Doctor impressed with results of diet.

Day 55

Today I had an appointment at my local medical practice for a health plan check up. We are very fortunate here in Australia as we would have one of the best health systems, Medicare . The consultation did not cost me as I am now a aged pensioner. We decided that taking magnesium would be good for what remains of my aches and pain, slippery elm for my digestion and I brought a jar of Salmon oil (omega 3) capsules for muscle tone and the stiffness in my legs. My doctor said today that he was impressed with the results of my diet.

n the library today I found one book by Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks and the book that was refereed to my by who knows what, Invoking the light by C. F. Reynolds. I am going away this weekend and will be travelling by bus and train so I will be taking them with me. It is also possible to access the blog by phone so I will try that this weekend as well so the blogs I submit will be brief, it is also possible to send photos as well. I hope it works.

Eckhart Tolle a modern day Lao Tzu

 

If you have found the ancient philosophy of the Tao as written below in previous blogs dose not relate in this day and age perhaps a more modern approach would be suitable.

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eckhart Tolle (pron.: /ˈɛkɑrt ˈtɒlə/ EK-art TO-lə; German pronunciation: [ˈɛkaʁt ˈtɔlə], born Ulrich Leonard Tolle on February 16, 1948) is a German-born Canadian resident, best known as the author of the The Power of Now and A New Earth, which were written in English. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world.^[1] In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States."^[2]

Tolle says he was depressed for much of his life until he underwent, at age 29, an "inner transformation", then spent several years wandering and unemployed "in a state of deep bliss" before becoming a spiritual teacher. Later, he moved to North America where he began writing his first book, The Power of Now, which was published in 1997^[3] and reached the New York Times Best Seller lists in 2000.^[4] Tolle settled in Vancouver, Canada, where he has lived for more than a decade.

The Power of Now and A New Earth sold an estimated three million and five million copies respectively in North America by 2009.^[5] In 2008, approximately 35 million people participated in a series of 10 live webinars with Tolle and television talk show host Oprah Winfrey.^[5] Tolle is not identified with any particular religion, but he has been influenced by a wide range of spiritual works.^[6]

Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfilment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening consists in transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violence on our planet

Tao means simply the way

 

The Way

Tao means the way with no goal. Simply the way. It was courageous of Lao Tuz, twenty-five centuries ago, to tell people that there is no goal and we are not going anywhere. We are just going to be there, so make the time as beautiful, as loving, as joyous as possible. He called his philosophy Tao, and Tao simply means the way.

Many ask him, “Why have you chosen the name Tao? Because you don’t have many goals in your philosophy” he said “Specifically for that reason I have chosen to call it the Way; so that nobody forgets that there is no goal, there is only the way”

The way is beautiful; the way is full of flowers. And the Way becomes more and more beautiful as your consciousness becomes higher. The moment you have reached the peak, every thing becomes so sweet, so ecstatic, that you suddenly realize that this place; this is home you were unnecessarily running here and there.

So cancel all tickets you have booked! There is nowhere to go. .

Quoted from: Tao its history and teachings. by Osho.

If there is beauty, there is ugliness. If there is good there is bad. Being and nonbeing and difficult and easy and high and low and long and short and after need, depend, create and define each other. Those who live with the Tao act without doing and teach without saying. They let things come and they let things go and they live without possession and they live without expectation. They do not need, depend, create or defile. They do not see beauty or ugliness or good or bad. There just is. Just be.

 

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The wisdom of Tao and health

Day 51

It would seem now dear reader that I am not only on a path of discovery on health and well being but now being led on a journey of spiritual discovery as well. Early as a young man I rejected the Christian church and its dogma. When they send soldiers to war they use music, a strong beat, the drum, bagpipe and bugle, the navy used to issue rum to make the sailors aggressive and either side were told that their god was on their side, go, be brave and kill in the name of god. Since then I have tried other forms of spiritual guidance and the one that made the most sense to me was Buddhism, the most passive of all. Now I have started reading the book on Tao I think I may have found the right guide for me on the path to contentment and right living, healing for the soul.

TAO Its history and teachings. By Osho. I will quote a few passages that relate to sickness.

Taoist masters only talk about “the way.” Tao means the way-they don’t talk about the goal at all. they say: The goal will take care of itself: you need not worry about the goal.

All technique is against nature, against Tao. Effort as such is against Tao. If you can leave everything to nature, then no technique is needed, because that is the ultimate technique. If you can leave everything to Tao, that is the deepest surrender possible. You are surrendering yourself, your future, your possibilities. You are surrendering time and all effort. This means infinite patience, awaiting.

Once you surrender everything to nature, there is no effort, you just float. You are in a deep let go. Things happen to you, but you are not making any effort for them- you are not seeking them. If they happen, it’s okay, if they don’t happen it is okay- you have no choice. Whatever happens, happens, you have no expectations and, of course, no frustrations.

Life flows by, you float in it. You have no goal to reach, because with a goal effort enters. You have nowhere to go, because if you have somewhere to go, because if you have somewhere to go, effort will come in, it is implied. You have nowhere to go, nowhere to reach, no goals, no ideals, nothing to be achieved-you surrender all. In this surrendering moment, in this very moment, all will happen to you.

Effort will take time, surrender will not take time. Technique will take time; surrender will not take time. That’s why I call surrender -the ultimate technique. It is non-technique. You can not practice surrender.

Then you are relying on yourself, then you are not totally helpless, then you are trying to do something-even if it is surrender, you are trying to do it. Then the technique will come in, and with technique time enters, future enters.

Surrender is non-temporal, it is beyond time if you surrender, this is the moment you are out of time, and all that can happen will happen. But then you are not searching for it, not seeking it, you are not greedy for it. You have no mind for it at all, whether it happens or not, it is all the same to you.

Tao means to surrender-surrender to nature.

Then you are not, Tantra and yoga are techniques through time they will reach a place of surrender, but it will be a long process. Ultimately after every technique you will have to surrender- but with techniques it will come in the end. With Tao, in Tao it comes in the beginning, if you can surrender right now, no technique is needed.

You have become deconditioned, if you are in Tao, then no technique is needed. If you are healthy, no medicine is needed. Every medicine is against health. But you are ill, medicine is needed. This medicine will kill your illness. It cannot give you health, but if the illness is removed, then health will happen to you. No medicine can give you health. Basically, every medicine is poison- but you have gathered poison, you need an antidote. It will balance, and health will be possible.

For more information see www.osho.com

 

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Spirit guides and fairies do they exist?

Day 50

The earliest conversation I can remember as a little boy was with a playmate who declared that he believed in fairies, I laughed in his face and told him there was no such thing. I remember this conversation to this day as ever since I have felt bad about putting him down about his innocent belief. Now I am wiser and think of the fact of our own existence and the wonder of that existence, our world, nature and all that is in the universe and it is truly mind boggling and beyond our feeble consciences to even begin to understand, so I think any thing is possible. Years later a very popular book appeared called “The Findhorn Garden” that impresses me that there was such things as nature spirits and devas. The story is of a couple Eileen and Peter Caddy their three sons and friend Dorothy Maclean who find them selves in dire sates living in a thirty foot caravan on a inhospitable, windswept and barren sand dunes in the far north east of Scotland. Around the caravan on a small plot of poor soil they grew the most amazing garden of vibrant flowers vegetables and fruit that grew to an enormous size. With absolute faith in the art of manifestation and the guidance of god they were able to create a wonderful garden in this of all inhospitable places. They discovered how to contact and co-operate with nature spirits to make this seemingly impossible thing happen. This story impressed me and I believed in it. Years later I was to meet a woman who was a clairvoyant and a spiritualist who informed me that I also was gifted and as an artist I would be able to help people to contact their spirit guides. Shortly after this I found myself in far North Queensland on a property, a healing farm, called Mary Farm. The young people I met there were caring for the owner of the property a young man who was incapacitated with spinal injuries. It was there as it happens that I was first introduced to fresh living food, seed and nuts as a healing diet but at the time was not impressed. It was at the farm that I practiced spirit drawings. I did a deal that if I could practice portrait drawing I would also help them to contact their spirit guides. Now to tell you the truth I did not fully believe in what I was producing was genuine but they did and I had many pretty girls who thought I was and prepared to pose for me, I thought that it was a bit of a scam, but I had them lining up and they thought the drawings were great even though the portraits were a bit iffy. I am not sure if I was channelling,  How I proceeded was to get the subject to imagine a protective golden light field about them and then suggest they imagine a place a safe place in their mind and then see a figure, their spirit guide. I would start the drawing by choosing a colour for the eyes first and then just like automatic writing draw a celestial portrait, with swirling colours around the head. One young man I did a drawing for insisted that he had more than one spirit guide so I did another for him and he said that it was right on but there was another, by this time I was a bit fed up and so just stabbed the page with a dot and drew squiggly lines radiating out like lightning bolts and yellow light streaming out and said that this was a high energy one. A look of amazement and he said that was right, that’s exactly what it was like for him. I still don’t know about the drawings (it would have been a great scam to make money and pull hippy chicks though) I do think that I have a spirit guide, angle or whatever. I am on a path of discovery with this blog and I have I am now sure having some help. There is some one close to me who has Parkinson Disease and like I have mentioned I was looking for web pages on light and healing when out of the blue and out of the millions of pages out there on the world wide web, popped a page that was directly and absolutely connected with Parkinson Disease and the healing diet that I am on and writing about. Then today I finished reading the book “A million little pieces” by James Frey, (a must read for any one with addiction) and in it he describes how a little book of the teaching of TAO helped him in recovery. I went to the library today and in the book was a library slip from a previous borrower and amongst the nine titles listed was a book titled, “Invoking the light” I have just checked it out on the web and it looks like it is also relevant to what I was looking for a few days ago. I will also borrow that title from the library and let you know.

Nutrition and behaviour

Day 49

I have just viewed a lecture by Dr Russell Baylock titled “Nutrition and Behaviour”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeFplYBDPdo

I suggest that every one would benefit in some way by watching this lecture especially those, (relative or friend) with a propensity towards alcoholism, anti social behaviour, rage, depression, just to name a few of the debilitating sickness that adversely effect our society today. He blames sugar, food additives, and things we eat such as corn, soy, wheat, and potatoes, for the radical behaviour that has people in jail, cause road rage and the mass killings in American schools.