We all want to achieve and want to achieve more and sometimes more than what we can handle. However, to achieve our target, most of the times we forget to ask ourselves some basic questions. Is this good – for me and for others? Will this help? Is it good for my body?
We want to stretch 180 degrees – this is practice of greed. We can’t transform or double our chakras overnight…
This doesn’t mean that we stop looking for opportunities. Look for them all the time, but do not go overboard. Be aware of your capacity and practise diligence. See how much you can do and stretch yourself only by 5-6%, so that it does not strain you. One can consume this extra bit easily and once it becomes part of your system and doesn’t burden you anymore, you may further stretch yourself. Slowly your level of moderation will increase and there will be an overall development, which is very important.
Any form of excessiveness is attachment. Moderation is detachment – learn to say NO. You will be pulled and pushed… Your heart will know when it is getting excessive. You must know how much you can take or else it will result in self-injury and injury towards others.
Excessiveness is also dependency. You must stay grounded Help! Help! Help! – help should be to make others independent and liberate others. When you make people dependent on you it is a form of pride…
Practice moderation and non-excessiveness – moderation on all levels – our work (physical level), relationships (emotional level), thoughts (mental level) and spirituality (higher levels).
Every virtue affects all the chakras at mental, emotional and physical level and that is why practice of moderation is very important for an overall development. If you perceive accurately your higher chakra will grow and with correct expression the material chakras (lower chakras) will grow. So it is important to perceive and express correctly to grow wholesomely.
Loving kindness and Non-Injury is the most important virtue. Breaking this virtue will have mental, emotional and physical pain… Mental Injury will affect Higher Chakras; Emotional Injury impacts the Heart and Solar Plexus; and the Physical Injury will affect your Lower Chakras. Always remember, you will make mistakes, and you must give yourself a chance… be generous to yourself.
Think of a virtue for some time, till it becomes part of you. When you serve at your cost you will become bankrupt and will have nothing to give.
“Moderation is one of the Secrets of Prosperity. Do not spend beyond your budget. What you waste will be taken away” – Grand Master Choa Kok Sui on Compassionate Objectivity