THE BODY THE SENSES IS MARVELOUS . IT IS THE GREATEST OF MYSTERIES

Be loving towards your body, befriend your body, revere your body, respect your body, take care of your body..... It is "GOD'S GIFT". Treat it well, and it will reveal great mysteries to you. Remember!...

"All growth depends on how you are related to your body."

Don't make enemies with your body, you will destroying the wisdom of the body.

How to attain to this vision?

This is the map to turn you on, and to turn you in, and to turn you beyond.
The first thing is your body. The body is your base, it is your ground, it is where you are grounded. Remember!...

To make you antagonistic towards the body is to destroy you, is to make you schizophrenic, is to make you miserable, is to create hell.

Yes, you are the body... Of course, you are more than the body. That 'more' will follow later on.

"First You Are The Body."

The body is your basic truth, so never against the body. Whenever you are against the body, you are going "against God." Whenever you are disrespectful to your body, "you are losing contact with reality, because your body is your contact. Your body is your bridge."

I teaches reverence for the body, love, respect for the body, gratitude for the body. The body is marvelous... It is the greatest of mysteries. But you have been taught to be against the body. So, sometimes you are over - mystified by the tree, by the green tree - Sometimes mystified by a flower. But never mystified by your own body.

And please note!...

"Your body is the most complex phenomenon in existence."

No flower, no tree has such a beautiful has you have, no moon, no sun, no star has such an evolved mechanism as you have.

But you have been taught to appreciate the flower, which is a simple thing. You have been taught to appreciate a tree, which is a simple thing. You have been taught to appreciate stones, rocks, mountains, rivers, but you have never been taught to respect your own body, never to be mystified by it.

"Yes! It is very close, so it is very easy to forget about it. It is very obvious, so it is easy to neglect it. But this is the most beautiful phenomenon."

If you look at a flower, people will say, "How aesthetic!"
And if you look at a woman's beautiful face or a man's beautiful face, people will say, "This is the lust."

If you go to the tree, and stand there, and look in a dazed state at the flower... Your eyes wide open, your senses wide open to allow the beauty of the flower to enter you - People will think you are a poet or a painter or a mystic.

But if you go to a woman or a man and just stand there with great reverence and respect, and look at the woman with your eyes wide open and your senses drinking the beauty of the woman, the police will catch hold of you. Nobody will say that you are a mystic, a poet, nobody will appreciate what you are doing. Something has gone wrong.

If you go to a stranger on the street and you say, "What beautiful eyes you have?" You will feel embarrassed, he will feel embarrassed. He will not be able to say, "thank you" to you. In fact he will feel offended. He will feel offended, because who are you to interfere in his private life? Who are you to dare?

If you go and touch the tree, the tree feels happy. But if you go and touch a man, he will feel offended. What has gone wrong? Something has been tremendously and very deeply.

I am teaching you to reclaim respect for the body, love for the body, to look at "the body as the greatest creation of God".

Please imbibe! It is really juicy, very alive.
The first thing is to learn respect for the body, to unlearn all the nonsense that has been taught to you about the body. Otherwise you will never turn on, and you will never turn in, and you will never turn beyond.

"Start from the beginning - The body is your beginning".

The body has to be purified of many repressions. The body has become poisoned because you have been against it; You have repressed it in many ways. Your body is existing at the minimum, that's you are miserable.

Please remember! Bliss is possible only when you exist at the optimum - never before it. Bliss is possible only when you live intensely. How can you live intensely if you are against the body?

You are always lukewarm. The fire has cooled down. Down the centuries, the fire has been destroyed. The fire has to be rekindled.

I tell you, first purify the body - purify it of all repressions.
"Allow the body energy to flow, remove the blocks".

It is very difficult to come across a person who has no blocks. It is very difficult to come across a person whose body is not tight... Loosen this tightness... This tension is blocking your energy; The flow cannot be possible with this tension.

Why is everybody so uptight? Why can't you relax? Have you seen a 'cat' sleeping, dozing in the afternoon? How simply and how beautifully the cat relaxes. Can't you relax the same way? You loss and turn in your bed, you can't relax, and the beauty of the cat's relaxation is that it relaxes utterly and yet is perfectly alert. A slight movement in the room and it will open its eyes, it will jump and be ready. It is not that, it is just asleep. The cat's sleep is something to be learnt - Men has forgotten.

I advise you; "Learn from the cats.... How they sleep, how they relax, how they live in a non-tense way. And the whole animal world lives in that non-tense way". Man has to learn this, because man has been conditioned wrongly, man has been programmed wrongly.

"The body has to be befriended".

"Do you ever touch your own body sometimes?"

Do you ever feel your own body or do you remain as if you were encased in a dead thing?

That's what is happening. People are almost frozen; They are carrying the body like a casket. It is heavy, it obstructs, "it does not help you to communicate with reality".

If you allow the electricity of the body flow to move from the toe to the head, if you allow total freedom for its energy... The bioenergy... You will come a river, and you will not feel the body at all. You will feel almost bodiless. Not fighting with the body, you become bodiless.
Please remember!... Fighting with the body, the body becomes a burden. And "carrying your body as a burden," "you can never arrive to 'GOD'."

Your body has a head - But you are in your head too much. Come down to your senses, become more sensitive. When you become more sensitive, you are bridged with reality, you start dancing with reality, a great benediction arises in you. And only then can you say a thank you to GOD, never before it. Only then do you feel how grateful you are, "how much has been given to you and has not even been appreciated by you".

This existence is fantastic, it is marvelous, it is increadibly beautiful. The existence of the body has to be carefully and tenderly fostered, it is a precious gift, a very complicated but well - coordinated machine, given for achieving a laudable task.

I want to tell you that, in fact... Body is solidified mind, and then goes on to say, "To think that somehow we got this human body more as an accident than for a purpose and to think we should feed it with all the pleasures and then let it wither away and die is a great mistake. It is not proper to spend our life in such a thoughtless manner."

Senses can be very dangerous; "They can be like horses running wild".
If you do not use the reins to control them, they will run away with the chariot and go wherever they like.

Take my advice:

"Rein the senses in with the help of your mind." Let your taste, your smell, your sight, your listening, your touch, all the various sense impressions come under control. You must control the outgoing senses. Therefore, "sense-control is an integral part of the path of wisdom."

Please remember!:

"Once your gain full control of the senses, you will easily be able to master the spiritual path".

"Those bound by the senses are destroyed by the senses."

"If you wish to understand your true nature",

You have to do 'three' things:

1. Bend the Body
2. Mend the Senses
3. End the Mind

The 'first step' is to "Bend the Body":

That means, "you should not allow the 'ego' to develop within your body." Cultivate humility, and do your duties sincerely. This is, what is implied in "Bend your Body."

"Mend the Senses" - Calls for "examining how the senses behave," whether they are tending to go astray, and correcting and restraining them when necessary.

"End the Mind" - Calls for "'quietening' the vagaries of the mind" in a different direction.

For example:

There is "a lock and key". "When 'the key' is turned towards the left, the lock gets locked". "If 'the key' is turned towards the right, the lock is opened." Thus 'the key' performs "both function" of "locking and unlocking".

"Thus both detachment and attachment result from the way the mind functions."


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

19 OGOS 2010 (Ramadhan)

Next Topic: 1. "Takut Akan Mati - Merupakan Suatu Kuasa Yang Sangat Ditakuti"

2. "The Scientist And The Saint. Science Are Leading Man Away From Peace. Spirituality Alone Can Give You Enduring Bliss"

MEMAHAMI KONSEP BAI'AH - PERJALANAN DAN SEJARAHNYA

Ada yang bertanya tentang "nilai-nilai orang yang berbaiah"
Walaupun anda yang bertanya, pertanyaan anda sebenarnya "mewakili semua umat Islam yang menganggap dirinya berada di dalam sebuah negara," di antara salah satu negara yang terdapat di peta dunia iaitu Malaysia.

Moral atau nilai-nilai yang mesti ada pada orang-orang yang telah
berbaiah adalah seperti sabda Rasulullah S.A.W:

"Marilah, berbaiahlah kepadaku bahawa kamu tidak akan mensyirikkan Allah
dengan sesuatu pun, tidak mencuri, tidak berzina, tidak membunuh
anak-anak, (tidak minum arak, tidak membawa cerita-cerita fitnah,
berbohong di hadapan atau di belakang kamu, dan tidak mendurhakaiku
dalam kebajikan.)"

Barang siapa yang 'terlanggar' sesuatu daripadanya lalu "dihukum semasa di dunia", maka itu adalah sebagai 'penebusnya'(kiffarah).

Baiah ada peristiwa dan kisahnya. Baiah secara ringkasnya, ia merupakan: "Perjanjian damai atau sumpah setia yang berlaku di antara Nabi Muhammad S.A.W dengan beberapa orang penduduk Yatrib (nama lama Madinah Al-Munawarrah) yang datang menemui baginda di sebuah tempat atau bukit bernama Aqabah". Bukit itu terletak beberapa kilometer di utara Kota Mekah, iaitu berdekatan dengan Mina.

Kita jangan keliru, kerana terdapat sebuah perkampungan di Timur Laut Tebing Barat Palestin, juga dikenali sebagai Aqabah yang telah dirampas daripada penduduk Palestin untuk dijadikan sebuah kem tentera besar oleh rejim Israel.

Sebuah bandar di selatan Jordan juga bernama Aqabah. Di samping kita menyebut Aqabah iaitu perbuatan ibadah haji: "Melontar batu di Jamrah yang ketiga iaitu 'Jamrah Al-Aqabah'".

"PERJANJIAN AQABAH", merupakan perjanjian pertama antara baginda dengan mana-mana pihak, sama ada dari dalam mahupun luar Kota Mekah. Ia melibatkan "satu persefahaman untuk memberi ketaatan kepada Rasulullah".

Namun dari aspek sosial dan politik penduduk Arab, "melakukan perjanjian damai antara kabilah dan sebagainya" adalah biasa dilakukan. Telah menjadi adat dan tradisi, mereka saling menyatakan "sumpah setia kawan" atau "bersahabat baik bagi mencapai pelbagai tujuan dan matlamat tertentu."

Namun yang paling penting...
Kedua-dua belah pihak yang membuat 'perjanjian' ini, "ikhlas untuk berbaiah", iaitu bukan kerana "dipaksa atau sebagainya".

Saudaraku pembaca!..

Namun apapun "perjalanan sejarah" atau "sirah Nabi Muhammad S.A.W", sama ada sukar atau mudah untuk diikut, amat penting untuk kita ketahui. Malah kalau dapat didalami dan dikaji dengan lebih mendalam dan dihayati... Itu adalah lebih baik.

"PERISTIWA PERJANJIAN AQABAH"

Perjanjian Aqabah merupakan susulan selepas "enam orang penduduk Yatrib memeluk Islam pada musim Haji tahun ke 11 Kenabian". Mereka berjanji kepada baginda untuk menyampaikan... risalah Islam di kalangan kaum mereka apabila pulang semula ke Yatrib.

Hasilnya, pada musim Haji berikutnya , iaitu pada musim "Haji Tahun Ke 12 Kenabian", bersamaan Julai 621(M). Datanglah seramai 12 orang lelaki, termasuk 'lima' orang yang menemui baginda sebelum ini.

'Lima' daripada 'tujuh' orang muka baru yang menemui baginda itu terdiri daripada 'suku' atau 'kabilah Al-Khazraj', manakala yang 'dua' lagi 'suku Aus'. Mereka bertemu dengan baginda di 'Bukit Aqabah', bagi "memeterai satu perjanjian" yang dikenali sebagai "PERJANJIAN AQABAH" iaitu, "Baiah Aqabah".

Bahawa Rasulullah bersabda:

"Marilah! 'berbaiahlah kepadaku', bahawa kamu tidak "mensyirikkan Allah" dengan sesuatu pun, tidak mencuri, tidak berzina, tidak membunuh anak-anak kamu, tidak minum arak, tidak membawa cerita-cerita fitnah dari hadapan dan dari belakang kamu, dan tidak menderhakaiku dalam kebajikan."

"Barang siapa yang 'terlanggar' sesuatu daripadanya, lalu dihukum sewaktu di dunia lagi, maka itu adalah sebagai 'penebusnya' (kiffarah)."

Namun, jika sesiapa yang "terlanggar akan perjanjian ini" dengan melakukan perkara yang kita sama-sama "berjanji untuk tidak melakukannya", tetapi "ditutupkan oleh Allah" daripada pengetahuan manusia, maka urusannya "terserah kepada Allah". "Jika 'Dia' mahu, 'Dia' akan menyeksakannya, dan jika 'Dia' mahu, 'Dia' akan mengampunkannya".

Ubadah pun berkata:
"Lalu kami pun membaiahnya atas perkara yang disebutkan oleh Rasulullah itu."

Di antara 'dalil naqli' mengenai 'baiah' yang termaktub di dalam Al-Quran, surah 'Al-Fath, ayat 10', yang berbunyi:

"Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang 'baiah' (berjanji setia, patuh) kepada engkau ya Muhammad, hanya sebenarnya "mereka BAIAH KEPADA ALLAH." Tangan Allah di atas tangan mereka. Barangsiapa yang melanggar baiah itu, maka pelanggarannya itu atas dirinya sendiri, dan barangsiapa yang menyempurnakan (menepati) apa yang telah dijanjikan kepada Allah, maka Allah akan memberikan pahala yang besar kepadanya."

'Baiah' atau "perjanjian taat setia" adalah merupakan "Perjanjian Aqabah", iaitu "Perjanjian Pertama" antara baginda dengan mana-mana pihak, sama ada dari dalam mahu pun luar 'Kota Mekah'. Ia melibatkan satu persefahaman untuk memberi ketaatan kepada Rasulullah."

Namun, yang paling penting, kedua-dua belah pihak yang membuat perjanjian itu mestilah 'IKHLAS' untuk berbaiah, iaitu "bukan kerana 'dipaksa' atau sebagainya."

"Ketaatan adalah terikat dengan hukum syar'i", membuat apa yang disuruh dan meninggalkan apa yang dilarang," seperti firmanNya dalam surah Ali-Imran, ayat 104:

"Hendaklah ada di antara kamu umat yang menyeru kepada kebaikan, menyuruh dengan maaruf (yang baik), dan melarang dari yang mungkar dan mereka itulah orang yang menang."

FirmanNya lagi, surah Ali-Imran, ayat 110:

"Kamu adalah umat yang terbaik dilahirkan untuk manusia, kamu disuruh kepada yang maaruf dan mencegah daripada yang mungkar dan beriman kepada Allah."

Riwayat daripada Abdullah bin Omar:
Ertinya:
"Kami dahulu ketika "membaiah Rasulullah" untuk mendengar dan membaiahnya. Selalu beliau mengatakan kepada kami, FIIMASTATHA (Dalam hal yang dapat kamu kerjakan)".

Riwayat Jarir bin Abdullah:
Ertinya:
"Aku membaiah Nabi S.A.W. Untuk mendengar dan mentaati, seraya beliau menuntutku mengucapkan, FIIMASTATHA'TU (Dalam hal yang dapat aku kerjakan). Juga agar selalu memberi nasihat kepada setiap muslim."

Hadis: H.r. Ahmad:

"Tidak ada (kewajipan) taat dalam melakukan kemaksiatan kepada Yang Maha Pencipta (Allah)".

"Orang-orang yang telah membaiah adalah orang-orang yang memegang amanah dan rahsia."

Seperti firman, Surah Al-Anfal, ayat 27:
Ertinya:
"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, jangan kamu mengkhianati (AMANAH) Allah dan RasulNya dan (janganlah) kamu mengkhianati amanah-amanah kamu. Sedangkan kamu mengetahui (salahnya)."

FirmanNya lagi, Surah An-Nahl, ayat 125:
Ertinya:
"Ajaklah manusia ke jalan Tuhanmu, dengan hikmah dan pengajaran yang baik dan bermujahadahlah dengan mereka, dengan cara yang baik."

Demikian, sedikit ulasan untuk direnungkan bersama, dan banyak lagi ayat-ayat Al-Quran yang menerangkan tentang 'baiah' (janji setia) itu. Jika dipetik dan dipanjanglebarkan, akan hanya jadi bahan bacaan, bukannya amalan.

Kerana pada asas dan dasarnya, "sesiapa saja yang mengaku dirinya Islam secara tulen" dan "setiap kali mereka membaca Al-Quran seluruhnya atau surah Al-Fatihah setiap kali sembahyang, pasti ia terasa sumpah dan janji setianya kepada Allah dan Rasul, sama ada ia berbohong atau sebagainya."

"Di universe ini, benua Islamlah yang paling banyak" (rujuk peta), "mana pergi janji setianya kepada Allah dan Rasul?" Setiap lima waktu, semua umat Islam seluruh dunia menunaikan solat lima waktu, bertakbir ALLAHUAKBAR!.. Allah Maha Besar!.. Itu semua hanya di bibir.

Begitu juga di negara kita yang kecil ini, bergelar Malaysia, lokasinya hanya di penjuru alam. Masjid, surau bertaburan di sana sini. Apa pun di mana pun lokasi masjid atau surau itu berada, ianya mesti menuju ke arah... 'SATU KIBLAT', 'SATU WAKTU', 'TUHAN YANG SATU'. "Bacaan yang sama, tingkah laku yang sama, dalam sembahyang." Di dalam masjid saja "kita merapatkan 'saf', tubuh badan nampak bersatu!... Hati kita tidak pernah hendak bersatu." Ayat-ayat Al-Quran yang diceramah, dikhutbahkan, dingajikan, hanya dikitar-kitar semula... 'parrot like'.

Sidang pembaca yang dikasihi!

"Siapakah yang berani menafikan tulisan saya ini?.." Kecuali 'orang buta' dan 'pekak' saja akan berani mengatakan:

"Bahawa di dunia ini tidak pernah wujud 'cahaya matahari'" (buta).
"Bahawa di dunia ini tidak pernah terdengar wujudnya 'irama' atau 'melodi' menyeru ke 'arah penyatuan'" (pekak).

Tahukah saudaraku yang budiman?

"Apakah yang sedang berlaku terhadap 'umat Islam' di tanah air kita sendiri yang tidak sebesar mana, yang boleh kita banggakan? Apakah yang sedang digelutkan oleh "orang-orang Melayu yang menggelarkan dirinya Islam?" Tuduh-menuduh, fitnah-memfitnah, tomahan, membuka pekung sesama sendiri, cucuk-mencucuk, iri hati, hasad dengki, cemburu, jatuh-menjatuh, tindas-menindas, tamak-haloba, pecah amanah, bercakap bohong, pendusta, tipu-menipu, tidak amanah, mementingkan diri, masalah sosial semakin menjadi-jadi, Melayu semakin miskin dan terpinggir?"

Bukankah mereka itu semua, apabila sampai waktu, akan masuk ke dalam masjid dan bersembahyang, berzikir, bertasbih dan bertahmid?
"Bukankah bertahmid, bertakbir itu suatu janji kita kepada Yang Maha Suci?..." Tetapi mengapakah berlaku sebaliknya?...

Ada kata-kata yang sangat tua mengatakan:

"Di dalam sebuah universe, jika tiada 'Kiblat', maka tidak akan ada Tuhan. Di dalam sebuah benua yang punya negara, negeri, daerah, kampung, jika tiada masjid atau surau, kita boleh gambarkan sosio-masyarakatnya. Sedangkan seluruh negara kita, setiap kampung, bandar, daerah, negeri dan negara, penuh dengan masjid; tetapi semua 'Melayu Islam', keadaan pegangan agamanya 'sudah berkisar', walaupun pangkal tempat bertolak masih tetap di situ juga."


Bagi menjawab soalan seterusnya, daripada Bumi Nan Basah, seperti di bawah:

"Mengapakah Perkara-Perkara Negatif Berlaku Setelah Berbaiah?"

"Apakah Langkah-Langkah Yang Perlu Diambil Untuk Mengatasi Tersebut?"

"Apakah Pengisiannya Bagi Orang-Orang Yang Telah Mengaku Dirinya Dibaiah?"

Untuk makluman Saudara Bumi Nan Basah;

Ini saya perturunkan, "RUKUN BAIAH DAN SASARANNYA", yang sebanyak sedikit dapat menjawab kemusykilan yang terpaku di hati masing-masing.


"SALAM" - "AKAD JANJI SETIA (BAIAH)"

1. "Kehormatan dan maruah sebenar antara kita ahli baiah," terletak dalam genggaman kita masing-masing, iaitu 'bersalam'.

2. Kita "mesti mengharung kegembiraan dan malapetaka bersama." Kita memang saling memerlukan antara satu sama lain, di mana kita boleh saling berkomunikasi "perasaan dan Hati."

3. Sakit pening, kedukaan dan kegembiraan, "janji setia dalam persahabatan," akan membuat kita selalu di samping masing-masing untuk menempuh jalan keras dan sukar yang menanti kita di hadapan.

4. "Sasaran Baiah" adalah "Ke Lubuk Hati", ertinya: "Dari Hati Ke Hati". "Baiah mesti terikat dan diikat di antara 'Dua Hati'" dan memberi kesan yang sangat baik untuk faedah bersama.

5. Apa jua yang akan terhalang, akan dihadapi bersama; Suka duka, untung rugi, "tetap utuh dan teguh dalam apa jua keadaan".

6. Saling tegur-menegur, nasihat-menasihati, sanggup menerima kritikan dan komen, antara satu sama lain, dan juga daripada "orang luar".

7. "Memperbaiki dan ingin memperelok sesuatu", "mesti bermula daripada Diri Sendiri". Teguran dan nasihat mesti terus saja mengalir untuk memperbaiki keadaan.

8. Sentisa saja "berhati-hati dan berwaspada, jangan ada di antara kita tergelincir dari sifat-sifat "ketaatan dan kesetiaan".

9. Mengelak dari"tabiat buruk", suka mementingkan diri, dan mempunyai "niat yang terselindung", yang mempunyai unsur-unsur jahat, seperti "ingin memecah-belahkan jemaah."

10. Saling "memegang amanah", dan meletakkan "pergantungan kasih sayang antara satu sama lain."

11. Tahu menghormati "setia kawan", dan menjaga maruah kawan, emosi dan mentalnya.

12. "Menjauhi perasaan angkuh dan sombong", senda gurau yang melampau dan menyakitkan hati.

13. Ahli 'baiah' bukanlah sebarang kawan yang berkaitan dengan sosial dan status kewangan. Ikatan 'baiah' adalah "Ikatan Dalaman Kerohanian".

14. Perasaan orang-orang yang "telah baiah", dalam janjinya "mesti meresap, dan berfungsi masuk ke pembuluh dan saraf, di setiap sel darah, lalu mampu menyucikan setiap gelombang perasaan."

15. "Tidak ada niat menipu", untuk "orang yang telah berjanji setia" dalam mengangkat martabat persahabatan. Malah "kemuliaan taat setialah" yang dijunjung tinggi.


Disediakan Oleh:
TOK AYAH HJ. A.RAHMAN BIN MAHADI
JOHOR


"MENGAPAKAH RAMAI ORANG-ORANG DI LUAR SANA BERKELAKUAN BURUK SETELAH MENGANGKAT BAIAH?"

Untuk pengetahuan saudara Bumi Nan Basah, bagi 'memahami' definisi 'BAI'AH', adalah merupakan "AKAD PERJANJIAN":

"Sama ada dengan menghulurkan tangan 'bersalam', melalui surat, melalui percakapan, atau sebagainya."

Tetapi 'baiah' yang tidak berlandaskan ajaran Al-Quran atau sunnah dan mengikut sirah; Semuanya adalah "hampa dan terbatal".

Seperti apa yang jelas di negara kita Malaysia sekarang ini. Terdapat kumpulan-kumpulan kecil dengan pelbagai jenama, mereka dikatakan juga sebagai orang-orang yang baiah, kumpulan-kumpulan yang menamakan dirinya seperti: '77' (Double Seven), 'Merah', '360'. Kini timbul pula kumpulan-kumpulan Kucing: Seperti 'Kucing Hitam' atau sebagainya. Memang tidak dinafikan, sesiapa sahaja boleh dengan sewenang-wenangnya mewujudkan apa jua kumpulan.

Seperti kumpulan-kumpulan samseng juga punya jenamanya tersendiri. Tetapi "apakah asas dan tujuannya?"

Kalau yang 'berbaiah' dan 'membaiah', mempunyai ilmu pengetahuan seperti yang disarankan oleh firman Tuhan di dalam surah Al-Fath, ayat 10:

"Mengapa mereka menggelarkan diri atau kumpulan mereka yang tidak termaktub pun di dalam Al-Quran dan Al-Hadis?.." Cuba fikirkan!!!...

Orang-orang yang 'berbaiah' adalah "orang yang ditugaskan" seperti firman Tuhan; Ali-Imran, ayat 104:

"Dan hendaklah ada di kalangan kamu segolongan umat yang menyeru kepada kebajikan dan menyuruh kepada yang makruf dan mencegah daripada yang mungkar, mereka itulah orang-orang yang beruntung."

Tetapi mengapakah berlaku sebaliknya? Sehingga masyarakat di luar sana memandang serong terhadap orang-orang yang sudah berbaiah - Mereka dianggap 'gengstar', 'pemabuk', 'kaki perempuan', 'penarik kereta', 'suka bergaduh', 'bertelingkah, 'bergaduh sesama sendiri', 'membuang masa', 'menyusahkan kerajaan dan pihak keselamatan'.

Kalau pembaca hendak tahu kepada persoalan tersebut:
"Mereka semua telah termakan sumpah oleh sumpahannya sendiri."
Dalam ertikata lain, ada pepatah mengatakan:

"Kalau kita beribadah, kita termakan fitnah oleh amal ibadah kita sendiri."

Mengenai 'kewujudan' yang menggelarkan dirinya; "Ayahanda", "Paduka Ayahanda", di sana sini, macam cendawan tumbuh, tahukah mereka akan fungsi dan natijahnya? Mereka tidak ubah seperti kata pepatah:

"Dalam sebuah kapal, tidak boleh ada banyak 'Nakhoda' (Keptan), tetapi apa sudah jadi; Di sana sini telah wujud banyak 'Keptan'. Maka apakah akan terjadi kepada kelasi-kelasi di dalam kapal tersebut?"

Untuk pengetahuan sesiapa saja yang bergelar "Ayahanda" atau "Khalifah", dari apa kumpulan sekalipun. Sebab itu Nabi melarang terlampau banyak "Khalifah" (Keptan). Seperti apa yang berlaku sekarang ini, di merata pelusuk negara, "tanpa memahami sirah atau cara" mengurus urusan umat.

Oleh itu, Nabi dalam hadisnya, telah menegur untuk umatnya akan datang.
Ertinya:
"Akan muncul banyak "Khalifah" Ayahanda)."

Memang benar pesanan Nabi tersebut - Kini telah wujud "Ayahanda" di sana sini, yang tidak senada dan tidak sekata:

Kita umat Islam, kini hanya tinggal pada namanya saja. Bagaikan "umat yang telah mati", tetapi bangkainya masih ada.

Saya ingin mengingatkan kepada semua "Ayahanda" yang sedia ada, dan yang bakal menjadi "Ayahanda"; "Berhentilah, cukuplah, tidak usah mengeruhkan lagi keadaan umat yang sudah tidak tentu haluan arah perjuangannya. Jadi sajalah umat yang taat kepada hukum dan peraturan."

Jangan nanti akan timbul masalah:

"IMAM SAMA JEMAAH AKAN MENJADI SAMA BANYAK."

Seperti teguran Nabi:
"Di akhir zaman, akan muncul banyak 'Khalifah'."

Kalau kita bernama "Khalifah", bolehlah kita umpamakan:

"Allah telah memberi 'isi', yang 'seumpama telur'. Kalau kita pandai memperkembangkannya, ia akan menjadi orang, dan akan menetaskan 'baka' yang sempurna, dan umat yang baik untuk Agama, Bangsa dan Tanahair."

Jika tidak, "KITALAH YANG BERTANGGUNGJAWAB," kita 'melahirkan' "jentik-jentik" yang bakal menjadi nyamuk, 'menyedut darah' dan "meninggalkan penyakit sosial di dalam masyarakat."

Lahirkanlah mereka umpama "lebah yang menyedut manisan pada bunga,"
yang boleh bertukar menjadi 'penawar' kepada "setiap penyakit".

Kini permasalahan yang sedang kita hadapi bagaikan: "mencampuradukkan -'garam dan gula' di dalam 'satu balang' yang sama." Bagaimanakah rasa agaknya?...


"PERINGATAN KEPADA SEMUA AHLI BAIAH DAN YANG MEMBAIAH"

Peringatan kepada semua "AYAHANDA" yang "menerima baiah daripada ummat", anda adalah selaku 'IMAM' atau 'RA'IN'. 'IMAM' atau "AYAHANDA" mestilah mempunyai "dalil syarak" (As-Siyadah As-Syar'i) - "Kedaulatan Di Tangan Syarak".

Apapun aktiviti yang tidak didukung oleh 'dalil syarak' secara langsung, maka ia "tidak dapat diterima sebagai peraturan."

Untuk menjadi "Ayahanda" (IMAM atau RA'IN), mestilah mempunyai "Tiga Asas Penting". Jika "ketiga-tiga asas" itu "tidak ada pada diri" masing-masing selaku "Ayahanda", "Abang Long", "Abang Ngah", atau "Abang Chik", atau apapun "gelaran Abang"; Maka "struktur jemaah akan hancur", seperti apa yang telah berlaku di hadapan mata kita dewasa ini, yang menggelarkan 'diri mereka' "orang-orang yang telah dibaiah".

1. Islam mengajar, "Kedaulatan Di Tangan Syarak", BUKAN "Di Tangan Manusia". Dengan kata lain, "manusia diperhambakan oleh manusia lain", hukumnya adalah 'HARAM'. Sebab itu, "yang boleh memperhambakan manusia" hanyalah "ALLAH S.W.T."

Justeru, 'As-Siyadah As-Syar'i'- yang menjadi 'pengendali' dan 'penguasa' adalah "HUKUM SYARAK" bukan 'AKAL'. Maka seluruh urusan dikembalikan kepada "Hukum Syarak". Oleh itu, "tidak ada satu masalah pun yang terlepas" daripada "Hukum Syarak".

2. Bahawa sesiapapun akan mempunyai "kedudukan yang sama" di hadapan "Hukum Syarak", sama ada "Khalifah" ataupun 'Ummat', 'Penguasa' (Hakim), mahupun 'rakyatnya' (al-mahkum, dan kerana itu, "tidak ada seseorangpun" yang mempunyai 'Hak Immuniti' (Kekebalan Hukum) dalam "Pentadbiran Islam."

3. Bahawa 'Ketaatan Kepada "KHALIFAH" (Imam)' adalah "terikat dengan Hukum Syarak", dan BUKAN "ketaatan secara mutlak".
'Ummat' atau 'ahli baiah' hanya 'diwajibkan' untuk "taat kepada "Khalifah" apabila "ia melaksanakan 'Hukum Syarak'".
Seperti yang dinyatakan oleh 'Nas berikut':

'Tidak ada (kewajipan)' 'taat' dalam 'melakukan kemaksiatan' kepada "YANG MAHA PENCIPTA (ALLAH)."

Diingatkan: Jika terdapat "Ayahanda", "Paduka Ayahanda", "Abang-Abang", yang 'pemabuk', 'tidak sembahyang' 'kaki judi', 'pembuang masa', 'merompak', 'menyamun', 'memeras ugut', 'berantai leher', 'bergelang tangan', atau apa saja 'kemungkaran': Saya menasihatkan 'ahli jemaah' yang bergelar 'adik-beradik', jauhkanlah diri masing-masing agar 'tidak terjebak' di dalam "Kemurkaan Tuhan".

Seperti Hadis H.R Ahmad:

"Tidak ada (kewajipan) taat dalam melakukan kemaksiatan kepada "Yang Maha Pencipta (Allah)".


"SILA PANJANGKAN KEPADA 'SEMUA JEMAAH' DI SELURUH NEGARA, UNTUK RENUNGAN DAN PERINGATAN!!!"...



From Empty Hands,
A.RAHMAN BIN MAHADI
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

18 OGOS 2010 (Ramadhan)

Next Topic: 1. "The Body The Senses Is Marvelous. It Is The Greatest Of Mysteries"

2. "Takut Akan Mati - Merupakan Suatu Kuasa Yang Sangat Ditakuti"

WHEN YOU LOOK INTO THE NATURE OF DISIRE

Whenever you desire something, you become tense. The desire creates disturbance. Whenever you desire something, of course, you desire in the future. In the present, how can you desire? There is not enough space for a desire to exist in the future.

Desiring can only be concerned with something in the future, with something which is not here. That which is here cannot be desired. You can be delight in it, you can dance it, but you cannot desire it.

We turn everything into a goal. Put anything into the mind; It immediattely reduces it into a goal and the problem arises immediately. And then the mind asks, "How?" How to achieve this, how to get it, how to become it? Again you are on the tracks; Again you have missed.

Look into your desiring. Understand your desire and the futility of it. Look deeply into it, penetrate deeply into it, and that very penetration will help - "desire disappears".

When you can see the total futility of desire, you will ask how to drop it? If you see the totality of it, it drops by itself. You go on asking how, because you still want to cling. You still want to postpone it. You still think there must be something in it. "Maybe I am missing, maybe I am not making right efforts, maybe I am not moving in the right direction - But there is something."... You are still hoping.

When "you look into the nature of desire" :

You will understand that it is like a horizon. It appears far away, there. Go, move - it moves with you. When you reach the point where you were thinking that the earth meets the sky, it is not meeting there. Again, at the same farther distance, the horizon exists. Again move - The horizon moves with you. The distance between you and the horizon remains constantly the same.

If you look into desire, it is simple to see. If you meditate on desire, this is a fact; This is not a theory about desire.

Suppose you have ten thousand dollars, the mind asks for twenty thousand dollars. The mind says; "Unless you have twenty thousand dollars, how can you live happily? It is impossible." You can get twenty thousand dollars. You will waste a long time for it; One day you will get it. By the time you have got twenty thousand dollars, the desire has gone further away. Now it asks for fourty thousands dollars.

By the time you attain to twenty thousand dollars, you have become more addicted to comforts; Now more comforts are needed - Now "the old house looks small, the old car looks an insult; It has to be dropped. A new car is needed. By the time you reach fourty thousand line, the horizon has gone further away - It demands eighty thousand. It goes on doubting. The distance remains the same."

Please imbibe:
Between the desire and the fulfillment, the distance remains the same. It never changes, not even for a single inch. "The beggar and the empror are always in the same plight".

If you look at the distance between their desire and fulfillment, "you will see they are sailing in the same boat."

Once understood desire drops by itself, on its own accord. Not that you drop it - So the question of "how?" never arises. And when desire drops, "there is desirelessness". Not that you have to make efforts for it to be there; Not that you have to work hard to gain desirelessness. It is not a goal.

Please remember!

"When desires disappear... The absence of desire is desirelessness."

Let me say it in another way. Ordinarily whenever the word
'desirelessness' is used, you think it is against desire. It is not.
'Desirelessness' is 'not the opposite of 'desire'. Desirelessness is simply the absence of desire, not the opposite. If it is the opposite, then it can become the goal. It is not the opposite, you cannot make it a goal out of it.

'Love' is 'not opposite to hate', if love is opposite to hate, in that love, hate will go on continuing, an undercurrent of hatred will go on flowing. The authentic love is not opposite to hate.

'Compassion' is 'not against anger'. When anger disappears, compassion is. Compassion is not to be fought for; It is not against passion. When passion disappears, compassion is. Compassion is your nature.

A desiring mind is a tense mind. A seeking mind is not at rest. A desiring mind is not at home.... Always wandering, wandering, going somewhere.

If I come to you, do you think I will find you there? You may be somewhere else. You are always somewhere else. Wherever you seem to be, you are not there. If you are sitting in the mosque, Temple or Church, your appearence only in the mosque... But you may be in the market, you may be in the shop or in the office or in the factory. When you are sitting in your office or in your shop, only your appearence is there - You appear to be there. Your mind may be anywhere; The world is so vast.

When I talk about desirement, I am simply stating a fact about your being. I am not giving you a goal to be desired. Please understand...

"Your treasure is with you. Your treasure is already within you. So, put aside your desirement."

Do not go after wealth and possession, my friends! With good sense, control your desire. What you get is the result of your actions?

It is natural in daily life to have a desire for certain necessities and comforts. Among the necessities for daily living.
There are most essential:
"Food for sustenance, garments to wear and shelter for dwelling."

The desire for these is natural for men. Even in this there are two kinds of desires:

One is natural. The other is excessive and misdirected desire.
"I want a house," is a legitimate desire and one should seek it. But it is greedy to possess two or more houses.

Today greed is more prevalent among men than desire for necessities. With the result that man is afflicted with grief and worry. He has become a stranger to contentment. He is steeped in discontent on account of insatiable desires.

The other meaning of the 'world desire is 'thirst'. Whenever one is thirsty, one has to drink water. When will this thirst end? Thirst will not end as long as life lasts. Even at the moment of death people feel thirsty.

How is the thirst (for material things) to be quenched? It is possible through the flux of time to get rid of iron shackles when they get rusty, but it is not easy to get rid of desire.

"Desire is the cause of limitless desires."

If desires are fulfilled, one's ego gets inflated. If they are not realized hatred develops.

Please note:

"The wealth will not accompany us when we give up the body", and please remember!

"If wealth is lost, it can be regained."
"If strength is lost, it may be recovered."
"But life is lost it, cannot be got back."

"Man today is trying to master every kind of knowledge, but unable to discover his own true nature." By conquering the worlds are may become the supreme sovereign over them. But one who has mastered his senses, is supreme over all rulers. He is the King of Kings, the Kingmaker.

If you are a slave of desire, you are the slave of the world. If you have conquered desire.... The world will be at your feet.



From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

14 OGOS 2010 (Ramadhan)
Next Topic: 1. "Memahami Konsep Bai'ah - Perjalanan Dan Sejarahnya"

2. "The Body The Senses Is Marvelous. It Is The Greatest Of Mysteries"

MENGENAI PUASA DAN PEMAKANAN

Saudara pembaca yang budiman lagi dikasihi!

Cuba renung dan nilai 'diri sendiri', mengenai "puasa dan pemakanan". Jika kita 'orang Islam', pastinya menjelang Ramadhan, kita 'diwajibkan berpuasa'.
Mengikut sebuah hadis mengenai 'pahala puasa', adalah datangnya "terus dari Allah". Ertinya "tidak ada perantara". Tetapi pahala yang layak baginya adalah "yang berpuasa KERANA ALLAH..." Bukan "kerana lapar dan makanan".

Ertinya: Kita "diuji nafsu" - "Kuat mengingat makan, dengan kuat mengingat Tuhan". Mana lebih kuat?.. Jawapannya ada pada pengamal-pengamalnya sendiri.

Mari kita kongsi pandangan mengenainya:

Kita boleh perhati - Orang-orang yang berpuasa "sekadar percaya dan mengikut-ikut," pasti godaan mengingat makan lebih kuat tarikannya daripada yang berpuasa Kerana Allah. Maka ramailah yang hidupnya berpura-pura. Ada orang cerewet tentang makan, apa yang perlu dan apa yang tidak perlu dimakan. Seolah-olah itulah saja perkara penting dalam hidup ini.

Saudaraku!

Cubalah "berpuasa tiga hari" saja. Cuba fikir apakah yang akan masuk ke akal itu?... Kita akan terus saja 'mengingat makan' terus menerus. 'Puasa' membuat orang "tergoda kuat untuk makan". Macam mana kita boleh menang untuk "mengingat Tuhan". "Tuhan bukan makanan".

Memahami pemakanan kita adalah bagus, kalau kita benar-benar hendak makan. Belajarlah makan secara betul. Pilihlah makanan yang betul, pada masa yang sesuai dan betul. Pilihlah makanan yang sesuai untuk tubuh badan itu, "makanan apa yang subur dan menyegarkan".

Percayakah anda, kalau saya katakan makanlah 'ice-cream' banyak-banyak... Cara begitu pun boleh kita berpuasa, kerana 'ice-cream' adalah sejenis makanan yang tidak sesuai dan tidak menyuburkan. Samalah seperti kita menyumbat sesuatu yang kotor atau busuk ke dalam perut kita... Ia tidak memuas dan mengenyangkan.

Dalam ertikata lain:

"Ia memenuhi perut kita... Tetapi ia tidak memuaskan kita."

Makanan yang salah, tidak akan membuat kita puas. Kelaparan kita tidak akan berasa puas. Kerana "kelaparan memerlukan pemupukan dan kesuburan"...Bukannya makanan.

Ingat!... "Kelaparan adalah untuk kesuburan, bukannya apa yang kita makan!"

Dan kelaparan pula tidak peduli soal 'rasa'... pokoknya, sama ada ia sesuai atau tidak untuk tubuh badan itu, sama ada makanan kita itu memberi tenaga kepada tubuh badan atau tidak. Jika ia memberi tenaga kepada tubuh badan, maka ianya okay!...

Bila 'rasa' pula seiring dengan 'kesuburan', pasti ia memberi kepuasan yang amat. Saya selaku penulis pula, tidak menentang 'rasa'. saya gemar segala-galanya, tetapi 'berprinsip'. Kalau sekadar 'rasa' saja, ia tidak memupuk kesuburan. Jika makanan pula, tanpa rasa, tidaklah bijak, bodoh!..

Jika kita ada kedua-duanya,... Kenapa tidak?
Orang-orang yang bijak, akan memilih 'yang seimbang dan menyuburkan', yang sedap-sedap itu tidak menjadi persoalan besar. Manusia boleh saja pergi ke bulan, tetapi tidak boleh mencari makanan yang subur untuk dirinya.

Manusia telah melakukan pelbagai keajaiban, tetapi tidak pernah puas dan memuaskan kelaparannya.

Ada ramai orang percaya dan kuat berpuasa - secara melampau dan merosakkan tubuh badannya dengan menyumbat pelbagai makanan, tanpa pertimbangan.

"Orang yang berpuasa adalah orang yang berlapar, ia sama seperti di dalam sebuah sampan yang sama... Ia berpuasa dan ia juga tergoda dengan makanan, dalam waktu yang sama".

Orang yang berpuasa, kalau 'kerana berlapar, dahaga dan makanan semata-mata, pastinya bila ia ke Pasar Ramadhan, ada pepatah mengatakan:

"MATANYA AKAN LEBIH BESAR DARIPADA PERUT"

Itu dinamakan "puasa kerana nafsu", "tidak kerana ALLAH".


"SELAMAT BERPUASA!"


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

12 OGOS 2010 (Ramadhan)

Next Topic: 1. "When You Look Into The Nature Of Desire"

2. "Memahami Konsep Bai'ah - Perjalanan Dan Sejarahnya"

SEDIKIT NASIHAT - BAGAIMANA INGIN JADI MURID KEPADA GURU KETUHANAN

Setiap 'Murid' adalah... 'Soalan'
Setiap 'Guru' adalah.... 'Jawapan'
Setiap 'Murid' adalah... 'Kegelapan'
Setiap 'Guru' adalah.... 'Cahaya'

Bagaimanakah ingin jadi seorang 'murid'? Apakah perlunya ingin menjadi seorang murid? Adakah kita merasakan hidup ini sudah tidak bermakna dan bererti lagi? Atau kita memerlukan sesuatu yang sangat berguna dan bermanfaat? Adakah kita merasakan hidup ini sudah hampa, bosan, dan kosong, lalu kita memerlukan pengisian?

Atau adakah "kita merasakan kita hidup di dalam kegelapan dan dirasakan sudahlah sampai masanya kita mesti berada di dalam cahaya?"

Sudaraku yang dikasihi!

Semuanya itu terpulang kepada kita. Jika kita rasa hidup ini sudah memenuhi apa yang kita kehendaki, jika kita rasa kita tidak kehilangan apa-apa... tidaklah perlu kita menjadi murid kepada sesiapa. Apa perlunya guru dan kenapa perlu bersusah payah mencari dan ingin tahu?

Tetapi saudaraku!..

Jika dirasakan diri itu 'jahil', 'kekosongan', 'tidak berguna', 'hampa', 'sentiasa cemas', 'gelisah', 'sentiasa takut', 'bingung', 'sengsara', dan 'kegelapan'... Dan jika dirasakan 'seluruh hidup ini' sentiasa 'menyulit dan menyusahkan'... Maka jika dirasakan kita perlu 'mencari guru'dan 'ingin menjadi murid'... itu semua sangatlah mudah.

Tugas kita hanya perlu mencari dan menghubungi seseorang yang benar-benar sudah 'terisi', seseorang yang tidak lagi 'ketinggalan soalan'... Cuma yang ada padanya adalah 'jawapan'. Itulah yang dimaksudkan...

"Murid Adalah... Soalan"
"Guru adalah... Jawapan"

Untuk pengetahuan saudara pembaca, saya selaku pengkaji sejak puluhan tahun, ditanya sama ada syarat-syarat tertentu untuk menjadi seorang 'murid' atau 'pengikut'... Jawapan saya: Adalah "tidak perlu"... "Tidak ada syarat" yang dikenakan. Sebaliknya, mereka ditolong untuk "menggugurkan beban-beban berat" yang tidak perlu dan tidak penting di dalam otaknya agar bertambah ringan dari masa ke semasa.

Jika kita ingin mencari seseorang untuk kita 'jadikan Guru', mudah saja. Kita cuma perlu tahu "apa yang kita cari",dan kita mesti "ada pemahaman", dan kita sendiri "mesti rasa selesa".Dan orang yang hendak kita jadikan 'Guru' adalah "orang yang tidak membebankan kita". Ia menyenangkan kita, tanpa meletakkan apa-apa syarat... Lazimnya, 'dia' adalah orang-orang yang "Arif Ketuhanan".

Bila kita berhadapan dengan orang-orang Ketuhanan, kita rasa ghairah "ingin tahu!" "Ingin tahu lagi!"Sehingga kita dapat rasa kita "disinari kegemilangan"...di hadapannya. Kita dapat merasakan 'ketenangan', 'kesenyapan', "menyelinap masuk ke dalam diri kita."


Kita pula berlapang dadalah dan bukalah 'hati' itu kepadanya. Kita tidak akan rugi apa-apa, kecuali kita "kehilangan beban-beban masalah" yang dipikul ke sana ke mari selama ini.

Dalam konteks inilah, kalau seseorang benar-benar berjumpa dengan 'Guru Ketuhanan', ia sangat-sangatlah menarik, ia sangat-sangatlah 'indah'. Ingat! Kata-kata ini:

"Kita tidak hilang dan merugi apa-apa, kecuali kita kehilangan
beban-beban berat, seperti 'dukacita', 'permasalahan' dan lain-lain".

Tetapi kita semua terus saja menyembunyikan masalah. Pergi cari 'guru' tersebut, yang 'di matanya' ada sedikit 'cahaya' yang melampaui "kegelapan kejahilan".

"Teruskan Mencari Guru Ketuhanan!"Selamat berjaya menjumpainya.


From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

11 OGOS 2010

Next Topic: "Mengenai Puasa dan Pemakanan"

GUNAKANLAH LIMA PANCAINDERA SECARA BETUL DAN BIJAKSANA

'TUBUH BADAN'kita terjadi dan terbina daripada 'empat anasir', iaitu 'Tanah', 'Api', 'Angin' dan 'Air', dan ia pasti akan 'hancur' suatu hari nanti. Justeru, janganlah disalahgunakan tubuh badan, gunakanlah ia bagi tujuan yang berguna dan suci.

Tubuh badan kita itu banyak 'pintu'. Tetapi 'pintu deria'
kita seperti; 'Telinga, Mata, Mulut, Hidung, dan Kulit(sentuhan)', sangatlah penting. Jangan dibiarkan ia dimasuki oleh segala 'kejahatan' ke dalam 'tubuh badan dan akal', melalui pintu-pintu tersebut.

Keselamatan dan kesucian 'lima deria' dan 'tubuh badan' itu bergantung kepada kita manusia selaku 'penggunanya'. Di dalam dunia ini, kita manusia 'terikat dengan tindakan dan perilakunya'. Kita tidak boleh hidup tanpa tindakan. Biarlah segala perilaku dan tindakan kita itu merupakan 'ibadah kepada Tuhan'.

Tubuh badan yang dicipta itu adalah bertujuan untuk digunakan bagi "berkhidmat dan berbakti untuk masyarakat"... Kerana setiap individu pada dirinya "ada hak masyarakat", bukannya untuk 'kepentingan diri'.

Bercakap mengenai '5 deria' yang dimiliki oleh setiap individu, perlu kita semua ketahui bahawa ia merupakan ... "pintu pengertian dan penyengutuan", dan ia juga merupakan "tingkap ke alam realiti".

"Apakah MATA itu?"
"Apakah TELINGA itu?"
"Apakah MULUT itu?"
"Apakah HIDUNG itu?"
"Apakah SENTUHAN itu?"

Semuanya itu merupakan "pintu atau tingkap" untuk "menuju ke alam realiti".

Contoh:
Kalau kita betul-betul tahu dan pandai menjaga kesuciannya - MATA, contohnya - Kita akan dapat 'melihat' apa yang tidak dapat dilihat oleh orang lain. TELINGA, - Kita akan dapat
'mendengar' apa yang tidak didengari oleh orang lain. Demikianlah deria yang lain-lain itu.

Justeru, janganlah kita berjalan dengan 'mata' yang 'tertutup'... Lihatlah dan pandanglah betul-betul. Mata atau telinga, janganlah ia dirosakkan, kerana apa yang dilihat atau didengar, semuanya "tersirat rahsia ketuhanan"yang sangat halus.

Bunyi-bunyi burung juga merupakan 'zikirullah'. Pokok-pokok juga menyampaikan 'khutbah' secara senyap. Banyak lagi yang bersifat 'ghaib', yang tidak kita ketahui kerana semua 'deria' kita telah 'tercemar'. Justeru, jika kita tidak punya 'sensitiviti', mana mungkin kita tahu "Keagongan Tuhan?"

Untuk mencapai tahap 'kesucian' dalam 'memandang', 'menghidu', 'merasa', dan 'menyentuh' - semuanya perlu 'dijaga' dan 'dikawal', kerana; Sekali lagi saya ingatkan bahawa "kesemua deria itu adalah merupakan TINGKAP atau PINTU ke alam pengertian yang sangat dalam".

Kerana 'kejahilan' kita itu, maka deria kita itu telah membuat kita menjadi bosan, GUGURKAN 'kebosanan' begitu. 'Suci' dan 'bersihkanlah' ia.

Semua deria kita itu adalah umpama 'CERMIN' yang berkabus, berdebu dan berhabuk. Maka semua itu perlu 'dibersihkan'. Jika kita sudah benar-benar dapat membersihkannya, maka:

"Sentuhlah apa saja secara total sehingga kita benar-benar meyakini yang kita sentuh, pandang, dengar, hidu, dan rasa - semuanya bertukar menjadi IBADAH".

Sentuhan, penghiduan, rasa, lihat dan dengar - jika dihayati secara sesungguhnya, ia... "punya bahasanya yang tersendiri", dan ia perlu dipelajari bahasa itu. Kerana, masyarakat di sekeliling kita masa kini 'jahil' tentang 'bahasa' tersebut, dan telah
'melupakannya'.

Setiap kanak-kanak dilahirkan dengan 'derianya' yang sangat indah. Perhatikan kanak-kanak kecil - bila ia 'melihat' sesuatu. Ia benar-benar 'menyerap' dan 'melekakan'; bila ia bermain-main dengan anak-anak patung, ia benar-benar menyerap, leka dan terpaku.
Dalam erti kata lain:

Bila ia 'melihat', ia benar-benar menjadi 'MATA';
Bila ia 'mendengar', ia benar-benar menjadi 'TELINGA';
Bila ia 'makan' sesuatu, ia benar-benar 'berada di lidahnya' - "ia jadi 'perasa' itu sendiri".

Lihat bila ia memakan buah epal, dengan penuh semangat dan kesungguhan! Dengan penuh tenaga! Lihat juga bila ia berlari ke sana ke mari dengan penuh keseronokan dan kesungguhan... Tanpa usaha dan disuruh.

Perhatikan juga bila ia bermain di pantai - mengutip siput-siput, cengkerang, seolah-olah ia mengutip 'berlian'. Semua padanya sangat 'bernilai', apabila derianya benar-benar hidup. Semuanya kelihatan jelas dan terang. Ingat! Semuanya akan kelihatan telus, jelas, dan terang, apabila deria kita itu benar-benar 'hidup'.

Tetapi tidak lama selepas itu, budak yang sama seperti kita semua, apabila membesar; bila kita melihat realiti alam yang sama, seolah-olah kita dilindungi oleh cermin yang sangat gelap, banyak debu dan habuk berkumpul di permukaan cermin. Kita 'terselindung' dan 'terhijab' oleh debu-debu tersebut. Kerana itu semuanyalah, apa jua yang terlihat dan dilihat menjadi beban kebosanan, bosan, bosan dan mati.

Bila kita melihat pokok-pokok itu kelihatan membosankan, kerana mata kita itu telah bosan.

Bila kita mendengar bunyi muzik atau nyanyian, tiada tarikan langsung kerana telinga kita telah bosan. Kita langsung tidak tahu hendak menilai dan menghargai; kerana 'kebijaksanaan' kita itu juga telah bosan.

Saudaraku pembaca yang budiman lagi dikasihi!

Buatlah 'penebusan semula' terhadap 'bahasa deria' yang telah lama kita lupakan; boleh dikatakan 99% di antara kita mengalami sindrom seumpama itu. Malah boleh dikatakan 'jahil' langsung, suatu cara atau teknik yang mudah bagi kita memenuhi 'sunnah' agama dengan mendalami dan menghalusi fungsi-fungsi deria.

Berilah masa, jika kita ada masa. Selalulah berada di dalam 'deria kita'masing-masing.

Contoh:

Kalau makan; jangan makan begitu saja. Cubalah belajar bahasa yang telah lama kita lupakan, atau memang kita tidak tahu langsung bahawa pada makanan yang sedang kita makan itu 'ada bahasanya' yang tersendiri. Ianya adalah 'bahasa rasa' dan 'sentuhan'.

Sentuhlah roti tersebut, rasakanlah 'texture'nya, jalinan adunan, rupa, warna dan asal usul roti tersebut. Rasa dan nikmatilah dengan mata yang luas terbuka dan rasakanlah juga dengan mata yang tertutup.

Semasa mengunyah makanan, kunyahlah semampu selama yang mungkin agar dapat membantu usus mengeluarkan kadar asid yang sepatutnya dan memudahkan penghadaman. Ingat! Ada kata-kata yang sangat tua mengkhabarkan:

"Seseorang yang tidak mengunyah dengan betul makanannya,
merasa dengan betul makanannya, dikatakan mereka tidak
menghormati makanan yang dimakannya. Kerana setiap kunyahan
adalah dianggap ibadah. Dan dari kunyahan tersebut akan terbit
dan membangkitkan kesedaran baru di dalam diri seseorang."

Sentuhan seperti bersalam, bersalamlah sebanyak yang mungkin. Ada orang tidak suka bersalam dan disentuh. Ia mudah rasa tersinggung dan mengundurkan diri bila seseorang itu datang manghampirinya. Seolah-olah kita buat sempadan untuk kita. Kita tidak mahu menyentuh dan disentuh, jauh sekali memeluk, kerana kita tidak suka atau sebagainya. Itu semua kerana kita sudah hilang 'deria sentuhan'.

Pergi mendekati sepohon pokok, sentuh pokok itu. Sentuhlah batu-batan itu, pergilah ke sungai-sungai, letakkan tangan kita di air yang sedang mengalir. Rasakan air tersebut sebagaimana... ikan-ikan menikmatinya. Saya nasihatkan!.. Jangan lepaskan peluang untuk menghidupkan semula kelima-lima deria kita masing-masing.

Ada 'seribu satu cara' , ada 'seribu satu peluang', untuk kita dalam tempoh 'dua puluh empat jam'.

Dalam ertikata lain:

"Sehari suntuk itu adalah tempat melatih sensitiviti kita masing-masing."

Gunakanlah segala peluang tersebut, sedang kita bersiram di dalam bilik air - ambil peluang tersebut!.. Rasa dan nikmati sentuhan air yang jatuh ke atas badan kita. Baringlah di pantai, di padang, rasakan bumi tempat kita berbaring itu, lihatlah dada langit yang terbentang luas itu dengan pancaran matahari yang sedang menyimbahkan cahayanya di seluruh pelusuk dunia yang asalnya gelap gelita tanpanya. Rasakan pasir-pasir halus di pantai, yang menyentuh badan kita, dengarkan bunyi-bunyi pasir tersebut. Dengarlah bunyi ombak-ombak kecil dan besar.

Gunakanlah setiap peluang, peluang yang tidak akan dapat kita 'rasa', 'pandang', 'hidu', 'dengar' dan 'sentuh', bila "nyawa sudah bercerai daripada badan".

Nanti barulah kita tahu dan pelajari bahawa "wujud bahasa deria".Itu pun hanya boleh kita faham bila tubuh badan itu benar-benar hidup dan seluruh deria kita dapat merasainya.

Nasihat saya:

"Bebaskanlah diri itu dari tabiat lama; Tabiat itulah 'punca atau akar umbi kepada kebosanan'. Cari cara baru seperti yang telah saya terangkan di atas tadi. 'Ciptalah suatu kasih sayang yang baru', secara meluas dan mendalam. Tetapi kita manusia memang penakut untuk mencuba sesuatu yang baharu."

"Selamat Membaca, Merenung dan Memikir!"


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

4 JULY 2010

Next Topic: 1. "The Body The Senses Is Marvelous. It Is The Greatest Of Mystries"
2. "Sedikit Nasihat Bagaimana Ingin Jadi Murid Kepada Guru Ketuhanan"

CIVILIZATION HAS NOT HAPPENED YET - HYPOCRISY OF A BARBAROUS SOCIETY

When a bad man gets educated, he gets immersed in disputation and education itself gets polluted. Education wealth and strength are necessary for everyone. But the value of each of them depends on the way you use it. When a good man gets the benefit of education, it ripens into... 'Wisdom' and makes his life an ideal one. When a good man gets wealth, it is used for charity and righteous causes.

He redeems his life by sacrifice. But wealth in the hands of a bad person promotes arrogance and pride and ultimately causes its downfall.
Strength in a good man enables him to help the weak and serve the society. Strength in a wicked person encourages him to cause harm to people and harass the weak. Thus education, wealth and physical prowess derive their value from the way they are used.

It is only when the individual is transformed and becomes good that society can be changed for better. So, men must engage themselves in a constant process... of 'self-correction'. Instead of seeking to find faults in others. If instead of searching for a hundred faults in others, one corrects any one of his own fault, he would be sanctifying his life.

Once, somebody asked me; "What do you think of civilization?"
I said; "It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality."

Civilization has not happened yet. It is a dream of the future.

So, the first thing I want you to understand is that we are still... Barbarous! Only barbarians can do things that we have been doing for thousands of years - not human being. In three thousand years, five thousand wars... and you call man civilized?

And man's weakness is that knowing perfectly well there exists no such thing as civilization. Still he starts believing in all the lies that the politicians have been speaking and preaching, the educationists have been teaching - because it seem simpler to just believe, you don't have to do anything for it.

Millions of people have lived and died believing that civilization has happened. One of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is that we are living in a hypocrite society.

The people who have been for thousands of years in power - the politicians, the super - rich, they have all the powers to prevent human evolution. But the best way to prevent it is to convince man.

"You are already civilized, to convince man. You are already human being. You need not go through a transformation, it is unnecessary."

Exactly in the middle of twentieth century - Adolf Hitler was produce, Josef Stalin was produce and others, like Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, and still you believe man is civilized?

Adolf Hitler alone killed... Six million human beings, and killed with great sophistication. Science and technology have been used. One million Jews have been simply burned in gas chambers - within seconds thousands of people are nothing but smoke going out of the chimneys. He killed so many people that it was impossible to give each person the conventional grave.

Man has never been so poor - even beggars have graves, but he had killed so many people that to make graves for all of them... the whole of Germany would have become a graveyard.

So he had deep ditches prepared, and people were simply thrown into the ditches and covered with mud. Before throwing their bodies in the ditches, he destroyed even those dead peoples' dignity. Their clothes were taken away; their heads; their beards; their moustaches were shaved, so you could not recognize the face of the the person.

Their heads were cut off; So you would find somewhere the head and somewhere the hand and somewhere the leg and somewhere the remaining parts of the body. And thousands of people - it was impossible to figure out who you were looking for.

Why did he do that? So that nobody could be recognized. Even if somebody was found dead, he could not be recognized; he did not even have his whole body... and you say that man is civilized?

"Preparing for The Third World War - the last."

Seeing the Second World War, one would have thought that just a little intelligence is needed and the Second World War should be the last world war - seeing "what man himself has been doing to man." But no, we are preparing for the Third World War - and that the last.

Albert Einstein was asked, "Can you say something about what is going to happen in the Third World War?"

And Einstein said, "Excuse me, I cannot say anything about the Third World War, but I can say something about the fourth."

The questioner could not believe it. He said,
"You cannot say something about the third - and it is so complicated - yet you are ready to say something about the fourth, which will be even more complicated!"

Albert Einstein said,
"You don't understand, I can say something definitively, categorically, about the fourth. And that is that the fourth is never going to happen, because the third will destroy all life - not only human beings, roses too. All that is living will disappear from the earth."

"And you say that humanity has become civilized?"

No, you have been deceived and this declaration of human rights by the United Nations is nothing but the same hypocrisy.

Politicians... They are the cause of all the wars, they are the cause of all kinds of violence happening all over the world. These politicians all over the world are articulate, clever, cunning... mostly coming from the legal profession. This what I call a bad man gets educated, he gets immersed in disputations and education itself gets polluted. They are saying there should be no discrimination between man and woman, between black and white. Between races, religions, political ideologies, there should no discrimination.

And who is making the discrimination?
These are the same people who are making the declaration of human rights. They have been the parasites, and it is hilarious that all these parasites are now declaring human rights. This is a deception. It is not meant; What they are saying they don't mean. It is just to give you an idea that you are equal to everybody, you are a brother everybody, that you have all the human rights.

But I know - all these human rights are just hypocrisies.

When gun are answers, then you can be certain civilization is far away. On the surface man has become civilized, but deep in the darker parts of his unconsciousness, he is still... Barbarous.

In these fifty years we have done more barbarous acts than in the whole history of man. In the thousand years we have not been able to do so many barbarous activities as we have done just within fifty years. We are becoming more and more barbarous - of course with a style and method.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - What do you think? Are these barbarous acts, or an effort to send the beautiful people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima directly to paradise together?

More than two hundred thousand people died within three minutes and the man whose order killed them, slept very 'peacefully' as he had never slept before. And if this is the situation of President True man. 'True-man' then what about the people who are not such true men?

As far as I am concerned, civilization is still a dream, a hope, a utopia.

Most people are not born with a conscience. You can watch small children, if they see an ant, they will kill it. Do you think the small child has some conscience? Do you think the small is a criminal? A murder? No, nothing like that.

It is just out of curiosity, he just exploring his world. He has entered into a new world, and he is exploring it. But there is no question of conscience. He does not feel that when he has been beating a dog for no reason,... the dog also feel pain.

Children don't have any conscience, they have only seeds.

But all the politicians are trying to convince humanity.
"You have a conscience. No, you don't have. More than two hundred thousand people died within three minutes... And the politicians are trying to convince humanity. You have a conscience."

These people don't understand what conscience is. They have learned only words.

Politicians always use beautiful words which influence you and deceive you... And hide the reality.

People talk about civilization, and we talk about humanity, and still seventy per cent (70%)of our income goes into killing. Adolf Hitler has written in his autobiography that if you want to remain in power, keep people always afraid. And he is absolutely right. Sometimes mad people are also right.

"DEMOCRACY HAS FAILED"

Now we have seen the whole world getting addicted to the idea of democracy. But democracy has not solved any problems; it has increased the problem.

Democracy means government by the people, of the people - but it is only in words. If a big country have nine hundred million people, how can nine hundred million people have power? They have to delegate the power to somebody. So it is not the people who rule, but the people who are chosen by them. What are your grounds for choosing? How do you manage to chose? Have you been trained educated for a democratic life? No, nothing has been done.

The ignorant masses can be exploited very easily by insignificant things. That's why my idea is that the days of democracy are over.

To all readers, I hope you all go on continuing breathing. I hope... it is time that man should become more conscious on a worldwide scale - nothing can save humanity from the destruction of the Third World War, that is looming darker every day on the horizon.

Naturally in war, love is no use, truth is of no use, beauty is of no use, aesthetic sensibility is no use. In war, you need a heart which is more stony than stones. In war, you need simply hate, anger, madness to destroy. In three thousand years, man has fought five thousand wars. Yes, this is strength but not worthy of human beings. This is strength derived from our animal inheritance.

But, now things have come to a peak. Man is falling apart. Things have come to such a point that either man has to change totally and change his vision of life... or has to commit suicide... We are all on the verge of committing a global suicide. And that's what your world political leaders are trying to do:

"Preparing atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, super hydrogen bombs - piling up bombs, one after another".

They already have too many!... They are ready to destroy this earth seven times... "Although a person dies only once!..." You need not kill him twice, that will be unnecessary... "But in case somebody survives"politicians has to take care - they plan perfectly.

Do you realized? Now, you will be surprised;

"They can destroy this earth 700 times - each single person can be killed 700 times!!!..."

This is too much, and absolutely unnecessary.

Seven is okay - There are a few cunning people who may not die. But 700 times? The race continues. Even poor countries are joining the race, hankering to join it - Starving, but more power to fill and destroy.

Millions of people have been murdered, butchered, burned alive in the name of religion, in the name of 'GOD', in the name of freedom, in the name of democracy, in the name of communism - 'beautiful names'. But what has happened behind those beautiful names is so ugly that one day man is going to look at history as if it were the history of insanity, "the history of a.. Barbarous Society".
Not of a sane humanity.

"Civilization has not happen yet."

Man is a machine, that's why. Man, as he is, is utterly unconscious. He is nothing but his habits, the sum total of his habits.

Man is a robot. Man is not yet man; unless consciousness enters into your being, you will remain a machine. I believe it shocked many people, but I am saying the truth.

It is very rare that you are conscious. In your whole fifty years' life, if you live the ordinary so-called life, you will know even seven moments of awareness in your entire life. And even if you know those seven moments, or less, they will be only accidental. For example, you may know a moment of awareness, if somebody suddenly comes and puts a revolver on your heart. In that moment, your thinking, your habitual thinking, stops.

For a moment, you become aware, because it is so dangerous, you cannot remain ordinarily asleep. In some dangerous situation, you become aware. Otherwise, you remain fast asleep. You are perfectly skilful at doing your things mechanically.

Just stand by the side of the road and watch people, and you will be able to see that they are all walking in their sleep... All are sleepwalkers, somnambulists... and so are you!..

Man is an animal too - as much of an animal as any other. But when I say that man is an animal, I don't mean that man finishes with animality; He can be more than the animal, he can be less also. That is the glory of man, the freedom and the danger, the agony and the ectasy. A man can be far lower than animals, and a man can be far higher.

A dog is a dog; He remains a dog. He is born a dog and will die a dog. A man can be become a saint, and can become an Adolf Hitler too. So, man is very open-ended on both sides - he can fall back.

Can you find any animal more dangerous than man, more mad than man?

"Just think of a scene": 50,000 monkeys sitting in a stadium killing small children - throwing them into a fire. What will you think about them?

Thousand of children are being thrown into a fire... A great fire is burning just in the middle of the stadium, and 50,000 monkeys enjoying, dancing, and children are being thrown - their own children. What will you think about these monkeys? will you not think that the monkeys have gone mad? "But this has happened in humanity."

In Carthage, it happened: 50,000 men burning children. They burnt 300 children at one time as an offering to their God... Their own children!!!

Forget about Carthage, it is long past. What did Adolf Hitler do in this century? Of course, this is a far advanced century, so Adolf Hitler was capable of doing greater thing than Carthage.

He killed millions of Jews, thousands at a time would be forced into a chamber and gassed. And hundred of people would be looking from the outside... Watching through one way mirrors. What will you think about these people? What type of men? People being gassed, burnt, evoporated, and others are watching? Can you think about animals doing such thing?

During 3,000 years, man has been through 4,000 wars - killing and killing and killing. Animal have never done anything more 'animalistic' than man. And you think man is not an animal? And you think man has civilized.

Man is an animal. And the idea that man is not an animal, is one of the hindrances for your growth. So when you take it for granted that you are not animals, you stop growing. The first recognition has to be this: "I am an animal and I have to be alert and go beyond it!"

The politicians all over the world, go on giving you hope that soon there will be no poverty - and poverty goes on growing. It is not decreasing, it is increasing.

In Ethiopia, thousands of people are dying every day. And you will be surprised, in America, there are half a million people who are suffering from overeating, obesity; They go on becoming fatter and fatter. In Ethiopia, people are shrinking, starving and dying. In America, people are dying from overeating. In Ethiopia, they are dying because they have nothing to eat!

Do you think this world that we have created is sane?

There are country that is going to face. The same fate as Ethiopia soon - and the government is selling wheat, exporting wheat to the outside world. Their own people are going to die - not in small numbers. Fifty per-cent of this country is just in the boderline, any moment it can become a bigger Ethiopia.

But the political leaders are selling wheat to other countries because they want nuclear plants, atomic energy, so that they can also compete in the foolish race that is going on.

Do you see on your generals, many coloured stripes? What kind of stupidity is this? Those stripes go on growing as the generals goes on killing. Those generals, they don't look foolish - they are respected, they are great heroes, and what have they done? They have murdered many people of other country. The murderes are rewarded. Have you seen any society rewarding its lovers?

Right now, twenty, thirty, fifty or seventy percent of the national income of every country goes to the army, and the rest of the country lives on thirty percent. On the other hand, we are creating great armies and on the other hand, we are killing human beings through starvation. And these armies are doing nothing. They are simply professional killers, professional criminals, trained criminals. We are giving them training in how to kill.

And we talk about humanity, we talk about civilization, and still, forty, fifty or seventy per cent of our income goes into killing.

All readers! Please bear in mind, one of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is what we are living in a hypocrite society.

Once a great philosoper was asked:
"What do you think of civilization?"

The philosoper said, "It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality. Civilization has not happened, it is a dream of the future."

But the people who are in power-politically, socially- are in power, because civilization has not happened. The people who have been for thousands of years in power-the politicians, the super-rich, they have all the powers to prevent human evolution. But the best way to prevent it is to convince man. "You are already civilized; to convince man. You are already a human being. You need not go through a transformation, it is unnecessary."

And man's weakness is that knowing perfectly well there exists no such thing as civilization, there exists no such thing as human sensivity, still starts believing in all the lies that the politicians have been speaking, the preacher, the educationists have been teaching- because it seem simpler to just believe, you don't have to do anything for it.

Truth makes you utterly naked- naked of all lies, naked of all hypocrisies. That's why nobody wants truth; everybody believes that he has
got it.

Millions of people have lived and died believing that civilization has happened. So the first thing I want you to understand is that we are... "Still barbarous".

Only barbarions can do things that we have been doing for thousands of years - Not human being. In three thousands years, five thousand wars... And you call man civilized?

Seeing the Second World War, one would have thought that just a little intelligence is needed and the Second World War should be last world war - Seeing what man himself has been doing to man. But no, we are preparing for the Third World War - and the last. About the Fourth World War is never going to heppen. Because the Third World War will destroy all life, not only human being, roses too. All that is living will disappear from the earth. And you say that humanity has become civilized?

No, you have been deceived and this declaration of human rights by the United Nation is nothing, but the same hypocrisy.

Unless we recognize the uniqueness of each individuals, there are not going to be any human rights, and there is not going to be a civilized world - human, loving, rejoicing.

In the declaration of human rights, they emphasized the fact again and again, that you should love all human beings; you are all brothers. But have you ever seen brothers being in love? Have you ever seen brothers being friends? The way brothers fight, nobody fights.

And just saying,"You are brothers," does not make it a reality. These people who declared these human rights - what authority have they got? Who are they?

Politicians... and they are the cause of all the wars, they are the cause of all kinds of violence happening all over the world: Do you see the politics behind it? Politicians are very, very cunning. They don't want to be controversial, so they say only things which you like or everybody is going to like. They are not concerned with the actual situation, and the changes it need. Their whole effort is in how to make you happy just "giving you bogus words".

Nowhere in the world are any of the basic rights being applied. On the surface, man has become civilized, but deep in the darker parts of his unconsciousness he is still barbarous.

We are becoming more and more barbarous - of cause with a style and method.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - what do you think? Are these barbarous acts, or an effort to send the beautiful people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima directly to paradise together? Whole cities, more than two hundred thousand people, entered within five minutes. I don't think there was such a crowd at the gates of paradise. Man is not important... but money.

They had put so much money and energy and genius into creating atom bombs, they wanted to try them.
Man is not important, but money...

And you say that because of barbarous acts, the civilized people feel a prick of conscience. Was President Truman a civilized man or not? Even his people who understand military science had told him that dropping the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was absolutely meaningless, unnecessarily destroying human life. But he went ahead.

As far as I am concerned, civilization is still a dream, a hope, a utopia.

The Third World War is coming closer, and I want you to become aware that this earth is not going to live for long.

If this becomes an awarness in you, it will be a transforming force. And if millions of people are transformed in this way, "this earth may be saved" - but that will be just a payoff, a consequence.

"I am not desiring that the world should be saved. It such a stupid world, it is such a stupid humanity - If it is gone, it is good! I am not very much interested in saving this stupid lot. They have lived here for millions of years and they have proved only a burden and a corruption, they have polluted everything."

Thr Third World War "is coming closer everyday", because Russia is preparing, China is preparing, America is preparing, India is preparing, even small countries is preparing.

They go on piling up atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, super nuclear bombs!.. Death bombs.

And they go on inventing new ways of killing humanity instantly. So it is a very - very real danger. Why not use it as a device? It can shake you up, it can wake you up. Please imbibe.

To all the scientists all over the world - Science is confined to the head, reasons, logic. The heart is confined to feeling, emotions, sensitivities. Don't denying the 'soul', please understand a little bit of the heart. Even greatest Scientist falls in love.

"What is the physics behind it?"
"What is the chemistry behind it?"

Please move from... thinking... into feeling. I would like all scientists to listen to the heart. That would change the very character of science. It wouldn't be in the service of death, you are wise enough.

You can transform poison into medicine. And if you are foolish even medicine can be dengerous, it can become poison.

The perfect man will create a perfect world. Don't be in the service of death, don't create more destructive weapons be in the service of life.

It would creates better roses, more fragrant roses; it would create better plants, better animal, better birds, better human beings. But the ultimate goal is move feeling to being.

And if a scientist is capable of using head as far as the objective world is concerned, using his heart as far as the interpersonal world is concerned, and using his being as far as existence is concerned, than you are a perfect man.

"VISION OF THE NEW MAN"

My vision of the new man is of a perfect man; perfect in the sense that all his three dimensions are functioning without contradicting each other. But, on the contrary complementing each other.

My approach is that all these three centres should be functioning in every person, because;

"Even a single individual is a world unto himself and these centres
are in the individual, not in society; hence my focus is on the person".

If I can change the individual, sooner or later, the world is to follow. It will have to follow, because it will see the beauty of the new man, with tremendous relaxation for his head. And the new man is not only of the heart, there are moments when he drops even deeper and simply is. The source of your very centre of your life. To touch it, to be there is to be rejuvenated. All the energies of your heart and of your head will be tremendously multiplied because you will be getting newer, energy every day... every moment.

Do you know that, what is reported, right now , even a great scientist like... 'Albert Einstein' uses only 15 per cent of his potential. So, what can one say about ordinary people?

They never go beyond 3 to 5 percent. If all the three centres are functioning together, man will be able to function totally, 100 per cent. We all can create a paradise in this universe.

It is in our hands. Just a little effort, a little courage and nothing more is needed.

The world has to be scientific for all technologies, for all comfort. The world has to be peotic, otherwise man becomes just a robot.

The head is a computer. Without poetry and music and dance and song.
"What your head does can be done by a computer far more efficiently and infallibly."

The heart is a totally different dimension - of experiencing beauty, love and expressing it. But that is not all. "Unless you reach to your very centre'. You will remain discontented. And a discontented man is dangerous because he will do anything to get rid of his discontentment.

So, the first thing I want you as readers to understand is that we are still barbarous. Only barbarians can do things that we have been doing for thousands of years - not human beings.

Just follow your nature:

"Each generation destroys the other. Unless somebody very alert, aware. The destruction is bound to happen."

Please response and share your views. Please forward to all mankind - kindman.


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

24 JULY 2010

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