Man In The Mirror

[Loreena]

Sometimes we need to look at the man in the mirror before pointing fingers at others for our mistakes.

How easy it is to place blame on others

And how difficult to admit our own guilt. 

All arising from useless false pride and ego. 

The need to be above everyone. The need to make others feel small to make oneself feel better. 

How cheap

[Prabhaker]

On 4/9/2017 at 11:37 PM, Loreena said:

Sometimes we need to look at the man in the mirror before pointing fingers at others for our mistakes.

I have heard about an ugly woman....

She was so neurotic about mirrors – because only mirrors made her aware that she was ugly. Otherwise, without mirrors, as far as she was concerned, she was beautiful. Wherever she would see a mirror – even in somebody else’s house – she would immediately break it. The reason was that mirrors made her look ugly.

Those poor mirrors had nothing to do with her ugliness. She was ugly, but she was forcing the responsibility on the mirrors, fighting with the mirrors.

The World is a Mirror.

If you are positive, then nothing is negative for you. If you are negative, then everything will be negative for you. You are the source of all that exists around you, you are the creator of your own world. And we are not living in one world, remember. There are as many worlds as there are minds. Each mind is living in its own world, it creates the world. So if everything looks negative and everything looks destructive and everything looks inimical, against you, it is because you do not have the positive center in you... If you feel negativity all around you, it simply shows you are negative within. The world is just a mirror, and you are reflected in it.

Existence cannot be forced to go according to you, it flows in its own way. If you can flow with it, you will be positive. If you fight with it, you will become negative and the whole thing, the whole cosmos around you, will turn negative.

It is just like a person who is trying to float upstream, then the stream is negative. If you are trying to float upstream in a river, then the river will seem negative and you will feel that the river is fighting you - that the river is pushing you downwards. The river is trying to move you downstream, not upstream, so it will seem as if the river is fighting you. The river is completely unaware of you, blissfully unaware. And it is good; otherwise the river will go to a madhouse. The river is not fighting with you, you are fighting with the river. You are trying to float upstream.

The mind is always trying to go upsteam, to move upstream. Fighting with everything, you create a negative world around you. Obviously, this has to happen. The world is not against you. Because you are not with the world, you feel it is against you. Float downstream, and then the river will help you to float. Then your energy will not be needed. The river will become a boat, it will take you. You will not lose any energy floating downstream because once you float downstream you have accepted the river, the current, the flow, the direction, everything. Then you have become positive to it. When you are positive, the river is positive to you.

[Prabhaker]

On 4/9/2017 at 11:37 PM, Loreena said:

Man In The Mirror

 

[LRyan]

Inspiration doesn't get any better than this 

[Guest Annetta]

47 minutes ago, Prabhaker said:

I have heard about an ugly woman....

She was so neurotic about mirrors – because only mirrors made her aware that she was ugly. Otherwise, without mirrors, as far as she was concerned, she was beautiful. Wherever she would see a mirror – even in somebody else’s house – she would immediately break it. The reason was that mirrors made her look ugly.

I happen to be an ugly woman.
The solution isn't to break the mirror, it's simply not to look into it.

[Prabhaker]

2 minutes ago, Annetta said:

I happen to be an ugly woman.

    Ugliness has nothing to do with your body. Neither has beauty much to do with the body. The beauty or the ugliness of the body is very superficial; the real thing comes from within. If you can become beautiful within, you will become luminous. It has happened many times: even an ugly person, when he becomes meditative, starts looking beautiful. 

   When they start meditating, when they start dancing, when they start singing, their faces relax. Their tensions drop. Their misery, which had become part of their face, slowly slowly wars off. They become relaxed like children. Their faces start gleaming with a new inner joy, they become luminous. Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner.

  Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside. Comparatively it loses all significance: don't be worried about it. 

  Bring something higher into yourself, and the lower will be forgotten, because it is all comparative, it is all relative. If you can bring something higher into yourself... It is as if there is a small candle burning in the room: bring a bigger light into the room and the small candle simply loses all significance. Bring the beauty of the within, which is easier.

   A very ugly girl was sitting at the beach, when the waves washed a bottle at her feet. She opened it -- and out blew a huge genie in a billow of smoke. "I have been a prisoner in this bottle for five thousand years," cried the genie, "and now you have freed me. As a reward, I will fulfill any wish you make." Ecstatic, the ugly girl announced, "I want a figure like Sophia Loren, a face like Elizabeth Taylor, and legs like Ginger Rogers." The genie looked her over carefully, then sighed, "Baby, just put me back in the bottle."

[Scholar]

6 minutes ago, Annetta said:

I happen to be an ugly woman.
The solution isn't to break the mirror, it's simply not to look into it.

The real solution though, is to stop judging and labeling everything, including yourself. Ugliness does not exist outside of your imagination.

[Guest Annetta]

6 minutes ago, Prabhaker said:

   A very ugly girl was sitting at the beach, when the waves washed a bottle at her feet. She opened it -- and out blew a huge genie in a billow of smoke. "I have been a prisoner in this bottle for five thousand years," cried the genie, "and now you have freed me. As a reward, I will fulfill any wish you make." Ecstatic, the ugly girl announced, "I want a figure like Sophia Loren, a face like Elizabeth Taylor, and legs like Ginger Rogers." The genie looked her over carefully, then sighed, "Baby, just put me back in the bottle."

Love it.

7 minutes ago, Scholar said:

The real solution though, is to stop judging and labeling everything, including yourself. Ugliness does not exist outside of your imagination.

Hey how you doin'?

I was just messin' with you guys.

[Arkandeus]

35 minutes ago, Annetta said:

I happen to be an ugly woman.
The solution isn't to break the mirror, it's simply not to look into it.

I'm not gonna tell you you are wrong. If you feel ugly then that is your reality and experience and that has to be respected. 
But know that you could experience yourself in an entirely other way, I guarantee you, you could look at yourself in the mirror and be amazed. 

I didn't like my body and my face so much either before spirituality. 
Now I do.
I didn't ''change'' who I was in that perception, I changed perception altogether. So in that old perception I'm still the loser, and I will always be, because that is the way that perception works. 
You have to realize it's just a perception. It's not the stone cold truth. I assure you that others see you in an entirely different way then you see yourself. 
If I would see you no doubt I would find you beautiful. Would that mean my perception is better or the truth? Not at all! 

I think the key here is understanding that no one is safe from looking ugly, there is for everyone a perception of themselves where they look ugly. 
which is why you can have models that think they look ugly, pop stars with insecurities, or just a regular guy or girl that thinks he/she is ugly...

No one is safe from this shit. Because no one is objectively beautiful or ugly, it doesn't exist. 
It really is our perception that decides what is beautiful or not. 

Most of us are stuck in society's perception of ugly and beautiful, and yes in that one most of the people are not beautiful.Most of us are ugly.   
That's just the way it is.
But what is society? it's division, it's war, it's violence, it's manipulation, competition...do you really want to base your perception of yourself on our society?Society is nuts, don't believe it. 

Any spiritual person you will encounter will see the true beauty of your body, and I'm not talking about ''pretend or inner beauty'' but the actual true beauty of your body and face.  
And I tell you that the body viewed from a more spiritual perception is a ten thousand times more beautiful then the superficial perception of society. 

When I walk around the streets it's like half the people I see are models. 
 
it's up to you if you chose to believe in society's perception or in the perception of the spiritual community. 
If you chose the latter you will be able to access an entirely different perception of your body

Edited April 14, 2017 by Arkandeus

[Shin]

40 minutes ago, Annetta said:

I happen to be an ugly woman.
The solution isn't to break the mirror, it's simply not to look into it.

No, your image of yourself is ugly, not your face.

There is actually ugly people, but there are extremely rare, like 1 in a million.

In 2 years of daily commute, I only saw 2 people that were ugly, one of them was a girl that probably used way too much make up and fucked up her face (this or surgery that went bad), the other one is genetically ugly (some sort of disease, his hands were very weird too).

Edited April 14, 2017 by Shin

[Guest Annetta]

@Loreena You're fine.  I made the same mistake with Key Elements I know what's up w/ me.
I was making a joke to Prabhaker.

"so you are requested not to take the thread off topic(as is usually the case)"

I have a thought disorder.

Edited April 14, 2017 by Annetta

[Guest Annetta]

@Shin
@Arkandeus I was making a joke, I'm not really very concerned with appearances.  Prabhaker's post just reminded me of something, that's all. 

(Talked to Leo about it too and explained the paranoia so no one is on the hook for anything.
It's going to be what it is and I'm going to be doing weird stuff - I'll post something in the music section to explain what it's like to give more of an understanding - one sec)

Edited April 14, 2017 by Annetta