HeartSerene and Invincible
Our trains of thought are triggered by questions which send us on our way
Do we know where we are going?
that at no time in our future will we ever be in danger, in want for ourselves or having to appeal for help, for ourselves and those we love? The only difference in the equality at birth; except for physical or medical defects, is that offspring of those with exercised minds and/or more of the worldly goods, have a better head start over those whose parents had or did less. NO ONE is naturally cleverer or more dexterous than another. The difference is only the level of exposure and opportunity afforded to each for self-development. Comparison is a human habit. No other being in the Universe uses it. Comparison is an offspring of materialism. "Keeping up with the Jones family" The habit of boosting one's self-esteem by comparison with others to find what others lack or where one can feel stronger. Few are perceptive enough to see beneath false exteriors. Few are secure enough to show themselves as they really are. Few have the self- strength to distance themselves from those who cause them distress or discomfort. Few can appreciate the value of freedom and the happiness it brings. To respect their right to be free of the unnecessary subjugation to a rat race. An obsessively compulsive reaching for competitive advantages. For transitory power, position, prestige and possessions. Willing victims to Ego driven, social "norms". Seeking a false superiority over those who have less. Where does one draw the line at accumulation? How much wealth is enough? How much of one's life time has so little value, one can let it be used up in impressing others? Others who do not really care. Especially others whose values relate to the "internals" of others instead of the usually false or transitory "externals". To survive and function in a materialistic world, to be able to fund one's inclinations and to cushion against unforeseen disasters or needs, one must achieve an adequate level of economic security. Acquisition or accumulations beyond that are only headaches. Material success is indeed very commendable. It demonstrates a great ability to excel at what one does. Unfortunately, the knowledge of that success only results in repetitive applications of that capability. Aiming more for additional quantity, more of the same, instead of upward improvement in quality. Having achieved that level of capability and having reached a reasonably adequate level of economic security, it is incumbent that those talents be directed towards new or expanded directions. Directions that create and develop opportunities for the less able to participate in for everyone's mutual benefit. Not in perpetual bondage, but as free persons. There lies true success in life. The innovative provision of stimulating ideas and facilities where others may join in and benefit. Expanding one's own interests and capabilities instead of just doing more and more of the same thing, with only a little more wealth to show for it. Decades of a continuing series of one successful day's activity. |
Time and Procrastination Time moves on inexorably. The spirit, the will and the im-mortal self continue to grow, though developing at different rates in accordance with individual mental pursuits. The mortal self however, after reaching maturity decline in health and composition each day and every day until its eventual demise. The end of the host brain spells the end of the mind and the will or spirit which is not prone to termination with the physical host and must also vacate as it cannot function without a living brain. Accordingly, each day we fail in using the full potential of our capacities and capabilities in mind and body, we lose that much in mental growth and depth. Ignorance may be bliss for those who fail to realize this loss. If one does not know what one is losing, that loss can never be felt. The present is just a fleeting moment in time, each moment gone into the past an instant after it arrives. But, everything we do that is good or bad, that we later regret or enjoy is done by us, often unthinkingly, in a string of present moments. Actions we can never reach nor change, their repercussions continuing to develop reactively or responsively into our future, often affecting us happily or unhappily as they follow their course in a progression of events. Please do think about this long and hard. It needs your strongest perceptions to understand it. The past is there to teach what we should look back on and learn from. Nothing in the past can be reached, changed or corrected and the progression of events that follow operate in the future. If we ignore this fact, we are liable to add things to our past that can eventually cause us great regret or sorrow. The future in time is all we have to plan with, whether we are planning for another day, year or our destiny. When we fail in this, we become prone to regretful or undesirable situations. But, for those who heed these warnings and plan accordingly, there is no limit to achievement. We acquire millstones that hold us down. Addictions, attractions, attachments, obsessions and obligations among others. We also acquire crutches that we lean on because of our weaknesses. Parasitic ideologies that promise heavenly hereafters and better tomorrows which are never delivered. There are also others we lean on to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of our excesses and deficiencies. but allowing road and traffic conditions to change one’s destination and go elsewhere. If we follow our day’s activities the way we drive our vehicles, focused on reaching a specific destination, we can accomplish more. It is the consistent focusing of our thoughts and energies on desired objectives to the exclusion of other attractions and desirables that support achievement. Achievement is ensured by visualizing a desired objective and focusing on that picture whenever that objective is brought to mind and taking every step necessary to make reaching that objective possible. Hopes, expectations, wishful thinking, faiths, dreams and promises only lead to disappointment. The sad fact is that humans are so inured to disappointment, they will optimistically try and try again for quick relief and reward all through their lives. Lotteries and ideologies have flourished on this because the mentally lazy need very little encouragement to go on gambling. There is nothing wrong in having likes and dislikes. Life is a matter of choices. The trick is to position oneself to access every possible and probable advantage. It is very pleasurable to chase rainbows. The anticipation of a dream come true can be very satisfying but only if your steps are pragmatically directed to the pot of gold waiting to be claimed. Do you believe that people should behave responsibly? Do you believe that people should be held responsible for their actions? Do you believe you are a responsible person? Do you think that responsibility starts and stops when and where you choose? If you claim to be a responsible person then you have to accept responsibility for all your actions and all your views, the events you participate in and every one of your intentions and expectations plus without exception every result good or bad that follows... Do you believe that any person or entity claiming immortal strengths, can in all conscience avoid responsibility for all the strife, the discontentment and the sorrow in the world? Accordingly, how is it possible to ascribe responsibilities to fate, to karma, to a religious faith and still claim to be a responsible person? Can that nebulous entity, promoted as almighty, omnipotent and all-seeing be free of responsibility for famines, the ill health, the disease, the consequences of war and the birth defects of innocent babies? In the name of the almighty, the clergy bless soldiers before they go into conflict at the outset of a military action. What is the value of a blessing given in the name of the same entity to both sides in a conflict? It is amazing that very intelligent, very educated persons holding highly responsible positions are so tied to the weakness embedded in them from childhood; they unthinkingly bow to these irresponsible entities and live in the belief that such guidance should rule their lives and destinies. Never questioning, never even wondering about the truth. Conditioning we can do without. Uniquely, you and everyone else were born with many more senses than the five that adults around you encouraged you to develop. Absolutely no weakness... More senses like ESP, thought transference, self transfer, levitation, aura recognition and even more, we know little about. Unfortunately, you had to grow up in the midst of mentally burdened and weakened adults preoccupied with their prejudices, ideologies, fears, ritual, norms, inconsistencies, deficiencies, crutches and millstones while struggling to bring home an income to maintain lifestyles they can hardly afford. Instilling their weakness in you, burdening you for the rest of your life with their stupidity. Burdens which spoil your purity of sense and thinking, preventing you from rising on your own to fulfill your birthright. Robbing you of your hereditary right to be who you really are, even if any of it is unacceptable under the “norms” of society you must live with. You possess characteristics, aptitudes and talents which in their strength and quality are uniquely yours. In spite of the weakness instilled in you by your elders, you cannot and should not compare yourself with any other. Your natural differences in quality are such that comparison will only give you false impressions of superiority or inferiority depending upon who you compare yourself with. You must examine your feelings about others and things in your environment. Decide whether there is any valid basis for any adverse opinions you may have in regard to others. It is with a great deal of honest self-seeking that you can correct your outlook and be free to do justice to your intentions, to yourself and to others. Four qualities most important in the will, the immortal self are ‘a clear conscience’, ‘respect’, ‘perception’ and ‘responsibility’. Without these qualities, no one can be truly immortal, or function at one’s best and reach one’s optimum level of life. Respect in all humility is a sensitive understanding of the value of others regardless of station. It ensures that each acknowledges another’s right to his or her own opinions, ideas, concepts and activities. Respect for all others engender non-comparison, non-competition and non- judgmental attitudes that acknowledge the rights of others to differ in their views, opinions, beliefs, ideas, concepts and participation in activities. Perceptions act through the dormant senses polarized at birth to interact with the world. Operating in conjunction with the heart and brain to direct and control the functions of the ‘mortal’ self throughout its limited existence. Failing only where the mortal’s excesses in consumption, deficiencies in exercise or injury from external accident, speeds deterioration to develop factors beyond the capability of the immortal self to control. Unquestioningly following the community’s norms of belief and behavior 365 days in the year, we tend to follow the herd, never deviating because change entails thought and opposition. The immediate is a great deal too important. Parents love their children but their hopes and dreams and expectations about what their children will become are not based on any perception of the talents, aptitudes, outlook, and characteristics of their child, but by their own view of the world. Determined by the parent’s own disappointments in life and the popular impression that success in life is governed entirely by the ability to acquire and accumulate power, position, prestige and wealth in competition with the rest of society. To that end, they focus their desires on the professions. Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, other professional, without heeding their child’s natural endowments or inclinations. Deliberately creating the probability of square pegs in round holes. Channeling their children into careers for which they have no talent, aptitude nor liking. There are a host of unimaginative young adults plodding through days and months and years merely because they knew no better. Perhaps the education system is also to blame. Are we still teaching children with the same knowledge and text books that we learned from when we were in school? The World is accelerating its progress and development in every sphere. What was true a half hour ago may not be true anymore. Are teachers and those who author text books updating their knowledge and communication skills in pace with the world’ s progress or are we educating our children to face a world vastly different from what they are led to expect? It is a credit to the intelligence of the children that some of them are able to adjust quickly and find their niche. Others unimaginatively wait for the government of the day to provide them with jobs that are less demanding in skills and capabilities. These deficiencies are among the baggage that weigh youth down as they try to find their way in the world. Especially crutches - parasitic ideologies that promise better morrows, heavenly hereafters, traditions, ritual, regimentation and others that young adults are made to believe will compensate for their irresponsible actions. Millstones - the addictions, attachments, acquisitions, attractions and obligations they accumulate to weigh them down, especially with Banks and finance houses that make it easy for the young to take loans, placing them in bondage for the rest of their lives. and preventing them from rising again. Except for the few who are anxious to position themselves for growth and achievement, contrary to every argument against parasitic ideologies, the great majority of people will continue to adhere to them. It is not merely the childhood conditioning but that society itself is bound into that framework. Their lives would indeed be very dull without them. The social activities attached to religious, traditional, ritualistic and regimented beliefs lead from ideologies to become an essential part of life, expectation and social interchange for the masses. It is not an indictment, merely the fact. What else do they have? Afraid to take responsibility for themselves and their actions, any promise of a better tomorrow or a heavenly hereafter becomes more appealing. It is only the few who wish to position themselves independently of any order that must understand they cannot go forward while living on hopes and expectations that ideologies promise. It is not necessary that all around them also support it. Society strictly expects its members to follow the “norms”, becoming quite uncomfortable with those who do not conform. The rebels of society, those who refuse to toe the lines set for them by society, follow their own paths. Society however does not try to understand them but classes them as misfits. Social misfits are not necessarily failures. They are generally out of the ordinary thinkers who follow their own pathways. Refusing to compete with those who follow social patterns of interest and development, they are willing to try and to fail and continue to try until they have reached their objectives. Yet, should those so-called misfits reach heights of their own choosing , surprising society with what they have done, society does not congratulate them but only expresses amazement that the subject who in their minds was incapable of such capability, had even achieved it. |
We serve the under-privileged, drowning in deficiencies, undergoing difficulties with no one to turn to. Free of charge and obligation, offering patient ears and understanding hearts to prevent distress, correct hazards, cure adversity and, make life exciting and worth living. HeartSerene and its affiliates The Threshold Foundation in Sri Lanka and the Crisis Fund in the US are dedicated to the care and development of the less able. A sincere capability to create effective and innovative solutions to eliminate or correct needs. The Founder At age 81, Susanta Heendeniya, giving back to the world for all the support and kindness he has received during an eventful lifetieme. Undaunted, fighting oppression and victimization, still troubleshooting and refusing to age with the years. Youthfully active and selflessly dedicated to the prevention, correction and cure of oppression, violation and victimization of the dependent and helpless. Devoting all his time, thought and energy to protecting the distressed, especially in causes which have not been adequately addressed. All his life a non-conformist, a rebel, more interested in the functional and inner, natural self than in pretentious imaging. Creative and innovative, a natural problem-solver, unusually versatile, free of boundaries, exceptions, believing that the entire world’s people are equal in heart and spirit and entitled to every opportunity. Dedicated to sharing a lifetime of thought and experience to enrich the lives of all around him. Happiest in the company of forward generation thinkers, especially the young and uninhibited, unafraid to project their minds into the future. Following progressive trends, conscious of the needs of those who are trapped in lesser conditions, misfortunes and closed minds. Positioning to become HeartSerene and Invincible It is essential to end any preoccupation or obsession with the past. Lose the regrets, the disappointments, the liabilities that may stress and age you to make you unhappy and depress all around you... . Take years off your aging, looks, feelings and your outlook on the world. Go forward into the future and use time and your inherent powers to your advantage and start building a new and exciting future The unimaginative and sheep-like, merely repeat their daily existence, each year a little older, each month just getting by, each day no different than the last? Is that living? The most powerful deterrent to your progress is your obsession with bad memories, regrets and such ghosts from your past. Unhappy and regretful events most use to excuse negativity. Halt your aging. Seek out, question and challenge everything you meet. Forget the past. Lose your Ego and look forward to everything new in the Universe, reveling in each new day as it comes. We can direct our destiny, applying mind over matter. Whatever we suffer or enjoy are the inevitable outcome of natural progression. Not retribution, karma, fate or a nebulous entity. The past is out of our reach to alter. The present is a fleeting moment, but what we do in that series of fleeting moments, is what eventually causes the repercussions that affect us, our environment, those in it and the world. We can only dictate how we act or react in those present moments as they pass, by planning for or directing what will arrive in those fleeting moments. Mind over matter. You do not have to decline along with the years. The years do not age you, your choices and excesses do. You age fastest when your concern for others stop and you have nothing to dwell on but your past disappointments. Selfless purpose is the essence of humanity and a naturally powerful source of satisfaction from meeting needs for the helpless and the weaker. Happiness is a natural follow-up to satisfaction and only comes from sincere concern and service for others. You were born unique and free without weakness, an exclusive, single combination of talents, aptitudes, characteristics and a lot more senses than the adults around you knew enough to recognize and encourage but free of weakness. You acquired your weaknesses; the prejudices, fears, subjugation to parasitic ideologies, the unknown and even the dark from the adults you grew up with. Adults held captive by their “millstones”; attractions, addictions, attachments, impairments and, “crutches”; ideologies, dependence and emotions that rob us of our inherent freedom and, obligations, society’s “norms”, rituals, regimentation and the clock. Make the world come to you. Forge ahead with your finest medium of self-expression, pursuing new ideas, exciting challenges, wider perceptions, satisfying ventures and happier encounters. Be original in thought, word and action, not echoing others. Sincere, sensitive, dependable, selfless and humble with a clear conscience, responsibility, unpretentious values, mutual respect and, an excellence of heart and spirit. Whether you want a benefit or worry about harm or loss to yourself or another, the result will be the same. Depending upon your intensity, they can both come true. Visualize a view of your objective as you desire it. Follow through with every step necessary for it to happen. You can make your wishes come true. A patient ear and an understanding heart will help you solve your problems and free your mind and heart to advance you into the future. Consider your options when you arrive at life’s crossroads? You can give up and resign yourself to hopelessness. Else, go right or left or around in circles repeating the activities where you failed. Have you really anywhere else to go but UP? Overcome the anchors that weigh you down and free yourself to rise. Marshall your positive strengths and apply positive realities to achieve your objectives. How well you position yourself in relation to your world determines your growth and development, your performance and achievement... How well you want to live? Where you function best?. How well you do function? Who you want to work among? Your most effective medium of self-expression in which you function best? How well you protect yourself and how you face and overcome the vicissitudes that life can bring. A process of strict self-examination, drastic correction and self-development where you position yourself to meet your world and enjoy your future on your own terms. Selectively responding to your changing environment without reacting to negative events. Liberating yourself from all weakness including the millstones and crutches that prevent you from rising. Above pretentious, external self-images that others project to a world trapped in negative ‘norms’ and excesses. Applying your strengths through your best medium of self-expression to reach the heights. Attracting exciting prospects and stimulating new ideas. Remaining unstressed, totally relaxed, independent and self-controlled. Positive and free to think, to speak, to care, to act, to make each day your own. Do you have the will and the drive to take control of your life and your destiny? Are you ready to take the necessary steps to develop yourself into a Giant among men? Is your outlook totally positive? Do you sincerely care about those with less and undaunted by what you must do to take control of your own fortunes? Life is a Matter of Choices To selflessly care about those with less. To be ready to share your fortunes and growth opportunities. To open pathways to encourage the weak and less able to widen their horizons and move up in their world without being trapped in futile circles for life. To reciprocally focus on positive objectives to help make this world a better place for the old, the young and the yet unborn. Choose Your Objectives. Dare to be who you are, the way you naturally are. Do you want to be free to dream, to speak, to care about those with less, to act, to dare any challenge? To be the natural and essential YOU, free of obligations to suffer discomfort, outworn “norms” and avoidable impositions? Would you care to widen your horizons, expand your outlook, see more, do more, challenge the new, the exciting and stimulating, the heights, the strange, even the seemingly impossible? To seek your own threshold to a future you plan, achieve and change as you wish? To determine your own destiny through your will and your natural attributes, exercising your mind over the matter that weighs you down. Have you the will to make your world as eventful, happy and satisfying as you can make it? Can you think outside the box, be a kid again? Would you like to set your mind free to soar far, wide and upward? Have you the spirit and self-respect to refuse to be driven by unnecessary or restrictive, outworn “norms” your society sets for you and others to unthinkingly follow? In cannibal land it is a “norm” to eat their neighbor. Anything worth achieving is never easy. Yet, nothing is impossible, only its pathway is studded with essential requirements and difficulties that make accomplishment seem impossible, offering excuses to give up trying. There are no unsolvable problems, only unrecognized solutions. The trick is to break each step down into its smallest, manageable parts and follow through to accomplishment. Any journey begins with the first step. What holds you back? Only your conditioning. Your weakness and submission to ‘norms’ you never chose but unthinkingly became submitted to. Lifestyles dictated by the social circles you choose to move in. |
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