Mission and Purpose

My mission must be to turn my vision into reality? 

I woke up with a clear and strong thought this morning:

‘Regardless of outer appearances today, you have a mission to fulfil’

I needed this because the outer appearances this week are making my wife and I very tense indeed. Faith is the cornerstone of our beliefs for the future but I never realised, as much before, the great strength also of ‘Mission’, as today.

It certainly adds great strength because it can give you, or remind you, of the reason you are going through difficulties.

And it reminds you that there is something even greater than difficulties and it gives us a strong purpose.

So I feel much stronger for being reminded of my mission, which is a good one, and makes my life full of meaning and purpose.

So we must remind ourselves that we need a clear vision, which will bring good to as many as we can, and our mission and purpose is to turn that vision into a reality in the here and now.

The photograph today is one I took from my hotel room in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last year. It took a great vision and strong mission and purpose to turn the Petronis Towers into reality.

Ron Young 

Faith

 

When we fly, we need faith.

My meditation today clarified for me a confusion I have been having with the word ‘Faith’.

I have assumed, wrongly, that having faith is just about having a strong belief.

In my case, I need logical argument and reason as well. As a Yoga student, 30 years ago, I realised I am a ‘Jnani Yogi’. That is, one who pursues the path of knowledge to the Truth. (Jnana is knowledge)

Blind faith, with absolute belief, has its advantages. It is immediate and easier. But what if you have blind faith in the wrong thing? That can be dangerous.

Faith based on unconditional love for God and humanity, is very admirable indeed. These are ‘Bhakti Yogis’ and normally fill their lives with love, compassion and great service for others, and for the God they worship. This is the emotional path to Truth.

So I always associated faith with blind belief and/or belief based on love and devotion.

I considered ‘belief’ to be right or wrong and I sought absolute certainty.

I greatly admire Carl Jung’s statement, when asked if he believed in God he said, “I do not need to believe, I know”.

Now I realise, as I have become far more certain about important matters in my life, that my certainty, my knowing, is the basis of my Faith.

I, also, have a growing faith, not based on believing, but based on knowing.

As a pilot, for many years, I learned about the laws of aerodynamics, engine safety, pilot procedures, and gained a growing and more certain knowledge and faith in flying. (I learned to fly because of a strong fear of flying and a need to overcome it to live a normal business life). I now live on Jumbo jets and Airbus 380’s flying the world and even, at times, ‘commuting’ from Europe all over Asia

I now have a better understanding, from a certain knowing perspective of spiritual truths:

“According to your faith, ye shall have”

Ron Young

The inner battle

The right and left hemisphere of our brain are diametrically opposite to one another in every way. So we have a choice. They can work together or they can be in conflict.

For many, the right and left hemispheres are in conflict. There is an inner battle going on. This is also the story of the Bhagavad Gita – The inner battle told as a story on the external battlefield with warriors.

Until the inner right and left battle stops, we cannot gain inner peace.

As long as there is inner battle, there will be outer world battles.

Until we transcend the duality of the left and right hemispheres, to One unified brain, we will have problems.

There are no problems at all in ‘One’ whole humanity, only in  illusions of separate individuals.

Inner Oneness, inner peace, will naturally bring outer World Peace.

Ron Young

Simplicity is Wisdom

 

Such clarity this morning, on awakening. At the time, it seems so powerful and true. It makes me relaxed and content.

Yet, if I leave the thoughts, they then seem obvious and simple, as I awake, and so I don’t do anything with these thoughts.

Yet, maybe, the simplicity is wisdom!

So I have decided to capture these thoughts in this blog.

‘This is a self learning Universe’

‘This is a self organizing Universe’

‘You make the impersonal personal through your thoughts. And as you are a part of the whole, the Universe is personal and impersonal’.

‘Beneath matter is energy. Beneath energy is information. We contribute our thoughts and experiences to that information’.

Ron

January 2011 and back to blogging

I realise, after a frantic honeymoon with Twitter, that although I find it very useful indeed, it does not replace my need to blog spontaneously

and creatively.

So, with the ease of use of Windows Live Writer, I am going back to all my blogs, with pictures. More as a life stream.

Today, I will try photographing on the hour, from sun rise, and see the position of the sun overhead Maneque, SW France, as a simple experience and experiment in Mindfulness.

The above pictures are of Maneque today.

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