Prague’s
evening breeze in May –
was
comfortable to the skin and romantic to the heart;
The old gas
lighted Charles bridge with the Castle as backdrop
seemed
fairytalelike enchanting and alluring…
Sitting at
the white clothed table by the river bank
with candled
lights and champagne colored roses spreading the sweetness in the air;
Hearing the
soft music playing in the background;
Watching the
still active moving crowds on the bridge-
and the
lights reflected from the bridge glittering beautifully on the water…
The waiters
were busy in attending the guests with their sweet smiles;
The smart
dressed and well mannered guests were enjoy a perfect Prague evening;
Everything
seemed beautiful and harmonious…
Isn’t life wonderful? I could not help feeling a bit hypnotized…
Suddenly some
strange sound out of tune arose in the restaurant -
A drunken man
managed to get into the restaurant from nowhere!
His clothes
looked dirty and shabby;
His eyes were
red and his hair looked wild;
His mouth
were bubbling something loudly…
In no time
security guards came and grabbed his arm,
the poor man
seemed confused while being dragged away pretty roughly;
Elegant
ladies and gentlemen in the restaurant frowned-
and looked
disturbed and disgusted;
Waiters came
apologizedly for the unpleasant incident…
After a while
everything returned to the normal again
as if that
drunken man has never existed!
But I could
not -
the food was
becoming less tasty;
the bridge
was becoming less enchanting;
those
beautiful well-mannered people around me
suddenly
became hypocritical to my taste;
even the
apologetic smiles from the waiters and waitresses
suddenly made
them look like poor actors and actresses…
I have had my
mind caught in the middle of processing
from feeling
sorry for that poor man,
to feeling
guilty that I was the one sitting at the table
while he was
the one being thrown out;
from trying
to justify the situation so I could return to my ‘perfect world’(my own
hypocrisy!),
to battling
myself to see through the self-deceptions and illusions going on in my own mind!
What had really changed ?
the food was
the same;
the Charles
bridge was the same;
people were
the same;
It was the
same ME …
But my whole
experience has changed;
and the whole
reality of ‘life is wonderful’ has changed into something less wonderful!
It could not
be more clear to me-
that it has
been always my own mind
which keeps
creating different experiences and different realities at different times!
Could this be
the root of the human sufferings, the downfall of the humanity-
that we have
too little understanding of the nature of our own mind?!
That we fail
to understand the duality of the human’s mind–
both lower
mind and higher mind are entangled yet difficult to distinguish from;
As the lower
mind is manipulative associates closely with the desires and egos,
and easily
being led by the impulses from the physical senses;
while the
higher mind can neither be manipulated nor deceived-
because it is
the higher aspect of our self (soul aspect)
which doesn’t
really belong to us yet keeps serving us as divine inspirations
when we are
in tune with our soul purpose!
Unfortunately
through the human history-
many times
those lower minds have succeed to gain upper hand over the high minds…
This is why
Michael Jackson could have attracted more attention than Laotz;
That’s why
Amsterdam window girls could have attracted more admirers than Jesus;
That’s why
someone like Pewdiepie could even have more followers
than the
Gautama Buddha……
At times I am
pretty pessimistic about humanity-
because of
the understanding of the destructive power within us -
knowing if we
allow the impulses from our lower mind dictating us,
our egos will
grow bigger;
our desires
will grow stronger;
the light of
our souls will grow weaker…
the human
world will lose its peace and go into chaos…
‘Armageddon’
will not just be a metaphor anymore but
a pretty
close prediction according to the patters of humanity development!
But at other
times I am also pretty optimistic about humanity-
because of
the understanding of the creative power within us-
by
understanding the nature of human’s mind:
if our lower
mind can be easily manipulated,
why not
manipulate it in a more creative and positive way instead?!
(Just like
redirecting energy if there is no way to destroy it.)
So if we can
choose to BELIEVE regardless our current situations-
that we are
abundant even we are not at this moment;
that we are
loving and compassionate even we don't feel like that sometimes;
that we are
beautiful and wonderful even we have doubts from time to time;
that we are
much loved and blessed even that seems not the case right now ...
Almost
miraculously,
things will
be moving and changing in accordance with
the degrees
of our acceptance toward the new reprogramming in our mind-
because just
BELIEVING has its immense power and strength!
Gradually we
will believe in more and more in ourselves -
that we have
the ability to change ourselves and the world around us;
that we have
the power to create any reality as we desire!
You may call
it that is the manipulation of the mind-
but to me,
that IS a pretty intelligent one!
