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Posted by Yogi Anand
| Posted By :- Yogi Anand on Personal Growth |
| Posted At :- 9 November 2009 |
| Be energetic and remember the things: In this habit there are two things first being energetic and second being mindful.
As to the first; being energetic means to have plenty of energy. Energy may be cultivated through healthy foods and drinks, exercises (I’ll suggest here the Yogasanas and pranayamas as a best physical and vital exercises). Great thoughts also give greater energy; therefore, listening, studying, thinking, and meditating on great thoughts, ideas, then practicing them produce greater energy.
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Following
habits are suggested by Gautam the Buddha to glorify one’s self, on other hand;
these are the habits of a glorious soul, a soul who has become now magnificent.
These habits are the self natures of an enlightened soul and on other hand these
habits will help a soul in his/her enlightenment.
As
a descending view, if I’ll talk about one thing which may develop these habits
is Enlightenment. The one who wants to have these habits should aim only one
thing – enlightenment and along with these 5 habits some more good habits will
automatically be found in that one.
Now
from descending view each of these 5 habits may be developed in the following
mentioned ways:
1. be
energetic and remember the things:
In this habit there are two things first being energetic and second being
mindful. As
to the first; being energetic means to have plenty of energy. Energy may be
cultivated through healthy foods and drinks, exercises (I’ll suggest here the
Yogasanas and pranayamas as a best physical and vital exercises). Great thoughts
also give greater energy; therefore, listening, studying, thinking, and
meditating on great thoughts, ideas, then practicing them produce greater
energy.
As
to the second; to remember the things one should practice concentration
techniques. Here I recommend as concentration practices the wall gazing or nose
tip gazing, or practicing shambhavi mudra (third eye – the center of eyebrows-
gazing) or navel gazing while inhaling and exhaling. I would describe one thing
here is at one place Buddha exhorts his students to develop the concentration
for he who has concentration sees and understands the things according to their
realities. And according to Dr Tom J. Chalko, MSc, PhD, Senior
Scientist, Scientific Engineering Research and a great aura reader of Australia,tells
that the concentration practice enables you to experience and see the yours and
other ones’ aura. He suggests if you can practice concentration development
exercises for 10-15 minutes regularly that increases your sensitivity and
develop auric sight. He says further through concentration exercise you develop
the communication between two hemispheres of the brain.
There
are two types of exercises to activate mental faculties 1. meditation and 2.
Concentration. During his research in aura science he these both types of
exercises were performed and their results compared. It was found that both
exercises had a very positive influence on human state. They both increased the
size of the aura and reduced its fractal distribution. It was found, that the
concentration exercise was more effective, more consistent and lead to more
coherent improvement of the electro photonic glow than the meditation
exercise.
I’ll
tell you here that this habit is deeply connected to the 7
elements of Enlightenment
described by Buddha. Thus through physical and mental exercises you develop
energy and concentration power.
2.
Think honestly and act deliberately:
This arises from being a truthful one. Love towards truthfulness increases this
quality. Here ‘honesty is the best policy’ is to be made one’s conviction. While
deliberate honest and practical thinking is must. In developing this second
habit exercise of meditation will work better than exercise of concentration.
But here one thing must be reminded is before meditation concentration must be
developed, because without concentration one can’t meditate properly.
Concentration is called in Ashtanga Yoga as Dharana, and you should be aware
that dharana comes before dhyana in Patanjali’s ashtanga yoga
sutras.
3. Be continent:
Samyam or self control, self discipline, chastity or sexual abstinence as much
as possible, glorifies one’s self. Here we require our vedic and yogic approach
towards continence or chastity. This is connected with mysticism. One will have
to be mystic to make oneself Glorious. None in the past nor in the future will
attain perfection in Spiritual power without developing this habit. This can be
perfected with strong determination. Actually this habit becomes firmed through
detachment or vairagya only which is a thing of Spiritual world not of the world
of greed, anger and folly. Developing and making this habit perfect in this
worldly life is not impossible but much difficult. Indeed, this is a great
challenge, and is something which is to be developed by oneself, no one else in
the Universe is there who can do it for oneself.
4. Be righteous:
Righteousness is the essential habit to make oneself glorious. This is the road
which leads to greatness. Righteousness ought to be practiced as right belief,
right decisions, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right struggle,
right thought and right meditation, which takes to the Universal Mind.
5.Be serious:
Developing the habit - seriousness doesn’t mean to develop gloominess rather
developing the habit of being deeply concerned to everything. Being serious
means being focused on the things which really affect us. This is something
which is the beloved of the wise one. Think serious, talk serious, joke serious,
work serious, enjoy serious. Buddha admires seriousness saying
"Seriousness
is the province of immortality; frivolity, the province of death. They that are
serious do not die; they that are frivolous are always dead. Therefore would the
wise be serious. The wise attain the supreme blessing, nirvana. He sees his
glory increase who is serious. It is frivolity the fools and the weak-minded
pursue; the wise treasure seriousness as a miser his gold. The man who would be
serious, who sees the danger of frivolity, shakes the evil law like the wind
does the leaves; he tears asunder the bonds that bind him to the frivolity; he
is close to nirvana. Standing on the terrace of wisdom, released from all
suffering, the serious man who has conquered frivolity looks out over the
unhappy multitude, as, from the summit of a mountain, one might gaze upon the
crowd in the plains below." Thus seriousness has been a fond habit of wise
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