Life is so intelligently organized and self-organizing that it is only the habit of un-awareness that causes us to think and behave as if we could improve on its design, or ignore or resist it! Yet, when we yield to it – the experience of enlightenment – living becomes effortless. We’ve got out ot the way and allowed Life to live us! Magnificently. Joyously. Limitlessly.
There are about 7.5 billion people in the world right now, each one of us living according to our priorities. Here are a couple of things I’ve said about priorities: One thing that we might learn as we travel along our individual lane in life is that it doesn’t help to compare what we’re doing […]
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Image from Birmingham Museums Trust How can it be even remotely possible for world peace when we hold personal grievance and unforgiving? Friends, we fool ourselves if we think that we can have a peaceful world if we refuse to give up the personal grievances we hold in our minds. If, in other words,
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Caged children Sometimes, actually often, I’d rather not know. I’d rather immerse myself in all the good, uplifting, caring, serving things that I do. I don’t want to get upset about things I have no control over. So, I’d rather not know. I have only so much time, resources. I cannot take on all the
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There is a timeless presence that is forever aware. It is not confined to the space between your ears or within your skin. It has always been there, aware of all that your senses perceive, all the thoughts that drift through your mind, aware of all the stories, emotions/sensations that you mind-body experiences. This
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There is a false assumption that action that springs from a peaceful, loving, accepting mind is soft, ineffective and weak. That powerful action can only arise from a mind that is fuelled by the energy of anger or injustice. Nothing could be further from the truth. The mind that is at peace is a
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Is it possible that the purpose of story is to help us feel alive, something that we could naturally, spontaneously and effortlessly do as a child but which we quickly got conditioned/storied out of? To connect us with that which we naturally are – joyous, peaceful, limitless, free – alive? But there’s a catch. Story demands
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Generally, unpleasant events cut us off from life and pleasant ones reconnect us with life. I say ‘generally’ because, paradoxically, intensely painful experiences can produce the opposite effects. Image from PxHere For instance, when you are so consumed with rage or hopelessness or fear or helplessness such that you’re almost completely cut off from life, suffocating
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Being honest with yourself is not to judge yourself. But neither is it about making excuses for yourself. Neither of these is useful. Being honest with yourself is simply acknowledging the thoughts you think, the feelings you feel, the beliefs you belief. Not trying to justify, defend, blame, explain or correct. The very act of
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We don’t think we do but we live on the hard edge of our human being in crusted shells that we carry around with our encrusted ideas, beliefs and opinions Yours, sooner or later, colliding with mine neither one prepared to yield until we realise that it is not about yielding Rather it is
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Learn to meet the world peacefully, just as it is, Not as you insist it is. Paradoxically, this is how change happens. Last night, in our Mindfulness circle, there were a number of fresh insights. I say ‘fresh’ because these are insights that build on previous insights that people have had. Let me recount a
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