Do you know things created at least twice? Aeroplane is 'created' first in the engineers' mind before it is translated into technical drawings, moke up samples and then an aeroplane in the hangar. What ever you do, you do it twice, in your mind and then your physicals.
Your heart controls how will you do it like a QC department. Simply shown like this:
Ok then, if I have a poisonous heart. I have to filter what my heart says before I manifest it to others. It makes my manifestation (actions, words) unpoisonous, good.
Some people define the filter as hypocrisy.
It is ‘I am being what I am not’.
They suggest that the filtered-values is not me, the “heart” above is the real me. The hypocrisy creates stress. I am looked happy outside, inside I am not, I say good things from my mouth, but I say bad thing in my head priorly. Everything is filtered, I am a hypocrite.
"Jangan hipokritlah” said my friend.
So, I said, my friend is right. I just need to be myself. I delete the hypocrisy or i.e principles that I don’t like. The diagram becomes like this:
I have become a short minded, quick mouth, everything is about me, I don’t care about others.
*Take note the shape of the boxes.
Dulu cakap berlapik, sekarang sound direct jer.
Ada teman saya yg dulu bertudung tapi sekarang tidak, dia ckp “I just want to be myself”. Maknanya yg difahami, dulu dia bertudung bersebab, kerana org kerana sesuatu, kerana dia orang Islam, kerana prinsip-prinsip yg terpaksa dipatuhi. Jauh di sudut hatinya, dia tidak mahu pakai tudung.
Look,
This is wrong;
It is wrong because you think the “heart” in diagram above is your true values. That's why you think you should manifest the values without being priorly screened or filtered. No filter means no stress like free flowing river. This is my true self, you said. So, no filter, I just need to manifest them as how they are, this is what I am.
But I want to tell you, if by being yourself to ease your own feeling at the expense of others', no, it is not like you.
However, to attach to principles, it hurts you. Why?
Because some principles sometimes don't entertain you. That's why you deleted them. And I want you to aware that these principles concern others of your same kind, human, which sometimes due to certain situations they require you to sacrifice your own indulgence for others' indulgence, give up a small thing for a bigger thing.
While the principles that you keep concern only yourself and will always entertain you. [self-centered paradigm]
So, on top of the principles, who can tell you which principle is right, which is wrong?
Is Islam right? is rukun negara right? is the constitution right? All people in the world can advise you that one principle is right, but as long as your heart refuse to accept it, the principle for you is wrong. How many muslim declare that they are muslim, but actually they are not. They seem to accept Islam principles but deep in their heart they actually refuse.
Solat is wajib, if people ask them, they said YES, but their heart said NO, then, they just don't do it. Study has shown in Malaysia, 70% muslim do not offer 5 timer compulsory prayers.
They take Islam half, another half is, for them, nonsense.
It is nonsense because it doesn't entertain them, right?
The refusals supported with reasons, the reasons are hold based on distorted principles or totally wrong principles for the sake of their own indulgences. These reasons twist a right thing wrong, or vice versa, and will be asked WHY, in hereafter.
So, after all, it all goes back to your heart. Only heart voices tell you the absolute right and wrong. Not principled mind.
However, a poisoned heart can not help you, it is distorted, it has wrong scale. It's voices is not the true voices, or technically speaking, it is not the heart voices, but it just seem to be while you don't know.
It is actually the mind pretend to be the heart. By being deceived by own mind, you delete the principles wrongly, you've become self-centered person.
So, to remove filters that give stress, first, you have to clean the heart. It must produce it's real true values. When the filters removed slice by slice, you will automatically know.
Anything you do to entertain others, take some to entertain yourself, means your heart. Praise yourself, value yourself, make a promise to yourself and fulfill it, and celebrate it by giving yourself a gift, for an example.
You are the source of energy to serve people, the source must be protected and maintained in good conditions.
And, from time to time, beside you do your body health check, you have to check the heart as well. What we call muhasabah. To re-align your mind, body and heart with the correct principles.
The correct way to delete filters, hypocrisies and busy mind is the other way around:
Don’t change your good manifestation; eliminate what is not good talking inside you. This is the reverse of second figure process, take note the shape of the boxes.
Principles are universal, time-less, and self-evident. They are all there in the heart since we were born. They are just obscured by the poison that we gained during growing up. Plus the busy mind that inadvertently pretend to be the heart. Even though in the figure above it seems that we delete the filters or the principles, actually we eliminate the wrong principles, the poison, leaving the embedded principles in the pure heart.
Poisonous statement “I do good because I am muslim”
Pure heart statement “I do good on my own will, I totally cannot accept wrongdoings, I realized it because of Islam, Muhammad taught me so."
Maybe both sound "not a big different" for somebody, but they actually are different.
Find and listen to the small, silent and calm voice comes from the heart, and follow it.
Beware of loud, screaming, noisy, energetic, and compulsive voice. It's not your heart. It is nafs, it's evil.
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