Through the Window
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap!"
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Everytime her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?"
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life. What we see when watching others, depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
At 18mind.com, our motto is "The World is in the Eye of the Beholder!" Thus, it is very important that the "window to our world" is kept as clean and clear as possible.
Since our minds are constantly busy and thinking-analyzing-identifying-classifying-comparing-categorizing, we end up conceptualizing about Reality, not directly experiencing It. These activities and conceptualizations are what "dirty" the windows to our world.
It is our belief that the second we think we "know that" we are now limited by the conceptualization of the Real "that". Once we are operating on the level of conceptualizations we are not interacting with Reality any more. We are interacting with an image that we have of "that Reality" in our minds. The image is a frozen image (graven image) and does not morph over time like the Real Thing. The image may have been a pretty accurate representation of the thing when we made it-like a photograph-but Reality is constantly changing and Its objects move just as they do after a photograph is taken.
So we are constantly working with "old" or "inaccurate" data about what the world is or how it works. A miracle to us would be something that works outside of how we know the world works. Just no way to explain it in terms of what we already know.
The world is constantly operating in a constant miraculous way that is blinded by our concepts, rigid religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, and our ego driven goals and desires. As we let go of our beliefs about how the world works, it begins to work in a whole new way that is completely outside of anything that the image maker can comprehend.
We clean "the windows to our world!"
And so the world appears "clean" and its beauty and perfection shine through!
The Mind Syntropy Program offers a method to clean the "windows to our world." If you have not taken the 10 week session please Click Here and fill out the form and the first one will be on us!
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