Christmas Preparation
My Christmas preparation started in January when I first visited my beloved spiritual teacher, Hans on a beautiful paradise island in the Philippines. I still treasure in my heart the amazing loving time spent with him.
The greatest benefit of my visit was personal spiritual guidance that would enable me to change my life, in order to have a powerful loving, spiritual, free and happy life. This included many personal tips about life and personal relationships, from having a more direct approach with women, to the importance of useful work. He helped clear up a lot of illusions I had about life and spirituality. The whole trip was a very fun, loving and challenging adventure- from the flights, hotels, the people I met and the paradise of being with Hans on the beach next to the pacific ocean. It definitely felt like Christmas in my heart.
Hans suggested applying for a visa to Canada and doing some jobs in forestry such as tree planting to prepare for a loving, free and useful life. Spending a year in Canada had actually been a desire of mine. A friend of had once spent a year living and working in Canada, and it had a wonderful effect on his life- especially to have visited, lived and worked in a variety of different countries.
I did a lot of preparations for tree planting, such as going to the gym and doing gardening work to prepare physically for the challenge of tree planting in spring. Unfortunately my visa did not come in time for spring. I then decided to go to India to complete a 5 year spiritual process. I felt I did not want to miss out on any spiritual experiences.
However I made some mistakes, and especially in an article I wrote about my visit to the Philippines. I got a lot of data and facts mixed up about different people, stories and events. The article also reflected my spiritual confusion. Confusion about myself, past lives, my then present confusing spiritual situation, and a confusion of different spiritual traditions.
The article focused on seeing things in a funny perspective and was spiritually immature. It may have offended some people and may have been a personal, legal and spiritual liability for others including myself. This resulted in some people loosing trust in me.
I learned of the importance of not interpreting teachings, unless fully God-realized. This is because until we become God-realized we only have small pieces of the jigsaw. We should not publish, talk or chit chat about spiritual teachings out of context. I also made a mistake by publishing a commentary on bible quotes, which could have contributed towards spreading misleading information about God and religion.
Those who are one with God are often those who create original texts in their own language, and avoid adding their own interpretations, comments and ideas on top of existing spiritual teachings.
I risked being a dangerous web publisher. By creating possible damage to mankind or creation by spreading wrong teachings which could create the karma for me to correct all damage done.
To receive discipline/criticism from a God-realized person may actually be a lucky opportunity. A lot of criticism hit my ego very hard. But now I see all that was said was actually very kind and loving. I am happy to have another chance at life, and make life loving and happy for myself and all. Words of criticism although seemingly razor sharp or harsh to my ego, could have saved me millions of years in karma and mistakes. The key is to accept eternal liability and responsibility for anything and everything we write and do in life. All mistakes have to be corrected at our own time and expense.
All have the same opportunities, and my spiritual progress and success in no way depends on any type of group membership. But I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to all those who’s names, facts and stories I mixed up.
I have learned a valuable lesson about staying within my limits. We sometimes have to exceed our limits in order to know our limits, and I feel that is what I have successfully done. I was told that “mistakes only come from exceeding limits or reading OWN confused stuff in other literature”.
The best way to clarify any distorted perception or confusion may be to work and travel in many different countries across the world by doing useful and helpful physical work. I now have my visa and will be living and working abroad from spring in order to start my REAL spiritual life and work. Loving work is like the base of a cake, and meditation is like the icing on the cake.
For my preparation for Christmas blessings this year, I have done a lot of helping work and preparations for tree planting in Canada. I am also spending lots of loving time with family and parents to get peace with them as much as possible, as this could be my last Christmas I spend with them. I may spend the rest of my happy helping future life as a foreigner.
I never knew how to take advantage of such opportunities before, or how easy it is to get a working holiday visa to another country. I never knew of opportunities like tree planting before.
An important focus of my preparation has involved getting out of debt. I am now just out of debt and will have enough money saved to travel to Canada by spring.
New work opportunities may come by merit. The more helping and useful I am, the more opportunities become available. I am aware of how nearly everything important is sent or arranged by God.
I have also made loving Christmas preparations by changing where I live to a peaceful and loving environment. I am now close enough to my work, to be able to spend up to 40 minutes a day walking into work and then back again. This combined with growing and eating my own organic food has significantly improved the quality of my health and fitness. As a result I have a good immune system and am not bothered by colds anymore. While other people suffer many days with colds, for me a cold may last up to as little as 5 minutes. There are many other benefits I have gained from organic gardening:
- Spending time, enjoying and improving my relationship with healing nature
- Healthy exercise and living
- Provide all my own vegetables
- Spend quality time with loving family and friends
- Learning about nature and God
- Learning about the cycles of life and nature, such as the different seasons of the year and different plants
- Hugging trees and kissing roses
- Learning to become more pure and loving towards nature
- Gaining a sense of responsibility and achievement towards a worthy cause
- Creating something of lasting value as a Christmas gift to others
