“It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand, or million. The human race shouldn’t have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet.” - Stephen Hawkins
The concept of The B Side To The Truth is to encourage all to "Change the World by changing yourself." After reading the latest articles by or about Stephen Hawkins the last few months it gives another person's view on which was at one time slow, but now fast destruction of the human race.
Since the start of civilization there has been empires that risen and fallen. Some believe that now the great empire of the United States will fall. Others believe that the World will collapse into a third World War. Either way it is obvious the standard of living has risen in "things" and fallen in "ethics and morals".
In Stephen Hawkins current view he emphasizes that we as human beings have become so technologically advanced that we will end up destroying ourselves. He also says, summarized, that the reason our planet hasn't been taken over by another planet is probably the same reason on why we won't advance to other planets... because they end up destroying themselves before they make it.
The B Side To The Truth is whether you believe in life on other planets or not, life on Planet Earth does exist and in order to increase our way of life we must give up our selfishness, our pride, our greed, and our desire for power and recognition. We must become our best selves and use our talents to serve man kind... even if it is only one person.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
True Meditation, by Jordyn Pebbles
True Meditation
"Meditation is being happy with yourself for no reason at all. The joy of cherishing your being, happy that you are. You are simply in love with yourself, in love with existence." - Tishan
While I traveled Nepal, it was quickly shown unto me how important meditation was to the people. I even attended a monks monastery for seven hours a day, three days straight, of just pure silence. I did this in order to create a deep relationship within myself. At the end of the second day, a quote that was shown unto me before I had left entered into my mind, "To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Chuang Tzu. These words had never held such a greater meaning. Just by sitting in a silent room and evaluating my life, I was seeing the world around me as a whole new realm; things were shown unto me in a light that I had never anticipated. It changed my outlook, and now has become an everyday occurrence.
I tend to refer to meditation more so as insight because the intention is to gain insight as to the true nature of reality. I have heard people say that they "don't know how to do it... or ..it's kinda weird". Meditation is nothing more than a mind-body process that uses concentration or reflection to relax the body and calm the mind. I found a quote that went so well with the idea of meditation; "You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. While meditating, you discover in your mind a strength which ultimately leads to self enlightenment. Just like the quote above says "to go beyond yourself, you must know yourself" True meditation will lead you to the knowledge you'll need to truly understand yourself.
Jordyn(:
August 10, 2010.
"Meditation is being happy with yourself for no reason at all. The joy of cherishing your being, happy that you are. You are simply in love with yourself, in love with existence." - Tishan
While I traveled Nepal, it was quickly shown unto me how important meditation was to the people. I even attended a monks monastery for seven hours a day, three days straight, of just pure silence. I did this in order to create a deep relationship within myself. At the end of the second day, a quote that was shown unto me before I had left entered into my mind, "To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Chuang Tzu. These words had never held such a greater meaning. Just by sitting in a silent room and evaluating my life, I was seeing the world around me as a whole new realm; things were shown unto me in a light that I had never anticipated. It changed my outlook, and now has become an everyday occurrence.
I tend to refer to meditation more so as insight because the intention is to gain insight as to the true nature of reality. I have heard people say that they "don't know how to do it... or ..it's kinda weird". Meditation is nothing more than a mind-body process that uses concentration or reflection to relax the body and calm the mind. I found a quote that went so well with the idea of meditation; "You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. While meditating, you discover in your mind a strength which ultimately leads to self enlightenment. Just like the quote above says "to go beyond yourself, you must know yourself" True meditation will lead you to the knowledge you'll need to truly understand yourself.
Jordyn(:
August 10, 2010.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Who's Perception is Right?
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite” - William Blake
If life is infinite... how is it possible for us... as human beings to have a full understanding? How is it possible for us to receive full view or understanding?
It's been said "there is no right or wrong way... just different ways."
How is that so? Are there different ways that gravity works? Are there different ways that the law of attraction works? Are there different ways that eternal/universal laws can be manipulated? Are we... human beings... able to manipulate God's laws for our advantage? No, we merely can obey laws that give certain outcomes.
So in a World of hundreds of thousands of millions of different opinions and ways... the question is not... what is the right way... the question is what is God's way?
The B Side To The Truth is the only way to know God's way is to ask him. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." - The General Epistle of James Chapter 1 Verses 5 and 6.
The question is do you believe you can find truth?
So to see infinitely we must think infinitely.
Colton - Discover your true'ness'
If life is infinite... how is it possible for us... as human beings to have a full understanding? How is it possible for us to receive full view or understanding?
It's been said "there is no right or wrong way... just different ways."
How is that so? Are there different ways that gravity works? Are there different ways that the law of attraction works? Are there different ways that eternal/universal laws can be manipulated? Are we... human beings... able to manipulate God's laws for our advantage? No, we merely can obey laws that give certain outcomes.
So in a World of hundreds of thousands of millions of different opinions and ways... the question is not... what is the right way... the question is what is God's way?
The B Side To The Truth is the only way to know God's way is to ask him. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed." - The General Epistle of James Chapter 1 Verses 5 and 6.
The question is do you believe you can find truth?
So to see infinitely we must think infinitely.
Colton - Discover your true'ness'
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Old Skool: How Could One Forget The Power of Mind Control
"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." Dr. Wayne Dyer
A World of turmoil, debt, corruption, infidelity and destruction. What we focus our mind on will cause what some call the law of attraction or Karma. Yes, what you focus on will come to pass. Yet also what you do not focus on will come to pass. The idea is to gain absolute control over your mind no matter what comes your way or what comes to pass.
"Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God" Mormon's Doctrine and Covenants 88:119
The power of organization and focus are what will enable one to alleviate the stresses of failure and confusion. In the book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale speaks of the power of prayer with God or a creator. Buddhist monks spend hours a day mediating and connecting on a higher spiritual level. Sherpas, which are a people that migrated from Tibet to Nepal, and also many are mountaineer guides and part of Buddhist sect, will pray and meditate numerous times as they guide their mountaineers to summit of their trek.
The B Side To The Truth is we can control our mind 100 percent, yet we must organize our mind to do so. All the fallacies and cob webs of others opinions create a weakness withing that disables our ability to connect our mind with our soul. We must constantly be caring for our mind that will allow us to tap in to our subconscious mind and LISTEN to our conscience on the deepest level possible.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
A World of turmoil, debt, corruption, infidelity and destruction. What we focus our mind on will cause what some call the law of attraction or Karma. Yes, what you focus on will come to pass. Yet also what you do not focus on will come to pass. The idea is to gain absolute control over your mind no matter what comes your way or what comes to pass.
"Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God" Mormon's Doctrine and Covenants 88:119
The power of organization and focus are what will enable one to alleviate the stresses of failure and confusion. In the book The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale speaks of the power of prayer with God or a creator. Buddhist monks spend hours a day mediating and connecting on a higher spiritual level. Sherpas, which are a people that migrated from Tibet to Nepal, and also many are mountaineer guides and part of Buddhist sect, will pray and meditate numerous times as they guide their mountaineers to summit of their trek.
The B Side To The Truth is we can control our mind 100 percent, yet we must organize our mind to do so. All the fallacies and cob webs of others opinions create a weakness withing that disables our ability to connect our mind with our soul. We must constantly be caring for our mind that will allow us to tap in to our subconscious mind and LISTEN to our conscience on the deepest level possible.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Rose Bush of Life
In 2003 I boarded a plane in the Salt Lake City Airport in which I would catch a connecting flight in Atlanta then off to Sao Paulo Brazil. There I would spend the next two years learning Portuguese and teaching people of Christ for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For two years I would spend bunking with a Brazilian that spoke only Portuguese.
As I was in a town called Bage that I arrived in, I met a missionary from Fortaleza, Brazil that I would spend the next 3 months with in my newly arrived shit hole. He was a little guy, about 5' 3" or 5' 4". He had a big egg shaped head and the humor of a comedian. We spent the first few days at home as it was a huge thunder storm and we were re-opening an area. Elder Nunez was his name. We had been sent there together known as the clown (Nunez) and the trouble maker (me).
In Bage the Stake President had been excommunicated the week before for getting the 19 year old neighbor pregnant and having stolen 50,000 Reais (Brazilian money equivalent to about $25,000 American Dollars) from the church. The ward I was sent to had about 4 active members in it. No members really welcomed us into the house as many had turned their back on the Church due to the recent events that had taken place in the town of about 100,000 people in about the same square mileage as the Ogden Valley.
So there we were, four days into our new adventure and Elder Nunez taught me one of the greatest lessons I would ever learn in life. He says to me "Elder Lindsay, It's been said our mission is like a garden of roses. Before we left we could look ahead and see all of the beautiful roses blooming ahead of us. During the two years we're here it feels like every damn thorn in that garden is poking us. Then after the two years we look back and all we can see is a beautiful bed of roses. Our mission is a lot like life. Full of different beds of roses and only when we stop to look around from above can we see the beauty of the roses."
The B Side To The Truth is there will always seem to be thorns in our life, yet in reality we are surrounded by a beautiful adventure and life is a beautiful bed of Roses. We just have to look from above.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
As I was in a town called Bage that I arrived in, I met a missionary from Fortaleza, Brazil that I would spend the next 3 months with in my newly arrived shit hole. He was a little guy, about 5' 3" or 5' 4". He had a big egg shaped head and the humor of a comedian. We spent the first few days at home as it was a huge thunder storm and we were re-opening an area. Elder Nunez was his name. We had been sent there together known as the clown (Nunez) and the trouble maker (me).
In Bage the Stake President had been excommunicated the week before for getting the 19 year old neighbor pregnant and having stolen 50,000 Reais (Brazilian money equivalent to about $25,000 American Dollars) from the church. The ward I was sent to had about 4 active members in it. No members really welcomed us into the house as many had turned their back on the Church due to the recent events that had taken place in the town of about 100,000 people in about the same square mileage as the Ogden Valley.
So there we were, four days into our new adventure and Elder Nunez taught me one of the greatest lessons I would ever learn in life. He says to me "Elder Lindsay, It's been said our mission is like a garden of roses. Before we left we could look ahead and see all of the beautiful roses blooming ahead of us. During the two years we're here it feels like every damn thorn in that garden is poking us. Then after the two years we look back and all we can see is a beautiful bed of roses. Our mission is a lot like life. Full of different beds of roses and only when we stop to look around from above can we see the beauty of the roses."
The B Side To The Truth is there will always seem to be thorns in our life, yet in reality we are surrounded by a beautiful adventure and life is a beautiful bed of Roses. We just have to look from above.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Character
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life seems to be one of the simplest yet most difficult tasks of all man kind. And every day each one of us have a life to live. What makes this life so difficult yet so beautiful? The difficulty is our pride. We seek to live our own life, make our own choices, and make our own mistakes; yet everyone seems to think from their own life experiences they have a better solution for you.
Each one us have the most delicate and unique gift and freedom to choose. Choose what we do, what we eat, and above all... choose how we spend out time. How we spend our time each day is how we spend our life.
The B Side To The Truth is this is your life and your character is easily defined by the actions you take. If you choose to live your life the way others want you to that is your choice, yet not your life. If you choose to live the life that you want, that is your life. Yet remember, if you deserve that gift of freedom, you too must allow all men their own destruction.
Colton - Discover your true'ness'
Life seems to be one of the simplest yet most difficult tasks of all man kind. And every day each one of us have a life to live. What makes this life so difficult yet so beautiful? The difficulty is our pride. We seek to live our own life, make our own choices, and make our own mistakes; yet everyone seems to think from their own life experiences they have a better solution for you.
Each one us have the most delicate and unique gift and freedom to choose. Choose what we do, what we eat, and above all... choose how we spend out time. How we spend our time each day is how we spend our life.
The B Side To The Truth is this is your life and your character is easily defined by the actions you take. If you choose to live your life the way others want you to that is your choice, yet not your life. If you choose to live the life that you want, that is your life. Yet remember, if you deserve that gift of freedom, you too must allow all men their own destruction.
Colton - Discover your true'ness'
Monday, August 2, 2010
Checks and Balances
“American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.” - Jon Newman
Accountability seems to be a loss art form from culture and from personal discipline. The temporal principles of life include discipline and the ability to be discipline requires accountability of some sort and as men are held to accountability there is then born responsibility.
Over time we have exponentially grown as a society and "progressed" with technology. In previous post I have emphasized the importance of technological discipline. There has been not only an exponential growth, yet a destructive growth to the human specie. Simply boils down to the pride of us as individuals for gain of more things and power.
Accountability is a temporal principle tied in with discipline. You can be held responsible much like in the mafia, you always have to answer to the Godfather. In real estate; the more accountable you are, the more transactions you will close.
The B Side To The Truth is in an tails spinning World, many of us have lost the art of checks and balances and accountability to a specific anchor. The anchor is our human rights of others. The ability to be held accountable to respecting others is to have moral standards and beliefs. Or in other words, treat others as you would honestly desire yourself to be treated.
Be accountable to your standards of humanity and your core.
"Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."
We have a tendency to blame others for our faults, yet in reality it has always been our choice. So choose now to be accountable to your life and your soul.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
Accountability seems to be a loss art form from culture and from personal discipline. The temporal principles of life include discipline and the ability to be discipline requires accountability of some sort and as men are held to accountability there is then born responsibility.
Over time we have exponentially grown as a society and "progressed" with technology. In previous post I have emphasized the importance of technological discipline. There has been not only an exponential growth, yet a destructive growth to the human specie. Simply boils down to the pride of us as individuals for gain of more things and power.
Accountability is a temporal principle tied in with discipline. You can be held responsible much like in the mafia, you always have to answer to the Godfather. In real estate; the more accountable you are, the more transactions you will close.
The B Side To The Truth is in an tails spinning World, many of us have lost the art of checks and balances and accountability to a specific anchor. The anchor is our human rights of others. The ability to be held accountable to respecting others is to have moral standards and beliefs. Or in other words, treat others as you would honestly desire yourself to be treated.
Be accountable to your standards of humanity and your core.
"Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."
We have a tendency to blame others for our faults, yet in reality it has always been our choice. So choose now to be accountable to your life and your soul.
Colton - discover your true'ness'
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