School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Modern Jeremic Hospital
The new Sacntuary University English Churc
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Noticing the Gaps
In the first moment of seeing something or hearing a sound -- and more so if it is unfamiliar -- before the mind names or interprets what you see or hear there is usually a gap of alert attention in which the perception occurs. That is the inner space. Its duration differs from person to person. It is easy to miss because in many people those spaces are extremely short, perhaps only a second or less.
This is what happens: a new sight or sound arises, and in the first moment of perception, there is a brief cessation in the habitual stream of thinking. Consciousness is diverted away from thought because it is required for sense perception. A very unusual sight or sound may leave you "speechless" -- even inside, that is to say, bring about a longer gap.
The frequency and duration of those spaces determine your ability to enjoy life, to feel an inner connectedness with other human beings as well as nature. It also determines the degree to which you are free of ego because ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space.
When you become conscious of these brief spaces as they happen naturally, they will lengthen, and as they do, you will experience with increasing frequency the joy of perceiving with little or no interference of thinking. […]
Inner space also arises whenever you let go of the need to emphasize your form-identity. That need is of the ego. It is not a true need. […]
Here are some ways in which people unconsciously try to emphasize their form-identity. If you are alert enough, you may be able to detect some of these unconscious patterns within yourself: demanding recognition for something you did and getting angry or upset if you don’t get it; trying to get attention by talking about your problems, the story of your illness, or making a scene, giving your opinion when nobody has asked for it and it makes no difference to the situation; being more concerned with how the other person sees you than with the other person, which is to say using other people for egoic reflection or as ego enhancers […] taking things personally, feeling offended; making yourself right and others wrong through futile mental complaining; wanting to be seen, or appear important.
Once you have detected such a pattern within yourself, I suggest that you conduct an experiment, Find out what it feels like and what happens if you let go of that pattern. Just drop it and see what happens.
De-emphasizing who you are on the level of form is another way of generating consciousness. Discover the enormous power that flows through you into the world when you stop emphasizing your form identity.
-- Eckhart Tolle, from "A New Earth"
This is what happens: a new sight or sound arises, and in the first moment of perception, there is a brief cessation in the habitual stream of thinking. Consciousness is diverted away from thought because it is required for sense perception. A very unusual sight or sound may leave you "speechless" -- even inside, that is to say, bring about a longer gap.
The frequency and duration of those spaces determine your ability to enjoy life, to feel an inner connectedness with other human beings as well as nature. It also determines the degree to which you are free of ego because ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space.
When you become conscious of these brief spaces as they happen naturally, they will lengthen, and as they do, you will experience with increasing frequency the joy of perceiving with little or no interference of thinking. […]
Inner space also arises whenever you let go of the need to emphasize your form-identity. That need is of the ego. It is not a true need. […]
Here are some ways in which people unconsciously try to emphasize their form-identity. If you are alert enough, you may be able to detect some of these unconscious patterns within yourself: demanding recognition for something you did and getting angry or upset if you don’t get it; trying to get attention by talking about your problems, the story of your illness, or making a scene, giving your opinion when nobody has asked for it and it makes no difference to the situation; being more concerned with how the other person sees you than with the other person, which is to say using other people for egoic reflection or as ego enhancers […] taking things personally, feeling offended; making yourself right and others wrong through futile mental complaining; wanting to be seen, or appear important.
Once you have detected such a pattern within yourself, I suggest that you conduct an experiment, Find out what it feels like and what happens if you let go of that pattern. Just drop it and see what happens.
De-emphasizing who you are on the level of form is another way of generating consciousness. Discover the enormous power that flows through you into the world when you stop emphasizing your form identity.
-- Eckhart Tolle, from "A New Earth"
Friday, 11 December 2009
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Adventist education
“True education means more than the persual of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers. it prepares the student for the joy of service in this world and for the higher joy of wider service in the world to come."
(E G White, Education p 13)
The Adventist education which is one of the best education to be provided is based on the above argument. But its unfortunate that our Adventist schools are no longer following the philosophy that they claim to follow. For instance for students to develop physically they need healthy and balanced physical education which we do neglect most of the time. The mental and spiritual powers are numbed in the sense that attending to church is through force, this has undermined the real value of the sabbath it has come to a situation whereby students are no longer interested with spiritual matters. Why? Its because the way the we as leaders are conducting the service.
When dealing with the youth they are to be given something that will not make them bored, which makes them active. Its unfortunate that even the Sabbath school classes are conducted makes the young not to be interested in participating.
In social matters students are not given the opportunity to share with the administrators both for spiritual and intellectual development, instead students are seeing their administrators as evil. Another way is the misuse of power with the issuing of threats to students.For example if you are a parent you have to treat your children in a good and respectable way disciplining them where there is a mistake with love. Why is it hard to try it with others.
Let’s be example like the master teacher whom we claim to follow.
Sunday, 6 December 2009
I am not the only one living
This world you need me, I need you too, I can't live as if I know no one, I know several friends and family members. Why should one try to pretend not knowing your relative? Are you assuming because he/she is not your level,? what if he/she supersedes you? What will you do?
We need to recognize the presence of each other come rain com sunshine.
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