Bertram Daniel

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Thoughts

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After my morning meditation today I picked up Wayne Dyer’s book ‘Ten secrets for success and inner peace’ (which by the way is a brilliant book) and what I read I thought I would share it with you.

Suppose you had a choice between two magic wands. With Wand A, you can have any physical thing you desire by simply waving it. With Wand B, you can have a sense of peace for the rest of their life regardless of what circumstances arise. Which would you pick? A guarantee of stuff, or inner piece for the remainder of your life? If you opt for peace, then you already have Wand B. Simply have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let it all come and go as it were. Enjoy it all, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to anything, any place, and particularly, any person.

I hope you enjoyed that.

Namaste

Bertram

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More on Community

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Today being Grand Final Day I thought I would catch people at home watching the footy and I knocked on doors in my apartment block collecting donations for the Heart Foundation and I had some interesting and varied experiences. I got to meet some people who had lived here for over a year and never met, I was invited in to celebrate a sixtieth birthday, I chatted to some while they rummaged around for some money and I was shooed away by some. What I could not help but think was that here I was connecting with a micro community which is part of a larger macro community, which is part of a total community.

One of my heroes is Mahatma Ghandi who said: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” So I thought I might start a newsletter for the apartment block and get a connection happening between the people who live in close proximity to each other and yet do not really connect with each other. I was lucky to meet one happy dweller that I shared my thoughts with and she was pro the idea and being a graphic designer offered me her assistance. So with this encouragement I will venture forth to create a newsletter for my apartment block. Maybe I can call it ‘On the Block’!

I will keep you posted.

Namaste

Bertram

Connecting with people

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In my last post I lamented the fact that people were not connecting enough. Well, interestingly enough I have just spent a week in Bali relaxing and looking at some real estate and I was so struck by the fact that people there were so friendly, welcoming and so happy to connect. I could not help asking myself the question: “Why are these people so willing to connect and people back home not so?”

I have not worked it out and would love to hear from anyone with their take on the subject.

I put it down to the Buddhist and Hindu philosophy which are the main cultures in this part of Indonesia. I guess to some degree a tourist is viewed as a source of income and looked at very positively, as well. However I feel that it goes deeper than that and that the people are genuinely friendly and open to connect with people. What’s more they are ever so humble and are always looking to please. This of course is a good recipe if you are a tourist with all these happy, willing and friendly people looking to serve you and look after you.

I cannot help but think that although they maybe much poorer than people in more affluent countries these people exhibit an openness and a warmth that does not seem to prevail here at home. So I am sure there are some lessons to be learned here.

I was reading a beautiful little book by Wayne Dyer and what he wrote maybe sheds some light on this subject and I quote:

Winning and being number one seem to be the most important things you can do when you live at the level of ego-consciousness. You spend a lot of your time measuring your success on the basis of how you stack up against others.

If you have more than others, you feel better about yourself. Having more money makes you feel better. Accumulating more awards and prestige and climbing higher on the corporate ladder encourages you to feel good about yourself. Ego-consciousness prods you to compete, compare and conclude that you are the best, so you concentrate on running faster and looking better than others. It is at this level of consciousness that problems exist. This is where inner peace is virtually impossible and success eludes you, because you must always be striving to be someplace else.

In order to walk comfortably along the extra mile, you must tame this ever demanding: impossible to satisfy ego. Feelings of despair, anger, hatred, bitterness, stress and depression stem from the ego’s anxiety and insistence on living up to an external standard. The result is the anguish of not measuring up or fitting in properly. The ego will seldom allow you to rest, and demands more and more because it is terrified that you will be called a failure. When you move beyond ego and make your higher self the dominant force in your life you will begin to feel that contentment and inner glow of peace and success that characterises the extra mile. – Wayne Dyer

So is it about ego and a lack of connection?

Namaste

Bertram

What does community mean today

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As I make my way through this wonderful world I cannot help but notice that we do not have the same sense of community that we once had. We do not seem to be connected to each other like we used to be.

Gee, I sound like an old man having a winge and yet I do not consider myself old! Is it just me or do others feel the same way?

In today’s world of technology we do not have ample opportunity to get personal. Life is fast-paced and everyone seems to be in a rush. We dial the phone and we talk to machines. We spend long hours on the computer playing games, emailing one another or working with our web pages. Even in the office environment, we email the person in the cubicle 3 feet away instead of walking over to hand them a task list.

Don’t get me wrong. I love technology. I cannot imagine ever being without my computer and am guilty of spending a large part of my day working on line. The computer and Internet afford many opportunities. All I am saying is that as a result of the technological age of today’s world, our personal touch with one another is decreasing. We need to take full advantage of the opportunity to be personal. Humans are becoming strangers to one another. People are in a hurry to get on with the business of living and walk past each other on the street without even a nod.

A wise man once said “Do not bring me a problem without a solution, as well.” My solution is that maybe you get your head out of your computer now and then and connect with another person. When you walk down the street look at other people and connect with them.

I live in an apartment block and there have been occasions when I have passed someone in the basement carpark they have looked away and not connected. I have greeted others and been ignored. I do not get it. We are all the same. We all are one and yet some go through life, literally and metaphorically, with their eyes shut. What they do not understand is that we are a little community of our own.

And then there is the wider community. C’mon I’m sure we can do better than that. Make an effort to connect with someone today.

Namaste

Bertram

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