Today was a fantastic teaching by a visiting teacher. Padma from the South Bay Ananda Ashram came by to deliver the message.
The message was very important for me to hear. So many things were discussed.
Lately I've had a lot of frustration and stress at my job. I've ended up using habits and crutches to deal with the stress, or in some situations I've vented inapropriately on others.
In this Sunday sermon, Padma talked about:
The message was very important for me to hear. So many things were discussed.
Lately I've had a lot of frustration and stress at my job. I've ended up using habits and crutches to deal with the stress, or in some situations I've vented inapropriately on others.
In this Sunday sermon, Padma talked about:
- Our goal is to conquer the ego
- A way to conquer the ego is to "Love God" to put God into everything we do... an exercise example was to include God in all thoughts and decisions throughout the day, "Lord God, which way should I drive to work," and so forth. By doing so, we begin to bring God into our daily activities
- Devotion to God and others
- A sign of Ego, is when we get angry. Anger is egoic, because it is about our identificaiton with the body. When we get angry we should stop and think about it... why did I get angry? what triggered it. Often it will be aspects that upset us, that we ourselves need to work on.
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