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How to leverage the power of intent

It is cruical to crystallize our intent. I've talked about the How and Why of it and explained this through examples. Thus you will have a grasp on how to use your 'intent' to grow and thus with time be able to handle a larger set of problems. How can we crystallize intent: Hold yourself accountable for malevolent* intent each time. So it may gradually become more benevolent*. Why should we crystallize intent: As your intent crystallizes i.e. becomes more benevolent you will notice that you are able to handle a larger set of challenges that come your way. Thus you become MATURE and benefit from the advantages of being mature. As this process of Maturation continues a point will come when one becomes Mature enough to bear life's greatest challenge i.e. death itself. So let's see this through examples. IMMATURITY: On one end of the spectrum lie Indian Dramas. In these dramas the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law [who in Indian homes live in the same house] ar

Bomb blast on the Karbala procession today in Karachi

I was there... and talked to people, saw a man with half a arm that wasn't there now, and another man who brought in his brother - i first consoled him he'd be ok - 20 mins later i couldn't break the news [to him, at civil hospital] that the brother had died. i saw a group of people, saying "the Muthamida should have shot back at them , i.e. the shias when they burnt the bazar," * and I a shia with a black attire was talking to them, saying instead... itminan aana chayheyae/ agar woh , un mein thora sa woh sakoon un mein aajae to sab khatam ho jae ga, un kae leaders ko sirf un ko samjhanae kee aur un ko itmenan calm karnae ke zarorat hae to which he said something and then I said yeh aek hal ee vehshat hae, and they all agreed So we moved from: 1) Mutahida needing to fire at the shias; to 2) acknowledging that everybody is in a state of vehshat 3) and instead of retaliation further calm needs to prevail 4) so it may come to a close and we may

Karbala: A martyrdom cradled in Ishq

The martrydom offered by the ahl e bayt and their companions, was offered out of a position of power, and not out of weakness. It was offered as unconditional act of worship, to contribute to the consciousness of the human race, its sobreity and stage of maturity. This act of worship, was out of Ishq for the Lord, and His way, so it would awake a love for His way, the Haqiqat, in the hearts of those, with open hearts. From Karbala a million threads have emerged, that tie the world since.

The Inn

There are many idols I worship All rewarding me with fear Promising it is best this way That the fears won’t further come near But My Lord promises Freedom Says being His guest I needn’t worry That He will take good care So he teaches me the ways of the Inn And as I learn of decorum I learn the royal heritage and my potential Reminded but again to leave the worry to the powerful Host At the Inn I meet other travelers All of them guests, each cared for In what I learn I find I ought, Give these travelers a nod and the one a wink Courtesy is a rule here at the Inn By which the Rabb Promises to teach us secrets of the heart they say by which Gradually unravels all the potential within But to think a fellow traveler or object important In measure greater than his due Is to raise an idol and begin an ill That to cross beyond courtesy into Servility or cross into Oppression Is making unto a traveler an Idol For there is need for neither at the Inn The idol

A framework on thinking

Two principles : You can trust your internal working, COMPLETELY. All humans to have ever walked the Earth are made in just the same way. Implication of the 2nd principle: You would feel the same [in their shoes] if you acted the same way. How : You have an analytical mind, by which to figure out things [also called the Left Brain] You also have an ability to have split-second insights into situations [this cognitive faculty is called intuition; referred to as Right Brain processing] In any given situation, Freeze analytical thinking first Then get attuned to the situation [Metaphorically think of the situation as a place, a backyard to your new house that you are currently exploring]. Get a feel of it so you could close your eyes and predict what's placed where in it. The 'aura' of this backyard or situation that you've captured "internalize it" i.e. become one with the place and feel what it feels. To be able to appreciate this for a second think

A submission to the Lord

Our heart can sense, Reality very deeply, Thus it gives an ‘insight’ into! Heeding it is submitting to the Lord, For it dislikes disturbance all kinds; Disturbance is itself only “a distance from Reality”! Trust yourself, And your feelings keenly, For they offer invaluable insight to bridge the gap to Reality; Our minds are another miracle, given so we may make sense of it all, return and once more be grounded; Thus the Universe is designed to take care of all, who heed this language of the heart.

Quantum Thinking

In any situation, we would wish to interpret we may use our mental faculty to interpret it, but there is a more powerful technique available to us. if we are emotionally aware, completely awake I'd say, we may use the emotions that arise to interpret, as well Cognition through emotions is quite potent, much more than without them, for emotions sense and reveal, things our minds aren't able to detect! each feeling when interpreted, its cause revealed, tells us, through insight, something new, and something always interesting! but for it to work, there mustn't be any background noise, of a kind - unresolved emotional trauma, that overshadows the heart's ability to feel! Note : This is probably not the mainstream use of the term 'Quantum Thinking'. I use it because its a quicker method of thought possible by the processing of an instant's worth of  experience i.e. one's state of emotion at the time.

Wisdom

The device of wisdom is the heart, which whispering in the language of insights*, leads our thoughts. However with disturbance near by, this device first warns, then overwhelms, and if overburdened, turns off. If this happens, we cannot think, ourselves out of danger easily, for the device that senses is compromised; thus we are once more vulnerable But LOVE, the soldier from outside, can rescue us, our heart, make it beat again. Once revived, afresh and awoken, the heart pulsates through the body, clear thoughts from a place of peace; With this feeling of peace within we are able to sense discomfort, flag danger, easily wherever we may go The heart thus a guardian angel, is sent by the Lord, to protect should we heed it But also an "emotional-cognitive" engine that unfolds wisdom,a treasure of it each time we interact with the world using it For to sense around the world, with complete awareness of emotions, recognizing, trusting, maki

The theme to life

to learn and grow to the next stage to repeat this cycle and experience it all is the theme to our life this chance gifted us by our Lord, so we may experience all, that as human we are built to experience we are built, with the faculty of bodily experience the faculty of intellectual experience the faculty of emotional experience to put this to work so we may really experience but there are those of us who linger into oblivion don't full fill their purpose to live complete experience the depraved among us linger at the first stage never living it all, or learning of the sight from beyond, those conquered by their ego, trapped within their own intellect don't leave or experience from beyond the second stage and those indulgent in emotion, romance not able to tame it through a matrimony, which the natural course of this kind of love, is only a birth pain to create a matrimony pushing us into our final stage where we have powerful experience and now wanting and ready having full