How To Find Your Wisdom
February 18, 2011 by Steven Diamond
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We are so much more than just our bodies, our brains, our fingers and toes. We are spiritual beings living in a physical vessel that needs maintenance and the occasional tune up. We wouldn’t think of driving our car without ever changing the oil. We can’t drive it anywhere without the proper gas in our tanks. So why don’t we feel the same way about our bodies? Our mind and our spirit is contained within this amazing vessel we travel around in. Yet we seem to ignore what it has to say to us. It’s constantly communicating with us, everyday, every minute, every second.
In fact, the human mind is actually able to process over 400 Billion bits of information. Yet our capacity to comprehend is only on about 2000 bits of information at any one given time. Not to mention that the average person loses his or her attention about every 6 to 10 seconds. So with all of this noise and confusion in our lives, how could we ever possibly focus on the messages our intuitive self – the center of all wisdom, is trying so hard to speak to us?
Food for thought.
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I just found this site. I’m impressed. What a great video and post. I believe as do you. True wisdom is a very illusive thing. thx.
Thanks Casandra88 – I’m glad you enjoy my video blogs, I try to do at least two per week. So come back often and check them out.
Warm regards,
Steven
I meditate everyday without fail and it has certainly changed my life. So I am right there with you Steve.
@MeditationMan have you checked out the app called “Zen Timer” for the iPhone (if you have one) that’s what I use and it’s amazing!
Jacob’s little frog climbs the ladder
A parable
Survival
There was this little frog in a well. He saw that there was a step in the well. This little frog swam and swam until one day he found the water rising in the well, and then lo and behold he found the step. It was under him. So he was a smart frog and stayed on the step. All the other frogs said let’s swim and swim, but he thought to himself “I’ll stay here.”On that first step, he found moss to eat. Flies would come to the well to drink and he had a meal. Well this little frog grew strong; soon he was hopping about with joy about the thought of catching more flies and found himself on the second step.
Pro-creation
There he met another frog. Lo and behold she started talking about all the babies she was going to have. Well the little frog, that was not so little any more, thought about all the frogs in the well swimming about, then decided that he didn’t want to make little frogs. So the bigger-little frog hopped a great hop and found himself on the third step.
Control
On the third step the little frog, found a lot of other frogs. They were big frogs too. He started pushing the other frogs around so he could hop a great hop, but lo and behold the other frogs could all hop great hops. He didn’t know what to do. So he though he could eat all the flies, and impress the other frogs. Well he did, and he got very big, but the other frogs thought he was a glutton. So he stopped eating, and got real skinny, then one day he decided to hop. But he missed the fourth step and down into the well water he went. He remembered the way to the third step and told everybody around him about the great flies and the moss and led then other frogs up the steps. Soon he found himself on the fourth step.
Love
This step was covered with manna. Lots to eat, but the more he ate, the more the little frog heard the bellows of the frogs below. He hated the sounds, they really bothered him. He couldn’t for the life of himself get their noises out of his head. So he stopped eating so much and then as he was looking at the other frogs one day he began to love them and their noises. He looked up and there above him was a great light, so he tried to hop to it and found himself on the fifth step.
Forgiveness/supernatural abilities
On this step he found himself with a bunch of tadpoles. Where these tadpoles came from no one knows, but they were right there in front of him. He didn’t know what to do. SO he kicked them one by one in to the well, making sure they didn’t hit the steps as they went into the water. He missed the water, and soon found himself hopping down the steps to check on the tadpoles in the bottom of the well. O boy did he get sick of swimming and climbing the steps to get away from the tadpoles and big frogs and the noises.
One day he looked up and saw the light again. He forgave the little tadpoles he loved and went down one more time to bring them up to the fifth step. At this time he found himself on the sixth step.
Knowledge/peace of mind
But the noises got worse, and the rain started falling on him from above. So he thought and thought until he thought no more; he found peace in the rain and peace in the noises and peace in the thoughts. Then one day he decided to write a book, about the whole thing. The book would be called the well. Then he put the book in the wall and it got stuck. So as he was trying to get it out he hopped on it and hopped, until at last he hopped a great hop and found himself on the seventh step.
Wisdom/sharing
But he looked down and there was no book it had fallen into the well, not to worry he said, it was waterproof. But the seventh step was not what you might think. For he found a bunch of books that other frogs had written before him. And what do you think he did, he read them and started writing about them. So his frogs on the fifth step could understand them, because some of them frogs weren’t as smart or as lucky as he was to find themselves on the seventh step with all the books. So step by step the young frog wrote. He wrote and wrote till his fingers got tired. He explained each and every step.
Praise
Then the frogs below started telling every frog about the frog up, who was telling stories about the steps. And do you know where that frog found himself? You guessed it right on the eighth step: right on the lip of the well. With a water bucket and all the flies he could eat. And do you know what he did? He brought the frogs up in the bucket and showed them the lip of the well.Well I got another story that says the same thing.
You come to a point in your life where the wolves are at your back and there is a swamp on one side and a cliff on the other. At the top of the cliff is FREEDOM, LIBERTY, and JUSTICE. The climb is torturous. It takes great strength. You’re never to old or to young to make the climb. In fact if you look back you will see that you have made it many times.The swamp is: survival, pro-creation, control. The ground you stand on is love. The cliffs are: forgiveness and supernaturalpower/knowledge/wisdom/praise/glorification/and exaltation.Only through the grace of a living master can you reach the top. The guiding light that shines on you, as you climb these rocks. Don’t get me wrong these are torturous grounds. There was this one guy who had made it to the cliff base and got the power to bring men to their knees in prayer and started creating birds and bees out of the ether.
Well his master caught him. As his master was keeping an eye on him the whole time he saw the manipulations of the force. Do you know what his master did, he picked up a stick and beat him half to death with it? Well the disciple’s servants came by and picked him up and nursed him back to health. With this wisdom the disciple never again created only taught the way. By the way this master disciple lived in the 1970s and 1980s, not 2000 years ago. I studied with the master he left behind.
Climbing the rocks is not easy going. You have to give up love, control, pro-creation and survival. With wisdom you forgive, but the knowledge never leaves you. That doesn’t mean you turn the other cheek, it means you are so strong that nobody gets close enough to stick you, strike you, or slap you. But the master will be watching, and might drop some hail on you. So can you give up your carnal life, your attachments and aversions? Your hate, rage, anger, envy, jealousy, your delusions. Can you sweep your heart clean of your dirt? Do you need help? Can you forgive yourself, and those around you? Can you study the wisdom of the masters? The Bible, the Bhagavad gita, the Koron.
Can you learn the way of non-violence and still train for war? Do you want children, or do you want all the children of the world to be your children. WELL CHOSEN.
By Ronald Bean.