These are confusing times. We are under pressure to Succeed but the conditions for Success conflict with our most deeply held values and beliefs. Meanwhile, although we are mesmerized by the flashing lights of Success, we are also being pushed and shoved and prodded and programed to settle for less. These are confusing times. We […]
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You cannot manufacture power You cannot trade peace You cannot buy happiness off a shelf And you certainly cannot barter love But of course You think you can You want to believe very much that you can And you will go to great lengths to prove it to yourself And you will convince yourself that
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I wake up with the crust of yesterday around me Covering me entirely Which itself contains the crust of the day before And the days before that And the years And the generations And the span of human existence And of all of time I wake up not realizing how encrusted I am But for
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The approach to truth has to be a subtle one, just as the approach to peace or joy. You can’t sledge hammer or charge your way to any of these. Then again, you might realize that the ‘journey’ is never a journey in time or space but a shift in the state of consciousness, from
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This is my response to the question I posed at the end of the related post My Monkey Mind is more Unique than Your Monkey Mind: Why do I want so much to be unique? To be special? To have my own special, unsolvable problem, condition, situation? It helps to understand that we have been
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In the Buddhist tradition, the conditioned mind is often referred to as the ‘monkey’ mind. Why? Well, for several reasons, one of which is that it is never still, always jumping from one thought to another, swinging from one emotional state to another. Now I do not know whether monkeys lack awareness of what
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1. If I am not prepared to find peace within myself, where do I expect to find it? 2. If I am not prepared to encounter truth and experience its peace using methods that have been tried and tested, how am I prepared to encounter it? 3. If I feel reluctance, resistance, fear, anxiety about
When you are caught in a condition that seems to have such a tenacious grip on your attention such as a fever, a persistent cough, a sore toe, a skin rash, a pressing family matter or a bullying boss, it can be hard to focus on anything else. At such times, it feels like there
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by Rumi We search this whole world for the great untying of what was wed to us at birth, but it gets untied at dying. We sleep beside a stream, thirsty. We wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around our neck. We have a channel into the ocean,
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Today, I wept I couldn’t stop the tears The uncontrollable lumps in my throat The helpless heaving of my chest There was no one in particular that I was thinking of No face that appeared vivid in my mind screen But the anguish that I felt I knew was coming from beyond me, Beyond this