Your life can improve simply by noticing how your life is already wonderful.
In this podcast, I'm going to draw your attention to things in your life that you can appreciate today, to help you feel happier and more inspired. I'm also going to interview people to discover their struggles, their own hero's journey, and the lessons they discovered that enriched their lives and might enrich yours.
I welcome you to the final episode of A Beautiful Thought.
Looking around us, we might notice there are many strange inversions in the world. Things seem to be the exact opposite to what they’re supposed to be.
For example, once there were grand books telling stories that would appeal to the masses, and at once teach high spiritual ideas, such as the Mahabharata and its extract, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Now the popular stories we see seem to be mere backdrops to act as propaganda for powerful organizations such as BlackRock. The spiritual ideals are eliminated, the entertainment reduced, and the message they want to push is most prominent.
Another example is the concept of “mother”. In the tradition of yoga, once men would mentally refer to women as “Mother”, controlling their lust and attempting to see them as the Divine Feminine. Now in TikTok videos, young men leave comments calling attractive women “Mommy”, for quite another purpose.
We might say our innocence has been taken from us, or we might say that we willingly gave it up. But even in a world like this, our innocence can be regained. The solution can take time and effort, but it is simple.
By pursuing sexual continence, control of one’s own thoughts, and keeping God in mind, we can regain that innocence. Instead of moving deeper into the world, we move deeper into ourselves, into self-control, and into our own spirits.
The rewards are numerous, and perhaps they are even perfect.
(Read the transcript and find important links on the site: A Beautiful Thought – Purity Of Mind: Episode 480) (https://beautifulpodcast.com/purity-of-mind-episode-480/)
7 Jul 2022
Getting Lost In Thought: Episode 479
If you’re a verbal thinker, you’re likely a highly linear thinker. That can mean it’s easy for you to get stuck in a thought pattern.
One thought leads you to the next, then to the next, and then it leads you back to the first thought. As our brains operate with state-based memory, we may find more and more things that bother us.
Unable to perceive the overview of our mental patterns, we might stay like that for days, or possibly years.
One solution is meditation. When we take the time to observe our thoughts, we do gain that overview.
Another method is journaling. By putting our thoughts on a page, we can begin to recognise the patterns and the structure, and we can more easily find a way out.
(Read the transcript and find important links on the site: A Beautiful Thought – Getting Lost In Thought: Episode 479) (//(Read the transcript and find important links on the site: A Beautiful Thought – Getting Lost In Thought: Episode 479))
4 Jul 2022
Grasping And Resistance: Episode 478
Often a memory will come to mind, and we get a glimpse of something we did. In that moment we might sense an incongruence.
We grasp for a sense of self, an idea that we had about who we were. That leads us to resist what actually happened. The inevitable result is suffering.
In fact, grasping and resisting are so closely related that we might say they are the same thing. To grasp for something we wish were true is to resist the reality.
In a single moment, we can let go of grasping, let go of resisting, allowing, embracing or even worshipping what we once were, and what we now are.
(Read the transcript and find important links on the site: A Beautiful Thought – Grasping And Resistance: Episode 478) (https://beautifulpodcast.com/grasping-and-resistance-episode-478/)
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