DIVINITY WITHIN - Day 12 of 108 Days - "Sorrow and suffering instead of joy and peace?"

Day 12 - 30 minutes before midnight and I am trying to finish this.

“If you identify yourselves with the body that you carry about with you, you are inviting sorrow and suffering to overwhelm you instead of the joy and peace which are awaiting to bless you.”

Why did I have the above "thoughts for the day"? Every morning I wake up, I think of what would be on the title of the blog and more often than not, it changes by night time. Like this one here, I was thinking of something else but then someone called me around 9:30 pm and asked about mortgages etc. So by the time I sat in front of the laptop and open the blog, I was thinking about debts and thought of most of the problems of individuals and banks and countries such as Greece and Italy are about debts. What about the major economic crisis here in the U.S., isn't it all about debts?

And I guess the only reason we become miserable is when we associate debts and everything else with this body. But, whose debts will it be anyway other than the body who borrowed except in cases of identity theft. Still, somehow I believe the identity theft will not be possible unless we in one way or another invited it upon ourselves. Of course, a lot of people will disagree specially if they are not aware or not familiar with the law of the universe. I will try not to dwell on it or go deeper since I do not want to confuse or offend others who might read this and disagree.

Suffice it to say that whether we believe it or not, there are no victim or victimizer since it is just a thought process. Just like Shakespeare saying " There are no right or wrong, it is thinking that makes it so ". Again, the culprit is the mind that thinks. We can only identify ourselves with the body by thinking. If we unthink of identifying then, that is possible also but because we are creature of habits and its been our habit all this time to associate with the body, as we think, so we become.

As long as we think we are the body, we are inviting sorrow and suffering to overwhelm us instead of the joy and peace.

Sure, easy for whoever is the author of the saying to say the above. I tell you, I will be totally overwhelmed with sorrow and suffering if I keep thinking that here I am - my name is on the title of 7 buildings with just 2 mortgages less than two hundred grand, I should be in a very good position because it looks like I have this all income producing properties and yet I can barely pay the mortgage. Without going into details, I am land/building rich but cash poor. And in this economy there are too many people short selling their properties rather than get foreclose that even if you own something that is fully paid, some buyer will get the short sell first if they can without thinking of the long term consequences.

So, how do I deal with my predicament? Simple I try not to associate myself with it. It is like passing clouds, it will soon go away. What will be will be. For me to want peace or joy, I have to say "I want Peace/Joy". Someone said, remove the I which is the association, remove the want which is desire and there you have Peace or Joy.

How do I do that? How can I say it is simple? I know, it isn't really simple at first. It takes practice and practice until you get use to it and it become simple. Just like writing your name, when you are just learning it, it is so hard, now we can sign our name with different styles of handwriting and it is so simple.

So let us start practicing if we have not done so - let us take 3 deep breath, say I am not the body, I am not the body, I am not the body. Then who am I? who am I? who am I? It may seem kindda weird but if you just keep saying who am I, who am I so many times, you might start hearing an echo and a vibration and just keep doing it - it takes perseverance, don't stop now, go on and keep doing it, pretty soon - you will get your answer.

WHEN YOU DO, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

With Infinite LOVE and GRATITUDE always,
I AM