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AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND

Book Review by: CosmicBliss    

Original Author: DEEPAK CHOPRA (1993)
Life is awareness, awareness is life. Wherever thought goes, a chemical goes with it. The biochemistry of the body is a product
of awareness. Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself. The power to transform information is subject to free will. When someone’s interpretation changes, a change in his reality also takes place. Your body is new at every moment. Your environment is your extended body. “As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe. As is the human body, as is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.” “Don’t we live in the same objective world?” a disciple once queried his guru. “Yes”, his master replied, “but you see yourself in the world, I see the world in myself. This minor perceptual shift makes all the difference between freedom and bondage.” What makes us old isn’t the stress so much as the perception of stress. Nurture the knowledge that the world is you. Time is really quantified eternity. When your attention is in the past or the future, you are in the field of time, creating aging. Only the present moment exists, past and future are mental projections. If you can free yourself of these projections, a space is opened for the experience of ageless body and timeless mind. Meditation alters the frame of reference that gives the person his experience of time. Everyone inhabits a reality of non-change lying beyond all change. The experience of this reality brings change under our control. The physiology of immortality correspond to the experience of non-change. Our whole goal is to establish an intimate relationship with Self as Spirit. To the extent that we create this intimacy, the experience of ageless body and timeless mind is realized. Aging seems to be something that’s happening to you, when in fact it is something your body has largely learned to do. There is no limit to the energy, information, and intelligence concentrated in one person’s existence. The emptiness at the core of every atom is the womb of the universe. In the flicker of thought when two neurons interact there is an opportunity for a new world to be born. Re-establishing the memory of your connection with the quantum field will awaken the memory of renewal in your body. Remain open to change, welcome the unknown. A reaction anywhere in space-time, including past, present, and future, causes a shift in the entire quantum field. The quality of one’s life depends on the quality of attention. It is normal to have all desires be fulfilled if your awareness is open and clear. Worry, uncertainty, and doubt are the three primary obstacles that prevent us from making efficient use of the power contained in every intention. Every fulfilled intention teaches you how to fulfil the next intention even better. Just have confidence that the field automatically fulfils all impulses sent into it. Every desire reaches its goal; it is only your limited perspective in space-time that clouds your perception of the outcome being produced. MODERATION, REGULARITY, REST, ACTIVITY = BALANCE. All events are hold together and made orderly by the deep intelligence that runs through all things. Realization becomes real when no outside event can shake your sense of self. Carry the consciousness of immortality in the midst of mortality. The healthiest attitude is to realize that the unknown is just another term for “creation”. This realization saves a person from fear, which will always arise if uncertainty is resisted. “I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself.” Every space-time event is meaningful and necessary. If my approach to a situation isn’t working, I have faith that there is more to learn. Either someone else can provide me with help or the flow of events will reveal what is needed. Anyone who teaches me something about myself deserves my thanks. It is the mental space that one seeks to find in meditation, which is one of the most important pursuits anyone can follow. Unity can be accomplished at the very deep levels of awareness through meditation, when the duality of mind and body is transcended. Draw the infusion of Being into everything you think and do. You don’t have to do anything to find the Self—you have to stop doing anything. Where did the quantum field come from? The source of the quantum field must be nowhere and everywhere, and the date of its birth was no time and anytime. Any plant or animal is just one stage in the constant cycling and recycling of elements that goes on eternally. That whole cycle is life, and the cycle is the living. Nothing makes people age faster than fear. Grief runs a close second. “People have the wrong idea about death. They see it as an end but it is really a beginning.” – Maharishi. We are of a timeless essence. Time is nothing but quantified immortality. “That which fills the universe I regard as my body, and that which directs the universe I see as my own nature” – Chang-Tzu. Love that doesn’t flow is no love at all. The education of love begins in a moment and ends in eternity.
Published: May 02, 2007
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