Monday, February 26, 2007

Gardening


Complaining about anything, holds you in the place of refusing to
receive the things you've been asking for. Justifying about anything
holds you in the place of refusing to let in the very things that
you've been asking for. Blaming someone, holds you in the place of
refusing to let in the things that you've been asking for. Feeling
guilty, feeling angry, it doesn't matter what you call it, it is a
refusal, not a conscious one. You're asking; you can't help but ask.
The Universe is yielding; it must yield. It's a big question, folks:
why aren't you letting it in?

Jerry Hicks
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th,
2001


By any of the actions above you are pushing out a negative energy that will return to you in like form. In the Tao Te Ching - verse 42, "as you sow, so shall you reap," and 3000 years later Jesus says "As you sow, so shall you reap" are both the Law of Attraction. When you dwell and live in negative energy you are seeing a world of negativity; feeling angry, guilty, resentful or whatever name you put to it - that is the stuff you are growing in your garden and your life. That is the stuff you will see and lock onto.

What are your planting in your garden? What do you want to see show up in your life?

6 comments:

QUASAR9 said...

So true Jimmy James!
We try to fool ourselves
as teenagers we may rebel.

But just as you should literally not try and swim against the tide, else risk being washed away
One needs learn to go with the flow

Sure as teenagers (and even later) we may wish to proclaim our individuality (or independence) but it is those who play by the rules who may appear not to have fun, who most excel and have the most fun.

It is the measure of things that changes. What do you value, where do you want to be. For sure, for sure what you sow so shall you reap

Alas there is no perfect Cosmic Law
One could fall into thinking that if one is born disabled, or with some congenital or degenerative disease (or born to a violent family in the absence of love, or even born poor) - one is reaping Cosmic Karma. But aren't we all?
After all man is mortal, forty score years maybe a little more is all we can at best hope for. Our mortality written in our DNA - our life styles and life choices are choices we make within the confines of who we are born, where we are born, when we are born.

However Jimmy James I do have one thing to tell, one should not confuse fate or cosmic fate, as the ultimate cause of suffering.

One should not consider the fortunate worthy, for they may be worthy or they may be not at a later date (see Bonfire of the Vanities) - and some would claim that christ paid for his karma in full - not out of free will, but as fate like we all do.

But I say here to you that one should not confuse those born into healthy bodies as more worthy, and those born into diseased bodies as less pure - or maybe one should?

Difficult question I know to face, for which family is left untouched by disability, disease or death and even early loss. One need not grieve, but one should not confuse the fate of the body with the fate of the will.

Curious though that the medical profession will try and save babies which nature would 'reject' and they may even do it with genuine altruism - but they are not saddled with the daily truth, following the euphoria of a new succesful revolutionary treatment or novel surgical process.

But here I must stop. I will
For it is hard to talk without either praising or criticising what you will. Indeed it must be hust as negative if you will to praise where praise is not due, or to criticise what is 'above' critiscism or criticise wrongly if you will.

Alas, I wish I could praise all day all that I see. But to do that I would have to live in some ideal, and avert my eyes from what I see and know is just as 'real'

After all if a patient does tell a dentist or doctor when he is in pain, how is the dentist or doctor to know. Should a dentist or doctor tell the patient what the patient should feel?

QUASAR9 said...

PS - beautiful pic
Hope you are enjoying your day!

Daydream believer said...

Wow what a comment!

How was the snow?

Jim Wilkins said...

Thanks Quasar for the excellent comment.

I did have a fine day yesterday, had work to do and a chance to be creative also.

We try to fool ourselves, wear blinders like race horses, and choose "not to see" at many times via the many distractions that life has to offer.

There are many things we do not know, so as humans we try to make sense of it with only the views we are seeing. The one view for me is about "choices" and "empowerment." Our life is full of choices, and those choices create what we think, experience, feel, and see. Thus, if we want to change what we experience, feel, and see we need to change our thoughts. And that is a freeing sensation as I realized that I am empowered and responsible for everything in my world.

Jim Wilkins said...

DB,
Yes Quasar leaves some excellent comments with a lot of food for thinking on. I enjoy his blog also as I love to learn new things.

The Snow, kind of petered out. We only got 9 inches, and it gave me a chance to use my new snowblower I had purchased 3 years ago expecting to use a lot. It was like playing with a new toy. It was fun.

The snow left a beautiful blanket of white in my world, and covered up a lot of crud along the roads. Lots os snowmen out and about, and the snowmobilers are making the most of the new powder.

Katie McKenna said...

Fabulous post Jimmy James! Thank you!

Loved the comments as well.