Seek good counsel..

Satsang (a)
Hanging out with the wise
This is a principle Tony Robbins refers to as modeling.
a very old principle indeed...

Our minds are like monkeys - monkey see monkey do... Right?

So, read great peoples comments, when you need advice seek out the best advisers.
Our president elect is setting up his cabinet along these lines right now...

so if you want good results, go to good people who have mastered producing the results you want to have...

An old way finding good advise was to take a holy book or recognized book of authority,
place it spine done on the table,
let it go
read where ever it opens up to...
oops yep ask your question first...
divination.

It has been said that statistics don't lie -statisticians do...
continue this:
Astrology doesn't lie - astrologers do --
the law doesn't lie - lawyers do (expert Perry Mason... & others like him - I know a few)

So, the point is: the quality of the advisor that you want.

A mundane astrologer can tell you when win a war, get married (or not), do biz with this person or not etc. but they can't read for your spirit...

A mental astrologer or a psychological one can read for the above and your mental well being.

A spiritual astrologer can read all the above (but may not do so by choice) but can show you the best way for your spiritual growth.

Yogi Bahjan taught martial arts, and marital arts, and yoga to his followers.

Paramahamsa Yogananda taught love and devotion, to his.

Vivekananda taught truth and Intellectual yoga to his.

Swami Shivananda taught all forms of yoga.

All of these are incredible masters but one may be better for your temperament and path...

And none of them may your path... Yours maybe the military path, fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan...

I know one man who entered WWII and lied about his age - he wasn't old enough.
Yet in north Africa against Rommel, the Desert Fox: he was the sole survivor of his massacred unit.

The Israelis latter recruited him to teach their troops what ever he knew....

He is now a Shaman, and a Bishop in the First Church of Antioch. and bullets are said to have just past right through him...
Truth or .... well I won't test him... but he can effectively block a punch...

Pre -Paid legal is an inexpensive quality legal service where you can get quality advise, on legal & business matters .

There are many good advisers out there. There are many bad ones too..

Which kind will you be?

Do you drag your students to a conclusion? or do you let them make there own?
Do you help them make there own?

Teaching is about bringing out what is already in there releasing the inherant knowledge.
Not about 'training' this is different: Training is about building skills for a specific task, or job.
A trainer is just like a dog trainer, getting to be competent at known level of expertise for a specific task - like in the military... or begining a 9-11 operator interfacing with the police and fire departments, lives depend on you...

So before you sign up for class, you need to take responsibility for your training...teaching..
you have to know your outcome... and then compare it with the outcome of class find out the goals of the teacher...

You need to take control your path...
get good advisers, some get this from within...

Wow a good day...

Fasting...

Fasting is an interesting word - it does make you go faster...

Strange as it implies giving something up
such as food.

Well with computers we can understand how this would work...
If we have say 8 programs running all at once it may be slowing down the operating speed.
so closing some of these programs ~ for a while ~fasting = faster processing.

Our bodies are the same.
We eat more than we can digest (process) = slower, sluggish, gas, acid reflux etc., etc.
We fast on lemon juice - say for a day or two or 4 a month = we have more energy = we go faster, think faster to...

Our brains are usually in a random search mode, hopping from subject to another, following threads of info, (Oh, that reminds me of ...) and off we go..

Lost focus. This is just a habit; and it is an energy waste.
Think of your driving down the freeway at 70 miles an hour and you put the cruise control on
= best gas mileage - right? more efficient - right?
OK, now if you drove your car like you let your mind drive (and it is driving and not you - it is in a crazy cruise control habit); you drive 78 then 54 then 92 then 43 and so on... what are the relults?

= ridiculous gas mileage, increased costs, saps, your savings, steals from your future and ....

you get the idea.

so take a mental fast...

Today Saturday or tomorrow Sunday, take an hour or two or even the whole day and observe (not TV or radio or read) others but no thought, keep the mind calm. peaceful, no reactions, or actions, no speaking.

I like to sit comfortably and watch the sunset on the beach - or woods, or over the Addison airport; letting the mind be quiet.

Turn off the mind, chatter switch.

You may find a whole new way of knowing...
beyond the mind, where it can't conceive of going is....

well you just have to experience it.

How can a Mozart compose as a child?

A regular guy - do complex math automatically - with out training and with slowing down of the processing in school by the need of the teacher to "show your work?"

Their is lightning fast brain that with patience, training, and recognition, and practice is so much faster than our chattering minds...

Yogis would demonstrate doing 10 things at once...

You are familiar with putting an unsolvable problem aside at bed time, shutting off the chattering mind, and directing the companion self ( so called subconscious mind) to solve this unsolvable problem for you and deliver this solution when I wake up. Or, on my morning walk, or brain dump (writing down all the stuff I can think of, daily to get it out of the way)or in the shower.

Those successful of you who know this secret of using this higher source of inspiration, solutions, carry a note book and pen or like me a small recorder... so when driving...

Fasting or defragging your hard drive periodically, is great... to go faster, more effective, more peaceful, cheerful, more easily...

To Fast
let many things go Slow now and then - give it a rest...

Honesty is best policy....

Even the auto makers had dishonesty all over them, when they first came to congress...

The CEO 's couldn't even tell the Senators how much money they needed and when...

If they did not have accurate information - who would?  Enron's bookkeepers maybe?

Michael Moore has put out a wonderful solution this mess -- Google him and see for your self...
He mentions that " one could purchase every share of common stock in GM for less than 3 billion.  Why would give GM $18 Billion , or $25 Billion, or anything? The automakers policy seems to lay off people to protect profits....
I find common sense, reality, and honesty in his suggestions on this matter...great reading - thank you Michael Moore.

An honest days wage fro a honest days work - we have heard these slogans for years...

The ancient principals we are discussing in this blog are nothing new.

King Salomon taught them to all who would listen and can be read right in the Old Testament - Psalms - Songs of Salomon...

but what is the most lacking of all of our principals ?

Honesty ~ it's a tricky subject..
In an International survey completed in the last several years, Honesty was the most sought after trait.

Employers deemed it highest in what they look for in an employee.

Meaning? 
~yes it means not stealing,
~delivering what you promise, (to yourself too, now...)
~Telling the truth and on and on...

But did you consider this one:
~duplication....(what?)
simple would you keep a copier around that would duplicate exactly what you put in?

why would you keep an employee around that
~when you gave them an order, request etc., etc., to do a thing they did something else?
~would you order from a company who showed a picture of a red pen flashlight, and sent you blue one?
 (bait & switch is illegal now)
~ would you do business with a company that said they would install it by 3 PM same day - showing up 2 days later?

You see Honesty = dependability, this generates Trust

Read the best selling sales books over that last 50 -60 years and you'll see one thing sticks out...
you have to be honest.

You have to be honest even no one else will know you are not... Why???

Because someone does know: you or YOU and your subconscious...

It doesn't think and reason like you can - ~ but how many do...

Your subconscious is all powerful - it digests your food, pumps the blood, does waist management for the billions of cells in your body,It even communicates to the universe for you to bring you what you want.
It is amazing - I don't think it is subconscious at all,

I feel it is our companion self and we just don't see it...
because it is always there...

But it can't take a joke... it just takes you seriously...

so if you lie, cheat, and steal, take the short road not the best one, etc., etc., you are teaching your powerhouse - holder of all emotions, to do just that.

so you like the automakers will do so automatically...

Why buy an American car that won't work as well or as long and an import?
just to keep the economy going?
An economy that is built on the easy way, the dishonest way? It won't stand up... it just has no integrity.

Like pouring a concrete floor in building that only is up to code in a small section, the rest not being so will collapse under stress.

Just like we see today.... so if we build on the basis of Honesty well...

Growing more food in less time on less land has resulted in a world wide shortage of food.
the soil tended to naturally  will do so much, honestly delivering great food...

but we don't look at what takes the correct method we look at money first...

A better way:

When looking at doing anything:
ask first:  Is this needed? Will it be a benefit for many or even all?
Then ask: will it make money?

the money question has been put in the wrong order - one cannot put the eggs into a cake after it's been in the oven for a 1/2 hour...

Money?  Great Question - not a first question...

Getting the picture?

if you don't duplicate the cake recipe honestly - you don't get cake...

So, from Automating, to management, to cooking, to the privacy of your own self... if you want cake...

Honesty is the best policy...

Lighten the load...

Good Medicine the red path folks call it...

Lighten the load of those you meet:

And old Indian medicine man and a lady friend were going into a busy restaurant to eat brunch.

Nothing fancy but a nice comfortable place - sort of like the old 'Steak and Ale' or 'Cracker Barrel'.

Nice decorations but the mood was depressed.

The Old Indian gave his name and they sat down to wait to be called to a table...

With the smoke and din of the chatter no one heard
-really anyway -
the hostess announce softly in disbelief:

"Buffalo Chips -party of 2..."

The Old medicine man put in arm on my friends shoulder - gently as if to say hold on minute - not just yet...

well in about 3 minutes the hostess now a bit braver:

called "Buffalo Chips -party of 2... "

A few of the eaters now looked at each other to see if they had heard that right...

Still the hand on the shoulder...

another minute and the now confident hostess sang out:

"Buffalo Chips - a party of 2... "

now the place was in merry laughter....

with a twinkle in his eye his hand moved down to take her arm
as they stood up, and were led to their table...

Lighten the load of others - but remember to lighten yours too...

Smile a little

Share a bit of that peace with others...

hold your inner garbage for the shrink, god, or meditation, and

a bit of joy to others....

You will be laughing too.... and the garbage will be have been taken out....

Smiles & Chuckles...

Walking on Water...

Buddha, reporters say, came to a calm river bank.

His path was on the other side of this river.
As he pulled out the required coin from his small purse,
and paying the ferry man,

A strange man ran up and said hey you powerful being, why pay?
I can Walk on the water - 'I'll show you who is more advanced'.
and ran over to the other side on the water, to wait and gloat over his victory over Buddha....

Slowly the ferry reached the other side, Buddha thanked the ferry man for his time, and stepped back on to the shore.

This mouthy stranger, showing off his powers and looking for acknowledgement of his superior spiritual powers, confronted Buddha - "see how fast I got here?"

Buddha acknowledged his rapidity, and said: "it takes great energy to water on the water. I got here for only a nickle.... "

Humbleness:

is needed in the beginning, the middle and the end of our spiritual journies.

Conservation: = green planet..

Happiest of Days...

Take the short cut...

The short cut is the quickest way most effective way...
yes always true...

If one considers all the factors, this is true.

If your outcome is to get say money the fastest way possible
you may decide to rob a bank, or hack a bank...
but have you considered what would happen if you were caught?

How to enjoy money from inside the iron bars? oh, well
drawing board...

sometimes taking the time to become a doctor - do the internship - start the practice -
master the practice - expand the practice - franchise the practice...
may be the quickest way to your goals --

So to take the short cut - take the time required to do some planing
Know your outcome -
Make the plan-
keep these in View = KIV

and do the daily steps and you will get there..

get some help and advise from professionals along the way
or study with a mentor.

Do self improvement. 

Keeping on...

sometimes we are just to tired to walk on.

Great take a nap ~ if you are safe..

other times just keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

When you give your word.... do it.

You will feel better for it.

I am tired today, I did this blog anyway..

so I go to sleep happy that I keep my word.
and tomorrow my companion helper,
my so called subconscious will be ready for a really great day....
because I kept my word to myself...

I met my minimum standards today.

I took the time to study what I said I would.
to write what I said I would.
to do what I said I would.

There are few things I could move to tomorrow
so I could get these done today...

KIV and Keep your word...

Make you world your way.

Happy eve.