Everything is like muscles -- needs exercise. Even noble ideas
must be exercised often in order for them to grow and stay firm
and stable. Everything is an exercise. For example, before
you didn't know how to meditate. You could not believe that you
could sit there two or three hours doing nothing. You got
itchy here and there. But now you've gotten used to it. You
derive benefits from it, so you like to do it more. It's a kind
of exercise. Just like people when they workout every week,
maybe everyday or twice or three times a week, their muscles
develop. If muscles, the material things, can develop,
how much more the subtle things, like ideas and thoughts. So the
more we develop our noble ideas, the quicker they grow and the
more stable they are planted in our subconscious. And we just
carry on this way and the "muscles of nobility and high
ideals will continue to stay that way, keep healthy all the
time or develop even more. The Mr. Universes are not born with
muscles like that, it's the result of many years of hard
work. One bit after another until they have fully developed.
Similarly, don't sit there and think that you'll become noble.
You must exercise, do something. Don't sit there and think that
you can do anything you want any minute of your life, and that
will actualize into reality. No, you must do it to prove it to
yourself and to build the "muscle of actualizing your own
idea and nobility. Don't just sit there and think that you are
noble, you are okay--do something to prove it. Then you
can tell yourself: "Oh yes, I really am courageous, I really
am noble. I really can do what I want any minute of my life. If
it benefits other people, I really can put down my selfish
desires, or things like that. Do something. Actions speak louder
than words. Everyone knows. Ah! Just talk! That's why I
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became Master and you are students; because you talk, you think, but
you don't do anything. That's the difference between us,
nothing else. You have the same brain, same Buddha power, same
God, same Father, same freedom to move, same body -- some are
bigger -- same will power, except I exercise my
will-power's "muscle and you just sit there and read books
about exercising or look at the advertisement of the
muscle-building machine but don't move. I have a lot of
muscle-building apparatus in my house, but I never touch them.
Having muscle-building apparatus in your home doesn't help
anything; never mind, just looking at a picture, thinking
about it, or imagining, "Yeah, yeah. It will do me good." It
will, but it doesn't. It will, but I don't know when.
So everything must be exercised. Must put words into action, must put the ideas into realization. Just dreaming about work doesn't bring you money. Same with ideas, noble purposes, morality, anything. Anything must be practiced everyday. Why do we spend a lot of time exercising muscles and things like that, and we don't spend more time exercising our noble ideas? The latter is even more important.กน |