On Killing Demons…

Everybody has their own demons which torment either from time to time or constantly.  There is this struggle which I am constantly struggling to define and pin down and then find ways of slaughtering the incessant bastard.  I’ve boiled it down like this…  You have behavioural demons like that of bad habits  i.e. procrastination, cussing too much, nail-biting, etc.  and then you have the deeper demons which generally also lead to the behavioural ones; these are the bigger questions, the mind-numbing or sometimes mind-buzzing cacophony that goes on in your head. 

The deeper questions which are personal to me are questions like:

"Why am I here?" (something I constantly need to ask to remind me of my purpose on this Earth)
but also tied into that "Why am I me?" (What is the purpose of my unique consciousness?)
"What do I do now?"
"What do I want to achieve?"

There are more but let’s not get sidetracked.  This was about Slaying these demons.  Here’s a few tips.

1) Gain Knowledge and never stop learning.  ALWAYS ASK QUESTIONS.
2) Control yourself. Listen and focus on your actions and thoughts and decisions. KNOW YOURSELF and be truthful with yourself about your weaknesses and strengths. LEARN WHAT YOU NEED TO CHANGE.
3) TAKE ACTION to change things.

The most important part of the above in particular is to pay attention to your desires. What do you lust after… these are often the evil horseman, which when let loose and fall into excess, create some horrible characteristics and make us become the people we often depsise the most.

Remember that you can’t blame anyone else for your situation or who you are. Wherever you are right now and whoever you are, you have made yourself.  If you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, you can decide to change, and only you can do that.

So go and do it. Slay the demon.  Your one decision to focus on this and change even a single thing about yourself for the better will be like a Hattori Hanzo sword striking a deadly (or heavily injurious) blow to your greatest opponent… your weaker self.

Quotidian Miracles

Do you realise how many things in everyday life hang by a thread? I’ve been reading a lot of things scientific around our physical existence and a common element strikes me, the spiritual connotations of which get my mind racing around like a freight train running on nitrous oxide.

Here’s a few thoughts…

1) The Three phases of Water… do you have any idea what factors need to be in play for it to be possible just to have water in the form of solid, liquid and gas?… and it just happens to be fundamental to our existence.

2) Tectonic plates… Water in three phases is not all. The movement of our tectonic plates, and with it volcanoes, earthquakes, etc. are essential to managing the Earth’s temperature… without which, human life on the planet would not exist.

3) Day and Night… Apart from the fact that we just happen to be the perfect distance from the earth to sustain life on the planet with the Sun’s energy as well as contribute to the maintenance of the Earth’s temperature… the mere fact that the system revolves around us having a period of rest and work, Light and Darkness makes the Earth work and rest just as we do.

Right… now forget all the Scientific stuff… the temperature, the rest and work, the fact that we just happen to have all these things in a perfect balance and I haven’t even mentioned all of them. They also have an effect on our social atmosphere, health, behaviour. Again, all of which affect our ability to adequately LIVE on this planet.

It seems to me a bit convenient for all these critical elements which keep us alive to be a coincidence. At just how many ‘coincidences’ will we draw the line before we acknowledge the design?