Dear Friends Joy and Happiness is not just for the Festive Season. This is a wonderful time of the year, this season of Christmas and New year, where great happiness and rejoicing surround us. For a few precious days, we can put to one side all of our concerns, and worries for a little time. It is as if we take an holiday from our problems. Although of course there are many desperate people throughout the word for whom this festive time does not bring any kind of joy or relief. To those who are suffering in any kind of way, we send our prayers and deepest hopes that soon they will find peace and happiness. This time too, is a time of reflection, where we may look over our life and see where we are now, where we have come and how we have changed over the past year. Of course change is a continuous process, no one moment can ever be the same as the previous one. This continuous change may not always be evident to us, caught up as we are in the day to day motions of life So times such as festive seasons, birthdays or a wedding, take on a more pronounced significance within us, because we are not usually aware that life is continuous change, we think of such events as momentous land marks in our life, as marking the passing of the old. Many of us will make resolutions too, for the coming year, where we commit ourselves to carry out positive actions, we feel would benefit both ourselves but also those around us too. Yet wouldnt be of much greater benefit both to ourselves and to others, if we could commit ourselves to really change our outlook once and for all, not just for the new year, by dropping all of these self created problems and worries, we have put to one side for these few days? So when we return to what we think of as every day normal, life, after the holiday season ends, we could refuse to have anything to do with these endless, worries, hopes and fears and desires. The cause of all of our continued sufferings, and illnesses. We simply see that all of these problems originate and multiply within the mind of thoughts and emotions. They are empty of meaning after all. The meaning, the dread, the fears are what we ourselves created. Once we glimpse that all of our worries are simply empty delusions, we can then experience the joy calm and happiness usually reserve for the festive season, all of the year round. A very peaceful ad happy new year to everyone of you. Lobma
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:41:41 +0000