So much of uncoordinated reading over the years demands spelling it all out. This series is begining of it. The Web 2.0 has helped it and I acknowledge all that inspired me for this. It is not spiritual - one can say that this is Art of Being!

1. The Learning Mind - Know the Self within
The Learning Mind
Know the Self within
by
Prakash Tanksale
drishti~cone
a positive way of looking at life
This is all about your life – this knowledge will add wings to your powers to go
beyond what you know….
The Learning Mind is series of books about mother of all competencies -
shares research trends, views about human mind and associated faculties for creating a
fulfilled life.
“it is a search for better ways to interact with the self for enlightenment to
achieve seemingly difficult things in life. I am sharing the studies to reform
whatever knowledge prevails in our minds when we struggle for our dreams.
It is always better to be enlightened to be clever than the dreams.”
Prakash Tanksale
Use your true potentials and be clever than your Dreams.
Readings and study about mother of all competencies for balanced & fulfilled life..
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2. The Learning Mind - Know the Self within
There is force within that gives you life
seek that
in your body there lies a priceless jewel
seek that
Oh, wandering Sufi
if you are in search of the greatest treasure, do not look outside
look within, and seek that.
Rumi
The studied knowledge and experiences of numerous people show that we can improve
our vision and listening, develop existing abilities to sense things through touch, enhance
our sense of smell, intensify our internal body awareness and nurse extra sensory
abilities. We can deploy concentration par excellence, grasp explicit meaning through the
experience and think much better than computer,
Many a time we ourselves experience this
--
We spend too much time staring at one thing and thinking of another'
Aldous Huxley – The Art of Seeing
We have ability to see with a range and accuracy beyond our ordinary experience –
distant things can seem closer, allowing us to perceive them in greater detail. Time can
seem to slow down so that we are able to perceive events that ordinarily would be
imperceptible. Colours, shapes, and peripheral details can be perceived in a way that fills
with an awe and appreciation. The world comes alive in such moments and we all see
things transfigured.
The physical sounds are perceived with new acuity, depth and richness. Some sound
perceptions have no apparent physical cause.
By delight we exist and grow and to delight we should return.
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3. The Learning Mind - Know the Self within
Some people get lost in search of awareness assuming that it's unfamiliar territory.
It is as simple and natural as our breathing – look it evolves like flowers.
Our life is just what our perceptions ( understanding) tell our life is and becomes just
what our perceptions make it for us. Few people care to refresh the age old perceptions
for their relevance the present and future.
Few people go deep enough in their soul to realise in its entire fullness – an amazing gift
that enables them to pursue a fulfilled life – and realize the dreams.
Mother nature and the universal soul has endowed us with the power to think, to believe,
to create, to imagine, to choose, to feel, to aspire and to achieve!
Nothing happens in human life unless one gives a consent – active or passive - one’s
mind always controls the even smallest things. Mostly people are unaware of this truth
and this fact alone drives them to find their problems out of them and that's the
beginning of all avoidable struggles in the human life.
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4. The Learning Mind - Know the Self within
All battles of life are either lost or won in the mind.
If you think you will loose, you are lost.
If think you can win, you have won.
May be this is read by so many of us, often in past; but don't you feel we still need this?
Despite the explosion of so much of knowledge around us, despite the easy access to the
wealth of knowledge, despite the ability to absorb all that is necessary, most of us keep
groping in the dark. Most useful approach seems to open up the doors of the mind,
understand the true meaning of the life forces and to aim at integration, balance and
harmony of body, conscious and subconscious mind, emotions and higher self – which
are equal parts of the whole person. A true understanding will tell us that there is a 'pre
established harmony' , wherever the nature has manifested itself, and whatever may be
the circumstance one can always be part of it.
Such understanding and integration prepares one for committing the total and
enlightened self to a thought and action at every moment of life. One gets willing to
admit own responsibility for any thought and action and find the roots of all that
disharmony and to correct all that is essential.
This is a true beginning of being clever than the dreams to ensure we realize all of them.
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving
something behind.” G W Carver
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