The Master's wisdom # 20 – the child within
When you were a child enlightenment and love flew naturally to you, more than they do today!
Legoland park, Denmark
Why do many of you remember fondly the times of childhood? Why does the society protect children so adamantly? Why do we smile when we see children play?
It's not because you miss the sandbox, the runny nose or the sweet candies. In your hearts you, the adults, remember the innocence that you walked with as carefree children. You remember virtues like Trust; Dreaming; Focus; Enthusiasm. You remember how you fell in love with all your hearts; how your days were full of play and laughter. As children, all your needs were provided and you allowed the world to serve you.
As children you allowed your future aspects to return in time to guide you.
As Children you knew mastery.
Remember.
It's very true. As we learn new things, we forget old ones. And children, who are not very wise in the ways of adults, are very, very smart when it comes to feeling and acting and mainly being.
As we grow up, many of us find ourselves running away from "being" (because being is scary, and sometimes doesn't seem as important as life's worries), and get ourselves stuck in the "doing". I believe you discussed it a while ago, in a different post about running away from our physical reality.
I see many people who can't live without their smartphones, for example, because they need the constant noise, the constant drawing of attention from things that can really worry and affect them, like being.
A few years ago, when I moved abroad, I decided I wasn't going to have a phone, at all. I stuck to that decision for 9 months. In those months, I wandered around the new city, just me and my camera, for many many days. I found myself slightly returning to childhood, in the sense that I felt my heart expanding, I was looking at things differently, I wasn't occupied by anything external and could maintain the wonders I was feeling, contain them and process them. I think that we, as adults, can still be like children in that aspect, even though we know better than to trust anything and anyone. We just have to practice it, and try to be and not to do.
Indeed.
Like you I have love-hate relationship with the Portable electronic devices. It serves me greatly for work purposes, but it needs to be left aside more often. Facebook for example. Since I have been writing on steemit fb has lost its charm and i deliberately stay away from that platform as much as possible.
I practically live on FB, simply because that's my main connection to the Motherland and my friends and family there, but I understand what you mean. Since I work from home, I try to limit my FB time to the computer and not to mobile (it's so much less comfortable on mobile, really), and there are apps I'm simply unwilling to install on my phone, because I know they'll simply consume my time when I'm away from home (on the metro, for example), and won't give me some time to simply... be.
Exactly! 👍
This is so true. Sincerely I miss childhood. At this stage you could dress up in anything and not be judged. Everything you needed was being provided by your parents. But now look, growing up is surely a trap, you dress up indescently and everybody judges you. It's now the time for us to look after our parents because they look at us so much. I personally have to do half of my siblings fees because I feel I must give back to my parents. Surely there is a lot to miss about childhood, the life of no worries and getting everything on a silver plate.
Ah, your biggest obstacle at the moment
So true
There's wisdom, here, new friend. Thank you, @nomad-magus, for this (much-needed) reminder.
_/|\_Perhaps, this self-reminder that I posted, recently, might also be of some interest to you:
The Importance of Play
Indeed. Similar 👍
Thanks, for reading. Even though I wrote my post only 10 days ago, I’d already forgotten & needed yours to jog me memory 🤓
Right.
And unfortunately it's beyond upvoting.
Next time.
Ah, no worries about that. I hope that more recent posts might capture your imagination.
Children don't care about the negative things happening in life. They only value fun and happiness that they are experiencing. This makes life peaceful and happy. Children are full of laughter and fun they don't focus on the negativity. If we have heart like a kid we will definitely be happy. Isn't it always fun and joyous to reminisce good old days.
Thank you for sharing this @nomad-magus! 😊
and do you know why?
Because they dont like at life with a duality glasses. No right-wrong, positive-negative. For children life is an experience.
If only adults could look at life that way...
Well the only way that could happen is if an adult will lose his ability to perceive things in dualities, which is not something I'd recommend but it's a free world and you gotta try everything once..
I do agree though that being able to see through the duality, especially when the duality of a scenario is in your favor and it'd be self-deprecating in a sense to dissolve that duality - that ability could have unbelievable benefits, but that's so different from what babies experience that I don't know if it even "counts"..
That’s nicely written! As a child I always wanted to be an adult. Now as an adult, I would love to go back to my childhood. Why? Perhaps because the time goes by so fast. I would appreciate time much more. I do remember many things from my childhood. Most of them are great time experiences with friends. When I fell in love first time. Many times when I ended in a hospital by falling of the bike, breaking my finger... If I could go back to my childhood, I would appreciate even more my time with my childhood best friends. Since I left my country and imigrated to US, I don’t have much of an opportunity to see them. I believe that best friends, especially from your childhood, remain one of your best friends forever, even though I don’t get to see them. Anyway, it’s always good for an adult to become a child for a moment.
Indeed.
In which country/region did you spend your childhood years?
I was born in Czech Republic 🇨🇿 and lived there until my 23rd birthday.
So sweet to be a child.
One day I sat in the garden and watched my niece and nephew play around. As I watched, I wished I could be as excited as they were running after a little butterfly. Children value things more. But thing is, they won’t always remain as a child....they’ll wish as I did too
I strongly agree with what you say, childhood is a time where we are not burdened with thoughts that bind us to the problems we often face as adults, hanga children think about how he played freely and have fun with what it does. children will never keep a lie in their lives, what they experience is expressed, unlike an adult with too many secrets to make a huge burden in his life.
The key word
There is also another thing. You see new things, things that never happened before happens and it's so interesting to you. First times are always the best. That's why your time seems to go slower when you are young.
You just gave the secret to an exciting life -
look at every experience as if it's your first time
I must understand that we come with a pure, clean, free soul and that as time goes by and the experiences we live through, this soul is filled with negative and useless things?
He can perfectly understand the contagious smile of a child, where everything around him is joy (with certain exceptions) but I say this for my son, with just 3 years his smile makes him forget the situations that cause some kind of negativity.
Then surely I must cleanse my thoughts, feelings to become like a child again?
David, in the case of the elderly, is there a channel of enlightenment and love for them?
Happy evening and I hope the translator will help me
Since you brought up the issue, I will delve more into it.
When we are born, and as children, we do carry an emotional, mental and spiritual baggage from "past" lifetimes. (simplifying this, as time is parallel). So in this sense, the personality is not a clean slate at all!
As children we are full of trust, confidence and joy because we know that we are alive, we exist as conscious creatures, and we are eager to continue our journey towards enlightenment (a journey we have begun many lifetimes ago).
Not the soul, but the human personality. The soul remains intact. It is free, non judgemental, and full of joy. It's the adult human who is filled with mass consciousness which is afraid, not trusting, depressed, hopeless.
I hope it's clearer now. Please ask if not.
Enlightenment is ageless. In fact, many people are connected with their soul self in their old age more than they are as mature adults because they finally allow themselves to lower the shields and the protections that have blocked the other realities.
excellent, always friendly