Potential is GOD!

[Ishanga]

Have You ever had one of those days were Your Not feeling so great, maybe a bit blue or sad, then Your Favorite song comes on the radio or speaker system and You all of a sudden feel better?

This is hidden Potential within You! The "Feeling Better" was always available to You, You just needed the music to make it come out..

As soon as I realized this in my life I realized everything I want is already present within myself as a Potential, nd that I can manifest it myself with no outside Stimuli needed!  When I started a Weight Lifting program the amount of weight I lifted for each lift increase allot after a couple of weeks training, after a couple of mths I could feel and see my muscles were Growing, this is a hidden Potential within, it just needs the Stimuli of lifting weights to bring it out compared to sitting around and doing no activity!

So there are a Billion other examples out there, Stallone wrote the script to Rocky in 3 days, the basic draft, the Potential for the Rocky script was always in Sly, he just needed some outside stimulus to make it come out on the paper, and later some refinement!
 

So God is not Love, or Hate, or Bliss, or Sadness, or Success or Failure, those things are mostly completely within Our Control, God just sets up the playing field, the Field of Potential, You are here to go thru this Field of Potential and make it out to be whatever You want it too Be!

 

 

[Breakingthewall]

Agree,  any feeling of joy or sadness is included as a potential of what we are, but the point is to be able to go a little beyond this and open ourselves to what tradition calls Sat Chit Ananda: the full brilliance of what is simply by virtue of being.

Sat, that which is and cannot cease to be. Chit, that which stands out, knows itself, is self-aware. Ananda, absolute joy, the bliss that arises from openness to the unlimited. The completeness, the absence of lack, that which is totally perfect and needs nothing because it is everything.

Of course, nobody is claiming that this openess, state, whatever you want to call it is permanent, but it's possible and is the end of the searching and the beginning of the exploration 

Edited 4 hours ago by Breakingthewall

[Ishanga]

7 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

Agree,  any feeling of joy or sadness is included as a potential of what we are, but the point is to be able to go a little beyond this and open ourselves to what tradition calls Sat Chit Ananda: the full brilliance of what is simply by virtue of being. Sat, that which is and cannot cease to be. Chit, that which stands out, knows itself, is self-aware. Ananda, absolute joy, the bliss that arises from openness to the unlimited. The completeness, the absence of lack, that which is totally perfect and needs nothing because it is everything.

Of course, nobody is claiming that this openess, state, whatever you want to call it is permanent, but it's possible and is the end of the searching 

Nice!!

The permanency comes from setting up the right atmosphere within in.. We have a Body and Mind, via the Body and Mind we can Experience and Express, if we set up the Body and Mind to what we want to Experience, then it will be permanent.. My Mother Experienced Depression, it was a daily thing, in fact daily at certain times she would feel it more intensely and less intensely but it was a daily thing, I witnessed it.,, If this is so, why can't someone feel Bliss daily?? Its possible! Now Bliss is not the goal of Spirituality, its just the foundation, if Your Blissful naturally daily, then Sat and Chit (Truth and Consciousness/Brahman/Source Intelligence) are more available to You since the atmosphere within  You is more receptive in this state of Being.. 

So that is what the various Eastern practices like Yoga and Taoism are about, to set up the atmosphere so You Experience daily the God/Absolute that is within Us and all around Us, the is our highest Potential as a Human Being imo!! 

Edited 4 hours ago by Ishanga

[Breakingthewall]

2 hours ago, Ishanga said:

My Mother Experienced Depression, it was a daily thing, in fact daily at certain times she would feel it more intensely and less intensely but it was a daily thing

My case is, let's say, peculiar. My father was a very subtle and destructive narcissist, a severe alcoholic, and a smoker of 80 cigarettes a day, having had throat cancer at 38. My mother was from a Muslim country, intelligent but very naive.

They both died of cancer when I was a teenager. My father raised me very conscientiously. He was very active, demanding, and intense. His entire upbringing was focused on making me see him as a god. His idol and human paradigm was Hitler, and he gave me long conferences on Aryan supremacy, which I couldn't be a part of because I was mixed race, and he consciously instilled in me self-loathing and contempt for my mother. All this while he vomited several times a day, suffered multiple fits of rage, and had chronic diarrhea. But he was very physically attractive and played the piano like a professional; this gave him a charisma that he used to surround himself with a certain type of weak people who idolized him. For example me, who loved him and saw him as the top of human potential. 

 At 14 years old I was a brilliant student and a good athlete, but my father managed to convince me with his conferences and indoctrination, making me read Henry Miller and taking me with his alcoholic friends to brothels and drunken binges, that the true human path, the true freedom, was addiction, lie and irresponsibility.  

I made a tremendous effort to be irresponsible, a thief, and a liar. Honesty and responsibility were seen by me as weakness and cowardice. I fell into a state that could be described as a mixture of OCD, depression, high-intensity anxiety, and utter confusion. One day, walking through the countryside brooding, trying to understand where the failure, the malfunction, a revelation occurred. In a second, I saw everything with absolute clarity, the whole scam. I felt as if gears in my mind were turning and engaging with a dull thud, like heavy, immovable, definitive pieces of iron. I was on the verge of a psychotic break, but fortunately, the turn was in the opposite direction; it was my karma, thankfully. After that very moment, my life changed absolutely. 

After that, I became a determined person, someone who did what was necessary, but a huge emotional dissonance vibrated constantly within me. I was fully aware of it, of its roots, but it was absolutely impossible to avoid it. I hated my father with a passion. My shame for how I treated my mother during her illness was absolute. My inner feeling was that it would have been better not to exist. I had to escape into very absorbing and intense things, like extreme sports and serious projects, to avoid confronting the hatred that consumed me. This, let's say, energetic structure wasn't viable. My nature compelled me to seek a way out, a real solution. Self-help or psychology didn't work. Tolle could tell me that it's only now becoming real, but that was my structure now. And it was hatred for my lineage, absolute hatred for all my ancestors, to myself, shame, rage and very deep sadness. I didn't wanted to be me. 

Well, in short, the only exit for all that shit was the openess of that structure. In my case, self-deception can't work because the intensity of the matter doesn't allow it. Perhaps it's unpleasant, but it's a direct guide, without the possibility of error, a highway to the totality, since the psychological cannot be tamed.

The result is that my mind is calm as a lake, my feeling is joy and my sight is deep. Then I think that's obvious that I went in the exactly right direction because any other was impossible 

Edited 1 hour ago by Breakingthewall