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Recieved: 1999/07/29 00:21
Subject: [K-list] A Plain Man's Cooking Lesson
From: Christopher Wynter
On 1999/07/29 00:21, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
To Bake a Better Cake
When you begin cooking for the first time, you rely on a tried and trusted
recipe - possibly one that your mother or grandmother has used many times. If
you make a cake to this recipe and it tastes all right, that gives you an
experience to build on.
But it is only after having tasted the cake that you can sense that there may be
another ingredient that could be added or omitted that would make the cake more
'cake like' next time.
So, as you gather experience in your baking, you can create new and exciting
delights for yourself. After a few cakes, grandmother's recipe may have been
totally changes and modified.
There are very few people who have not, at one time or another (and most
probably recently) asked "Who am I and what is life about?" In all probability
you have said, "There must be more to life than this."
And, having made the statement, part of their 'inner wisdom' has lead people on
to where they are now.
Whether you believe it or not, it is that wisdom within you that has guided you
throughout your life. Some may be conscious of it, some may not ...
You know many things. During your lifetime you have accumulated much wisdom and
knowledge.
... ( Let's face it, we are still alive ... 'so we must have got something
right' ... )
This Wisdom is the part of you that knows that there is more to your life than
you have so far experienced and accepted.
Because of where you are in your life, because of your life experiences you are
able to recognise certain patterns and feelings.
Life, as you have experienced it so far, has been made up of many layers and
images. If you were held up to a light you would see that your life (and your
body) is made up of stories".
You, your life is a series of stories, and your body is made up of a series of
images that, for some reason or other you have held on to.
Perhaps your family photograph album can best be used to illustrate this point.
During your life you have had a series of experiences that has made you the
person you are at this point in time. It is very important that you recognise
this.
That you accept your life so far is crucial to the person you are to become in
the future. All things that have come to make up you are perfect.
As you look at yourself, you see yourself only in a moment. You cannot yet see
the potential of who you are to become.
Every experience that has come to make up you has been had by you for a reason,
yes even the so called unpleasant ones. Even those experiences that have left
lingering scars are perfect.
To acknowledge this is to accept yourself. To accept yourself as you are now, is
to allow the process of change to begin.
The greatest wisdom is to be able to recognise the perfection of the moment and
then to allow that moment to change into another moment of perfection.
As you read this, take time to look at yourself. Look at those things you value
within yourself . Even for those who say "there is nothing I value within
myself", know that there is something.
You may have just never been given the permission to look at yourself
positively. If this is the case, then know that your ability to know what others
with low self esteem feel like is something positive. Everything we think of
ourselves can be turned around to a positive view point.
Remember always that a judgment positive or negative is merely a turn or a
varied view point away.
As with the cake, so it is with your self and your self image. You have been
moulded by generations of beliefs that, in turn, have moulded your gene pool and
your character.
We all begin life with a set of ingredients, but what is made of life depends on
how we mix and change the ingredients to develop and change, accept and grow.
The energy we know as Kundalini is the flame that transmutes a set of raw
ingredients into the final cake ... and keeps on cooking every time we change
the recipe ... until such time as we accept that we are ... the perfect cake
With respect ...
Christopher Wynter, Hobart, Tasmania ... wynterATnospambigpond.com
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