically present. Whenever I slip out into the garden, I recharge, pausing in contemplation of the eternal cycle of nature before I work the soil, hoe and sow. Working intently and with love, I have planted herbs, salad leaves, carrots, chard and spinach; calendula for splashes of colour and for the pollinators, and tagetes French marigold as companion plants to deter pests.
They are also spiritual balm: The closer you come to Mother Nature, the more you tune into her rhythm because—in truth—human beings and nature have been entwined for almost all the time we have walked the earth. All we need to do is to remember our true identity, our innate dignity, and our connection with the Supreme. So, my COP26 has had its own rhythm and texture. On the one hand, observing meetings and demonstrations, passionate argument and protest. On the other, creating a new garden of love.
For me, this will be a very personal and deeply spiritual memorial of the time. Sylvia Ismail is a writer and editor with a background in public affairs, radio broadcasting and journalism, who has been practising Rajyoga for over 10 years. Situations exist outside us but they become a part of our consciousness and start to influence our behaviour when we think about them again and again. We meet many people during the course of a day.
If we want, we can find something to criticise in each one of them. After all, no one is perfect. Spirituality teaches us that whatever we think eventually becomes a part of us. Every thought creates a vibration, which affects our state of mind. We can decide to make a conscious effort to note good qualities in everyone we meet—they may be humble, sincere, hard-working, or punctual.
If we think about such qualities, they create positive, healthy vibrations, and our state of mind improves. The better the quality of our thoughts, the stronger the mind becomes. But we hold on to hurtful, unpleasant memories, fill our mind with them, and then start to believe that the world is not nice… people are not good to me….
We then relate to people on the basis of this belief. This is the result of what we have chosen to store in the mind. Suppose someone is rude to me. I can either keep thinking about how nasty they were, how they insulted me… or I can tell myself that they were probably not in their best state of mind, or were upset about something, which is why they behaved that way. Then I can dismiss the whole thing from the mind and get on with my life.
But if I keep agonising over it, magnifying the incident by replaying it in my mind over and over again, I will become hostage to the negative feelings of hurt, anger, and sorrow I am creating. Regular practice of meditation gives us the power to choose the right thought in every situation.
When we use that power, we can be stable and happy, always. If we wish to have peace of mind and be happy, it helps to remember that happiness comes from sharing it with others. We have all noticed how people who are kind and helpful naturally remain happy. On the other hand, those who do a lot of wrongs have little peace or lasting joy.
The world is governed by the law of cause and effect. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. We tend to forget that this law applies to our life too — we reap the fruit of our actions, and receive from others what we give through our feelings, thoughts, words and behaviour. All our experiences in life are the result of what we have done at some point in time. The soul is eternal and carries a record of its actions through successive lives, and something done long ago, in a past life, can bear fruit in the present.
Recognising this fact helps us chart a better course for the future. The past cannot be changed, but we can mitigate the effect of our past mistakes by doing the right things now. Just as we balance a pair of scales by adding weight to the lighter side, doing good adds to our merits, and when the good gradually becomes preponderant, it rewards us with greater peace, happiness, and stability.
For lasting peace of mind, the mind needs to be powerful so that it is not disturbed by the vicissitudes of life. Our mental energy is drained mostly by overthinking, agitation, and emotional upheaval caused by ego, anger, or some other weakness. We argue and fight over trifles, which we blow out of all proportion because our perception is distorted by one or more of the above weaknesses. To stop this from happening again and again, we need to improve the quality of our consciousness.
All it takes is a little tolerance and understanding. In time others come to appreciate our calmness and respect us for it, even if they do not say so. When we change the way we see and respond to people and events, we can avoid conflict. Gradually, our confidence and maturity increase, and so does our stability. This does not mean that life will become a bed of roses. Circumstances and people will test us, but instead of complaining or clashing with them, if we take them as tests, we can learn from them and grow.
Leading a happy life is in our hands. We can reduce our expectations, and we will not be easily upset. In addition, if we are unselfish and maintain a high level of self-respect, not only will our behaviour foster good relationships, our vibrations will provide comfort and strength to others, making our life more meaningful and fulfilling. Benevolence, which is another way to speak of kindness, is the act of bestowing goodwill on another soul.
For example, I may be aware of a habit that someone needs to change because it would be very beneficial for the soul, for the person as they navigate their life. Did it bring benefit, or was I just thinking for the sake of thinking, speaking for the sake of speaking? If I am to be benevolent, then when I speak, I must say something of spiritual benefit, so that the soul I am speaking to is able to attain something. Although it is often difficult to grasp, everything that happens has some benefit.
Individual situations cannot be removed, because they are part of a subtle continuity of thought and action based on the karmic accounts we are settling. Everything is very interconnected. I just have to remember that what they are saying and doing is beneficial. With pure feelings, love, and beautiful soft words, I can explain to someone, even if the other person is defensive or argumentative. I can just give support, give love, and give help. Let me do it all with very good feelings. When I see things in this way, I will be able to see the subtle benefit that lies in every situation.
If that difficulty was not there, maybe the person would not have learned, gained or realised something important from that situation. So, we need to have feelings of benevolence; first towards the self, then for others, and then looking at what life is bringing to us.
If we remain in the awareness of being a soul acting through a body, then when we relate to others, we will naturally say things that are beneficial for the soul. That is what is needed now. In that way, the first benefit is to the self, and that, in turn, brings benefit to all other souls of the world. Everything becomes entertaining, joyful and light. Play the whole day with the thought that I just need to practise being benevolent. When we do this, we feel very happy.
So, our feelings are good, and there is a lot of joy and of course that brings benefit to all. This whole universe is in communion with one deep order of intelligence. This deep intelligence immerses everything on the earth. This deep intelligence is the code that seeps soil, plants, species, animals, humans and all. We are born and we die in harmony with this order of intelligence. Every blade of grass, every sand of grain, everything, every sub-atomic particle is in harmony with deep intelligence.
Without this intelligence, things may not conduct the way things do. Things communicate in harmony with that order which is pure intelligence. A bird travels thousands of miles without the use of any GPS but reaches the point where it landed last year.
Sub-atomic particles steer the path that they follow in harmony with that intelligence. The human body is led by that one deep intelligence that leads the planets and stars that leads water and the air.
Life grew on earth in harmony with that one deep order of intelligence and for millions of years, we grew on the earth as humans. Humans added a new dimension to this intelligence. Humans grew a new quality, the human mind. A complex mechanism developed in billions of years. Humans started to think. Thinking was thinking and the opposite of doing. So in thinking, humans thought of doing but did not do what they thought of doing.
Thinking, because it was not doing, grew a psychological mind. What humans thought of doing but did not do, to balance that out psychologically, the mind evolved new reverse engineering. What humans thought of doing but did not do, the mind reversed it into dreams and in dreams, the mind did all that he thought of doing because the mind can only think and the process of psychological reverse engineering filled that void of doing.
Humans think that they know. You also think that you know. But do you know anything? Do you know the mystery of life and death? University professors, scholars have papers published and books written but remain more ignorant than common people because they only think.
In thinking they do. They only do the thinking. Thinking complements doing. A false intelligence grows in them. They gather information without being the knower of information. Knowledge is the opposite of knowing.
Knowledge means that you observe knowledge not being there but being outside of the doer. Like a farmer is digging a trench and he is pushing forward the shovel to dig and you are watching him.
You being the watcher of that digging is not the digger. But knowledge is that you assumed that you dug without digging it. These are two opposite things.
In a disguise of knowing, knowledge circulates. Therefore, the world is full of religious and knowledgeable people and knowledge but humanity deteriorates into prejudices and wars. It seems there is something amiss. Man has not become intelligent. Man has to become intelligent enough to know that knowledge of someone cannot be your knowing because the experience of someone cannot become your experience merely by reading or hearing. Your experience will become your experience when you experience.
Knowledge creates hypnosis of intelligence. Knowledge disguises as intelligence. Knowledge hypnotises you. Knowledge stimulates the intellect. But Buddha has said not to settle for anything lesser than Buddha. Buddha never asked us to be Buddhists. To become intelligent man has to understand and know the sutra of that deep intelligence that whelms us from all directions of which we are the parts that which flows in us.
Intelligence is the opposite of ignorance. Knowing is possible through opposites. If there is ignorance there is intelligence. In contrast, you understand the reality. The contrast of darkness brings to you knowledge of light. Hell lends you knowledge of heaven. The world brings to you knowledge of transcendence that means to go beyond the boundaries of this world.
To look at the existence skeptically, Buddha did that. To disbelieve in your beliefs, you believe in mind, ego and intellect. But to be, you have to begin doubtfully. Be doubtful to know. Begin to doubt you, God, Religions. Man wants to know.
To exist, man wants to know. His whole life is spent in knowing something. A lifetime of thinking that goes into what is there inside him. The gap between knowledge and knowing is a real gap. Knowing this gap is intelligence.
All senses grew for knowing. You keep a sweet on your tongue. You instantly know that it is sweet. Not the word sweet but the moment your tongue comes in contact with sweet you know. As per scientists, types of sensor cells that sense sweetness sense it and forward information into the brain where it is processed in the hippocampus and one gets to know it tastes sweet or sour. Science cannot go beyond the definition.
Science can only catch the periphery. The purpose of the egoless state is to get us to yet a further goal or end, which is no-self or no-union. Thus the egoless Bernadette Roberts, They want to make their unique contributions, to stand out from the crowd, Davidson Frame, Nor is she required to have awareness about some of her properties, contrary to Chisholm's view. Marybel's experience is an egoless one, and does not intrude into her as herself.
The egoless -reference represents precisely a first-person Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Adi Da Samraj, A different team organization is the egoless team []: Egoless teams consist of ten or fewer programmers. The goals of the group are set by consensus, and input from every member is taken for major decisions. Group leadership rotates Pankaj Jalote, Programming can and should be egoless.
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