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Message started by Nanner on Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:05pm

Title: Thoughts = Energy = Matter / does it matter?
Post by Nanner on Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:05pm
Your Thoughts Have Power!

Your thoughts shape your outer world.

Your desires and fears manifest themselves
in your outer environment,
whether you are aware of this or not.
Your outer environment reveals yourself to your Self.
What you see around you
is what you have created for yourself.

Your thoughts aren't kept secret.

They are reflected in your environment,
so look around you.
If you don't like what you see,
then pay attention to what you are thinking.

You are creating your own life.



 Create it like a precious work of art - a masterpiece.
"Think" the life you want into existence.
You don't always attract to yourself what you want,
but what you think about,
even if it isn't something you want at all.
You attract to yourself that which you love,
as well as that which you fear.

Thoughts are "things."

They are powerful forms of creative energy.
You can create what you want - what you desire.
You can choose your thoughts
and change your circumstances.

Thoughts are energy.

Your thoughts have a cause-and-effect action.

The purpose of thought-energy
is to create what has been thought about.
The longer you hold on to a thought -
the more attention you give it -
the more you give it life.

Different kinds of thoughts
generate their own frequencies of thought-energy.
Hypnosis, prayer and meditation
are states in which thoughts produce positive energy
in the higher range of frequencies.

Depression, anger and jealousy
are states in which thoughts produce negative energy
in the lower range of frequencies.
Your thoughts are your hopes, dreams,
fantasies and visions.

You can make them real.

You have whatever you have now
because of earlier thoughts, decisions and choices
you've made in the past,
and you can change your current circumstances
for the better, if you want to.

If you aren't in control of your thoughts,
who or what is?

No matter what has happened in your past,
you are responsible now
for your happiness and your sorrows.
Once you realize you are creating your own life
by your thoughts,
you no longer think of yourself
as a victim of circumstances.
If you willingly and radically alter your thoughts,
you will experience a rapid transformation
in the circumstances of your life.


Think what you are!

shared in great care for all,
~ Nanner ~

Title: Re: Thoughts = Energy = Matter / does it matter?
Post by vajra on Feb 1st, 2008 at 4:43am
:) Good stuff Nanner, it points to the most basic reality of the spiritual path which is that it's primarily about training the mind  - through meditation, study, mindfulness, contemplation and whatever other work is required  by your situation.

Perhaps the most basic teaching of Buddhism, as set out in the very ancient Dhammpada: http://www.serve.com/cmtan/Dhammapada/

Some of it is paraphrased here in a rather moving couple of free audio recordings by Sogyal Rinpoche, head of Rigpa one of the main Tibetan Buddhist teaching organisations:
http://www.rigpa.org/Sogyal_Rinpoche_audio.html

Background information on the Dhammmapada here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada

Here's the Lojong or seven stages of mind training as taught in Tibetan Buddhism (a good site on meditative practices):
http://lojongmindtraining.com/sectionSummary.aspx?sectionID=0

Title: Re: Thoughts = Energy = Matter / does it matter?
Post by Alan McDougall on Feb 1st, 2008 at 7:30am
Nanna,

Very very nice,

alan

Title: Re: Thoughts = Energy = Matter / does it matter?
Post by blink on Feb 1st, 2008 at 8:31am
Eloquent, yet disarmingly simple, and much appreciated, Nanner.

Thank you for bringing in the Dhammapada, Vajra. My partner enjoys this work very much, and we played with #19 the other day. He likes to take some of these translations which are a little hard to understand and to work with them individually, rewording them, searching for meaning, clarity, without altering the message.

I enjoyed working on this passage this week - I did my own version.  Perhaps I'll share it with you all sometime.

love, blink :)

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