Loving life without realizing that it is not an easy or rewarding task. This is a difficult and long process of exploring your own soul and feelings. And the approach to each life will also be special and individual.
Each of us comes from the unknown and goes into the unknown, it will be our duty to make this short journey colorful and full of love. The main thing is not to be afraid and be confident in your abilities, throw away fear, blossom bright colors, do not sit in a dense bud of isolation and stupidity. Have you wondered why things go wrong, there is never enough money for anything, the flu gives way to a headache, which in turn, without hesitation, gives way to an ulcer or colitis? The series of failures seems to never end. You are absolutely right. But why should it end when you do nothing for it? Even the simplest thing - to love yourself and your life as it is.
Let's think about the relationship between several concepts that will help you understand that there is nothing complicated or scary in understanding yourself.
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About life and death
Think about death more often. In order to start living normally, of course, and not to push yourself into depression. And most importantly, live differently from the way they lived before, and not the way everyone else does. Live truly, use your capabilities 100%.
How good it is that life does not exist without its faithful companion, death. It would seem to us an incredible, unbearable madness if death did not exist. What would be the highest meaning in it if not for death? Harmoniously complementing each other, they are so different and ideally suit each other. Mentally imagine that they are like two edges or shores of an abyss, being at the epicenter of which would mean finding eternal bliss.
What is in this abyss, and how can you avoid ending up in one of the extremes? Many people are internally dead, although outwardly they look quite normal. Devastated eyes, empty glances and unsmiling faces are direct proof of this. The life in them has died out, but the breeze that could rekindle these souls cannot penetrate the steel-covered shell. When even the breeze of love cannot reach you, then everything living and beautiful begins to die.
Just as there is a strong relationship between life and death, there is always love and life undivided. To live and not know what love is is already half-death, precisely that state when you don’t want to get out of bed in the morning and don’t want to go to bed in the evenings, greet the sunrises and see the sun go beyond the horizon.
At such a moment, an all-consuming emptiness sets in and the moment of real death comes, which is much more terrible than physical death.
Pain gives birth to life and love for it
Life is a bundle of pain. When we are born, we hurt, when we die, we also hurt a lot, we refuse love because we are afraid to experience pain. With such actions we simply begin to be afraid to live. Gradually enveloping yourself in a cocoon of the problem of suffering, bringing upon yourself illnesses, failures, sorrows, and sadness.
We must not perceive everything around us this way, we must learn to live in the present and accept what is happening with an open heart and without a drop of fear. We must learn not to be afraid to feel. All life is feelings, all life is a cycle of laughter, sadness, sadness, tears, disappointments and joys. If you laugh, it means you live; if you cry, you are alive, you can feel, and this is more valuable than anything in the world. Accept everything that happens with your head held high, accept life with open arms and see that the habit of turning life into a continuous problem will leave you forever. And in its place will come a countless number of joy-filled days.
We are nothing until we learn to love life
Well, we have sorted out a little of the pressing issues, and we will do it together logical conclusions and find benefit in loving yourself and life. For the most inveterate skeptics and sad individuals, let's try to provide examples of the benefits of such love not only for ourselves, but also for humanity as a whole.
Let us remember how many geniuses Mother Earth carried, how many of them are now among us, how many more will be born. Their life is a mission. The mission is to help us in the difficult hours of confrontation with our own souls. Physicists, chemists, biologists, musicians, doctors, engineers, teachers, testers and inventors. They all clearly loved life, and understood very well how others did not love it, since they brought so many good things into it to brighten it up for the worst skeptics. Doctors have been and continue to search for drugs for depression and nervous disorders, which we get from dislike for life. Inventors create new things and improve existing ones so that we can enjoy at least such little things, since we do not understand how much has been given to us from the moment we first saw the world.
Love in the heart
You must remember that the main guarantee of harmony with the world is its correct reflection in your heart. An ancient parable, on in this example will help you understand these words.
Passing by a small oasis in the desert, the young man decided to look there and drink water. An old man sat near the edge of the water, and, having drunk, the guy began to ask him what kind of people lived here. To the young man’s question, the elder answered with a question: “What kind of people live where you lived before?” Without hesitation, the guy told everything about those people he had recently left. He described their bad and terrible characters, told how deceitful and envious they were. Then the elder assured him that he would find such acorns in this oasis. That same day, another young man, passing by the oasis, said hello and turned to the old man with the same question, to which, like the last time, the old man replied: “What kind of people live where you lived before?” The young man, with sadness and longing in his eyes, told how kind the people he lived with before were, how hospitable they were with everyone and how friendly they were. Smiling, the elder assured that he would find the same people here too.
A young man, who had been carrying water all day, heard two conversations and asked in amazement how he could give completely different answers to the same question. After thinking, the old man explained - our heart is an amazing creation, we see only what we carry in it. A person cannot find anything good anywhere if he cannot find it in all the places he has visited.
We often hear predictions about the end of the world. People who spread such things see only the darkness into which they plunge themselves. But if you believe another genius, the well-known Einstein, darkness does not exist at all, darkness is simply the absence of light. For us, this light is love. All-consuming, limitless, kind and majestic.
One of a kind love is the only immortal being. And as long as it is between us, as long as it exists, life exists.
Target: image of strength human spirit, the infinity of possibilities in an extreme situation in D. London’s story “Love of Life”
Tasks:
Educational: learn to read a text, find and highlight the main thing through text analysis, retell the text, find commonality in a story and poem.
Developmental: express impressions of the text, navigate the text, answering questions, generalize observations.
Educational: to raise a compassionate person, ready to help in difficult times.
Epigraph:
How much does a person overcome fear?
That's how human he is.
Lesson progress:
1. Opening remarks teachers:
Guys! Today we have to reflect on the heroes of J. London. It will be necessary to find out: What are they? What motivates them? What is more valuable than anything in the world? What's happened real person? Jack London himself was an eyewitness to many of the events described in his works.
2. Biography story (for students): (accompanied by presentation)
Jack London (1876–1916), American writer(Appendix 1[Slide 2]).
Born January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. At birth he was given the name John Cheney, but eight months later, when his mother married, he became John Griffith London. His stepfather was a farmer who later went bankrupt. The family was poor, and Jack was only able to finish elementary school.
London's youth came at a time of economic depression and unemployment, and the family's financial situation became increasingly precarious. By the age of twenty-three, he had changed many occupations: he worked in factories, in a laundry, was arrested for vagrancy and speaking at socialist rallies.
In 1896, rich gold deposits were discovered in Alaska, and everyone flocked there, hoping to get rich. (Appendix 1[Slide 3]).
London also went there. He was a prospector in Alaska during the Gold Rush. But the young man stayed there for a year and returned the same poor man as when he left. But this year changed his life: he began to write.
Starting with short stories, soon conquered the East Coast literary market with tales of adventure in Alaska. (Appendix 1[Slide 4]).
Jack London became famous when he published his northern stories in 1900, including the story “Love of Life.” Their actions take place in Alaska.
In 1900, London published his first book, Son of the Wolf. For the next seventeen years, he published two or even three books a year.
London died in Glen Ellen (California) on November 22, 1916. (Appendix 1[Slide 5]).
Teacher : We see that nothing broke London, because he was, in my opinion, a real person. I took the words as the epigraph for the lesson: (Appendix 1[Slide 6]).
Epigraph: To what extent a person overcomes fear.
That's how human he is.
(Thomas Corleyle, English writer and historian)
3.Analysis of the story:
Teacher: Today we must follow the fate of one of the heroes of the story by J. London. Look at the beginning of the story. How does the author show us the heroes?
(The heroes of the story have been on the road for several days. They are very tired.
“tired and exhausted, faces expressed“patient humility”, “shoulders pulled heavy bales”, “they walked hunched over, heads bent low, without raising their eyes”, They say"indifferent" voice“sounds sluggish” )
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Teacher: It seems that at such a moment they should support each other, but what do we see? Why did Bill leave his friend? (Appendix 1[Slide 7]).
( One of them gets into trouble and the other one is Bill - leaves his comrade, afraid that he will be a burden for him, hoping that it is easier to save a life alone).
Teacher: How do you evaluate Bill's behavior? Find words that characterize his behavior.
Teacher: Bill has left, but the main thing is that for the remaining hero, Bill becomes a goal, a movement forward towards life, a hope of meeting Bill. (Find and read)(“... Bill didn’t abandon him, he’s waiting at the hiding place. He had to think so, otherwise there was no point in fighting further - all that was left was to lie down on the ground and die”).
Conclusion: And the person begins to fight for life, moving towards the hiding place, because there are “cartridges, hooks, and lines for fishing rods... And there is also flour and... a piece of bacon beans,” i.e. . there is meaning to live.
Teacher: The hero finds himself in a difficult extreme situation.
What is an extreme situation?
(Appendix 1[Slide 8]).
- (from Latin extremus “extreme”) An extreme situation is a situation that is extremely tense, dangerous, requiring the highest level of mental and physical strength from a person.
Teacher: The hero finds himself in a difficult situation.
What is the difficulty of his situation?
-Unknown;
-Pain (leg dislocation);
- Hunger
-Loneliness .
Teacher: These difficulties give rise to a feeling of fear and despair. What, in your opinion, is the worst thing for a person?
- Loneliness- an unpleasant feeling.
Teacher: Follow the text how our hero behaves when left alone:
(“anguish appeared in his eyes, like a wounded deer,” in his last cry “the desperate plea of a man in trouble,” finally, a feeling complete loneliness not only on earth, but throughout the entire universe.)
Teacher: Description of nature in to a greater extent helps to understand this feeling: (search)
(“Above the very horizon, the sun was shining dimly, barely visible through the fog, which lay in a dense veil, without visible boundaries or outlines...” “He looked south, realizing that somewhere there, behind these gloomy hills, lay the great Bear Lake and that in the same direction a terrible path runs across the Canadian plain Arctic Circle" And again: “He again looked around the circle of the universe in which he was now alone. The picture was sad. Low hills closed the monotonous horizon wavy line. No trees, no bushes, no grass - nothing but a boundless and terrible desert - and an expression of fear appeared in his eyes")
Teacher: The nature surrounding the hero does not bode well for him. “The picture was sad. Low hills closed the horizon with a monotonous wavy line. No trees, no bushes, no grass - nothing but a boundless and terrible desert - and an expression of fear appeared in his eyes.”
In your opinion, for what purpose are the cognate words fear and terrible used? (To enhance a person’s sad state).
But a hero doesn't give up, strives for his goal, overcoming difficulties.
Teacher: Remember the episodes of the hero's journey. What does the hero have to overcome? (find and read episodes)
The episode with the matches.“He unpacked the bale and first of all counted how many matches he had... When he had done all this, he suddenly became afraid; he unwrapped all three parcels and counted them again. There were still sixty-seven matches.” (Fighting fear).
Pain.“The ankle hurt a lot..., it was swollen, it became almost as thick as the knee,” “the joints were rusty, and it took a lot of willpower to bend or straighten each time,” “His leg became stiff, he began to limp even more, but this pain was nothing compared to the pain in my stomach. The pain gnawed and gnawed at him...” (Fighting pain).
The episode with the partridge, fishing, meeting with a deer, etc. “In despair, he sank to the wet ground and began to cry. At first he cried quietly, then he began to sob loudly, waking up the merciless desert... and for a long time he cried without tears, shaking with sobs.” “He was possessed by only one desire - to eat! He went crazy from hunger.” He dreams of feasts and dinner parties. (Fight against hunger).
But gradually the feeling of hunger weakens, but the person, “afraid of dying,” continues to move forward. (“The life in him did not want to die and drove him forward”)
Teacher: One test is replaced by another. He wants to find out who is stronger.
(Retelling of the fragment “Victory of the wolf over man” »
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)
Teacher: How are the wolf and the man shown?
- the fangs squeezed the hand, the wolf wants to sink its teeth into the prey;
-the man waits and squeezes the wolf’s jaw;
- the other hand grabs the wolf;
-the wolf is crushed under a person;
- the man pressed himself against the wolf’s neck, there was fur in his mouth.
Teacher: A man is trying to survive! Is it only human?
- The beast too.
The author shows a man and an animal (wolf) in the struggle for life side by side: who will win? What does the wolf symbolize?
(This symbol of death, which drags after life, by all indications a person must perish, die. This is where she, death, will take him. But look, it’s not for nothing that death is given in the guise of a sick wolf: life is stronger than death.)
Teacher: We see that man and wolf are sick, weak, but still man wins. What helped man to defeat the animal? (Fortitude).
Teacher: What is fortitude?
(Fortitude- internal fire that elevates a person to nobility, selfless and courageous actions).
We see that the person turned out to be stronger. But why?
Conclusion: thanks to the calculation fortitude, patience, endurance and love of life man conquers fear.
Teacher: But are there moments in the text where a person reminds us of an animal? (prove it.)
Students:Partridge hunting.“He threw a stone at them, but missed. Then, crawling like a cat sneaks up on sparrows, he began to sneak up on them. His pants were torn on sharp stones, a bloody trail stretched from his knees, but he did not feel pain - hunger drowned it out.” Having not caught a single bird, he began to loudly imitate their cry.
Meeting with a fox and a bear.“A black-brown fox with a partridge in its teeth came across him. He screamed. His scream was terrible…” . As we see, the tragedy of the situation is growing, the person is changing before our eyes, becoming like a beast.
Teacher: Find the words of the author that directly call a person an animal?
“He threw off his luggage and crawled on all fours into the reeds, crunching and chomping like a ruminant.” He was possessed by only one desire: to eat!
The One with the Bones: “Soon he was already squatting, holding the bone in his teeth and sucking out the last particles of life from it... The sweet taste of meat, barely audible, elusive, like a memory, drove him crazy. He clenched his teeth tighter and began to gnaw.” The last particles of life leave not only the gnawed bones, but also the person. It’s as if the thread that connected our hero with people is breaking.
Teacher: And yet, what distinguishes a person from an animal? What episode, very important, helps us understand this?
(The episode with Bill). (Appendix 1[Slide 9]).
Teacher: View in the text a fragment of a meeting with Bill's remains. Your opinions, judgments?
(Bill turned out to be weak, could not overcome his fear, he was afraid for his life and abandoned his comrade in trouble. Bill exchanged his life for gold).
Teacher: Can the hero be considered a real person? What qualities do such people have? Support your words with fragments from the text.
(calculation(episode with matches, in food, in the fight with the wolf, with gold, the path to the ship: “He sat down and thought about the most urgent matters...” ;
patience(in the fight against the wolf, against hunger);
reason(“the stomach seems to have fallen asleep,” but our hero still continues to look for food for himself, what motivates him? - the mind: he must eat something so as not to die);
“At times his mind became clouded, and he continued to wander on, like an automaton,” “He walked, without discerning time, both night and day, resting where he fell, and trudged forward when the life that was fading in him flared up and flared up brighter. He's bigger I didn’t fight like people fight. This very life in him did not want to die and drove him forward.”
- Fearlessness;
- willpower.
Teacher: What (who) gave strength to a person’s spirit? ( Target, target proximity: first it was Bill, then the ship).
Teacher: We see that the author does not call this creature a human, but compares it to a worm that moves forward, writhing and writhing. But not a trace remained of that “patient obedience” that we saw at the beginning of the story: even if it was twenty steps an hour, even if it was crawling, but man walking forward.
Finishing work on the story “Love of Life,” I would like you to listen to R. Rozhdestvensky’s poem and determine: What is the connection between the poem and the story?(Appendix 1[Slide 10]).
4 . Poem reading:
If only people lived forever,Teacher: What is the semantic connection between the poem and D. London’s story “Love of Life”?
that would be
inhumane...
How to find out
what are you worth in life?
How to smell
what is risk?
Throw yourself into the sea?
So you won't drown!..
Should I go to the fire?
You won't burn like that!..
Plow the field?
Then I’ll have time...
Invent gunpowder?
And for what?!.
Would enjoy lazy arrogance
Captives of their immortality.
They wouldn't have accomplished anything!
We would never get out of the darkness...
Maybe the most important
stimulus of life
In the bitter truth that we are mortal.
(In the poem and story, the authors resolve the issue of life and death, the stimulus of life is death, a person fights death in order to live, sometimes overcoming the impossible).
General questions:
Why do you think the story is called “Love of Life”?
- Love of life helps the hero survive.
(Love for life)
(Appendix 1[Slide 11]).
After all, such is life, vain and fleeting. Only life makes you suffer. It doesn't hurt to die. To die is to fall asleep. Death means the end, peace. Why then does he not want to die?”
Teacher: How do you understand these words?
(“He knew he couldn’t crawl half a mile. And yet he wanted to live. It would be stupid to die after everything he'd been through. Fate demanded too much from him. Even dying, he did not submit to death. It may have been pure madness, but in the clutches of death he defied it and fought it.”
He wanted to live, so “the man still ate marsh berries and minnows, drank boiling water and watched the sick wolf)
Teacher: Very often people, in difficult moments, turned to the work of J. London. Why?
What lessons can be learned from this work?
Conclusion.(Appendix 1[Slide 12]).
"Love of Life" is a story about courageous man, who survived such terrible trials as loneliness, betrayal of a friend and struggle with the harsh northern nature. The most important thing is that I overcame myself, my fear, my pain.
Homework:
1.Write a short essay on the topic “Have you met real people in your life? What are they?
2. Draw your favorite episodes of the work.
After all, you can simply live, mind your own business, build relationships based on mutual trust, work without thoughts of another person, which are constantly distracting. Sooner or later, everyone thinks about why love is needed at all, and comes to the conclusion that life would be much easier without this feeling. In fact, everything in the world is harmonious and coherent. If there is love in the world, our existence without it would be doomed. Let's figure out why this happens.
Why is love needed in a family?
Love comes in different forms. This feeling can arise in relation to parents, children, husband, friends and girlfriends, sisters and brothers, favorite characters from films and books. But love for loved ones with whom we come into daily contact is very important. Imagine that day after day you accumulate resentment and hostility towards your husband, because you don’t like the fact that not everything in his character is arranged the way you need. Then the answer to the question of why love is needed suggests itself. This feeling helps us come to terms with the small shortcomings of loved ones, look at them with understanding, accept them for who they are, let go of grievances and continue to live in mutual respect.
Mutual love
Many people, especially teenagers, wonder why love is needed if it is not mutual. The answer is very simple. If so, it is not love. It could be anything, such as affection, interest, or a desire to conquer a person. Love as such is manifested in the fact that people want the best for each other, plan together future life, ready to help each other, listen to each other. There is no feeling of hostility between them, there are no constant major quarrels or thoughts about a possible breakup. This concerns
It is unlikely that anyone, when quarreling with their mother, thought that they needed to look for new parents. The same principle works with your other half. A person does not love his chosen one if he is thinking about leaving him.
How to learn to love
In order to be loved, you yourself must be able to show this feeling. It is not always possible to be tolerant and gentle towards loved ones, but this does not mean that you are cold towards them. Usually we don’t feel any emotions towards people we don’t like, even negative ones. So don't get angry if your mom asks you to wear a hat you don't like and your loved one insists that you come home early. This is ordinary care in which love is manifested.
Man is naturally capable of showing this bright feeling. The problem is that he may not realize his potential if he does not have a love object nearby. When someone worthy of his attention appears in a person’s life, the thought no longer arises about why a person needs love and how to learn to experience this feeling.
Love as a way to realize oneself
The question, and love, is not asked by people who are happy with their soulmate, as well as inspired by this sense of personality. It’s hard to imagine how many poems, songs, pictures were drawn, invented thanks to him. musical masterpieces, accomplished feats, discovered new phenomena. It is love that pushes people to realize themselves, become better, and work on their knowledge and skills. When you have a person next to you who is ready to support you in case of failure, who believes in you with all his heart, you will definitely find a way to achieve success in any area of life. Love inspires and pushes you to take bold and spontaneous actions.
“Wrong” love, or How to recognize its absence
People often mistake ordinary affection or the desire to possess someone for love. If you have warm feelings for a person, but he is not ready to answer you in kind, this is not love, this is a common desire to experience it. It has nothing to do with the topic of our conversation. The basic rule of love is that it does not bring suffering.
Negative emotions can only manifest themselves in the fact that you are worried about a loved one, you want to protect him from all hardships and suffering, you try to help him at the time of difficulties and failures. In this case, the object of your love should also understand that you are yours and try to calm you down, not only with words, but also with actions. This is a kind of compromise that should lead to harmonious coexistence. If you managed to achieve it, and at the same time you feel comfortable, then most likely you have found your love, because for the sake of your loved one it is not a pity to make small concessions.
How to find love
If you think that you can find love, then you are very mistaken. She will find you herself when needed. will appear when you don't expect it. You will simply conclude for yourself after a while that you love. And this is good, because waiting for love is waiting for a catch. You will always doubt whether you have opened your soul to the right person. Therefore, stop waiting when the time comes, you will definitely feel that your time has come and that you have found a person who can become the meaning of life for you.
Thus, love is a bright feeling that cannot bring suffering. If you want to experience it, then know that you need to run away from the person who is hurting you. This has nothing to do with love.
Essay on the topic “Love of life”
We are given only one life and this is already a good reason to love it. Life is wonderful, the main thing is to find something to do that you enjoy, and you also need to try to surround yourself with only good people and then life will be truly interesting.
It is very important to find your place in life, unfortunately, not everyone succeeds in this, because due to the fact that there is not enough money to fulfill their dreams, they have to work where there is absolutely no desire to be. Therefore, quite often people waste precious minutes not doing what they wanted, and for this reason many say that they do not love their life, because they understand that their dreams will never be realized.
An excellent work by Jack London, which is called “Love of Life,” tells us about one completely fearless person who managed to overcome even the most terrible trials. Reading this story, we understand how important fortitude is, since it is what helps us survive even the most cruel and terrible circumstances. The author shows that everyone has love for life, you just need to realize it and never renounce this feeling.
The main character of this work is a gold digger, who was not only betrayed best friend, but he also abandoned it in the harsh polar climate. Is this what friends do? It’s just that next to the main character there was a person who was completely unworthy of friendship, because he abandoned his comrade, who sprained his leg, to the mercy of fate, only in order to save himself.
The abandoned hero had to forget about the incredible feeling of pain and overcome the feeling of hunger in order to move on, because he understood that in order to be saved, he should, no matter what, only go forward. But still, somewhere in the depths of his soul, this man hoped that his comrade had not abandoned him and that he was waiting for him next to their joint cache, where they had once hidden supplies that were important for life. There was fishing line, cartridges and other items with which you can get food for yourself. Thanks to such hope, the hero felt strength within himself. Therefore, he did not look back, because he knew that there was death there.
So that the reader can understand how hard it was for the hero, D. London describes almost every second of his life, since it was given to him with great difficulty. Here we see a real struggle to survive in difficult conditions. However, he is still prevented from walking the path by the feeling of pain, hunger and incredible fatigue, which exhausted him with every second. He was in complete despair, which is why tears appeared in his eyes so often. But still this man was so strong in spirit that he did not give up and only moved forward.
However, all the fears that tormented him along the difficult path made him look like some kind of living creature that resembled a living skeleton. It was very difficult to call him a person. This creature understood and heard practically nothing.
Despite this, he still managed to reach his intended goal and remain alive. Then he came to his senses and became again an ordinary person. But still, some of the fears that he felt during the difficult journey remained with him forever. This is, first of all, the fear of hunger. However, this hero managed to return to a full life.
It is impossible not to admire this character, because he has a very strong character. It seems to me that a person who has gone through such difficult trials simply cannot help but love life. Now he will appreciate every second he lives, which was once given to him with such difficulty.
What is life?
That our life is a Metaphor of the Poet,
Unfurled by lightning from heaven,
A play of imagination and light,
The illusion of misfortunes and miracles.
The whole world is a theater. We change dresses, roles,
We change minds, souls and hearts.
We grow into such pain in our role,
Why are we forgetting the viewer-Creator!
What we forget is initially kind
Scenario: no diseases in him, no troubles!
That after us only an image will remain -
Metaphor unfolded into light...
© Georgy Boreev
Life leaves from where Love dries up, and in its place comes destruction, decomposition, disintegration.
Life is energy. This energy has consciousness.
To the question "What is life?" no one can answer. Regardless of religion, we are children of materialism, and it will take a lot of time before the word “life” is directly identified in our consciousness with spiritual life. While we, with our eyes bulging, stare at matter as a primary substance, it will be forced to forcefully turn our head - well, if it doesn’t break our neck - to where, upon careful examination, we can see the meaning of life. This is how matter teaches us how to relate to life correctly. He teaches harshly. We may realize that there is more to life than our body, but by then vitality completely exhausted, and the body becomes decrepit. And then, perhaps, the question will arise: what is this force that set my body in motion, and where did it go? Having turned in the last mental anguish to this nameless beginning and with all our hearts praying for its return, we may well feel that prayer turned out to be the most effective means of allowing the body to regain strength. And, probably, we will understand that it was not someone who helped us, but ourselves.
There are a great many reasons why a person entrusts his life to others. The most banal thing is that he himself doesn’t know how to do something. There is an excuse for inability: I’m not an expert. And the person does not think or does not want to think about the fact that an outsider, perhaps, also cannot do it. The other one must be able to. If he doesn’t know how, it’s time to call him to account. However, no helper is able to penetrate the soul of a person in need of help. That is, he is not able to live his spiritual life for him, which is real life. Earthly life- that's just mirror image spiritual life.
Most of us lack understanding of our own nature. Because we have lost our conscious CONNECTION with our higher selves. What does it mean to lose CONNECTION? This means losing a sense of power and responsibility for your life. And somewhere inside us hides a feeling of helplessness, because we don’t know who we are or what. Like little lost children, we feel powerless to change anything. Not only in the world, but also in your life. This inner feeling of powerlessness drives us forward and forces us to make enormous efforts to assert ourselves. But we assert ourselves on the outside, but inside we remain just as helpless. And everything that you and I are doing here is aimed at discovering the CONNECTION and being READY to restore it.
We stubbornly attach our emotions to things and people outside of us, believing that our happiness depends on them. Remember that almost constant feeling that “something is missing” inside of us. Which means there’s also that carrot, that bow, that teacher... Remember this tension, anxiety and stress, eternal desperate attempts to fill the inner emptiness. Of course, it’s empty inside, because our “I” is not there, the owner of this entire economy is not there, and we cannot get in touch with him. Remember our attempts to manipulate outside world to get what we lack “for happiness.” Do you remember?
It is in this state that most of us set goals and try to achieve something in life. Unfortunately, at this level of consciousness this is impossible...
Or we create too many obstacles for ourselves and achieve nothing. Or we achieve our goal, but only to discover that this is not the toy that makes us happy. A vicious circle.
Everyone who has understood the secret of life understands that there is one life, but it exists in two aspects. Firstly, as immortal, all-encompassing and silent and, secondly, as mortal, active and manifesting itself in diversity. The soul essence, which belongs to the first aspect, becomes deceived, becomes helpless and is caught up in the experience of life when it comes into contact with the mind and body, which belongs to the second aspect. The gratification of the desires of the body and the caprices of the mind is not sufficient for the purposes of the soul, which must surely experience its own phenomena in the visible and the invisible; despite the fact that she tends to be herself and no one else. When delusion makes her feel helpless, mortal, and captive, she finds herself uncomfortable. This is the tragedy of life, which plunges the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor into disappointment, forcing them to constantly look for something that is unknown to them. As Iqbal says: “I wandered in pursuit of myself: I was the traveler and I was the destination.”
/Hazrat Inayat Khan. Path of Illumination./
Life gives you a free choice - whether to live in peace of mind or in mental anguish. If you are convinced - and conviction comes from the heart - that life begins with the person himself, then you make a choice in favor of love. If you don’t know how yet, then learn. It doesn’t matter how deeply you are stuck in the quagmire of life. Once you begin to help your soul spiritually, you will begin to help those who are trying to help your body to the best of their strength and abilities. In this way, the two facets of your life will be reunited. You will be grateful to yourself and those around you. After going through terrible trials, you will make an important discovery: you are surrounded by people. What happiness!
We realize that there is something more to life, and we begin to look for it. Such a search can take a long time, but in the end, a person will certainly, having filled his teeth and received a lot of unnecessary information, return to himself. We become ourselves, we realize that we ourselves are the creators of our lives. We are restoring our inner strength and fill the emptiness within us.
When we are READY, fate gives us a chance to restore CONNECTION with our “I”. It again settles in the Space of Love, which we have so carefully prepared. When we come out of an empty, greedy, manipulative state of consciousness (when we believe that happiness can be found by acquiring another thing or conquering the will of another person), our first and the most important lesson becomes learning not to get attached. That is, relax, stop struggling, stop trying, stop manipulating events, things and people to achieve your goals. That is, stop doing so much and just BE for a while. As stated in famous book, “stop worrying and start living.”
This is not an easy task, so take your time. Just as it is impossible to become a yogi or an acrobat in one day, so one cannot give up one’s attachments in one moment. That is why they are attached to us, so that it is not easy to untie them. But try, first just imagine, then for a minute, two, three do not strive for anything external... Having done this, we suddenly discover that we really feel good, we feel great simply because we allow ourselves to be ourselves and do not try to change world. This is what it means to be “here and now.” What in Eastern philosophy is called “getting rid of attachments.” This is a feeling of extraordinary freedom, the main stage on any path of self-knowledge.
What's next? When this feeling arises in us more and more often, we gradually restore CONNECTION with ourselves, with our higher “I”. We suddenly discover with joy that life has many faces, that it is always kind, generous and interesting. That life is a mirror. What you show him is what he reflects. Desire, so desire, goal, so goal, dream, so dream... And then creative visualization and formula-statements become for us the most important tool for further creativity life. After all, what we do will be reflected, and what will be reflected is what we will get. And to form your desires and goals, affirmations and the power of imagination are simply irreplaceable.
Or you can imagine things a little differently. Imagine that life is a river. Most people cling to the shore in fear of rapid current. But everyone must be ready at some point to unclench their hands and surrender to it torrent. At this point we begin to understand the expression “go with the flow” and perhaps feel happy. When a person gets used to the movement of the river, he begins to look around. He learns to chart his own course, skirting boulders and snags, choosing channels and river channels, but at the same time constantly “moving with the flow.”
This comparison is metaphorical, but it shows how we can accept our life “here and now”, surrendering to its flow, and at the same time consciously achieve our goals, taking responsibility for our own lives.
Don't forget that creative representation is a tool that can be used in many ways, including spiritual development. With its help, each of us can imagine ourselves more an open person, surrendering to the flow of life, living “here and now” and always connected with their inner essence. Be blessed in all that your heart desires.
Inner life- the main lines of Fate, which we cannot change; this requires us to concentrate our efforts over a long period of time. The Buddhial body contains those internal attitudes of a person that gradually guide him along Buddhial plots - these are his life positions, general life philosophy, worldview and ways of perceiving the world.
Information encrypted in the Buddhial body manifests itself in two ways: in the form of basic storylines the fate of a person, on the one hand, and in his, as they say, “psychology,” on the other.
The plots of the Buddhial body are primarily the plots of the internal development of a person. Is it possible to change buddhic stories? In any case, it's difficult. In principle, an alternative is always possible: either this fragment of the plot is not final, and then after some time it will end and a new one will begin (however, it is not known whether people will like it more or less), or this is the final fragment, and nothing else subtle karma is no longer planned, at least in this incarnation. However, in any case, a person can influence his destiny by working with the Buddhial body, the first sign of which will not be a change in dense karma (that is, the specific circumstances of his life), but changes in psychology, that is, a change in worldview and life positions, even if not realized. How can you do this?
In principle, a person can work on each of his bodies, firstly, by himself, and secondly, by influencing it with other bodies. Moreover, each pair of his bodies is connected by some kind of connections, but the strongest connections are usually between neighboring bodies; V in this case these are Atmanic and Causal. The greatest (generally speaking) influence on each body is exerted by the subtler body adjacent to it; in this case it is Atmanic.
The development of the Buddhial body is a person’s work on himself in the sense of practical psychology, as well as practical philosophy and religion, that is, a change in life attitudes, ways of seeing that part of the surrounding world that is directly related to a person’s immediate life. This is the development of certain character traits, unlearning bad habits and acquiring good ones, that is, transferring oneself to higher energy flows; corresponding transformation of subconscious programs, etc.
However, all this has its limits, since most often it slightly cleans up and corrects the plot, but rarely finishes it and even less often takes it to a qualitatively different level (although this also happens). Much more strong impact the Buddhial body can be influenced by the Atmanic one, whose energy has a qualitatively different character, and where introspection and psychoanalysis reach a dead end, new spiritual channels or a change in life ideals are needed.
In general, the word "ideal" in lately acquires a mental connotation that is unusual for it. In fact, the ideal is what inspires, or in other words, the symbol of a high Egregor, which is capable of giving a person energy at the level of his Atmanic body. However, when Egregor dies, the word “ideal” takes on the connotation of an obligation: an ideal is something to which one must strive, usually under pain of condemnation or other punishment. And although it may not be easy to find a true ideal for yourself, that is, a high Egregor inspiring the Atmanic body, insincerity here will lead to an energetic dead end on all bodies at once: there is nothing to replace the energy of the Atmanic body. You need to look for an ideal that is high enough (otherwise it’s pointless) and voluntarily serve it, and choose it so that it compensates with its (high) energy the lower energy of a person serving it. The mental ideal contained in the Atmanic body of the mental person, which is discussed below, never gives such energy, therefore serving what a person mentally, but not religiously considers higher, leads to the waste of all energies and existential frustration, that is, the complete triumph of the gray.
So, a new turn in the main life plot is often provided by energy descending into the Buddhial body from the Atmanic: a person acquires a new ideal, which unusually inspires him, changes in its light his views on the life around him, the value system, rethinks himself, and his life takes a sharp turn.
However, sometimes for some reason this does not happen: new life as if it’s already out of the gate (in any case, I’m tired of the old one to death), but it won’t start. Here, a situation may well arise when in order to shift the plot or change it, the Buddhial body needs involtation, that is, some decisive action is required from a person, most often a certain sacrifice, the energy of which will finally remove a sliver from the wheel of subtle karma.
A specialist in the Atmanic body is, for example, a confessor or a preacher; a specialist in the Buddhial body is a psychologist or sage; A specialist in the causal body is a fortune teller, or a practical adviser.
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PURPOSE OF LIFE- this is an increase in the level of knowledge and love, understanding and awareness of the necessary lessons.
Life is given to a person to work on himself.
MEANING OF EXISTENCE- fight to learn to be harmonious. First you need to know one thing in order to understand the other. DisHarmony is a valuable lesson designed to make a person understand and appreciate the nature of Harmony.
FRUIT OF LIFE- these are the lessons that the Soul learns from life. All life experience there is knowledge.