Feb/Mar Newsletter 2011

TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL - What’s that got to do with Monks, flies, and the Middle East?

The Structure of Energy Healing Febuary/March 2011

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive” Howard Thurman, Theologist Activist

Hi again,

We are frequently advised to ask the universe for what we want. Then to think positively and open ourselves to receive the gifts that will soon be granted by loving universal benefactors.

What I want to know is - are we asking the right questions?

The article in this issue is about a dilemma we may all face at some time, to kill or not to kill; it’s about Monk’s and flies amongst other things.

This month’s book recommendation is ‘The Art of Happiness’

Also I have some questions for you.

Love and blessings

Kay

Contact: kay@kayurlich.com

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CONTENTS:

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Question: What Does A Woman Want?

Recommended Book: The Art of Happiness, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.

Article: To Kill or Not to Kill - What’s that got to do Monks, flies and the Middle East? By Kay Urlich

Workshops: There are no workshops planned until I have finished my third book

Notices: Do you need a great editor for your work, or to advertise your business? See Jenny Hunt

Find Out More About TSOEH: Radio Interview, YouTube, Website details etc…

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Question: What Does a Woman Want? ========================================================================

Would you like to take part in a survey for the new book I am writing? Sigmund Freud asked “In spite of my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer the question ‘”What does a woman want?”’ Can you answer the following questions in two hundred words or less?

1. Men, what do you think women want?

2. Women, what do you want, and are you getting it?

Please send answers to kay@kayurlich.com or PO Box 74482, Greenlane, Auckland 1546, NZ

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RECOMMENDED BOOK: ‘The Art of Happiness’ By His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D. ========================================================================

This is another oldie but goodie, a simple read that explains the workings of the mind to find more peace in our lives

…We focus all our energy on finding the one person who we hope will heal our loneliness yet prop up our illusion that we are still independent. Though this connection is difficult to achieve with even one person, I would find out that the Dalai Lama is capable of and recommends maintaining closeness with as many people as possible. In fact his aim is to connect with everyone…

The psychoanalyst and Social philosopher Erich Fromm claimed that humankind’s most basic fear is the threat of being separated from other humans. He believed that the experience of separateness first encountered in infancy, is the source of all anxiety in human life. John Bowlby agreed, citing a good deal of experimental evidence and research to support the idea… He felt that separation and interpersonal loss are at the very roots of the human experience of fear, sadness and sorrow…

… The Dalai Lama is well known for taking this connection much further and including all of the environment in his quest for ‘ultimate happiness’. The kind of happiness that is stable and persistent. A state of happiness that remains despite life’s ups and downs and normal fluctuations of mood, as part of the very matrix of our being… an attitude of moving toward rather that moving away, an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it. The underlying sense of moving toward happiness can have a very profound effect, it makes us more receptive, more open, to the joy of living… Excerpts from the Art of Happiness

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ARTICLE: TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL - What’s that got to do with Monks, flies, and the Middle East? By Kay Urlich ========================================================================

WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET RID OF FLIES?

I do my best to love all creatures, but I don’t love flies! Buzzing around my head and over my legs when I’m trying to read, crawling all over the food when I’m trying to eat, leaving germs and deposits everywhere they go that could seriously affect my health.

I’ve tried to eradicate flies without harming myself or my family. Therefore I seldom use sprays and insect repellents; I do my best to squash them with a fly swatter. Whether I spray, stomp or squash flies, however I do it, it feels right. I am more than happy to exterminate flies.

My happiness at having a fly free home however is fleeting, because very quickly my mind is invaded by an army of guilty thoughts; these thoughts torment me with the story of the Buddhist Monks who in their loving kindness, scrambled over themselves to save a lone fly that had fallen into someone’s cup of tea.

“Why do you think only of yourself, why can’t you be more loving to all creatures; why can’t you be as loving as a Buddhist Monk?” my accusing mind demands answers even as I raise my arm, my hand gripped tightly around the swatter, to whack at a fly - that sees me coming and casually lifts off from its place on my chair. My intent to be as loving a Buddhist Monk completely evaporates as my desire to eradicate the fly nudges itself fully inflamed to the surface: In a relentless frenzied state with arm still raised, I rise to attack and chase that fly around the room.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARGUMENT AGAINST KILLING FLIES WILL NOT GO AWAY

As my rampage ends, the guilt I feel begins to consume me: night and day, my thoughts are tormenting me worse than the flies ever did. Then to justify my behavior, because in all fairness to my self and anyone else who has ever killed a fly, I know; I talk to my friends and they agree, that its easier for Buddhist Monks to refrain from violence toward flies, because they don’t have the same problems with flies that we have! This is because:

1. Buddhist Monk’s live high in cold mountains where flies are few and far between!

2. Flies do not come in the big swarming masses there, as they do in warmer climates like here!

This sounds like a good argument to me! But my justifications are not working; my troubled, fragmented mind responds of its own volition. I cannot control my own thoughts and I begin to answer my own accusations…

I pray constantly for the universe to ease my troubled mind and to get rid of my problems. Meanwhile, to gain some control and to calm my distressed state, I tell myself – that, I’ve tried hard to catch flies as harmlessly as I do with spiders; by putting a glass jar over them then putting them outside, but they see me coming and fly off just before I get there! ..... I’ve tried throwing a towel over them as I would with a frightened bird, but the flies became squashed anyway!

But nothing relieves me from the ugly truth: nothing can relieve me from the fact that – I am a fly killer!

WHERE HAD I GONE SO WRONG?

With this new realization I began to worry about my eternal damnation. I wonder how I can put things right. I also began to ask myself - where I had gone so wrong - then I remembered a quote by American poet Edward Hodnet who said: If you do not ask the right question you do not get the right answers. A question asked in its right way often points to its own answer

I realized I needed to change the question! Instead of asking ‘What’s the best way to get rid of flies?’ I began to ask:

• Could I possibly, ever, be as loving toward flies as a Buddhist Monk?

• Or, failing that, if I couldn’t love them, could I at least learn to live harmoniously with them?

With teeth grinding and hands now gripping my knees, I try to ignore the flies buzzing around me, while still listening out for the universe to send me my answer. But time stretched and the answer to my dilemma continued to elude me. I was about to give up on my quest for the universe to teach me how to be as thoughtful and kind as a Buddhist Monk and resolve my murderous tendencies, when at last they sent the solution in the form of a child.

THE UNIVERSE REPLIED

It’s a bit like the story you all know about the man whose house was surrounded by flood water. He went onto the roof and prayed for god to save him. A helicopter flew by and the pilot said we will lift you off. Don’t worry, said the man god will save me. Moments later the house broke up and he found himself clinging to a tree. A police boat came by but again he told the police, I’m okay God will save me. Finally, the tree gave way and the man drowned. When he got to heaven he questioned God, “I’m glad to be here, but why didn’t you answer my prayers and save me?” God replied, “I did, I sent you a helicopter, and I sent you a boat …!

A few years ago one of the things I bought my grandson for Xmas was a little fishing net from the $2 shop. As he ran joyfully, swishing it around the room quite by accident he caught a fly. With no harm done, we turned the net inside out and released the fly, to my relief alive into the garden. The answer to my dilemma was right under my nose.

THE WISDOM OF A GENTLE HEART

Chasing flies with a net might sound like hard work to your mind. But amazingly, as I continued to catch flies in this gentle way, a strange thing began to happen – I began to get fewer flies.

The adult mind goes too far when it ignores the simple, innocent answers that the universe sends us; that are right under our nose. Like the man in the flood, real solutions are far closer than we expect, and they can come from a child. I found that my adult mind can save me from falling out the window or getting run over while crossing the road, but its fearful thoughts can seduce me into thinking I must eliminate all my problems, so I can be happy. I’ve found in the long run, that this is not wholly conducive to my mental health.

WHAT GOES ON PERSONALLY, GOES ON GLOBALLY

I’ve also learned that what goes on in our personal environment expands with collusion, into global action: like the people with their personal fears and predatory agendas who got together called themselves Nazi’s and tried to exterminate the Jews. Just as the Jewish and Palestinian peoples cannot eradicate each other, no matter how long and hard they try. None of us can forcibly eliminate our problems; we just cause more misery to our own hearts and minds and prevent the continuation of our own evolution - and this is the legacy we could leave our children.

THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW

The Universe is right here within us and around us, working through us, and by changing the dynamics of our own energy and environment will we see real and permanent change to the age-old problems that have plagued humanity. Like living with flies, those answers are found within consciousness that connects us on much deeper levels to our environment and to the process of our evolution. To create workable evolutionary change now, we need to ask the right questions now, such as:

• Do we want peace and evolution or do we want to be right?

• Do we want safety from warlike technology and pollutants?

• Do we want to pass the legacy of horror, death and destruction to our children and their unborn children and their …?

TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL, THAT IS THE QUESTION

What were once relentless personal and social burdens, not to mention extremely bad for everybody’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, can become peaceful and uniting exercises. It starts with just one party deciding to make the change then Universal Wisdom can work through us in its mysterious, wonderful and magical ways... Gentle, workable answers are then found and new ways forward formed. Asking the right questions means that we can find the right answers that the fearful deluded mind can only dream of. Try it - it works even with flies!

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Read more about the fragmented nature of our mind in ‘The Structure of Energy Healing’ at www.kayurlich.com/thestructureofenergyhealing

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