WWBD? (What would Buddha do?)
I love Buddha. I smile every time I read that name or think of him. When my kids were little we used to rub their little heads (instead of their tummy) and I would say, "Rub a baby's head for good luck!" and they would giggle.
I recently ran across this quote and wanted to share it with you:
Ananda said: "Friendship with what is lovely, association with what is lovely, intimacy with what is lovely--that is half of the holy life."
The Buddha responded: "Don't say that, Ananda. It's the whole not the half of the holy life. One so blessed with what is lovely will develop a right way of being, a thinking that no longer grasps at what is untrue, an aim that is concerned and ready, a contemplation that is unattached and free. Association with what is lovely is the whole of the holy life."
-Samyutta Nikaya
From "The Pocket Buddha Reader," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston,
When we work on raising our spiritual vibrations we are doing as Buddha said:
One so blessed with what is lovely will develop a right way of being, a thinking that no longer grasps at what is untrue, an aim that is concerned and ready, a contemplation that is unattached and free. Association with what is lovely is the whole of the holy life."
We all are blessed all the time, and seeing that is "developing a right way of being". We don't grasp the untrue aspects of the negative vibrations because we have chosen not to make them part of our individual reality. We aim to let Spirit know our desires and then we let go of HOW it happens and we live our life naturally expecting those things to happen at some time.
I know that some may think that manifesting is all about "stuff", but when we focus on that, we lose sight of the REAL meaning of manifesting. The stuff may be the by-product, but the real gift is our soul's movement closer to Spirit. When we align ourselves with positive vibrations and train our minds to think in that direction, the motivation becomes a moot topic.
In the end, we may end up with a fancy car, but the real gift is feeling the soft kiss Spirit lays on our cheeks and hearing the faint whisper spoken softly in our ear.