DAY 44 - When you're angry . . .

A dilemma: how do I know which is which?
Am I sad or mad? Or both? Or none?

How do you know when you're angry? That's the question.

The answer is you don't. Why? 

- First of all, a person rarely knows specifically when he or she's angry. Only the people around them, those who are directly affected by their anger. They know for they can feel it. Then the moment you know or are aware, you're no longer angry.

- Second, anger is relative because it's emotionally subjective. People may tell you that you have a hot temper or you're depressed at the time, but you don't think so. For you, you're not. For the men, normally you'd say that's the way men are. You're being assertive and a little noisy. And for the women, you're just sad and worried. For you, that's not anger but melancholy. I got some news for you, sadness is anger in disguise. Observe and see. Basically, your perception of anger is different from others. 

Well, whats' the point then?

The point is simple: Be Aware. 

Subjectively speaking, when you enter a room or a place where there's someone you're at odd with but don't want to admit it, have you ever felt a kind of tension under your throat or a tingling sensation in your brain or a rushing of the blood onto your face or shortness of breaths or rather, a sudden natural suffocation? Put simply, do you feel suffocated at the presence of that particular individual? 

If that's the case you can safely say to yourself you have a lingering anger. If this anger is not addressed it will control your attitude and behavior.

Look and see for yourself. 

Whenever you feel that way, breathe out . . . Here's where your breathing out . . . is useful and really helpful.

Breathe out . . . now into the serene surrounding of the peaceful and gentle Holy Spirit.

God bless y'all.

DAY 43 - Emotion Question.

You look yummy. Should I eat you or not?
To eat or not to eat, that's the question.

Questions arise from two (2) sources: your mind or your heart.


From your mind they're logic. They're cold, calculated and structural. They give no life but deplete your strength. You need rest after a time of the mind questioning.


From your heart they're emotion. They're real and natural for you can feel it. They burn you like wildfire. You can't help but to allow them to expose and express themselves. If you don't they'll eat you up inside. Then you'll have ulcer or some sort of sadness or depression.


The heartfelt emotional questions already exist in your mind and occupy your inner space. They will fight until they emerge. They come from the sense of righteousness and justice or rather, frustration because of injustice.


So what to do with them? 


- Let them out. Release them in the most helpful and healthy way. And how?


Stay still and completely calm. Don't make a move. Observe them lovingly. Listen to them carefully as if you're listening to a chirping bird or a barking dog. If you move they may fly away or even attack you. Cherish them so you can understand them. In fact, it's really understanding yourself.


What you want to do is to see its real nature and enjoy its presence. You do that by being with them and you breathe them out . . . into the peaceful atmosphere of the Gentle Holy Spirit.


God bless y'all.

DAY 42 - Nose Conscious.

Your nose is the gateway to the ultimate all-in-all. 
Don't leave home without it. 

Have you ever observed your nose? Or as a kid have you ever tried to look down at your nose directly?


If you haven't, try now. It's fun, especially when do it in front of the kids. You'll get their attention and they'll follow you everywhere. But you have to do it conspicuously and dramatically.


Nevertheless . . . don't do it front of adults or the nobles and notables. They'll think you're a stuck-up weirdo and need psychiatric help!


And why? 


- Try it with anyone of those respectable adults, perhaps your own boss for instance, you'll know right away.


Now here is how. Everytime someone, especially your boss, wants to talk to you, look at him or her through your nose and respond, you'll see their reaction. This is a 100% guarantee!


Mind you, this kind of behaviour only reserves for those of you who are bored with life and have nothing to do or want to feel what it means to be real. Are you one of them?! If not then this is not for you. If yes then have fun. Try it and see, that is, observe people through your nose. However, do it with discretion. Don't act too conspicuous like you're nose-observing them!


When you do this often, it'll become a habit. Then you'll become professionally nose-conscious. 


- But why? Why should you be a nose-conscious professional? What do you gain from it?!


Simple. You'll be self-conscious rather than self-centered and self-serious. You'll be real and in the moment. Most of all, it's fun.


Nose-conscious is the condition for you to be in the present. 
Nose-conscious is also the condition for you to be self-aware.
Nose-conscious is the ultimate condition for you to be breath-aware.

A new dance move: Nose Breaker . . . Bet you can't beat that!

Truly the hinge of life and death lies at the nose. Thence comes in life and thence comes out demise. Thence comes in divine breath and thence comes out human death. Thence one finds strength for the body, clarity for the mind, peace for the heart and rest for the soul.


Once again, here's how. 


Be aware of your breathing . . . . now.


Be aware of the breath entering and exiting your nose. 


Be aware of the breath entering and exiting your right nose and then your left. 


Notice when you shut the right hole of your nose with your right thumb and breathe out 12 times, you'll find your mind become quite clear and your body relaxed . . . . . Then you shut the left hole with your left thumb and breathe out 12 times, you'll chase off tiredness and regain your strength naturally. That's how you get rid of headaches and get back your energy quickly without resorting to medicines or becoming drug dependent.


Simply close your eyes, shut your right nose and breathe out 12 times . . ., you'll feel lightness and stress free . . . . . Then do the same for your left nose and breathe out 12 times . . ., you'll find strength and self-composure.


Breathe out . . . now into the atmosphere of hope and love in the Most Humble and Holy Ghost.


God bless y'all. 

DAY 41 - Emotional blindspot.

All is Yours.

One enlightened individual recently told me, "People gives according their faith or pleasure."


That rings some truths, doesn't it?


Along that line, we can say: 


- People live according to their faith or pleasure. 
- People make decision according to their faith or pleasure.
- People act according to their faith or pleasure.


Let's apply to reality. I write this blog because I love it and believe it's beneficial for you. And you read this blog because you like it and believe somehow it helps you resolve some personal issues or stress or even enlighten your mind or something along the same line.  


So you want people to give?


- Make them believe in something or someone. Either that or make them feel real good. 


And that seems to be the difference between religion and business, isn't it?!


Religion makes people believe in something or someone. Then the religious people live, make decision, act and give according to that belief.


Whereas in business, you find ways to make people feel dissatisfied all the time then offer them what they already have. People are even willing to buy and pay for what they already possess!

Don't worry!  I'm here.

Take water for intance. Why do we have to buy bottled water?! 


About 30 years ago (1980's) there was no need for water in the bottle. Now bottled waters are everywhere in all sizes and shapes! 


Before there was no need and now everyone seems to need them. Why?


Isn't that business? To create a need where there was supposed to be none. Or rather to create a need for what people already possess! Then give them what they want which originally was theirs with a price. 


In fact, it's not the selling of water or the bottle or the bottled water; it's the selling of what makes people feel good or convenient, which is another word for pleasure.


Anyone who makes people feel good becomes the center of attention. People will flock to you. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, good or bad, holy or evil as long as you make them feel pleasant, they'll want you. They want you to be their representative or leader. They even vote for you!


Look and see for yourself. Particularly look at the famous movie or sport stars and singers and most of all, the politicians. Many of them lead a quite immoral life and why do people follow them and go so easy on them when they commit grievous crimes? Isn't it because they make people feel good about themselves with their singing and dancing and playing and tale-spinning?! That is, their arts!


Now here's where all the reasons seem to go down the drain, only because of pleasure. And here's also your first emotional blindspot. 


Now, how about belief? Is it true also for belief? Do people disregard reason when it comes to belief? 


This is rhetorically conspicuous! Look and you'll see.


There are two ways to approach a belief or belief-system or a religion: (1) Create a fear of suffering or punishment; or (2) create a business of promise of pleasurable reward.


Once you allow yourself to be trapped in it, you'll become a fanatic. This is a false kind of religion. In fact, it should be called a religious occult, not a true religion. That is to say, when the religion leaves no room for raising reasonable questions, but rather demands only faith and faith alone. 


Yup! And here's where you find your second emotional blindspot.


The question is does the fear of suffering or the promise of pleasurable reward help you see and know yourself and your true nature?



The answer once again  is rhetorically clear. Look and see for yourself. 


Fear of pain and lust for pleasure are really distractions. Once you get hooked on them, you'll be in bondage. You'll become an addict either to pain and fear or to pleasure and lust. Only self-knowledge truly helps you to know. Knowing oneself is rewarding in itself and a necessity for living and being human. We should give, live, make decision and act according to the direct knowledge of oneself. 


Yet where to start? 


- Simple. Start with your breathing . . . . especially your breathing out . . . . . Start knowing yourself by looking while you breathe . . . . and breathing . . . .while you look . . . .


You can bet your life on breathing . . . . You'll lose nothing but gain everything. You'll know yourself instantly.


- Isn't it true? 


Once you're conscious of your own breathing . . . . you know. Then your life, your decision, you deeds and even what you give no longer depend on pleasure or belief, but by the true and direct knowing of your heart and soul. 


There's nothing to choose or make decision any more, for you see everything, everyone and your own self clearly.


All you need do is breathe out  . . . now.


Breathe out . . . into the loving gaze of the Divinely Merciful Gentle Holy Spirit.


God bless y'all.

DAY 40 - Memory scars.

Please look and see who I truly am.

Certain dramatic events affect your present view of self, people and the rest of life.

One and the same dramatic event may cause the downfall of a person or a people but simultaneously the rising of another. 

Take the bombing of Pearl Harbor for instance. That event changed the course of world history, in particular the American's. The Pearl Harbor event entails the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing. That was America's retribution a thousandfold. 

From then on Americans became an all-can-do kind of people. The individual Americans are also high-spirited world conqueror, not just this world but even the world of the quantuum and the outer space! Until . . . . that horrible day in 2001. 

Once again that event changed the course of humankind, especially the American people as well as each individual. It really changed everything. 

You see, those events create memory scars in our lives. 

We breathe, we live, we eat, we move, we sleep, we think, we plan, we build, we work, we react, we organize our life, time and behaviors - in view of that horrific September day. We're no longer the same. That terrible event forces us to reveal who we truly are and reflect on what we should be and behave in the present.

On a deep level, behind every dramatic event there are people. In fact, in history it was people who created or rather brought about the dramatic and horrific events. Isn't it true?

Ask yourself the questions: Who was behind Pearl Harbor? Who was behind Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing? Who was behind the 911? 

We all know the answer: people. 

It was, is and shall ever be people who affect events. Then events affect people's lives. Then all become a communal memory or history.

Do you have a dramatic personal event that changed your life, yourself and worldview? 

Do you know the person standing behind and manipulating that dramatic event?

Is that event and the people or person behind it still affect the ways you think, feel, act and behave?


For instance like the death of a loved one? An accident? A near-death experience? A confrontation with your enemy and survive? And many more alike . . .?

There is one ultimate event that utterly changed the world and human lives forever. It was the event that shook the universe on all levels, the inner and outer, the upper and lower, the frontal and behind, the physical and meta-physical, the intellectual and emotional, the natural and supernatural, the ontological and spiritual.

Whosoever lives, moves, exists and breathes on and because of this event, is blessed for eternity. 

Instead of breathing on any particular event or person that affects our lives, we breathe with this ultimate one. 

Please look at me and see me for who I really am.  Don't you know who I am?

You probably know what I'm talking about already. It's the Crucifixion of Our Lord and Most Holy Redeemer Jesus Christ.

That should be the ultimate event and He should be the ultimate person who determines the course of our lives and actions.

When we breathe on, in, out and with Him and His passion, we are truly world conquerors and an all-can-do people of the Resurrection. We are not merely high-spirited people but Holy Spirited people. 

Breathe out now . . . into the realm of the all-encompassing and everlasting life-giving generous Holy Spirit.

God bless y'all. 

DAY 39 - Breath of Death.

Yo ho! . . . What's up Bro?!

Have you ever wondered why there are rhymes? Like death and breath?!


Why is breath rhymed with death? Is there a correlation between breath and death? 


One thing is sure. You and I don't know for now what death really is since we haven't experienced it yet. Unless you're reading this blog when I'm already far gone. 


Nevertheless, we all know breath personally. Everybody does.


Also we know one day in a specific place and time one of our breath will be a breath of death. We breathe millions and millions breaths in a lifetime but only one with be the death breath. And it will be a breathing-out . . . the last one.


Right now you are breathing in and out oxygen and oxygen sustains your present carbon-based body. Death happens when this carbon-based body rejects oxygen and no longer wants it. 


One more thing. We know breath is life and breathing is living. Without them, no life. So no breath, no life. No breathing, no living. And isn't that what death is?! 


NO BREATH IS DEATH!

Now comes the good news. You don't have to breathe oxygen to have life. Nor need you be made up of carbon to be human! 


- Huh!? . . . Hmm!? . . . Hum!!!


If not oxgygen then what? What can we breathe to have life? 


Look at your soul and you'll see. Though your carbon body breathes oxygen to live, your soul does not. Oxygen doesn't feed your soul nor give it life, only your body. So what does your soul feed on? What kind of breath does it breathe? 


Of course, you know already . . . . The Holy Spirit.


Once you're granted access to Him, the Eternal Everliving Gentle Spirit, you can't die any more.


Yet how are you to get this grant? Or the authorization to access the Almighty Spirit!?


Quite simple. You grant Him access to yourself, inner as well as outer, both soul and body.


Actually, your body was His creation and He wants it to be His dwelling place. In fact, He made your body to be His paradise and He likes to come and rest in it. Nonetheless, He gives you the authority to accept or reject Him. That authority still remains in your hands or rather, your free will. 


You can have access to Him with the condition you choose to give Him yourself utterly.


Once that's done, He'll do everything. 


Do it and you'll see. You won't regret it. You'll know what it means to be the breath of life, instead of death.


You'll no longer know death but only life. Then every time you breathe out . . . , it'll always be lifebreath. 


Here's how. Invite the Holy Spirit into your soul and open yourself to Him. When He comes beseech Him to take over your entire soul and body and stay there. 


Do it now. 


O Holy Ghost, Creator bless, come. 


Breathe out now . . . into the atmosphere of the Most Generous and Eternal Holy Spirit. 


God bless y'all.

DAY 38 - Racing in the Rain . . . !

Ain't I cool!!!? . . . Don't faint!

Melbournese are a fascinating bunch. 

Annually on that particular day, the Melbourne Cup day, the whole city became so jubilant even in the rain. All due to the horse race. 

We are not Australians . . . today we're all Melbournese!

Yesterday, actually last evening (November 01, 2010), the sky was pouring. It was cats-and-dogs raining. The streets were flooded with water, and strangely enough, also with cars and pedestrians in the rain! And yet you noticed people, the Melbournese, young and old, ladies and gentlemen, all dressed up, men in their formal attires and women with their beautiful fashion. Thousands upon thousands were soaked in the freezing weather!


Me asked, why? Why did people have to do that? 


Me guessed, it must be love. Yep! LOVE.


Y'all know it already . . . 


Love can do all things; nevertheless, nothing can fathom "love." 


Love can explain everything and yet no one can explain it satisfactorily.


Love can make you do silly stuffs and still no matter how hard you try, you couldn't seem to understand why!


Me think that was what happened to the Melbournese. They were in love - with the horses or rather the mares and the races. It goes also without saying, about the $6,000,000 AUD reward as well as the booze and beers too!

What do you mean?! . . . I see no rain! 

Love truly makes people go around the race tracks, even in the rain!


Pity! In the mean time, the churches were spaciously empty on that day. And it was All Saints day!!!


If only people were to love the Most Wonderful and Gentle Lord, the God of Mercy, with the same degree and intensity the earth would already be heaven.

Wehee!!! . . . Brrrrrrr!!!

For now, me just breathe out . . . 


Breathe out now . . . into the gentle aura of the ever-refulgent Holy Spirit.


God bless y'all.