Playing the game LIFE.

learning what is life about?

it is to keep peace within. 

How i do that?

The purpose of the game is to being in peace while interacting with the outer world.

I am learning how to being peace while living in the 3rd plane.

Understanding  why people do the things they do by placing myself in their shoes is the key for me.  Understanding doesn't mean I approve their actions in the sense that I would imitate them but I accept them.  That is how I am keeping inner peace on those moments that the outer world triggers within lower vibration emotions.  Afterall, the only one I have control over is myself not the others.

Being an HSP has its advantage point.

I have 2 options when I am the target of another one.  Do I choose to react and get angry or do I choose to be aware and act according to the emotion that gives me peace within?

After the experiences I went thru the past 2 weeks, I decided that is best for my well being the second option.

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when i don't understand others actions i just take a concious decision by thinking that i am only an instrument of the their karma.

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life is about feeling.  it is about going out to the world and feel the full range of my emotions until i transmute those lower vibration emotions in a higher vibration emotion.  what do you think is the higher vibration of enrgy in this 3rd planet where i inhabit?  love is the highest vibration of energy in this dual plane.  what do i feel within when i feel love toward the outer?  peace is what i feel.  so what i am learning now is alchemy, trasmuting the energy within when i experience the outer chaos.  those 2 weeks i transmuted anger, frustation, impotencia, desilucion, tristeza, decepcion in the highest energy vibration in this plane.

“A youthful, childlike orisha, Ellegua is an active and mischievous divinity. In this story, he is walking down a dirt road after having caused havoc in a village. Disturbed because the inhabitants of the village had not honored him, Ellegua decided to create imbalance in their lives. Everything that used to be right, he made wrong. Ellegua dried the wells and filled them with sand. He made wild animals tame. The villagers were baffled.”

Ellegua’s actions caused tremendous confusion in the village. The villagers could not light fires to cook their food. They had no water to drink, and their farms were barren and dry. The angry villagers went out looking for Ellegua on the same road he had taken leading out of the town. They knew he would be easy to identify because he had been seen dressed in black. In reality, though, as I told my audience, this was only partly true, for he wore his traditional ritual colors—red on one side and black on the other.

As he walked on, Ellegua had a change of heart. He decided to return to the village and give the villagers the opportunity to repent for their disrespectful behavior and to honor him properly. But when he saw that they were consumed with anger, he decided to play a trick on them to teach them a lesson. In their temper and impatience, they still had not learned from their mistakes.

One of the villagers, noticing Ellegua dressed in red, asked him if he had seen a man dressed in black. Ellegua shook his head, smiled, and said, “No, I have not seen this man.” Without thinking, the villagers continued on the road looking for Ellegua, while Ellegua returned to the town, sat down, and waited. He knew that after a fruitless search, the angry villagers would return to their town with a change of heart.

And, of course, he was right. The villagers returned, tired and chastened, having recognized the error of their ways. They then set about preparing the ritual ceremonies required by Ellegua; he, in turn, set their lives in balance once again.

“Ellegua teaches us that we must look at all sides of the story in order to make an informed decision,” I carefully shared with my godchildren the lesson of this tale. “He reminds us that the obvious is not always the correct answer. He shows us there is much more to gain if we stop, think, and reflect before taking an action.”

Through our patakís, Santería teaches us the many ways of seeing the world to better understand our path in life. Santería encourages us to see and understand the sum total of the parts. To be one-dimensional in our thinking is to leave out a vast realm of possibilities, choices, and solutions. Ellegua teaches us to search actively for and to open the spiritual and secular doors to self-healing and empowerment. Other orishas have their own lessons, their own strands of wisdom to teach us. Woven together, their stories, energy, and power create a beautiful spiritual tapestry that is filled with portraits of pilgrims from many cultures, many faiths.

From the book "The Altar of My Soul" by Marta Moreno Vega

What is below is information I copy and paste from Wikipedia.  I think is fascinating and if you want to know what is so fascinating you must read it first. Otherwise you won't understand the meaning of the last paragrah on this blog.

Yorùbá, In Brief

Strong quake shakes Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

2 days ago, Saturday, October 11, 2008

ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages.

The magnitude 6.1 quake was the strongest to hit Puerto Rico in 20 years, according to Christa von Hillebrandt, director of the seismic network on the Mayaguez campus of the University of Puerto Rico.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck was centered about 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of Anegada in the British Virgin Islands.

Disaster officials in the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico said there were no reports of significant damage or injuries.

"At first I thought it was a big truck rolling by but then I realized the windows were closed," said British Virgin Islands government spokeswoman Sandra Ward.

The quake struck on the 90th anniversary of the worst temblor ever recorded in Puerto Rico, a magnitude 7.3 quake that killed 118 people in the western half of the U.S. Caribbean territory, Hillebrandt said.

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i didn't feel anything ... how could I ?  I was sleeping like a baby.  When I think about it, it would not be funny been wake up by a piece of the roof hitting my head ... LOL

http://geology.com/news/2008/puerto-rico-earthquake-61.shtml

What can I tell you ....  It is true that this little island has not been directly affected by this year hurricane season, but that does not mean that it has not suffered the consecuences of many of the systems that had passed across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. 

We haven't had the winds that those systems bring but we have had the heavy rains that they bring.  This summer we had many episodes of floods, been last month, 3 weeks ago, the worst.  This is what Kyle did here even before the system was designated a tropical storm; it was bringing deadly rains to Puerto Rico.At least four people were killed by the flood waters.

http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=1682008#p

Now nature, who never stops surprising me, is playing games with us.  What is normal is that those systems are formed in the Africa Continent and then travel across the Atlantic Ocean until they hit the American Continent.  However this year I have seen 2 that had been formed in the Caribbean and Atlantic, been OMAR one of them. 

This is the trajectory of Omar, which is not the usual trajectory of these systems. They usually move from east to west, but this one is moving from west to east.

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/nhc-graphic.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&basin=atlantic&wallet=5&strm=4&gfx=Warnings%20and%203-Day%20Cone

The rains Omar brings started yesterday afternoon, today, Monday, and the system still has not enter the island.

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/update/index.html?from=hp_news

And I thought that we were save when September 2008 ended ...  nature proves me wrong.

"The financial crisis has been a manmade catastrophe. The actions and responses to overcome it lie in our hands."

Robert Zoellick , World Bank president

Concepts are good for the mind but they are of no use when are not applied in the form plane.  Wisdom is achieve by experience and experience comes when there is manifestation.  Manifestation takes place in the form plane.

I can stay here in the internet writing into cyber space words that are interpreted as wisdom, but what use do they have when I write them if they are not accompanied by the knowing of my experiences to back them up?

Empty words are those that don't have a story behind them, been that story the writer experiences. Empty words are like a beautiful novel in the hands of the reader. 

With In meets With Out  ... mastery is obtained where I am going to ...

1. To those who choose the path that leads to Enlightenment, there are two extremes that should be carefully avoided. First, there is the extreme of indulgence in the desires of the body. Second, there is the opposite extreme of ascetic discipline, torturing one's body and mind unreasonably.

The Noble Path, that transcends these two extremes and leads to Enlightenment and wisdom and peace of mind, may be called the Middle Way. What is the Middle Way? It consists of the Eightfold Noble Path: right view, right thought, right speech, right behavior, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

As has been said, all things appear or disappear by reason of an endless series of causes. Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see beyond both existence and non-existence something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

2. Suppose a log is floating in a river. If the log does not become grounded, or sink, or is not taken out by a man, or does not decay, ultimately it will reach the sea. Life is like this log caught in the current of a great river. If a person does not become attached to a life of self-indulgence, or, by renouncing life, does not become attached to a life of self-torture; if a person does not become proud of his virtues or does not become attached to his evil acts; if in his search for Enligtenment he does not become contemptuous of delusion, nor fear it, such a person is following the Middle Way.

The important thing in following the path to Enlightenment is to avoid being caught and entangled in any extreme, that is, always follow the Middle Way.

Knowing that things neither exist nor do no exist, remembering the dream-like nature of everything, one should avoid being caught by pride of personality or praise for good deeds; or caught and entangled by anything else.

If a person is to avoid being caught in the current of his desires, he must learn at the very beginning not to grasp at things lest he should become accustomed to them and attached to them. He must not become attached to existence nor to non-existence, to anything inside or outside, neither to good things nor to bad things, neither to right nor to wrong.

If he becomes attached to things, just at that moment, all at once, the life of delusion begins. The one who follows the Noble Path to Enlightenment will not maintain regrets, neither will he cherish anticipation, but with an equitable and peaceful mind, will meet what comes.

3. Enlightenment has no definite form or nature by which it can manifest itself; so in Enlightenment itself, there is nothing to be enlightened.

Enlightenment exists solely because of delusion and ignorance; if they disappear, so will Enlightenment. And the opposite is also true: there is no Enlightenment apart from delusion and ignorance; no delusion and ignorance apart from Enlightenment.

Therefore, be on guard against thinking of Enlightenment as a "thing" to be grasped at, lest it, too, should become an obstruction. When the mind that was in darkness become enlightened, it passes away, and with its passing, the thing which we Enlightenment passes also.

As long as people desire Enlightenment and grasp at it, it means that delusion is still with them; therefore those who are following the way to Enlightenment must not grasp at it, and if they reach Enlightenment they must not linger in it.

When people attain Enlightenment in this sense, it means that everything is Enlightenment itself as it is; therefore, people should follow the path to Enlightenment until in their thoughts, worldly passions and Enlightenment become identical as they are.

4. This concept of universal oneness - that things in their essential nature have no distinguishing marks - is called "Sunyata." Sunyata means non-substantiality, the un-born, having no self-nature, no duality. It is because things in themselves have no form or characteristics that we can speak of them as neither being born nor being destroyed. There is nothing about the essential nature of things that can be described in terms of discrimination; that is why things are called non-substantial.

As has been pointed out, all things appear and disappear because of causes and condition. Nothing ever exist entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things cannot exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

By the same reasoning, Enlightenment cannot exist apart from ignorance, nor ignorance apart from Enlightenment. Since things do not differ in their essential nature, there can be no duality.

5. People habitually think of themselves as being connected with birth and death, but in reality there are no such conceptions.

When people are able to realize this truth, they have realized the truth of the non-duality of birth and death.

It is because people cherish the idea of an ego personality that they cling to the idea of possession; but since there is no such things as an "ego," there can be no such things as possessions. When people are able to realize this truth, they will be able to realize the truth of "non-duality."

People cherish the distinction of purity and impurity; but in the nature of things, there is no such distinction, except as it rises from false and absurd images in their mind.

In like manner people make a distinction between good and evil, but good and evil does not exist separately. Those who are following the path to Enlightenment recognize no such duality, and it leads them to neither praise the good and condemn the evil, nor despise the good and condone the evil.

People naturally fear misfortune and long for good fortune; but if the distinction is carefully studied, misfortune often turns out to be good fortune and good fortune to be misfortune. The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor depressed by failure. Thus one realizes the truth of non-duality.

Therefore, all the words that express relations of duality - such as existence and non-existence, worldly passions and true-knowledge, purity and impurity, good and evil - none of these terms of contrast in one's thinking are expressed or recognized in their true nature. When people keep free from such terms and fromm the emotions engendered by them, they realize Sunyata's universal truth.

6. Just as the pure and fragrant lotus flower grows out of the mud of a swamp rather than out of the clean loam of an upland field, so from the muck of worldly passions springs the pure Enlightenment of Buddhahood. Even the mistaken view of heretics and the delusions of worldly passions may be the seeds for Buddhahood.

If a diver is to secure pearls he must descend to the bottom of the sea, braving all dangers of jagged coral and vicious sharks. So man must face the perils of worldly passion if he is to secure the precious pearl of Enlightenment. He must first be lost among the mountainous crags of egoism and selfishness, before there will awaken in him the desire to find a path that will lead him to Enlightenment.

7. Buddha's teaching leads us to non-duality, from the discriminating concept of two conflicting points of view. It is a mistake for people to seek a thing supposed to be good and right, and to flee from another supposed to be bad and evil.

If people insist that all things are empty and transitory, it is just as great a mistake to insist that all things are real and do not change. If a person becomes attached to his ego-personality, it is a mistake because it cannot save him from dissatisfaction or suffering. If he believes there is no ego, it is also a mistake and it would be useless for him to practice the Way of Truth. If people assert that everything is suffering, it is also a mistake; if they assert that everything is happiness, that is a mistake, too. Buddha teaches the Middle Way transcending these prejudiced concepts, where duality merges into oneness.

http://www.amidabuddha.org/buddha1-2.html