What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.
Like "it's not what happens but how we respond to it that makes the difference". Question is, how do some people have (born with, educated???)...the personal resources to react positively to apparently overwhelmingly negative events, or even shoulder a slow drip drip drip of emery into their lives gringing things down?
Hari OM Yes, you got the gist of the affirmation today... and what a great, but oh so big question to follow! The whole of Advaita Vedanta is about explaining us to ourselves - as philosophies go (and I've wandered various Philo-paths in my lifetime) it is most logical and satisfying. There is no simple response because of course everything, in the end, comes down to the individual and the individuality is determined by our 'jiva' status... how many times the essence we have manifested has been around the block already, and how many more manifestations may await. You may have come across the expression that a child can seem to have an 'old soul'. In Vedantic terms, that is likely to be accurate! Some of us come into current life ready to run. Others have so many lessons to learn that we hit walls, trip on obstacles, crumble at challenges. Factors determining response include sanchita, praarabdha and agami (collectively 'karma'), vaasanas and swadharma... Well, you did ask!!! Yxx
if we believe in destiny, that means we have no control over what happens, which also means knowledge is redunant, not needed, because we can't control it... some religions believe our destiny is pre set, some don't. i am not sure what i believe.
I believe very much that the way you deal with anything will change your life accordingly. If you just sit meekly and don't fight back, things will only get worse.
Ohhhh that is a good one, I'll toss that around a bit.
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Hugs cecilia
It good to have free will and choice in our life.
ReplyDeleteLike "it's not what happens but how we respond to it that makes the difference". Question is, how do some people have (born with, educated???)...the personal resources to react positively to apparently overwhelmingly negative events, or even shoulder a slow drip drip drip of emery into their lives gringing things down?
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DeleteYes, you got the gist of the affirmation today... and what a great, but oh so big question to follow! The whole of Advaita Vedanta is about explaining us to ourselves - as philosophies go (and I've wandered various Philo-paths in my lifetime) it is most logical and satisfying. There is no simple response because of course everything, in the end, comes down to the individual and the individuality is determined by our 'jiva' status... how many times the essence we have manifested has been around the block already, and how many more manifestations may await. You may have come across the expression that a child can seem to have an 'old soul'. In Vedantic terms, that is likely to be accurate! Some of us come into current life ready to run. Others have so many lessons to learn that we hit walls, trip on obstacles, crumble at challenges. Factors determining response include sanchita, praarabdha and agami (collectively 'karma'), vaasanas and swadharma... Well, you did ask!!! Yxx
if we believe in destiny, that means we have no control over what happens, which also means knowledge is redunant, not needed, because we can't control it... some religions believe our destiny is pre set, some don't. i am not sure what i believe.
ReplyDeleteI believe very much that the way you deal with anything will change your life accordingly. If you just sit meekly and don't fight back, things will only get worse.
ReplyDeleteKlem
Yes, it is all true.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge is power.
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