Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Sunday, August 21, 2011

Transcending the Ego by Honoring the Present Moment

By Jason Lincoln Jeffers


Becoming consciously aware of your ego when facing each challenge in life is necessary for ego transcendence. Calmly and patiently being vigilant to each challenge as soon as it arises, will allow the challenge to play itself out, and eventually dissolve. Your only concern should be what is happening now, in the present moment.

Becoming anxious, stressed out, or obsessively worrying about each challenge that develops is the way that the paranoid ego projects the mind into the future, and as a result, completely ignores the present. This is when problems are manifested. The more you become stressed and worried, the worse the problem becomes. This is when you'll be creating unnecessary suffering for yourself and others.

Don't put your challenges on the back burner and ignore them, hoping they will just go away on their own, because they won't. The challenges will dissolve, one by one, but you have to give them the attention they deserve. The key is staying focused in the present moment. If you're unable to do this right away, that's understandable. Begin by living in day-tight compartments. In a week or two, strive to live in hour-tight compartments. Then minute-tight. Then second-tight. Eventually you'll find yourself living in Now-tight compartments. Honoring the present moment is essential for ego transcendence. When you observe the mind projecting itself into the past or into the future, bring your attention back to the present moment. An expert Ego Transcendence Counselor can teach you how to live every moment in the eternal Now.

Tragedy and catastrophe are effects playing themselves out on your life stage, brought on by your higher Self so that you can grow and evolve into a spiritual being. Becoming more and more present to life and giving life the attention it deserves is the only way to prevent problems from occurring. The Self-realized will deal with challenges as soon as they arise, not sweep them under the carpet. After all, the U.S. Treasury didn't accumulate $15 Trillion worth of debt overnight.

The only way to stop the cycle of "one damn problem after another" from repeating, is for you to stop creating them. Once you begin to become aware that you've been creating your own problems all along, you will no longer be asking, "Why are these things happening to me?" You'll instead be asking, "What have I done to create this reality?" An Ego Transcendence Counselor can help you to initiate this shift in consciousness.




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