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    The Power of Character: Transcending Thought
    The Power of Character: Transcending Thought
    The Power of Character: Transcending Thought
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    The Power of Character: Transcending Thought

    By Chris Dhladhla

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    Take a deep look into your life and see whether you are truly gratified with yourself. If you are tired of searching for happiness, a place to belong to or philosophies and dogmas to adopt, then you are ready to transcend your ego. A blissful, joyful, and successful life is what should be your everyday function – it should come naturally to you. Ascend past your ego mind and experience real power by exploring the illuminating infinite presence we call life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Dhladhla
    Release dateMar 19, 2018
    ISBN9781386045434
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      The Power of Character - Chris Dhladhla

      Chris Dhladhla

      The Power of Character

      Chris Dhladhla

      While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

      The Power of Character

      Second Edition. March 2018.

      Copyright © 2018 Chris Dhladhla.

      ISBN 10: 1986660923

      ISBN 13: 978 - 1986660921

      Written by Chris Dhladhla

      Published in the United States by Createspace

      Text by Chris Dhladhla

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      The Power of Character

      Content

      Chapter 1: Character in your Life

      Chapter 2: Character in the World

      Chapter 3: Character in your Relationships

      Chapter 4: Character in Leadership

      Chapter 5: Character in Failure and Success

      Chapter 6: Character in Being

      Chapter 7: Character in Spiritual Enlightenment

      Chapter 1

      Character In Your Life

      Chapter 1

      Character In Your Life

      ‘‘Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.’’ ~ Lao Tzu

      The power of character continues from the power of the now moment material, which is the first book of the three in a series called transcending thought.

      The focus here is on the basis of character and frame of mind.

      This is no food for thought material. It’s a material that becomes your life partner, as you go deep in who you are.

      Words are nothing but pointers. But the words in the material rest on you in how you receive them.

      They can remain words when you are thinking, but can become life changing instruments when you receive this moment as is.

      Let’s continue from the power of the now moment.

      We want to be accustomed to character but we are not even closer to the core. What is character? What is the function of character?

      We went to a nearby place around where Chris lives.

      There, look at that statue, he said. During day or night it is there, compare it and it never changes, convince it to be modified to the worldly petty creations and it won’t, echo your philosophies on it and it is there convicted of character.

      When you are not familiar with character, your life becomes a flood of the burdening ego, you change as your thoughts change, and settle for the mind fragments.

      One thing humanity has been in a tug of struggle with is change and how character manifests in that change.

      Form doesn’t really stay the same for much longer.

      A lot of what you have and see is changing.

      When you resist change, you lag behind. You can’t wear the same clothes you wear during winter when it’s spring and summer seasons.

      You have to move along. You have to keep on keeping on.

      But the change on the outside has nothing to do with the inside. You change your clothes, but you are still the same within, wearing the changeless character garment.

      Character stays the same regardless of the outside change and the inside of the forever changing thoughts.

      Jesus used to sit down with sinners, drunkards and tax collectors, did he change? He would always be the same wherever he was.

      People distance themselves from a range of people who are considered to be in contradiction with their culture, tradition, religious beliefs, different mind sets and doctrines.

      They don’t want to be connected to them.

      You fear to live when you are reputation conscious.

      ‘What would it look like if I’m seen with those likes, what are they going to say if I’m associated with that, your ego thinks, and now you start to think to yourself.’   

      Reputation has to do with appearance. It has a strong hold on how you look like, what you believe in, what you want to be known as, and how you present yourself to people.

      One wrong move, choice, or decision, your whole world comes crashing down.

      Celebrities who are always involved in drugs, alcohol abuse, sex scandals, fraud, learn the hard way that reputation is a flickering flame.

      Don’t make the expensive mistake that people make every day in their lives.

      Instead, know this, whatsoever you have, it may be money, possessions, affluence, but it’s a VEIL (Vulnerable, Endangered, Impermanent and Limited) appearance covering your enormous power.

      When you are focused on the top, you are drilling a hole to the bottom. A grave is dug from the top all the way down.

      Character is the ground that underpins what you build on.

      This is the one power that doesn’t change, turn into ashes, can’t be bought, won’t run away from you, and won’t collapse in front of you.

      When you are thought conscious, you become attached to the world of form.

      How you are perceived becomes important than who you are, your outside beauty takes precedent than your inner beauty of being, possessions and pleasure are a priority than your purpose and present now when you are the mind resident.

      With this preconception, you begin first with what comes last.

      The extremes of pleasure, the pursuit of power, happiness, relationships, are from the parasitic mind that slowly drains you dry of life.

      What is last to character is first to the mind: rank, material worth, sensory pleasures.

      What is last to the mind is first to character: grace, peace, purpose, fulfilled life.

      A tree grows from the ground up, grows branches and produces fruit. It doesn’t start with the fruit without forming the changeless roots.

      That same tree will live longer than the fruit it bears.

      The fruit, what you enjoy now, comes and goes but the tree is deep rooted in the ground – that’s where character is.

      When you believe in your thoughts, you define a lot of things. You think when you own, have, or find yourself in a positional influence you are living ‘life’.

      The things that come and go are a rain drop in the ocean.

      Your entire life is ingrained in what has been here, in what is here now and always will be.

      It’s in what has been here before you took your first breath and would still be here long after you are gone.

      Life is undefined, you should learn to accept what is as is, and move with the going.

      ***

      We are trapped in the illusion of being happy. Why is it significant to grasp reality than to chase the scraps of happiness?

      The universal currency you can have is the essence of understanding.

      Without knowing the distinction, between reality and appearance, you dangle and bungle in the ego illusory ways.

      Once, a child closed a door and could no longer open.

      She made a fuss on shutting the door and was let alone.  

      After realising what she had done, she started to be theatrical to open the door again.

      You have also closed the door to reality and now you’re going around the circles of delusion trying to open what you have closed, by your own doing.

      When mind is shouting with thoughts, awareness is still, it doesn’t argue or resist what the mind wants to do.

      When you open the door, there’s no coming back to the mind crumbs. There are infinite possibilities outlying the confined mind. But you will always be entombed in the mind with thought, if you keep at it.

      What are you to do? You have to disengage from your mind to understand reality and use the mind to achieve, but first, you also have to be backed by understanding.  

      The hindrance to you is in the middle. You don’t understand that you only achieve what you will momentarily lose and reality can’t be achieved and neither can be lost – it is eternal.

      If you don’t understand, you evacuate from being in the middle, and produce a long movie titled, ‘the pursuit of the impermanent: how to stay unfulfilled.’

      The pursuit of the impermanent is draining. It’s governed by the law of duration. You get the luxury yacht, car or dream house you yearn for, but you will also be met with the reality of transiency.

      Thereafter you begin to want, work hard, and achieve again, they’re short lived – the discontentment is the ego wall keeping you in from opening the door to reality.

      When you eat, the food gets eliminated. It doesn’t last longer until you are famished again.

      The mind needs to achieve what is outside to feel full and important. Food is taken from the outside to make you full on the inside.

      The mind is also empty inside and needs the outside impermanence to make it full, atleast for a while.

      WARNING: There’s a thin line between success and slavery.

      When you are a dreamer and believe you are a ‘great’ thinker, who’s on an achieving trip, you are a slave, and you don’t even know.

      Success is transcending the mind mode of wanting and needing, it is having but also being free from getting attached to what you have.

      You should learn from lottery winners. Studies show that more than 70% of winners go bankrupt within five years.

      They hit the ‘jackpot’ and are insolvent later on.

      You can have what you will have but success and slavery are two different things.

      Gamblers are big whales in casinos, as they call them, but why do they keep going back if they are so big?

      Why would you be a winner and still return and eventually lose all that you have? Gamblers, like other addicts, are not free from slavery.

      It will be greater for you to mine the mind.

      The mind must be mined. How? You stand and stay in the middle. You become conscious of its activity.

      In a mine, you won’t find gold, rough diamonds, or minerals lying around on the top. You have to go deeper to find them.

      When you do this, you will find that the mind is creative when you use it. But it becomes cunning when it uses you, then you become a slave – all in the veil of what you think is success.

      Ancient artists Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Da Vinci were creative when mind was calm.

      If mind is noisy and nosy, you make a mess of what you do. You won’t get anything done when the mind is unsettled. It has to be settled down and only then can you mine to bring out the hidden gems of the mind.

      If you don’t mine the mind, you become a slave and a servant of the ego.

      ***

      A man during an interview was asked, what’s it like living your dream? It’s a

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