Background: Recently, after putting aside reserves for emergencies, I donated the equivalent of about three weeks of my pension to a family in need. I use the criterion, “Who needs this more than I do?”

Entry: Last night when I lay down in bed and relaxed prior to sleeping I neopted that as a result of my donation I felt neither happy nor unhappy and that I could, at will, switch my mind - my moul - to negative or positive or detachment. This neoption, though unsurprising was enlightening and clearly illustrates non-attachment to a deed and the resulting balance and harmony.

I was aware that to switch to the negative all I had to do was ment about one or more of the “What if?” questions, that to switch to the positive all I had to do was to ment about the act and its results and, the third option was to remain non-attached and in that unique state of being stemming from the simple fact that something needed doing and was done.

Note: Dear Reader, you can do this too!

To desist from making a statement or pronouncement of fact due to a reluctance to hurt the sensibilities of someone could be doing a disservice to many.

Enlightenment is illumination from the inner source rather than from an external source seeping inwards.

This statement from the Bible is a profound one; view it according to your concept of ‘God’.

In dreams, when the dreamer is in a house, the house often symbolizes the dreamer’s body or persona. Likewise, let “Be still” be a room in your house and go there often.

Note: The occurrence of the above was a very clear example of a neoption. The time was about 5.30 a.m., I had awakened and was trying to return to sleep but was potentially being thwarted by mind chatter so I repeated my usual remedy for this which is, “I still this moul and put this body to rest”.

No sooner had the mind been stilled than Thought surfaced and I neopted the above as clear as day.