For change, what is important is the willingness to accept responsibility for everything you do in your life: anger, joy, bad or good, hell and heaven. When you understand that it is you who are the cause of what is happening to you, when this responsibility is realized and accepted, your thoughts begin to change. Be open to new opportunities!
Here is a famous parable. One man was traveling and unexpectedly went to heaven.
In India, the concept of heaven is the tree of wish fulfillment. As soon as you sit under such a tree, any wish will immediately be fulfilled. There is no delay, no time gap between desire and the realization of what you want.
This man was tired, and he went to sleep under such a wish-fulfillment tree. When he woke up, he felt very hungry and thought:
- I feel hungry. I'd like to get some food from somewhere.
And immediately food appears out of nowhere. Very tasty food arrived straight through the air. He was so hungry that he didn't think about where it came from (when you're hungry, you don't think about it). He immediately started eating, and the food was so tasty...
Then, when his hunger had passed, he looked around. Now he felt satisfied. He had another thought:
- If only I had something to drink...
There are no prohibitions in paradise, excellent wine immediately appeared.
Lying in the shade of a tree and calmly drinking wine, blown by the cool breeze of heaven, he began to wonder:
- What is going on? What's happening? Maybe I'm dreaming? Or are there some ghosts here playing tricks on me?
And ghosts appeared. They were terrible, cruel and disgusting - exactly as he imagined them.
He trembled and thought:
“Now they will definitely kill me.”
And they killed him.
This parable is full of great meaning. Your mind is a tree of desire satisfaction, and whatever you think, sooner or later it will come true. Sometimes the period of time is such that you completely forgot that you wanted it, and you cannot find the source where it started. But if you look deeper, you will discover that your thoughts create you and your life. They create your heaven, they create your hell. They create your suffering, they create your joy. They create bad, they create good... Everyone here is a Wizard, everyone is the Creator of their own life. Everyone twists and weaves the magical world around themselves... and then finds themselves connected. The spider himself is caught in his own web. Nobody torments you but yourself. And when this is realized, things begin to change. Then you can turn everything around, you can turn your hell into heaven. Everything is your responsibility.
And then new possibilities arise: if you are already ready, you can stop creating the world. There is no need to create hell or heaven, there is no need to create at all. The creator can relax and disappear. And the disappearance of the mind is meditation.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru