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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?”
… Or how do you destroy your life, little by little…There is nothing more significant in destroying your self-image than starting something, with all the hopes and aspirations it takes to start something and abandoning in before it is finished.
Even if you knew yourself as a great person deserving of the dream you set out to accomplish with the project, by abandoning it, by leaving it in the middle, you declare yourself as undeserving, someone less than a match to your dreams. Continue reading “Finish What You Started. Started but didn’t Finish?”
I once had a boy friend who refused to have sex with me when I wanted it, saying that I was using him. When he wanted… that was OK.This article is a little sloppy, stream of consciousness… let me know if it is too sloppy… please.
I just had an interesting conversation with one of my students.
I have been suspicious as to why she was less than enthusiastic in her course work for the 67 steps coaching.
So I asked, this morning:
…answer one question: why are you in this program? What would you like to get out of it?
In terms of the good life…
I don’t mean to say that you are wrong, I mean to say that without being somewhat clear on what you want, you will only…
Fair question, right? You need to know why you are doing something if you want to do it well.
This was her answer:
Continue reading “How to get out of the trap seeing yourself as a victim?”
Whatever you pursue, whatever you chase, whatever you desire and feel you cannot be without is running from you.
Whether it is tangible or intangible, chasing it is the surest way to never get it.
The ITCH we all have, the thing we chase is one of those things.
Whether it is success, happiness, respect, love, being well thought of… and myriad of other things…
I have a student who wants to be thanked and acknowledged. He does a lot of good things, and he is never thanked. He is still surprised… He says that the Law or Attraction people told him to want it and want it even more… yet the laws of nature cannot be rigged… not even if you call it a law that isn’t… the more he wants it, the less he’ll get it. Continue reading “What do you have to lose? Respect? Regard? Fame? Fortune? Your illusions?”
Summary: One of the most frequent questions people ask or think is: what is my soul’s purpose? what am I supposed to do with my life? How to live on purpose to get fulfillment, and a sense of life well lived? This article contributes the purpose part…
If you want to do this exercise correctly, you need a distance to see the forest for the trees. With distance comes “Witness” and you begin to see, without the constant chatter of the Mind, that tries to tell you what you should see to look good, to be good, to be socially acceptable, to conform to your own expectations of what’s good… all misleading. Your job is to see what is so, not what should be so.
With distance you see even the time-line. Tendencies, trends, inclinations. You can see what was important and what wasn’t. 1
Continue reading “How to find your direction?”
Apocalypse: an opportunity to develop some capacities to be ready for anything
This is an article partially rewritten by me. It is from Rob Brezsny from his book, Pronoia… with my notes, annotations…
He describes, through the “apocalypse” the relationship between the pedestrian (driftwood) way of living and the living on the higher floors… pretty much what I teach… Although his language is a lot more lofty, a lot more “spiritual,” but he expresses what I am trying to say, maybe better than I do.
Some “visionaries” and “prophets” expect a huge and sudden shift in the world’s story sometime in the coming years. Most predict that it will be a sudden cascade of events that completely changes everything everywhere.
Continue reading “Apocalypse: an opportunity to develop capacities”
The ability to care, the ability to love: why is it that people don’t want it?
Why would a large majority of the human population refuse to receive the DNA upgrade?
In conversations with students, without ever asking their opinion about this, I have formed a view about the reasons why someone would not want the capacities included in the DNA upgrade of September 4.
It is hard to fathom… after all if you have more capacities, you can live more, love more, have more, enjoy more… but no, reality doesn’t work the way of my imagination, not at all.
The easiest it is to see this unwillingness when we look at the capacities of love and caring.
Most of humanity lives in a state I call “driftwood.”
Continue reading “The ability to care, the ability to love: you don’t want it”
I am reading a Kindle book, Comets and the Horns of Moses (The Secret History of the World) by Laura Knight-Jadczyk 2
The book is 700 pages, and hard to read, so I don’t recommend it: I will write about it, it will be as good as reading it. Not here, not now, I first want to finish it, I am 40% through.
Continue reading “It’s time to laugh. It’s all bs, deception, illusion”
