Uncovering Buddha’s 6th Fold

Abundance

An abundance mindset means to see the limitless potential in life. 

It means you can see the potential in yourself, and everyone around you. As a result, you intentionally drive yourself toward creating the life you want. 

When I think of an abundance mindset, I think of these key traits:

1. Thinking big: People with an abundance mindset tend to think big, rather than limit themselves to a bird’s-eye view of their circumstances.
2. Growth mindset: Living in abundance means having a growth mindset — the belief that you can improve your intelligence and skills with effort, and you aren’t stuck with what you have.
3. Optimism: The “glass half full” type of person, focusing on what they have, rather than what they lack.
4. Knowing there’s enough to go around: Abundance thinking means seeing a limitless amount of resources such as love, money, and success. In other words, someone else’s success or advantage does not take away from your own.
5. Generosity of spirit: They feel genuinely happy for other people’s success, rather than resentful.
6. Embracing change: They accept and embrace change, rather than resist.
7. Taking action: They take a proactive approach to life, by seizing opportunities and working toward their goals.
8. Planning ahead: They plan for the future, rather than waiting around for things to happen.
9. An open mind: A person with an abundance mentality keeps an open mind and continues to learn, rather than believing they already know it all.
10. Know their strengths (and weaknesses): They have identified their strengths, then used these qualities to go after what they want. They accept their shortcomings rather than being limited by them.

Freedom

Freedom from the self, and therefore the search of reality, the discovery and the coming into being of reality, is the true function of man. Religions play with it in their rituals and rigmarole – you know, the whole business of it. But if one becomes aware of this whole process, then there is a possibility for the newly awakened intelligence to function. In that, there is not self-release, not self-fulfilment, but creativeness. It is this creativeness of reality, which is not of time, that sets one free from all the business of the collective and the individual. Then one is really in a position to help create the new. – J Krishnamurti

Why does the mind accumulate knowledge or acquire virtue? Why does the mind constantly strive to become something, to perfect itself? In the process of acquisition and accumulation, the mind is burdened. All accumulation in self-knowledge is a hindrance to the further discovery of the self. Now, is it possible to discover and not be acquisitive, so that the discovery does not leave an experience which will condition further discovery?

This is really the freedom from the self, so that there is no accumulative entity, and therefore there is creative being. Accumulation is not creativeness. A mind which is constantly acquiring can obviously never be creative. It is only the free mind that is creative. There can be no freedom if every experience is stored up, because that which is accumulated becomes the centre of the ‘me’, of the ‘I’.

Realisation of accumulation is beginning of Commitment with self is possible. Unless you are Commitment to yourself you cannot be Committed.

With Abundance Mindset one finds inner Freedom, Buddha’s six fold, Right Commitment will be revealed to you.

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