The three keys to life

Ever wonder why the simple task of living has to be so incredibly hard at times? Who hasn’t? In this regard, the world is fair. Unrelentingly, it offers us all circumstances both bitter and sweet. No one is exempt: no, not one. Millionaire, pauper, dancer, fairy queen, at times, all are bestowed moments of happiness and at times, moments of pain. How a person responds to life’s mammoth swings of up and down is a different matter. Some folks are perpetual optimists and some are just the opposite—they wouldn’t recognize a winning lotto ticket if it were pasted on their nose. 

Although the frantic pace of modern society has made the goals of health, peace, happiness and abundance even more elusive for most of the world, there are timeless answers to all of life’s many difficulties and challenges—answers still lying in wait for all to discover and apply. In fact, there are three such answers—just three. With them, all the goals and wishes of every human may be fulfilled. Without them, life is much as we find it: a chaos and a shambles; a disgrace to God and to humanity; as a species, we all try again and again but stumble and bruise much more than we succeed in our endeavors for wealth and joy.

It is true that humans are capable of much that is noble and good and that many work hard to help themselves, their communities and their world. Nevertheless, history’s track record of endless war, starvation, bestiality, confusion and despair for vast numbers of people bespeaks something else. Simply, a way of living that allows unspeakable horror to descend upon the innocent and deserving alike is no way of living at all.

Perhaps, in earlier ages we could have pointed to the heavens and blamed the world or the gods. Before the advent of technology, humankind was literally too poor to meet even the basic needs of its members. But now? In this world of incredible scientific feat, where supercomputers blaze and cell phones blare, we have all the knowledge and potential wealth required to literally make the world a haven of peace and beauty for every single person and being on the planet. This is fact not fiction. Now, it is collective human choice that limits our potentials as a world society.

You surely have heard that if all the moneys spent on arms were used for humanitarian purposes every person on earth could get several thousand dollars in her or his pocket? That’s a lot of pocket change. If these resources were used for health, economic and ecological concerns we all could quit the jobs we hate and do something really fun and meaningful while still making an honorable wage. The world does not need to be push and shove and struggle to meet the next bill. Even if you are well off yourself, what about your neighbors? What about the rest of humanity?

In fact, these days the problem is not that humanity is too poor; the problem is that it is getting too rich, much too rich to know what to do with all the wealth. That is, scientific knowledge amasses at escapingly exponential rates—rates far too fast for humans to sift through in order to adequately comprehend the implications, potentials and pitfalls of new technologies before they are deployed for profit by businesses. Not surprisingly then, disasters in genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, ecology and general health are just around the corner for all of us—effects occurring now or predicted to occur within a handful of decades. In short, as a whole, we humans have well and truly forgotten that actually we are in control of our destiny and not the mind-bending technologies that we create. 

With such a tumult of information and activity it may seem hard to believe that three simple ideas have the power to counter all the problems we face on the planet today. But it’s true and what’s nice about this is that although they have been around in one format or another for thousands of years, these powerful concepts are now increasingly being investigated and verified by scientific researchers. So these timeless truths can be repackaged for our age in terms of ideas which we can more easily understand and use.

The three ideas are based upon the power of mind that we all can access if we only learn how to do so. As documented by thousands of years of spiritual literature and now mostly confirmed by scientific research, humans have mental capabilities far exceeding what is commonly believed to be true.  And with a little effort and persistence, you can start to prove this for yourself. In the process of doing so, you will find many of your big problems start to get a lot smaller. In fact, it would be a good bet that if you work with even a few of the ideas and techniques presented in this book, you will find yourself in a different world altogether—one that is much more suited to your liking. Although these may seem like large claims, they are not.

These three keys (ideas) discussed in these pages incorporate techniques for mental control and personal development drawn from traditional spiritual practices such as meditation and from research findings in energy medicine, mental health and quantum systems. Taken together, these traditional and modern approaches provide incredibly powerful yet safe avenues for taking charge of your personal affairs. And, as we will see later, taking charge of your own life has both physical and energetic effects on your environment.

It is not an exaggeration that if you and enough of your friends and colleagues start to use these three ideas regularly, you can literally help to short-circuit society’s current downward spiral towards chaos. Not a bad side effect from working to get your own life in order, is it? Remember, the three truths are fact not fiction. And they are yours, if only you will ask for them and then spend some effort to make them yours. With the knowledge and skills explained in this book, you can change your life and your world forever for the better. And then you can share what you have learned and experienced with others—all those you know and care about. The world can be helped and changed for the better. But it begins with you. 

So what are these three truths that help to solve the riddles and challenges of mortal life? The first one is pretty easy: Be happy. That’s it. Everyone knows how to do that. The rub comes when there’s a goal that is not so easily obtained. Then people generally get grumpy and even discouraged. Sound familiar? We all do it at times. However, with some patience and focused determination people we can often get what we are after. Is there an easier way than struggling, maybe for years, to achieve some goal or desired end? Surprisingly, sometimes there is. Sometimes, goals can be achieved much sooner than expected or allowed for. Almost as if magicians we can manifest our desires in show-stopping ways.

What’s next? Yep. Help others. The Sevā page earlier covered this in detail. Scouts honor, crafting this into your life begins the spiritual path in earnest. Why? Spirit means community; the greater the spirit, the greater the community. Given this, what kind of group do you think the Divine might indicate? Uh huh. So, if you sincerely want to deepen your knowledge and connect with the higher realms, there’s only one way in: expand your concerns to larger and larger chunks of change. Become interested in the large and the small. It all matters to those higher up the ladder.

And, finally, a no-brainer. Meditate more. The punchline here? Lots more. Lots and lots more. But take it in your stride. Just like cultivating a garden or flower patch: add and refine on a regular basis. Then pause and reflect. And adjust, if needed. Then repeat, again and again. Forever, in fact: until the show on this earthly plane passes and you find your way to a better abode with better company and a better suit of cloths. Even the food is better! Why not?