Share your views on 'Mankind is no Island'

A reader of this site shared the following video that bridges Australia and NY and the rest of humanity.  Share your views.

"Using images found on street signage in Sydney and New York, Jason van Genderen shot this entire movie on a cell phone! "Mankind is No Island" is a cleverly crafted visual and musical narrative, whose production budget was a whopping $57! Winner of the TropFest NY 2008 award, the world's largest short film festival, this is three and half minute experience that will leave you inspired."

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1553

10 Things apparent enemies teach you

Experiences that appear the most challenging have hidden meaning that helps you immensely. This teaches you timeless lessons. Consider 10 things apparent enemies teach you;

1) Avoid enemy lines. Harmful intent does not propel you along a spiritual journey. On the contrary, it creates karma and other undesirable consequences you could avoid.

2) You are a role model. You choose to permit hate, anger and fear to compel revenge or, demonstrate you know how to rise above this and teach a much kinder and gentler example.

3) The source of love is you.  As you stop seeking reasons to love someone who seems unlovable, you begin to realize you are infinite source of love learning more on compassion.

4) Empathy changes everything. Physical experience invites you to visualize what life is like in the body and mind of some perceived adversary. Imagine how you feel in his position. If you feel no empathy or compassion for this enemy, then you are like him. When put this way, empathy invites evolution.

5) People are unaware of what they do. Lots of people do not stop to think before they open their mouths, before they take action. They react from emotion and misunderstanding of what is. Sensing lack of awareness does not condone it, but helps move beyond judgment.

6) You cannot run forever. Ever heard the phase, ‘resistance is futile?’ The words do not only ring a bell for Star Trek enthusiasts. To view self as a victim does not shift until you take responsibility for where you are and how you get there.

7) Some things go deeper than words. The meaning of interaction is discernable through energy vibration. Opening mind to silent reasons for feelings gives you understanding.  You gain insight into pain felt by others and grasp soul-to-soul communication actually helps heal everyone.

8) You underestimate inner courage. To find you can bravely feel suffering teaches you not to conceal who you are. This reminds you of power in integrity.  It overpowers rage, humiliation, the need to be right or to have the last word.

9) The path is as long as you choose. It is only a matter of experience before you awaken to the reality of how much control you exert over your own mental holodeck. You project what you need and are gradually asking more spiritual or soul-level questions to get back on track.

10) You and the enemy are one. It may be news to your conscious mind that enemies do not exist except in your own imagination. Every interaction actually mirrors part of soul. Anything you encounter is a soul vibration. When you do not wish to see or accept something about yourself, you will encounter that thing in others.  As you find related feelings inside, you slowly re-align parts of your personality. There is more to this than you fathom just yet. You return to oneness.

Why do you exist now?

The classic phrase, 'to be or not to be' overlooks the fact that something you identify with exists already in form. That does not mean everyone feels confident to clarify why they exist now. Some people struggle to define purpose or direction. Others say getting lost is purposeful for this enables them to be found. What about you? Why are you here now?

As you brainstorm, recall you have a body, mind and spirit and are free to imagine infinite scenarios. Share key ideas that arise in mind. Here are 12 perspectives shared by readers;

1) To learn how all emotion shapes perspective.

2) To be aware ofthe body's reaction to the ego-mind.

3) To realize happiness is only after you surrender totally.

4) To isolate reasons for pain and learn to heal wounds.

5) To ascertain the path guides you so you cannot get lost.

6) To see enlightenment is not attainment, but revelation.

7) To identify your illusions and dissolve them.

8) To laugh for no reason and reclaim peaceful, inner power.

9) To free oneself from a quest for meaning.

10) To be humbled about the usefulness of time and space.

11) To release struggle and evolve to seeconcern is illusion.

12) To find truth in unconditional love beyond a life situation

What do you learn from forever?

Human beings invent the concept of time for their own varied purposes. Nonetheless, certain ideas cannot be measured and do not fit into imagined categories. Some people ask why they struggle to fathom and measure the idea of forever. What can you learn from this? What are you learning already?

1) Everything has a universal purpose.  Coincidence, weirdos, non-conformists and anyone that seems to differ from you, does not.  In this sense, forever seems like the period required to grasp and accept everything is part of you.

2) Social roles have limited usefulness.  Humans would not exist and lessons would not be learned if everything unpleasant is eliminated.  Jobs one grows to old to perform remind how one actually outgrows social roles and related limited perspectives.  Business is an illusion reinforced by the idea that the goal becomes to stay in business at all cost. 

3) Life is enriched by self-service. Human beings have opportunities to stretch themselves, to give selflessly, to be as creative and uplifting as they permit. This is not arrogance, but ability to recognize inner talents and to acknowledge intrinsic self-worth. Who you are never falters or lets you down.

4) Dreaming is a soulful wake-up call. Dreaming at night opens the mind to realms of timelessness. In modern society, human beings are not encouraged to dream. Night dreams show perceived turmoil will always exist until you are willing to lay it aside. To relearn the feeling of a centred, loving being reminds you you already live more than one existence.

Look into the mirror

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,

And the whole world makes you king for a day,

Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what that person has to say.

For it is not your father or mother, or spouse,

Whose judgement upon you must pass.

The being whose verdict counts most in your life

Is the one staring back at you from the mirror.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years

And get pats on the back as you pass.

But your final reward will be heartache and tears

If you cheated that soul staring back through the glass.

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum,

And think your a wonderful creature,

But the person in the mirror says you're only a bum

If you can't look yourself in the eye.

That's the person to please--never mind all the rest,

For this being is with you for good.

And you've passed your most dangerous and difficult test

If the person in the mirror is your true friend.

*Borrowed from Bits & Pieces Vol. R/ No.41C