Meditation 

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Often we become aware of our fears, worries and stress but still we are unable to release them.

Have you had the following thoughts before?

You want a stress less lifestyle but you do not know how to unwind.
You want less anxiety but you are still anxious.
You have tried all the tangible advice out there to release your fears but you still feel viscerally afraid of…public speaking, crowds or fill in your fear here.
You have become aware of your doubts and negative emotions but intellectualizing them has only taken you so far.
What is the solution? That says that meditation is a healing morality that allows you to embrace fears and worries.

I can tell you from personal experience that if there is one beneficial practice for the mind, body and the spirit, it is regular meditation.

The popular advice that you may have read many times is to take up meditation. The truth is that it is quite difficult to cultivate a deep and meaningful meditation practice.

But from the infinite wisdom of Thay’s (Thich Nhat Hanh) work, I have learned that simply sitting in a few moments of silence and practicing breath work is a good place to begin.

Even a few minutes of silence and mindful breathing can make a big difference over the long period.

As we embrace the practice of silence and meditation, gradually we may find that our restless mind begins settling down.

Over time, we begin carrying around this sense of calm and a deep sense of peace as it diffuses into all aspects of our live.

Much like the fragrance if a beautiful flower enlivens the environment around it, meditation does the same for us. The benefits of meditation soon spread all over our life and grace the body, mind and spirit.

“This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

TRUST

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” 
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

YES YOU CAN!

You can take your time. It doesn't have to happen overnight. The river thinks, “No rush, I’ll get there.” But the river doesn't spend much time looking back, either.

Who knows, as you move forward you may achieve some of the things you wanted in the past. OK, there was a storm, and you survived it. Now, anything can happen.

They say that life moves on no matter what has happened in the past. And they say that time heals all wounds. But that doesn't mean you should forget about action and resolve.

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are. Accept moving forward as a challenge. Then let go with one hand and swing yourself to the next rung.

Motto: “Yes I can.”

The Teacher

Life is a merciless teacher. It gives us exactly what we earned and makes sure by multiple incarnations through eons of time, that our karmic debt is paid to the last penny.  God's mercy comes to us in the form of a guru of caliber - another human being that has completed the inner journey. With the help of his guide, he already reached the destination and mastered himself. Such special personalities are rare, but they exist at any time, one at a time. They are the true Masters chosen to lead us to our divine destiny. The living Master is a powerhouse of divine energy, which he freely distributes to all, but those who practice are the ones that benefit the most. He is vital to spirituality, because he elevates us by his spiritual power beyond our condition to the subtle regions which we cannot access on our own. He adapts the teaching to the changing needs of the current time, keeping the spiritual practice always relevant and of utmost practical application. There's no need to roam the world to find him, a sincere prayer will bring this noble servant of humanity in your life. A guru of such stature is benevolent and compassionate. His heart overflows with patience, tolerance and mercy for his fellow human beings. He says: "What is in the past cannot be changed, think of it as a past life and forget it. Start living your life now in such a way, that you no longer have a reason to feel guilt. See the best in people, nature and the entire creation. Fill your heart with love for the divinity in it by practicing a simple method and follow the soul's inner guidance. This will give you joy, contentment, wisdom and inner strength to cope with life and will build your future beyond this world of matter. Life is short and unpredictable, even if you live to a 100 years, it's still a breath compared to eternity. Make sure you reach the goal in this life, as time lost cannot be regained. If you miss the opportunity to evolve in this life it may not come to you again for thousands of years. Chance is not something accidental. It is an opportunity given to man for his destiny to be fulfilled. Once the divine goal is reached the soul is in a state of complete happiness and it is provided with choices that meet it's deepest aspirations."

Master is the messenger of the higher reality, the door to it and the message itself. He teaches us by his word, the way he lives and by transmitting his own divine condition to us. His sphere of spiritual action is in the subtle inner workings of the human being, escaping observation. Master guides us on the narrow and treacherous path to the divine summit by adapting his teaching to the needs of the current time. He is our divine benefactor, who erases our karmic debt and elevates us beyond our condition. He makes it possible for us to complete our inner journey and return to our divine home in this life.

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10 RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

Just enjoy life

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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 as a part of the process as the experiments that work.

Rule Four – The 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 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 you're “there” has become “here” you will simply obtain another “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 this at birth.

You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner-knowing. #MoksLifeLessons

Mzansi (South Africa) Through The Eyes Of Moks

You can see more photos about this beautiful most Southern part of Africa (South Africa aka Mzansi) on this link https://www.facebook.com/mokone.leqabano

Orlando Stadium, Soweto

Enroute to Cape Town

Home, Soweto, Johannesburg

Having breakfast at Stellenbosch, Western Cape

Whilst I was still working at the the bank. Maponya Mall, Soweto

Going nowhere slowly, Cape Town

Cape Town Stadium

Table Mountain and V & A Waterfront, Cape Town

FNB Stadium, Johannesburg

Just flying around SA

Tsogo Sun Hotel, Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng

Lunch with crazy colleagues, Northgate Mall, Johannesburg

BMW, the best ride, Soweto

Kruger National Park, Phalaborwa Gate

Blyde River Canyon, Graskop, Mpumalanga

Graskop, Mpumalanga

Orlando Stadium, Soweto

Christmas Party at Eikenhof Park, South Of Johannesburg

That ride in my hood, Soweto

Limpopo Province, Phalaborwa

Badplaas, Mpumalanga

The State of Being Regretful

A life without regret is without compassion, for regrets are recognition of learned experiences.

The state of being regretful is therefore the consequence of a renewed perspective. Given if what had been regretted was added value to one's life by means of experiences.

Therefore, to have apologized for any misfortune is an expression that is attributed to a learning experience.

As human beings we are expected to make mistakes, because to believe anything differ would have implied a sense of perfection in a man which does not exist.

Thus, mistakes are that which we learn from when that which has been mistaken is repairable.

Another form of regret is value added by emotions cherished with love. We are emotional being who tends to express our feelings with love.

We are regretful not always because we've been wrong, but only because we can at times fail to show compassion to our love ones.

The last form of regret is not really regret; it’s a form of revenge. Missed opportunities which could have been consequential.

This type of regret effectuate by revenge can also be looked upon as being the highest form of a moral conduct where a person refrain oneself from committing an immoral act despite the prevailing circumstances.

According to Immanuel Kant, this is the type of goodness that come from a struggle, where the person really want to sin, but still find somehow to do the right thing.

This type of ethical code is best categorized as deontological ethic, where the cause (duty) is sprung from our ability to think and reason.

In some ways the only time we've experienced true regret is when the consequence of what was regretful cannot be reverted.

Although we may have learned from it, the types of punishments we've suffered is not equivalent to the learning experience had we made different choices.

One thing for sure, life is a beautiful thing, love it and cherish it.... Mokone Leqabano