Meditation can transform Our Lives

Meditation can change many things, it can transform our lives and it certainly can make better persons out of us. All this is due to the fact that we can realize the Truth and this is a gradual, but very serious and consistent process. Soon, we will be discovering if we really are sincere with ourselves, if indeed we want to change, to have peace and above all, to be a source of love and inspiration. Meditation, then, it’s directly related to self-criticism, which is a constructive process to understand ourselves and also to understand others. It is possible that in occasions we enter in contradiction, but the important thing will be of course, to find our weakest points, going beyond the superficial analysis and besides, to be able to communicate, since man often lives too much in the fantasy and he needs to have a real and practical spirituality. Although to meditate is not properly to analyze, meditation will take us to a clearer conscience, in harmony and peace. Let’s look for in meditation not a reason for isolation but as a source of universal love.
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Author: Oscar Basurto Carbonell

The Way to have Peace

Life contains changing scenes, paradoxical situations where nothing would seem safe or stable. It is like a sea in movement coming and going incessantly.
But what’s important and magnificent about this, are not the changes, it is the control and direction that we maintain on each one of the situations. As if we were the captain of a boat with many years of experience. This wisdom is a gift from meditation: The calm in the disagreement, security in the insecurity, control in the uncontrollable. And in this way we could continue forever since the certain thing is that every situation requires of an attitude. However, if we find the way to peace, could we neglect to cultivate it ? The external world may be shaken and affected, may laugh and cry. It is born and dies, but the peace that we find in meditation is permanent balance and constant harmony.
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Author: Oscar Basurto Carbonell

The Healing Energy

The term and concept of Healing Energy can be used in different ways as a non conceptual tool that applied with depth and method, can resolve, doubt, worry, and mainly is a course of action, a better perspective in the process of being; in other words, to reassert and reinvent our reality.

In this case, the term -Healing Energy- refers precisely, to that energy that is required to change, to transform something, which prevents and limits our improvement, and our capacity of reaching lasting peace and happiness. We could see the healing energy from the following perspective : The conscience of man is the product of a series of experiences, that adapt and adjust to a will, which makes of center and point of confluence of the synergy of the living experiences per se.

The result are various psychological conditions, which many times, are obstacles to us, such as, resentment, frustration, psychological perspective and wrong ethics, which imply problems of reasoning, reflection, tolerance and analysis, in front of which, we simply yield, and lose control to balance our acts or the capacity to be able to achieve our goals.

We can easily fall in the affliction of depression, irritability , bitterness, frustration or addiction, where we lose control and start even ceasing been ourselves and start affecting everything and everyone around us, and it would seem that it has become a neglected, unstable, unimaginable life.

It is here, where the concept of Healing Energy, has to definitely act and here, we show and enunciate in a brief way, and then we will go in depth, the steps or stages needed, to reach this so called, Healing Energy. And it is important to clarify that these steps or stages will be given in a gradual way. At times, they will all be shown together or separated and they will not come in an established order, but they will finally combine until becoming a sole functional
Healing Energy, which is: Strength, Motivation, Intention, Conviction of Change, Excellence.

The process is as follows :
1-To recognize our limits.
2-To go deeply into our doubts, worries, not to exalt them, but to identify them, with the purpose of transforming them.
3-Confront our inertia, since is a major obstacle to neglect and not exercise our will.
4-Work in a humble way, in order to remove erroneous concepts, either, mechanically or compulsively learned or those where we don’t have a solution to the problems that we are now facing
in our lives.
5-To be conscious that we need help, and don’t shut up in the last or only possibility, that we have to do everything ourselves, but with the exception, that certainly, our effort must be personal.
6-To have a feeling of solidarity towards ourselves, so that, the fault -if there is one- can be constructive, not demolishing and destructive. Let’s work here, then, in renovating confidence and studying the meaning of self confidence.
7-To improve our daily habits -this is so important- that we could say, this is the link that integrates the others. This improvement means to cultivate the desire and effective practice of going back to nature, by getting in touch with our surroundings, in the purest way, starting with the food until coexisting, properly said, with the environment. The outdoors has resources of calm, peace, happiness tranquility, which are most needed for each and every one of us.
8-To leave behind, everything that is a hindrance to our progress and to start discovering and creating, what later on, is going to be, confidence and hope, because, we are reborn every day, and with this concept, to take all the acts of the will, to the specific method of finding a personal and a shared good in which all our contribution to life will be sustained in the search of an order which is just, worthy, happy and with a feeling of solidarity .
9-To work in the application and development of creativity , with the purpose of having friendship with our mind, our feelings, with ourselves and with the ones who surround us . And to break monotony and lack of spirit of participation , by becoming a constructive, dynamic individual, who is studious of everything which is good and how to apply all this in every detail of life itself.
10-To reflect as much in the rational, analytic process, as in the proper mystic process of prayer or meditation, and with the assistance of examples of peace and excellence, to meet life as attribute of a living spirituality, where we find inner values that always correspond in a constructive way and give place to know and to cultivate inner peace with due attention and care, since it is here, where all what has been said before begins its practical meaning and its practice of life, as much human,
as divine.
11-To cultivate respect for our will, determination, conviction and in the same way, towards all beings, with the understanding that there are differences but that all must live in peace.
12-This is of utmost importance but is only reached when we can leave behind all false experiences, signs, symbols in the conscience, which have not allowed our humbly understanding that we are creatures begotten by the love of God.
Here, then, to recognize God, in our lives, is what allows the consolidation of the work, that permits the awakening of the plenitude of the healing energy.
13-To analyze our actions in a method based on tolerance and patience but capable of recognizing our tendencies and self manipulation in order to objectively differentiate what usually, hinders our change and improvement, and to be alert about our excess of self compassion, justification and self deceit .
14-To actively participate in the experience of renovation, recognizing the importance of assuming new responsibilities in which, we will maintain the edifying conduct in the progress of a productive life where the virtues of Honor, Friendship and Solidarity, are developed in their ample meaning.
15-To be objective in every process, with the purpose of not finding all the solutions in an easy or irresponsible way but to understand that every change requires of effort, discipline, study, dedication and Love.
16-To be grateful, to have the uprightness of accepting and consequently of compensating.
To open our heart to superior meditations, where the gratitude to our Creator, to Love, to life, to the whole universe, grows and strengthens.
17-As long as all this is carried out, we will find that what was causing pain and confusion, somewhat, is isolated and is a lot less painful. But in this stage is necessary to be able to transcend everything. It is here where we evidently need of the union of all these steps and all the stages.
This is the moment of forgiveness. This is the moment of creation, to conciliate everything, and what cannot be conciliated, then, to learn to leave it in the hands of God.
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Author: Oscar Basurto Carbonell

Haiti, you are in our Prayers

Let us keep our brothers and sisters in Haiti in our thoughts and prayers as they are recovering from the effects of the earthquake that devastated their country.
In addition to the gift of prayer, other ways in which we can offer assistance is by uniting our efforts with those of various agencies and organizations, which are already providing relief for our suffering brothers and sisters in Haiti.

Happy New Year 2010

Today is the last day of a year that brought joy and sadness.
Only God knows the reason of these mysteries but man has the capacity to dream about a better world. Tomorrow a window will open for all humanity. And once again, we have hope for better times and a superior life.
Let’s find in God, the renewed energy and the so much wished peace to reach each being. And certainly this will not happen by itself, let’s put our best goodwill and determination towards all humanity; understanding now, the importance of a better world.
God has offered us so much Love! Let’s appreciate and let’s make from now on a better world for today, tomorrow and always.

The Unconditional Reality

Beyond everything, beyond nothing, is man in front of himself. When we deepen in the meditation, then, the forms and the concepts, preferences, indifferences or what we reject, they all cease, we are left without solitude, direction, goal, or path. This might seem a great contradiction but the answer is: that the form is contained in the no form and the moment has arrived that everything has been transcended even the transcending itself, neither viewer nor vision, there is nothing that can be compared.
What has then been achieved of the meditation of this whole process of total and final dissolution, what do we leave or do we reach?
The answer is of course, beyond words. It is that which is completely indescribable, also inconceivable. It is the mind without mind, beyond the form and the no form, beyond freedom or slavery, wisdom or ignorance, certainly it is to have overcome and transcended all the forms, causes, effects, reasons and no reasons. Then, there is no longer any distance, is no longer necessary to make or not to make, there is no purpose then, where are we, where have we arrived?
Let’s make a pause …in this reflection and meditation…at the same time …
The unconditional has arisen, rather, the condition which is by itself unconditional, that doesn’t conceive either actions or reactions.
Let’s pause again…
All the frontiers have fallen and the reasons begin to be distinguished clearly. The reasons of the thought and of the feeling, no longer contain the man. Purity is so pure that not only goes beyond everything that shines but beyond ignorance and wisdom: The Unconditional Reality.

What can I give You?

What can I give you that does not end, that does not break, that does not get lost, that cannot be altered or confused?

Oh I know what to give you.! Something that neither the fire nor the cold, warm weather, the wind, the biggest waves will make disappear. Something that cannot get lot.

Something that you will never forget, something more valuable than all the treasures. I will give you my Care and Attention.

Recipe to Heal a Heart

Let’s start with tenderness, gentleness, attention, affection and then let’s add happiness, sincerity, communication, enthusiasm and lots of care; we mixed them with hugs and kisses, to be given to the heart with much fidelity and passion, many times a day, as often as the heart requires and in a few days that heart will be completely healed.

Spiritual Questions. Self Esteem

Q: Is there a connection between self-esteem and spirituality ?

A: The right self-esteem is found in a heart filled with kindness and this is also spirituality.
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How to Love God

I once listened to a person saying that to ask God for something, was a personal prayer. By example: To ask that everything goes in the right way in my work. Not to have accidents. To make a sale. To find what I lost.
This person was saying that prayer has to do with asking and establishing a form of communication. Nevertheless, this is untrue. God can’t be conditioned in any way. The relationship with God is without time and space, without interchange of possessions. I can’t make my relationship with God conditional to whether I want a new car or a new pair of designer shoes. That is not the right way.The right way is to realize the genuine Love and not to use the term indifference because Love is always interested in Love. I can say that Love will always bring and carry something good. But this good is not the beginning and the end. It is one of the most genuine and with a noble interest. One good example of this love is the love for our children, which is not only responsible and giving but also is a tender and sweet love, which understands, accepts and even in the good sense of the word, also tolerates. We find in this love many similar points of spiritual characteristics.Then, let’s go to the matter: How to love God? How to love God above all things, with all the strength and power of our being? Here is the secret:The love that God looks for, is the love that is loyal, that is witness of the vision which arises from a heart in the process of purification. In this human heart has been found the understanding and the grace of appreciating not only the good but also the origin of the good. In its most complete and absolute synthesis is the gratitude for life, as much personal as universal. As much as the inner as the outer life, in a life of awareness, discernment, understanding and appreciation, which recognizes with faithfulness, what God gives.
The love to God comes from gratitude. It is also a commitment and the highest degree of loyalty and fidelity.
But which God? It is not the one of the image, neither the one of the power or the riches. It is the joy of life, and not only of life but also its origin.
“God, Father, i love You, because You have given me life. Because You are the Creator, because nothing exists but Your Word. You are the maker of justice and good. How not to believe in You, how not to Love You, if you are Love Itself.”
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