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How To Pray & Recieve What You Want?
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<blockquote data-quote="Embers" data-source="post: 109572" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Dear Vick966 Ji</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Why not write your thoughts and feelings on paper first, come back to them after a day or two, or when you are in a different mood and re-read them. This could help you to deepen your self-knowledge for fun. Perhaps an answer will come to you when re-reading and you will see a new exciting angle to take. Also you may find that this will help you to gather your thoughts before approaching someone you hold close with whom you want to share your ideas.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">On a slightly different slant to this post, I would like to add that the first post by Mahanbir Singh Ji made an impression on me which has brought my thoughts back to his words over the last weeks. I am grateful! I quote the part to which I refer:</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">“I asked God & He answered beautifully.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: black">God explained to me that I do not have any thumb rule with which to decide. The way you pray that decides. I could not understand. I asked for clarification, He explained, when you pray & ask for some thing that means you do not have what you are asking. In every prayer your thought behind the thought or sponsoring thought is that I lack. God told me that when you make a statement of lack it is converted in to lack. Your thoughts are creative. Your thoughts create every thing. You do not know this. What ever you express whether silently or by speech it happens.”</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(Mahanbir goes on to explain.)</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The above captures the duality in the unity of the absolute.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">But what I wish here to draw out today (within the duality of subject and obejct) is to reiterate on my undderstading of some of Mahanbir's words:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">When we want something, such as more money, a better chance at life or a nicer day at work, then we are saying that there is something wrong with what we have now. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This makes me wonder how there should be something wrong with what I am experiencing? Isn’t everything God’s plan? Surely God is omniscient and omnipresent, He knows what I lack. Right? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">He knows me, after all he created me and sustains me. How can I, a mere man with a mind, question His way? How can I really complain, to do so would be to say that God’s plan is flawed, that I know what is better than God?</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">What we have right now, including our bodies and our lives is as best as it can be in the best of all possible worlds. What lies before us is the potential to change things for the better. What challenges us today will be yesterday’s lesson learnt.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">What I take from Mahanbir’s message is that it is the asking which makes my lacks more obvious and painful. By asking I am making a problem to solve. By asking I put my mind into a spin.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So instead I will pray to give simple thanks. I will pray thanks for what I have received and look to offer my compassion to others. I will look to the positive side of life, no matter what my thoughts or my life may be demanding from me. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Kind regards, Ambers.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Embers, post: 109572, member: 9385"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Dear Vick966 Ji[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Why not write your thoughts and feelings on paper first, come back to them after a day or two, or when you are in a different mood and re-read them. This could help you to deepen your self-knowledge for fun. Perhaps an answer will come to you when re-reading and you will see a new exciting angle to take. Also you may find that this will help you to gather your thoughts before approaching someone you hold close with whom you want to share your ideas.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]On a slightly different slant to this post, I would like to add that the first post by Mahanbir Singh Ji made an impression on me which has brought my thoughts back to his words over the last weeks. I am grateful! I quote the part to which I refer:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]“I asked God & He answered beautifully.[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black]God explained to me that I do not have any thumb rule with which to decide. The way you pray that decides. I could not understand. I asked for clarification, He explained, when you pray & ask for some thing that means you do not have what you are asking. In every prayer your thought behind the thought or sponsoring thought is that I lack. God told me that when you make a statement of lack it is converted in to lack. Your thoughts are creative. Your thoughts create every thing. You do not know this. What ever you express whether silently or by speech it happens.”[/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana](Mahanbir goes on to explain.)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The above captures the duality in the unity of the absolute.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]But what I wish here to draw out today (within the duality of subject and obejct) is to reiterate on my undderstading of some of Mahanbir's words:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]When we want something, such as more money, a better chance at life or a nicer day at work, then we are saying that there is something wrong with what we have now. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]This makes me wonder how there should be something wrong with what I am experiencing? Isn’t everything God’s plan? Surely God is omniscient and omnipresent, He knows what I lack. Right? [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]He knows me, after all he created me and sustains me. How can I, a mere man with a mind, question His way? How can I really complain, to do so would be to say that God’s plan is flawed, that I know what is better than God?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]What we have right now, including our bodies and our lives is as best as it can be in the best of all possible worlds. What lies before us is the potential to change things for the better. What challenges us today will be yesterday’s lesson learnt.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]What I take from Mahanbir’s message is that it is the asking which makes my lacks more obvious and painful. By asking I am making a problem to solve. By asking I put my mind into a spin.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]So instead I will pray to give simple thanks. I will pray thanks for what I have received and look to offer my compassion to others. I will look to the positive side of life, no matter what my thoughts or my life may be demanding from me. :)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Kind regards, Ambers.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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