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[Beany]

Has anyone seen this? What do you think of it? At one time I had a lot of resistance around rule 7; not so much anymore.

Rule One: You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Rule Two: You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called 'life.' Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.

Rule Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that work.

Rule Four: A lesson is repeated until learned. Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Rule Five: Learning does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Rule Six: 'There' is no better than 'here'. When your 'there' has become a 'here,' you will simply obtain a 'there' that will look better to you than your present 'here'.

Rule Seven: Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

Rule Eight: What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Rule Nine: Your answers lie inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

Rule Ten: You will forget all of this at birth.

[Royal]

Hi Beany,As a whole this resonates as a sound philosophy,except if you are someone born with a disability.

[spud the mackem]

Some good points there friend,but the ultimate is that you are born,and then you eventually die,but its getting from start to finish by the easiest and most comfortable way is the problem....life is not easy for millions who struggle to survive,the others who have it all are miserable in comfort wondering how to make another million,but money is not everything,so enjoy what you have while you can because you cant take anything with you at the finish....cheers

[Ratte]

Kinda reminds me of my biological mothers thoughts she shared with me. She believes that you choose your gender before you are born and that one third of your life must be pain and you choose when it is.

Rule eight is the one that I take issue with. While I agree to some degree, not everyone has the potential to do something great or even good even if only based on the area in which they were born. Now if rule eight is simply about how you view what you have done with your life, then I agree.

[Beany]

I've always thought rule 8 referred to a state of internal happiness, though could be wrong. I know people who've had terrible, traumatic lives as children, yet grew up to be happy adults able to contribute positively to society. As far as being great, well, only a few will be "great" in the conventional sense, but life is usually lived on a smaller scale. The accrual of day to day acts of kindness & compassion can add up over a lifetime to a great person, though, just one that few people have ever heard of.

[karmakazi]

I think rule 8 is true in both interperetations.  Look at the people who clawed their way from the bottom fighting constant advertisity in order to accomplish something great.  They had to go looking for what they needed to get there, and they drug every possible opportunity out of their lives in order to be where they are.  Everyone has ultimate potential, it's whether or not you have ultimate dedication.

[JayMark]

Beany, on 01 April 2012 - 02:14 AM, said:

Has anyone seen this? What do you think of it? At one time I had a lot of resistance around rule 7; not so much anymore.

Rule One: You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Rule Two: You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called 'life.' Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.

Rule Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that work.

Rule Four: A lesson is repeated until learned. Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Rule Five: Learning does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Rule Six: 'There' is no better than 'here'. When your 'there' has become a 'here,' you will simply obtain a 'there' that will look better to you than your present 'here'.

Rule Seven: Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

Rule Eight: What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Rule Nine: Your answers lie inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

Rule Ten: You will forget all of this at birth.

Very nice post. It reflects part of my beleifs. I couldn't have said it better, even the last rule.

Love it.

Peace.

[JayMark]

Royal, on 01 April 2012 - 03:49 AM, said:

Hi Beany,As a whole this resonates as a sound philosophy,except if you are someone born with a disability.

Not really as I see it.

Maby it's simply part of the learning process of a soul. Maby all of our souls have of will experience such a thing. Just like dying at a young age, develop a chonic disease etc etc.

All those things that seem "unfair" might simply be part of the learning process of the human soul.

Such a thing would imply in my opinion that reincarnation is part of the whole process. It is also part of my beleifs.

My thoughts.

Peace.

[Tesla II]

spud the mackem, on 01 April 2012 - 09:53 AM, said:

Some good points there friend,but the ultimate is that you are born,and then you eventually die,but its getting from start to finish by the easiest and most comfortable way is the problem....life is not easy for millions who struggle to survive,the others who have it all are miserable in comfort wondering how to make another million,but money is not everything,so enjoy what you have while you can because you cant take anything with you at the finish....cheers

Respect to this thread...respect to you man!  

[spud the mackem]

Nuke_em, on 02 April 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:

Respect to this thread...respect to you man!  

Thanks Nuke-em, I try to be serious once in  while, but to laugh once a day,keeps the blues away....cheers

[markdohle]

Beany, on 01 April 2012 - 02:14 AM, said:

Has anyone seen this? What do you think of it? At one time I had a lot of resistance around rule 7; not so much anymore.

Rule One: You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Rule Two: You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called 'life.' Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.

Rule Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that work.

Rule Four: A lesson is repeated until learned. Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Rule Five: Learning does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Rule Six: 'There' is no better than 'here'. When your 'there' has become a 'here,' you will simply obtain a 'there' that will look better to you than your present 'here'.

Rule Seven: Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

Rule Eight: What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Rule Nine: Your answers lie inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

Rule Ten: You will forget all of this at birth.

I like it, agree with much of it, and a good list to live by.

Peace
mark

[spud the mackem]

Forgive me if I'm "thick" but Beany states rule 10...... I quote "you will forget all of this at birth",so how does he know what the rules were and which order they came in ?????...Enlighten me Oh Beany....or are you having a laugh ?,just to see how folk will react....

[JayMark]

spud the mackem, on 02 April 2012 - 11:02 PM, said:

Forgive me if I'm "thick" but Beany states rule 10...... I quote "you will forget all of this at birth",so how does he know what the rules were and which order they came in ?????...Enlighten me Oh Beany....or are you having a laugh ?,just to see how folk will react....

Here's what I think.

I think that we "forget" it simply because by incarnating a physical body in this very plane of existence, we "frag" our consciousness and create the "ego" that I see as being our physical awarness.

All the rest (that is "forgotten") is still part of our "deep self". It is part of our consciousness but at a much deeper level. So basically, it's all there and it is possible to reach it. Dreaming, for instance, is a great opportunity to get "in touch" with it (deeper self). It can also be accessed through meditation.

That's why, in my opinion, living in a pure materialistic world can take you away from your inner-self. That's why it is important for me to integrate spirituality in my life.

A quest for spirituality can be as simple as a "quest for hapiness" in my book. It dosen't necessarly imply that you have to beleive in a "God" or be part of a religion.

My thoughts.

Peace.

[The world needs you]

I believe that the ego is simply the interface between our reptilian and mammalian (limbic) brains which humans have evolved the cerebral cortex but underneath the others still operate for that is what they based each other on. The fracturing concept in my interpretation is the maturing process of synthesizing all these parts of the brain.

As for reincarnation while I do not believe in it per se I do believe I am a part of the brotherhood of men (humanity) and connected to everyone alive, dead, and yet to be born. Thus we build on each other and imagination, dreams, are wonderful ways to connect to this.

I agree with you on the other points you made JayMark and even in the two above I still agree but under a different paradigm. (Same conclusion but different methods of arrival.) Hope that made sense.

[Beany]

I don't believe life should be easy, and many people do not take the easy way out. I like seeing mistakes as "lessons". It causes a shift from the negative to the positive. We become students, and that can point in the direction of discovery, new ideas, new information, new conclusions. The corollary to that is: lessons are repeated until they're learned. Some years ago my life was a disaster that needed to happen; that's when I became an A student, because I didn't want to repeat it.