Re: [ISG:280687] Re: To Succeed, You Need Concentration Swami Kriyananda

[kukku picks]

Time and tide wait for none, but if you are in surrender mode you can master the dimension, writes P V VAIDYANATHAN

Time and space are two dimensions in which we exist. While space is easy to understand, time is a more complicated phenomenon. We have been told many times that ‘time is of essence’ or that ‘time and tide wait for none.’ Despite knowing the value of time, our biggest problem is that we are not in control of it. 

For any venture to be successful, correct timing is necessary. The right thing, done at the wrong time, is doomed. We are aware, in our daily lives, of the importance of timing. Getting up late on an important day, arriving late for a crucial interview or examination, missing the deadline for paying our insurance premium, investing in the right scheme at the wrong time, buying your stocks or equities high and selling low are some instances which make us realise the importance of perfect timing. Sometimes, we learn how important a person is to us only after his death. Every moment of our life is witness to the fact that timing is important. And yet, we often fail to get our timing right. 

A simple act like crossing the road a little too early or late, or driving past a congested spot a few minutes earlier or later, could mean the difference between life and death. 

How does one ensure we do things on time? While all of us have our own list of dos and don’ts, in the end it all boils down to fate or destiny. There is indeed no real way to manipulate time; it is time that manipulates us. If we could control time and timing, and do the right things at the right time, life could well turn out to be dull and boring, with no element of surprise. Just imagine, if everything everybody did was successful, what would be the value of success? Because of failure we cherish and long for success; success has value because there is that element of failure. 

Universe works in strange ways, and the master plan of our lives is crafted and designed by forces that we cannot understand, given our limited mind and intelligence. Creation may not know the Creator. The object may not know the subject; it is only the subject that knows the object. But if we are ever to achieve mastery over time, then we shall have to become one with the subject. We cannot know the will of God, but we can become one with Him, and then His will becomes our will. This comes with total acceptance and surrender. 

J Krishnamurthi would tell his students, “My magic mantra for existing peacefully all through life is that I don’t mind anything that happens”. When you stop resisting, struggling and manipulating, and simply submit to existence without offering any resistance, you can know the will of God and can perhaps achieve control, not only over time, but over all existing dimensions. 

On 21 January 2012 09:52, kukku picks <kukk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Nature and new models of sustainable business success

“If I own a tree, do I also own the bird on the tree; and if I own the bird on the tree, do I own the water falling on the bird and the air above the bird …

… And if I own all of these, then when I cut down the tree that I own, do I own the soil erosion that results, the silting of downstream waters, the mosquitoes now flying overhead” 

Ray Anderson (iconic Founder and chairman of Interface Inc who so sadly died last year) in conversation, not so long ago. Generations to come may look at what Ray and his colleagues at Interface have done as truly historic, helping to pave the way from one way of doing business to another, and in so doing demonstrating a new path for life on earth. Achieving huge reductions in carbon, water and waste on the journey to Mount Sustainability through ‘mission zero’ - demonstrating that sustainability and success can go hand in hand.

But as Ray himself would argue, if you want to change a system, the most powerful way to do so is by changing mindsets. They provide the foundations for the paradigms and systems which shape our lives; by changing them we can achieve change. Their inspirational work, and that now of many others in businesses and communities across the world, offers the possibility that we can do more than ‘take, make, waste’ as our primary method of industrial production to create all the stuff we consume, use and now literally do take for granted.

Ray brilliantly went on to breakdown the key assumptions on which our current mindsets rest: that …

… the earth is big, and will never run out

… we can’t hurt the earth, it will absorb everything we throw at it

… it works on a timeframe set by my working life or my lifetime

… the market is an honest broker

… it celebrates a linear model of technology (take, make and waste) and cannot contemplate a circular model of ‘life after life’

… it calls on our left brain, where everything can be reduced to and codified in numbers

… the earth is ours to do with as we please.

If not ‘take, make, waste’, then what? Business and society inspired by nature, perhaps. After all, Ray and Interface set off on their journey driven by the ‘spear in the chest’ provided by Paul Hawken’s ‘The Ecology of Commerce’ .

As humans we have a deep love and intuitive sense of joy with, of and for nature. We come alive, recover our balance and indeed renew our mental and physical health in contact with nature. More fundamentally, all of the stuff that we produce uses the resources of nature we take for granted. And yet the Industrial Age has willfully and systematically created deep schisms in this most fundamental of relationships, reinforcing and quite literally embodying the subject/object duality of Newtonian physics. A rationalist and reductionist worldview absolutely has its place, but the key question we now face is whether it provides sufficient guidance and resource for the scale and nature of the challenges we now face.

“The biological concept of development implies a sense of multi-faceted unfolding; of living organisms, ecosystems, or human communities reaching their potential”, argue Hazel Henderson and Fritjof Capra, drawing from ‘the new systemic understanding of life’. They go on: “If, however, the process of development is understood as more than a purely economic process, including social, ecological, and spiritual dimensions, and if it is associated with qualitative economic growth, then such a multidimensional systemic process can indeed be sustainable.” In so doing, learning from nature, they advance the concept of Qualitative Growth to go beyond the false choice offered by growth versus sustainability.

For Tomorrow’s Company, we are, as ever, on a voyage of discovery: sensing that there is much to learn that is important, and that we need to learn with and from others, and are thrilled so to do. With BCI: Biomimicy for Creative Innovation, a wonderful organic network of collaborative learning; Adnams, B9, Interface and other businesses working this out in practice; and AtoS, whose generous support has made this possible.

We argue that the Age of Sustainability has begun - a new long wave of economic development obscured by the uncertainties and confusion of the financial crisis. Post-war growth rested on two key assumptions, which are no longer valid: that natural resources are abundant, but they are now scarce; and that talent was scarce, but it now is wonderfully abundant. The challenge and opportunity of our times is to harness this talent so that we can all, now and in the future, live on our one planet, on the basis of a shared equity and prosperity.

Sustainable value creation, we argue, requires the creation of economic, social and environmental capital as the new measure of success. Tomorrow’s Natural Business will, we hope, create the opportunity for learning that will make an important contribution to working out what this means in practice, by creating new models of sustainable business success.

On 29 December 2011 10:48, Anil Bagri <anil....@gmail.com> wrote:

Read this only now Kukkuji. Was travelling when you sent it. Its beautifully written, and something we strive to practice! Loved reading it. Thank you for it. 

anil

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From: kukku picks <kukk...@gmail.com>
Date: 17 December 2011 09:28
Subject: Re: [ISG:275838] Re: To Succeed, You Need Concentration Swami Kriyananda
To: InvestmentSuperGrowth <investment...@googlegroups.com>

Your True State Of Being

In meditation, we reclaim what we already are. It is a returning to our centre. It may be termed a process of upward relaxation into superconsciousness. Superconsciousness is forever our reality. It is our true state of being.

You will attain superconsciousness more quickly, and not only in meditation, if you seek to attune yourself with it in your daily activities. The more you seek to be guided by intuition, which is an aspect of superconsciousness, the greater success you will meet in every undertaking. For the rational mind can only point to probable solutions. Intuition, rooted as it is in superconsciousness, will supply you with clear answers. From a superconscious perspective, all life is a unity.

To live superconsciously is to maximise our abilities in every department of life. The rational mind, with its focus on differences, is essentially problem-oriented. The superconscious, with its broader, more unitive view, is solution-oriented. The unitive view is justified objectively in Nature. Every natural problem has a corresponding solution.

Superconscious living means to trust one's life to the flow of a higher wisdom. Superconsciousness arranges things in ways that we might never imagine. I've seen this principle at work on countless occasions. Always it has worked better than any solution I might have provided myself.

Can we really attract inspiration at will? Yes indeed! Strong energy, powered by confidence (which must be rooted in faith; it must not be ego-confidence ) can attract inspirations, opportunities, solutions to problems anything.

It isn't a question of wanting anything personally, but of wanting it because it is right. It is important to exclude ego-motivation as much as possible and to see that faith doesn't become an excuse for irresponsibility.

To live superconsciously means to cooperate with the superconscious flow, not to expect that flow to do everything for you. Its a question of energy in cooperation with faith. Be wholly focussed on whatever you are doing, without seeing yourself as the doer.

Guidance often comes only after an idea has been made concrete by setting it in motion. If, therefore, you receive no answer in meditation, act in whatever way seems reasonable to you, but continue to listen for guidance in the heart.

At a certain point, if your direction is right, you will feel the endorsement you've been seeking. But if your direction is wrong, suddenly you will know it is wrong. In that case, try something else, until the endorsement comes.

To refuse to act until you receive inner guidance is good only if you can keep your level of energy and expectation high, for it is high energy and high expectation that attract guidance.

In seeking guidance, form a clear mental picture of what it is you need. Then hold that picture up to superconsciousness at the point between the eyebrows. No time at all is needed: only sufficient mental clarity and energy.

Never use the claim of inner guidance as an argument for convincing others to listen to you. The flow of superconsciousness is always humble, never boastful. It doesn't cooperate with attitudes that discourage others from seeking their own inner guidance. To tell a person,"This is what my intuition tells me, so this is what we must all do," is to say, in effect, God will speak only through me, not through anyone else. The divine law does not endorse pride. 

On 11 December 2011 09:44, kukku picks <kukk...@gmail.com> wrote:

dear all,

very interesting to read following 

Potential Of Life Long Learning

By : John Knightson Nov 23, 2011 | Views (404) | Responses (13)

My basic philosophy is that the world and all humanity will benefit if we all continue to pro-actively learn throughout our lives. Too many of us get into a fixed mode of being that is based on our genetic make-up and our earlier experiences in life. The danger is that as we mature we tend to just repeat the same experience and mistakes over and over again rather than truly learning from them through reflective practice.

Although learning is appropriate for everyone, the organisation of which I am co-founder (LeaderShape) focuses on shaping the best leaders for the future. We do this because we have experience as leaders ourselves, because improving leadership will have more impact on our planet than perhaps anything else and because the sad truth is that most people stop learning once they become a senior leader (they think they have made it!) and so never reach their full potential.

Potential is an interesting concept because as we move towards our potential it increases and therefore learning and development should be thought of as a life long journey rather than a destination.

Fundamentally, learning is achieved by self-awareness, understanding of others, management of our emotions, understanding how our brain works and by bringing one’s conscience (values) to full consciousness in everything we do. 

On 19 November 2011 09:32, kukku picks <kukk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Receipt, reaction and response 

When we contact the world, three distinct transactions take place: Receipt of stimuli from the world, reaction within your personality and response to the world. Stimuli from the world reach you through your organs of perception. Colour and form enter through your eyes, sound through ears, smell through nose, taste through tongue and touch through skin. Having entered therein the stimuli react with your mind and intellect. The type of reaction that will set in will depend upon the type of stimulus contacted and the nature of the mind and intellect reacting with it.

Consequent to the reaction your mind and intellect send out responses back into the world through your organs of action. Take for example your present experience of reading this. Your eyes are taking in the stimuli in the form of letters and words. These stimuli reach your mind and intellect. A reaction sets in. It generates a particular type of feeling and judgement depending upon the quality and texture of your mind and intellect. To some, what is generated may be favourable and they will respond positively, continuing the study.

To others the reaction may be unfavourable; they will respond negatively and discontinue the study. The three transactions - receipt, reaction and response -- are constantly taking place in your life. The human system and mechanism resemble the working of a factory. In a manufacturing process also there are three main operations. Raw material is fed into the factory at one end. The material is processed by machines. The manufactured products are drawn out and despatched at the other end. For best results all three operations have to be perfected.

Raw material taken in must be of good quality. Machines tuned up and operated properly. End products tested to meet requirements standards. So also the three transactions of life have to be regulated properly to ensure blissful existence in this world. You are aware that your sense organs constantly perceive sense objects of the world. All sorts of stimuli reach your personality. Check their quality. Avoid inflow of impure and unhealthy stimuli; they create mental agitations. They are germs which cause psychological diseases.

Examine the type of sights that your eyes see, the food that your tongue tastes. . . Control and regulate your perceptions to ensure inflow of pure and healthy stimuli. Having controlled your perceptions you must next examine the reactions taking place in you. You may regulate and receive healthy stimuli and yet they may produce unhealthy reactions like jealousy, greed and lust. These reactions are inevitable as they depend upon the nature of your existing mind and intellect. There are two ways of controlling the reactions.

The initial and temporary way is to become aware of them and check their effects from spreading further. A permanent control is achieved by rehabilitating your mind and intellect. Vedanta helps you to exercise both controls. The third transaction is the response transmitted by your mind and intellect through the organs of action. Examine the quality of actions perpetrated by your body. If the actions are selfish and self-centred, they tell upon your life. They agitate your mind; they make you unhappy.

On 28 August 2011 12:52, kukku picks <kukk...@gmail.com> wrote:

The six basic principles that could help us evolve in the right
direction are:

1. Accept that there are as many paths to God as there are people:
Each individual is different and so what works for one person may not
work for another.

2. Progress from many to One: The inquiring mind at first goes to a
variety of discourses, but later finds a path that is appropriate to
his temperament.

3. Progress from gross or tangible to subtle or intangible: We must
evolve in our spiritual practice by going from just physical actions
to practising at a more subtle level. Ritualistic worship with no
devotion needs to be replaced with real inner devotion.

4. Practise according to your capacity: A student, who has passed
Grade III, will not be able to sit for the Grade IV exams if he has
been studying only the Grade III syllabus. Spiritual seekers, too,
should try to improve their capacity for spiritual practice. There are
various stages of development, from gross forms of worship to subtler
forms:

At the initial level, we feel we can make contact with God only by
going to a place of worship and through praying to a deity. Then we
feel a connection with the Divine not just through rituals but through
reading scriptures when sitting in a place of worship.

We then begin to feel that even words are too gross and just
experiencing the vibrations are enough to spiritually nourish us.
After this, we don’t need to go to a place of worship but can
experience God in Nature.

At an even higher level, we transcend Nature and experience God in
daily living.Finally, whether we are in a slum or war zone, we can
perceive the comforting blanket of God’s presence.

5. Practise that which is relevant: There is a time for everything. If
the right thing happens at the wrong time, the desired result is not
achieved. For example, if seeds are sown in the dry months instead of
the rainy season, they do not take root. Hence, certain spiritual
practices need the right time and conditions.

6. Make offerings to God according to your talent or capacity: Use God-
given resources to serve Him. These include our body, wealth and
worldly connections, and mind and intellect.

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On Aug 11, 6:18 am, Anup Desai <anupsinvestm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice Article Kukkuji. Keep Sharing.
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> On Aug 10, 5:49 am, kukku picks <kukkus...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > THE SPEAKING TREE
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> > The Stock Market And You
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> > P V Vaidyanathan
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> >    Stock markets are in the news everyday and they make an excellent place
> > for spiritual learning. Whenever you think or talk about it or invest in the
> > stock market, you would not normally look at the spiritual perspective.
> > Stock markets are about buying and selling, profit and loss, bulls and bears
> > and anticipation. While people enter the stock market primarily with the
> > intention of making money, there is a spiritual side to trading, and someone
> > who is receptive can learn a lot of lessons about life here.
> >    As in life, the only certainty in stock markets is uncertainty and
> > unpredictability. Every morning, although we have a broad idea of how our
> > day is likely to be, we cannot predict with surety about events that might
> > happen or not happen during the day. Similarly, every stock trader and
> > broker knows that the behaviour of the markets cannot be predicted with
> > confidence. While the general trends might be predicted or anticipated, what
> > eventually happens when the markets open and trading begins, is known only
> > minute by minute. This is true of our lives too, where life flows moment to
> > moment; we can only live in the present.
> >    Life is enmeshed in duality, with its ups and downs, victories and
> > losses. The same is true of stock markets, where investors move from
> > happiness to sorrow and from ecstasy to dejection, with cyclical regularity.
> > As in life, with stocks too, no one is a permanent winner or loser. Change
> > is the only constant.
> >    Stock markets and life are about being in the present moment, making
> > continuous assessments of the current situation, and then taking whatever
> > course of action seems right to us, at that instant. And these actions might
> > bring about results which are acceptable or unacceptable. One must have the
> > maturity to accept both the good and the bad with equanimity.
> >    Life is all about putting in our best efforts and then surrendering to a
> > higher authority or power. This letting go is often required in investing
> > too where, after having made a decision, one should not continuously be
> > thinking about it. Having done our job, we must let go and let existence
> > take over, and give us whatever returns or rewards... Learn to accept that
> > which you cannot change. At the same time, one cannot afford to be callous
> > or careless, as these qualities always lead to trouble.
> >    Life and the stock markets are ruled by two emotions – greed and fear.
> > Depending on mindsets of individuals, some might veer more towards greed,
> > while many might act predominantly from fear. What is needed is a healthy
> > balance of desire and caution; else we either get too greedy or are too
> > scared. Extreme greed and extreme fear lead more to losses than profits and
> > are major causes of misery and unhappiness.
> > Life moves in cycles and good times are followed by not-so-good times. On
> > the stock market there are winners, there are losers and often roles are
> > reversed. The qualities that make our life joyous, balanced and harmonious –
> > awareness, presence of mind, maturity, patience, truthfulness to oneself,
> > acceptance, and an ability to forgive and forget, resilience, and trust and
> > faith in a higher power – are the very traits that will hold any trader in
> > good stead, through buoyancies and crashes, and will ensure that he does not
> > lose his peace of mind and become a victim of stress, anxiety and
> > depression.
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> > On 29 July 2011 00:11, sri investment <sriinv...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > > motivating article kukuji.
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> > > many thanks .
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> > > regards
> > > Sriinvest
> > > On 28 Jul 2011 18:00, "kukku picks" <kukkus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > very good to read. pl dont miss....
> > > > Shower All With BlessingsMohanji
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> > > > Blessing expands you. It makes you light. When we bless all the people –
> > > > those whom we like and those whom we dislike – we become the perfect
> > > > expression of the Almighty. His true expression is unconditional love.
> > > When
> > > > we remove *all hatred and fear from our minds*, we become embodiments of
> > > > love.
> > > > Love expands. Love makes our life enjoyable. When we express sincere
> > > > gratitude to all objects and beings that enable our existence on earth,
> > > we
> > > > become universal. Once we understand the true relevance of the food that
> > > we
> > > > have consumed so far, the houses thatsheltered us, the books that gave us
> > > > knowledge, our parents and teachers and, above all, the Divinity that
> > > > sustained us, we will be filled with humility and deep gratitude.
> > > > Most of our vital functions including respiration, circulation,
> > > > digestion, heartbeat and even sleep for that matter, are controlled by
> > > our
> > > > subconscious mind. All these things are working in perfect
> > > synchronisation
> > > > because our conscious mind has nothing to do with it. We are given time,
> > > > space, intellect and situation to give expression to our inherent traits.
> > > > No single person is in control of everything. There is no sense in
> > > > blaming any one person when something goes wrong or to entertain feelings
> > > of
> > > > guilt. What is there to be afraid of ? All experiences have been lessons.
> > > We
> > > > could not have changed anything. So, there is little else to do than
> > > express
> > > > unconditional love and compassion. We might as well bless everybody and
> > > > everything. When we realise that we are not really the one who does
> > > > everything, we will see our ego getting nullified and our doer-ship
> > > getting
> > > > dissolved. We will then operate in perfect awareness and gratitude.
> > > > God (who is in us) is to be loved, not feared. The soul element that
> > > > fuels our existence is the God within us – Generator, Operator and
> > > > Destroyer. All of us have the same God element. None is inferior or
> > > superior
> > > > to anyone else. Some have evolved to higher realms through rigorous
> > > > practices, contemplation andmeditation. Through lifetimes of efforts,
> > > they
> > > > attained higher awareness. That’s all. In principle, all are one and the
> > > > same.
> > > > * All of us are temporary custodians of body and all our possessions. It
> > > > is the same with relationships too.* Everything is temporary. Everything
> > > has
> > > > a definite lifespan. *Once we accept this truth, there is no room for
> > > egocen
> > > > **tric expressions*. All we can do is to *forgive everything*. Bless
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> > > > everything.
> > > > When we shift our consciousness to the spine – and to 360 degrees – the
> > > > impact and wear and tear of events around us will be very little. Nothing
> > > > will touch us deeply. Nothing will overwhelm us. You will maintain
> > > perfect
> > > > equanimity and deep gratitude. Nothing happens by accident. Everything
> > > has a
> > > > perfect reason. We often cannot understand the reason from our level of
> > > > consciousness. Our inability should not be interpreted as cosmic
> > > deficiency.
> > > > Cosmic perfection is infinite and incomparable.
> > > > All of us exist in various planes of consciousness. We carry the
> > > > conditionings of our immediate past as well as other lives without having
> > > > clarity about it. We cannot usually figure out which conditioning
> > > provoked
> > > > which response in us. But invariably we are *victims of our
> > > conditionings*.
> > > > Hence, it is important to touch base with our own consciousness; our real
> > > > Self. We are one family and one consciousness. We will never be separate
> > > > from one another.
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> > > >> So Much For Bookish Knowledge
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> > > >> Talk: Sant Rajinder Singh
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> > > >> Aprofessor of English grammar once got into a boat with a boatman. Proud
> > > >> of his accomplishments in the literary field, he asked the boatman,
> > > “Have
> > > >> you ever studied the science of grammar?”
> > > >> The boatman said, “No, i haven’t.”
> > > >> The grammar professor exclaimed, “Then you have wasted half your life!”
> > > >> The boatman was upset by the professor’s rudeness but he remained cool.
> > > >> Soon, a storm moved in as they sailed across the water. Suddenly, the
> > > >> boat became caught in a vortex of water and they could not manoeuvre the
> > > >> boat out of it. Fearing that the boat would capsize, the boatman yelled
> > > >> over the roaring waves, “O professor, do you know how to swim?”
> > > >> The grammar professor replied with contempt, “Certainly not. Don’t
> > > >> expect me to know swimming. I never wasted my time with such a pastime.”
> > > The
> > > >> boatman told him, “Then, since the boat is going to sink, it is y o u
> > > who
> > > >> have wasted the other half of your life by not learning how to swim,
> > > >> because you are about to drown!”
> > > >> This story told by Maulana Rumi in his Masnavi points to an important
> > > >> truth. It asks us to contemplate how we spend our lives and what we
> > > value.
> > > >> The professor was filled with pride and ego about his intellectual
> > > >> knowledge, but it did not help him when it came to the practical
> > > experience
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