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Implement Vaastu Tips In Your House

Is it that you have set up a new company, hired the best people in business, put in all the money required and still not getting the results that you are seeking? Chances are that the building in which you have set up your new office is not designed as per Vaastu Shastra. Now you must be wondering what vaastu shastra is and what connection this has got with either the success or the failure of your new business venture. Vaastu Shastra is an ancient and traditional Hindu norm of town planning and architecture that suggests placing things in coordination with the metaphysical and physical forces. Conceptually Vaastu is similar to the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui in the sense that it advocates the harmonization of the flow of energy in the atmosphere. Following vaastu tips have turned out to be greatly beneficial for several business undertakings and households as well.

You just need to make sure that you are following the right vaastu tips or else this can harm you, your family and your business to a great extent. There are some vaastu tips, which you may find difficult to implement, but if you take a little effort and do this, you will feel the benefits very soon. Some of the common vaastu tips that you can easily incorporate in your house or your office are to arrange the furniture of your house or office in the form of an octagon, a circle or a square as will be suitable to your house of office. Keeping a water body in your living room is said to be beneficial, so what you can do is place a water body like an aquarium. The aquarium must have nine fishes including eight goldfish and one black fish.

Vaastu suggests that there should not be any obstructive houses or other constructions that are obstructive to your house. Vaastu shastra needs to be implemented in the very early stages when you decide to purchase a plot for constructing your house or your office. After you have constructed the house or bought the plot of land, it will be extremely difficult on your part to take down things or rearrange them in a sequence as per vaastu norms. Therefore, from the very beginning you must ensure that you see a vaastu shastra specialist and take his guidance and vaastu tips while purchasing the plot for your house or constructing your house. You must ensure that you enlist the services of the best vaastu shastra specialist in your city and implement the vaastu tips in constructing your house or office.

Some of the other vaastu tips that you can easily implement in your day-to-day lives are not to hoard withered flowers, stale food, waste paper or any other waste materials, torn clothes, useless things, empty jars and tins. All these stale and waste things are believed to prevent Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth from entering the house. Take care that that your house and office has enough of sunlight and air coming in.

Author:Amit Bhalla

Kabbalah And The Pleasure Principle

Have you ever really thought about the actions you make every single day of your life on this planet?  It is really quite interesting when one begins to delve into his or her own behavior. Observing human behavior on a regular basis can uncover some rather peculiar findings.

Human behavior has been studied and documented for thousands of years.  All of this comes from a great desire to know why humans behave as they do. In spite of all the study, people still surprise us. There is so much that we don’t understand. For example, why are some people so altruistic and others so selfish?

There are many people who enjoy doing good things for family, friends, and people in general. Some people, like Mother Theresa, spend their entire lives caring for others without any thought of what they will receive from their actions. But there are other people that society labels as selfish.  Everything they do is to fulfill their own desires. As long as they are satisfied, all is well.

Is there a way for us to find out what causes man to behave as he does? How does one begin to unravel this mysterious phenomenon?

Kabbalah is a wisdom that has been passed from teacher to student for thousands of years. It tells us that we all operate under a single law of behavior. Every single one of us acts in order to receive as much pleasure as possible while expending as little energy as possible. This is the law of the physical world in which man lives.

Using this law, we can analyze certain acts that people do.  One gets up to get water because of thirst. One gives a friend a gift because it causes feelings of pleasure.  A man gets up early to exercise because he wants to be healthy more than he wants to sleep.  Cheesecake is refused because the desire to lose weight is stronger than the desire to indulge in the rich dessert.

Every single action is calculated.  The calculation is: does one feel better doing this or that?  Is the effort expended worth the anticipated pleasure? The only real difference is the type of desire that is being satisfied. If we honestly examine every move we make, we can verify the validity of this law.

It’s easy to see in the case of the selfish person. He or she obviously does what brings pleasure. But what about those we view as altruists? Can an individual do even one little thing that is truly altruistic?

First of all, what is altruism? According to Encarta, it is “an attitude or way of behaving marked by unselfish concern for the welfare of others.” What if one did some wonderfully benevolent act for some lucky person, and did not let them know who did it?  That certainly would be an example of true altruism.  Or would it? 

There is a problem here.  Even this is a calculated act.  There are many ways to get pleasure out of a seemingly selfless act, and some of them can be extremely subtle. In some cases, the giver is rewarded with a wonderful feeling from being able to give to someone else.  It feels good to give so much pleasure.

In other cases, the person may expect some future benefit: If I help you now, maybe you will help me when I need it. The fact that the anticipated pleasure is in the future does not negate the fact that the “altruistic” act was performed based on a calculation of pleasure versus effort.

Probably the most subtle reason for action is the pleasure received from doing what is considered “good”or “right.” Consider someone who has given up everything in order to serve the needy. Why in the world would someone do this? Because it feels “right” to do so. If it did not, they obviously would not move a muscle to help.

The desire for this type of pleasure can be incredibly strong, and societies rely on it in order to function. We work hard to instill this in our children, and it is the foundation of our concepts of ethics, morality and religion. We even rely on it in our legal system. Would you rob a bank if you knew you could get away with it? For most of us, the answer would be “No – it wouldn’t be right.”

And so, after careful observation, we conclude that every action, no matter what, provides the giver with some type of pleasure (or avoidance of pain, which is a type of pleasure) or it will not be done. This is initially a surprising discovery for anyone to make. Every action performed by man is calculated for his personal benefit! It may sound harsh, but it is not. It is simply the way we are made – it is human nature.

Once we recognize our nature, a new desire can begin to emerge. This is the desire to be able to perform a truly selfless act. In order to do this, we must somehow transform our very nature. This, Kabbalah tells us, is the purpose of our existence.

Author:Bnei Baruch

Going To Heaven?

The over emphasis about who is going to heaven and who is not (as though anyone knew) is about as much a waste of time and arrogance as are the “ideas about heaven”. Of coruse on the otehr side of the coin driving people to heaven is the fear of hell. What ever happened to the love of God concept and living in the NOW? What about heaven and hell on earth (as it is in heaven)?

Unfortunately it has been the tradition of th church for thousands of years to make up a list of “qualifiers” that get one into heaven. It’s been akin to getting presents and gifts from Santa Claus. Santa (aka as God) is checking His list, and checking it twice, trying to make sure who has been naughty and who has been nice.

We brain-wash our church-trained children in Sunday School by teaching them that God loves little boys and girls who are GOOD! So, the first time a child does something on the “naughty list”, that child feels that God no longer loves them. And if they do enough bad things of coruse God has given up on them and to they give up on God as well.

What about teaching unconditonal love, mercy, and forgiveness?

Maybe even teach them that there’s going to one day be a NEW EARTH and maybe ALL (like in everyone) will one day be cleaned up and go to heaven. Follow the theory that heaven’s guardian gate is hell and we’ll ALL pass through on our way back to the Source of all life, and you don’t even have to worry about who is IN and who is OUT!

Why can’t we just leave the “punishment” stuff to the parents? The answer is because parnets have left training and disciplining to the church. And the church has been all to glad to step in and try to conform everyone to whatever “lists” of good and bad things ther are in life while skipping over the really good stuff. Oh yes and skipping over the embarrassing stuff like Matthew 21.

Have you been there recently?

Have you explained (maybe to yourself) what the author of Matthew meant when he said tax collectors (really bad people), and prostitutes (doubly bad people) will get to go to heaven before the religious leaders. So, who wants to be a pastor, minister, rabbi, or priest? :-)

Why don’t we not waste time about who is and who isn’t going to heaven. Let’s just LOVE everyone, and judge NO ONE! Sounds to me like something Jesus did.

Author:Ernie Fitzpatrick

Are You Willing To Be A Truly Yielded Vessel?

We all want to be used by God and do something for Him but are we really prepared to go through the process necessary for Him to use us? Are we aware that there is in fact a process to be gone through?

If we are not continually moving forward we are probably beginning to backslide as there is no sitting on the fence with God!

God through His Word is often described in the Old Testament as a refiner of silver and gold. The sin and impurities have to be refined out of our lives to enable us to become vessels that He can work through. He can only use vessels that have been tried and tested in many furnaces of affliction.

We do not have to go looking for furnaces of affliction. They will come about automatically as we seek to develop and deepen our relationship with Father God through intimacy.

Do we enjoy this process? No, of course not. But we can rejoice in it knowing that He disciplines those whom He loves.

Hebrews 12 v 10~11 say, ‘God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it’.

How is it that this Almighty, Awesome, Holy God should choose us and want to work through us? What an incredible privilege! We can but respond wholeheartedly. He wants us to share in His holiness ~ how amazing.

Knowing that He loves us so passionately and that He is doing so much for our benefit in the refining process, what is to be our response?

James puts it delightfully! ‘Consider it PURE JOY, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith
develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be MATURE AND COMPLETE, not lacking anything’.(James 1 v 2~4 emphasis mine)

One man describes this refining process like this: ‘I came to the realization of what death really is. Oh it’s so easy to say it’s the ‘cross’ but what did it really mean? As I died, I saw that the Holy Spirit was working within to crucify every ambition and desire that is contrary to His nature and will.

Ambition and self were rooted out. The great concern of the Holy Spirit is with the motives of our hearts and He is continually examining them to replace the corrupt nature of self with the character of Jesus. Sometimes the experiences are distinctly unpalatable but as we allow them to work in us they lend to a greater weight of glory for we are being changed from glory to glory to the image of Christ. That’s what it’s all about ~ to be more like Him’.

He will willingly use such yielded vessels and through that vessel prove over and over again His power, His protection and His love. Do we dare to trust and yield to that extent?

For those who do so dare to give of themselves so completely to Him, a life of adventure with the Holy Spirit will lead you in exciting new ways as you become Recklessly Abandoned to Him.

Author:Penny Shellswell

Meditation In The Eyes Of Immortal People

How sweet are the immortal peoples adeas and thoughts

I am so very proud to post their saying and thoughts here because they are model and we wish to like them some day.

We need some soments for our souls those wors enrich our souls take a look and enjoy

What they say about mediatation?

Meditation provides a way of learning how to get go .as we sit,the self we’ve been trying to construct and make into a nice ,neat package,continues to unravel… Joun Wellwood.

Keeping God in your mind as everything around you becomes meditation…Ramana Marshi.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times ,to be of the present nothing but in the present ,to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life…Peter Matthiessen.

Meditation is simplisity itself.One is to just let go, nothing special is supposed to happen…..A spiritual Warrior

Meditation is silense. If you realise that you really know nothing , then you will be truly meditating .Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation….Yoga Swami

Meditation needs an awake mind not an unconcious one….Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time.It is an awarness and an attitude that must presist throughout the day…Annamalai Swami.

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Author:Majdi al mahasneh

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