THE MASTERY
OF YOUR ATTENTION WILL COME
WHEN YOU WILL START SEEING the truth..
Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads
*note* lovely video about Don Miguel Ruiz quote"Don Miguel Ángel Ruiz (born 1952), better known as Don Miguel Ruiz, is a Mexican author of New Age spiritualist and neoshamanistic texts. His teaching is significantly influenced by the work of Carlos Castaneda.
His most famous and influential work, The Four Agreements, was published in 1997 and has sold around 4 million copies. It was featured on the Oprah television show,and advocates personal freedom from agreements and beliefs that we have made with ourselves and others that are creating limitation and unhappiness in our lives. Ultimately, it is about finding one's own integrity, self-love, and peace by way of absolving oneself from responsibility for the woes of others. The Four Agreements are:
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Don't Make Assumptions.
Always Do Your Best.
Ruiz has subsequently released a sequel, The Fifth Agreement, which adds a further agreement:
5. Challenge your assumptions. "
In 2002 he suffered a massive heart attack, and spent nine weeks in a coma, but recovered although he was in pain for the next 8 years. He has handed the Eagle-Knight lineage over to his son Don José Luis. On October 9, 2010, Ruiz received a heart transplant at a hospital in Los Angeles, California. He was at a retreat in Wimberley, Texas, at the Lotus Ranch when he found out that a heart was available and had to charter a plane to get back to Los Angeles."
I will try not to comment much on this topic..but be aware he was right about the fifth agreement..and wrong only about one of the agreements(that's pretty good for a not-realized guy..but hey..he did his best...and no,I won't tell you what agreement he was wrong..you figure it out by yourself,since the same power whom makes a wisdom muscle raise up during the thunderstorms of life..is the same power whom makes the sunshine,or the coyote beg for a cheese-sandwich in the Nevada desert of this desire realm,where we are all born..make experiences...think you are here to enjoy them..then dead we are,in some coffin...please be aware of your true essence,because the subconscious reincarnates and you'll go over and over..till you can try true meditation.
Don't waste your life in mind-forms..discover the ONE beyond it..then you can control the manifestation,as the mahayogi Kripto does,..loved in the 3 realms,worshiped in 10..celebrated in the 18th also by himself only..ponder grasshoppers..
THINK!..everything you experience in this moment is the result of your own doing.
Why don't you use this present experience to understand yourself,and what you have created?..or you thought there is any power other then yourself whom created this earth?
Or you think there is any power other then yourself whom decides?
Then THINK again..grasshoppers!..
WHEN will YOU ever TAKE control of your journey?
There is no gods other those in yourself(manifesting as qualities),and there is no absolute god as you imagine it..other then the funny kripto inside you,watching your drama...I recommend you have the real fun of knowing yourself..then do whatever you want..is all good,since when YOU KNOW your true nature...everything is you,and you can't do wrong EVEN if you try..believe my superior wisdom muscle..for I am beyond Heaven or HELL..those realms are for humans,not for me.
Thus spokenth the mahayogi..in front of his bewildered grasshoppers from Heaven...I'll post his son interview too..about the fifth agreement...to learn more about Don click here http://www.miguelruiz.com/index.php?p=Resources to lean about his Toltec tradition click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec the below is the interview with his son,Don Jose.. also and Don Miquel..http://life.gaiam.com/article/how-find-happiness-your-true-self any way..I am glad that with that severe heart attack he came back to his senses and developed the 5th agreement ..but sometimes I ponder why people have to suffer in real life just because they never get it in the true life,inside themselves ?..or they think they got the secret of creation,and god itself by it's balls,and now they can really believe what they want?..well..I tell you this grasshoppers from heaven..happy are those whom understand this secrets inside of them..for otherwise life itself will teach them..trust the painful heart attack..and the coffin...for the beliefs you have create your reality...and if those beliefs are NOT in resonance with the universe,you will suffer...I recommend you start purifying your ass right now,and start meditating the right way,before is too late...otherwise due to the nature of the universe,unless you get this wisdom..you will suffer...because a bacteria like you must be stimulated to evolve...and that is the purpose of suffering...the problem is you lost faith in the yourself..don't!..powerful forces will protect you if you have this little desire to be happy..trust the mahayogi!..plenty gods out there are willing to help you..if you only have the desire..the true desire to know the truth about why are you here,why are you born..why ..and why..kisses:)
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Interview with the authors:
GAIAM: Why do you think that The Four Agreements book was so well received, being that it was a New York Times best-seller for more than 7 years?
DON MIGUEL—The Four Agreements showed everybody how easy it is just to be happy. It’s nothing but common sense. It’s universal, not just from Mexico, really. It has come directly from the human intelligence.
Once you read it and start applying it, even later—months after—you will see that it’s like you read another book, and it’s not that the book changed, but you changed, because the limitations that you used to have before no longer exist. It’s like you have a guide in your pocket.
How did creation of The Fifth Agreement come about?
DON JOSE—In 2002, when my dad had his heart attack, followed by a nine-week coma, I had the reflection and I had the inspiration that I was going to continue on with his teachings. Seven years have past and this book is the creation that came out of it.
The fifth agreement is to be skeptical, but learn to listen—to learn to listen from your heart. It’s to be skeptical about the problems, about the drama, about all the negative emotions that are offered to us in this life, so that when we learn to listen, we know what is good for us.
DON MIGUEL—This agreement is the level of mastery, when you finally finish with yourself completely, and you can be in world and you no longer need any teacher, any guru, because you become your own teacher, your own guru.
Describe the four agreements.
DON MIGUEL—The first is to be impeccable with the word. Which means speaking with integrity and saying only what you mean. This also means avoiding gossip and using your word in favor of love and truth.
The second agreement is to not take anything personally because everybody creates their own reality, their own world, and whatever lives in their world is different than what lives in your world. We make the assumption that everybody around us lives the same way we do, and judges the same way we judge—and this is not true at all. By not taking anything personally, well, we have that immunity in our relationships with everybody around us.
And when we don’t make assumptions, with the third agreement, that gives us immunity in the relationship that we have with ourselves.
I know that the first three agreements are a little difficult, but the fourth agreement is what makes a difference, because it’s something that everyone can do, and it’s always do your best—it’s the only thing we can do.
Just by following these simple four agreements, we can break thousands and thousands of false agreements that we create and that rule our lives.
The Five Agreements
BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD:
Speak with integrity. Say only whay you mean. Avoid using the work to speak against yourself or gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY:
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
DON'T MAKE ASSUPTIONS:
Find the courage to ask questions and express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just his one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST:
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse and regret.
BE SKEPTICAL, BUT LEARN TO LISTEN:
Don't believe yourself or anybody else.Use the power of doubt to question everything you hear: is it really the truth? Listen to the intent behind the words, and you will understand the real message.
Why didn’t you include the fifth agreement in this first book?
DON MIGUEL—As you see, this agreement comes from the other four agreements, and the reason that I didn’t include it 13 years ago is because at that time the people that I tried to teach, they were not ready for this agreement, but Don Jose proved me wrong by teaching it.
What do you mean when you say we are all messengers?
DON MIGUEL—When we’re children, we receive messages from everybody—from our parents, from the school, from everything—we hear all those opinions, we make all those opinions ours, and we learn a way to grow up and start sharing all those opinions with everybody. We are always giving and receiving information, giving messages, then, by nature we are all messengers. But we don’t have the awareness, we just give the message without awareness, and we destroy many of the messages that we send and receive.
What kind of messenger are you? Are you delivering lies, or are you delivering truth?
DON JOSE—We are all messengers because we are all artists—Toltec means ‘artist’. When you ask yourself what kind of messenger are you, it’s like asking yourself what kind of life am I living? Do I love my life? Do I like the life I’m living? Well if you don’t like it you can change your life, and if you don’t like your message you can change your message. And this is the beautiful part to realize—that we are storytellers and we can create the most beautiful story.
Talk about the experience of the collaboration of working on a book together?
DON JOSE—The collaboration of this book is the message of me teaching with my father, and just the love between us. I am very grateful to him, for standing by me through all my stupidity while I was growing up. Now I have the opportunity to be with him and to share his message—this is the best gift that can be.
What would tell someone who was trying to follow the agreements everyday? Who wanted to wake up everyday be reminded of them and practice them?
DON JOSE— People should always remember to respect their world, to respect their body, to respect their mind, and do not let any dream of poison have them sacrifice their heaven away, because what could be more powerful—what heartbreak, what drama—could be more powerful that we would give our heaven away? Always remember, the faith is in ourselves and we can transform with action and love for ourselves.
Is there a sixth agreement?
DON JOSE—No, this is the last. But there is nothing else to explain. When you become your own teacher, and apprentice, that’s basically when you learn respect, and you learn to live in a dream of gratitude—and gratitude is gratitude to be alive, gratitude to have a body.
And what do you hope people will take away from reading this book?
DON JOSE—Well, the most beautiful message that is in this book, is to help us to change the world—and we’re not talking about the world outside of us, I mean the world inside our minds.
DON MIGUEL—We all came into this beautiful planet with a mission. The only mission, and it’s the same for every single human that we have on this beautiful planet earth, is to make ourselves happy.
Iwill try not to comment much on this,but to remind you one thing..as is on my front page blog,right on top...
THE MASTERY OF YOUR ATTENTION WILL COME WHEN YOU WILL START SEEING THAT IT IS ALL A MYTH THAT UPSETS YOU.JUST THROW IT AWAY..AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE THE ETERNAL LIFE.ONLY THEN YOU WILL FULLY ENJOY YOURSELF BECAUSE YOUR ATTENTION WOULD BE COMPLETELY DRENCHED IN THE BLISS OF YOUR TRUE SELF.-SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI- To nourish the vital energy, keep watch in silence;
In order to subdue the mind, act with non-action.
Of movement and stillness, be aware of their origin;
There is no work to do, much less someone to seek.
The true and constant must respond to phenomena;
Responding to phenomena, you must be unconfused.
When unconfused, the nature will stabilize by itself;
When the nature stabilizes, energy returns by itself.
When energy returns, the elixir crystallizes by itself;
Within the pot, the trigrams of heaven and earth are joined.
Yīn and yáng arise, alternating over and over again;
Every transformation comes like a clap of thunder.
White clouds form and come to assemble at the peak;
The sweet nectar sprinkles down Mount Sumeru.
Swallow for yourself this wine of immortality;
You wander so freely—who is able to know you?
Sit and listen to the tune played without strings;
Clearly understand the mechanism of creation.
It comes entirely from these twenty lines;
A true ladder going straight to Heaven.-Daoist text -
To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !." - Tamil Poem-
