Become all you can become with SophieHe that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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There’s Nothing To Get And There’s No Place to get to…A Cup Of Tea
Nan-in, a Japanese Zen master during the Meiji era (1868 – 1912), received a university professor who came to him to inquire about Zen. Continue reading “Driftwood? Why driftwood? Why do I talk about driftwood?”
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The difference between occurrence and happeningI started this article in the middle of the week, but it was half-baked… it needed to sit a few days… baking. Is it fully baked? You be the judge…
I learn where I can, from where I can.
One of these are books. Another is movies, especially series, where there is enough time for character development.
I had been waiting for this series on Amazon Prime Video, Hunters. Nazi hunters that is.
One of the things I am learning is that a wound is a wound, and it may never heal, but every time I have a chance to weep about it, it cleanses.
So far, I am only half way through the first season, I have seen masterful re-enacting memories of people who were in the Holocaust, so well, that it clean opened up all the wounds and I have been crying and weeping, and sobbing for almost a whole day now. good for me. Continue reading “Sunday Rant or was it Sunday runt? lol”
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I have a few students who take pride in not getting upset or getting upset less often, or less upset than they used to.
As if the purpose of life is to have it be smooth, easy, and emotionless.
Death is smooth, easy, and emotionless. I guess they are practicing for death… or maybe they misunderstand something.
Being upset, being angry, weeping, shouting, is normal human feelings and their expressions is also normal.
Without them you are sheep… dead but don’t know it. Continue reading “I watched this Amazon pulp thriller… Hunters”
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What does perspective have to do with anything?
You’ll find out that it has everything to do with everything that matters to you… So pay attention.
Even though you intellectually know that perspective matters, you, unconsciously, have the tendency to look at things the same way, every time you look at them. Result: you see them the same way.
You look at the map of reality, not reality. You saw it once, from a particular vantage point, you stored it in your mind, and now you are stuck seeing it that way.
This is detrimental to your health, mental or physical, emotional. Detrimental to your success, to your happiness. You are anything but astute… I could even call you a moron, or a machine… and you could get all upset, and it would make no difference. Continue reading “Change your perspective and get unstuck”
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If I know you well, your relationship to life is mainly through understanding. Which you either have or not.
When you do, you are happy, even though you are just as unsuccessful at living well, being fulfilled as you were before. Continue reading “The curse of understanding… It adds nothing…”
According to some statistics, 30% of humanity lack meaning in their lives.
I think that this statistics is off by a lot. It’s more like 91%… according to Source. Continue reading “Does Your Life Lack Meaning? Purpose? Organizing Principle?”
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I was on technical support for three hours this morning. Two delightful tech support people… and no results. The software that wasn’t working, kept on not working.
At some point after 3 hours, my virus protection software requested a machine startup. I restarted the PC, and guess what: the software started to work.
This used to be the case when I was still using Macintosh until some 14 years ago. Anything wrong repaired itself with a reboot.
Now, how is this connected to anything spiritual? Let me count the ways…
If you look at your life, or someone else’s life, life has been an almost uninterrupted story of… Continue reading “Rebooting your life”
The only effective method to make something work is to remove, little by little, all the things that make it not work, or not work as well as it could.
This is true in every area of life.
So what can be removed?
Continue reading “Remove just one attitude… and your happiness will grow 60%”
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It only takes one slow-walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that you’re a nice person. And it only takes one ugly mistake to destroy the illusion that you are smart…
In preparation to my What’s the truth about you workshop this morning, I have been looking how to have the conversation about your delusions about who you are, how you are, and your abilities.
It’s a touchy issue… in fact 80% of humanity think themselves smarter than average, and smarter than they are. The remaining 16% don’t ever think about that or anything else, 4% think themselves less smart than they are. Continue reading “We all have moments of brilliance. Moments…”
