¡Visualize!
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” -Robert Collier Fill your mind with a living, fluid image of everything you will see and do to accomplish your goal. Do not allow unnecessary worries. TRUST: You will do what have visualized. For […]
Practical Living, The Fundamentals
“You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.” -Nisargadatta Maharaj Below are a few principles I’ve found helpful. Perhaps print this, and work with each until you know if it is worthwhile. The fewer things you claim […]
Take Five!
“Just be aware, mirrorlike, right now.” -Pai-chang Do not use your phone or any other device to do what follows. For one week, dedicate five minutes of one day to be totally aware of what you are doing. Repeat for a total of seven weeks. Make a chart to keep track of the dedicated awareness periods, […]
Awareness & Thought
“By being alive to difficulty one can avoid it.” -Lao Tzu In the well-being department, not knowing we are thinking is our only problem. Problems appear and remain because we do not know we think them into existence. Awareness is the remedy. As you become more aware of how efficiently your mind creates problems, the […]
Why Hurry?
“When you are not sitting quietly, you may be distracted without knowing it; but once you are aware of it, distraction itself becomes a mechanism for getting rid of distraction.”-T’ai i chin hua tsung chih If I rushed I usually failed. If you made an error—you forgot to shoot a target or skipped a shooting […]
Care Less
“Here is my secret: I don’t mind what happens.”-Krishmanurti The only things that bother you are things you care about. Care about what is immediately and obviously good, like family, friends, pets, and health. For everything else, regard care with suspicion. Imagine you are going to cook dinner for yourself. Now imagine you are going […]
Tacit Living
“Let a tacit understanding be all! All mental processes must lead to error.”-Huang Po The easiest thing to overlook is what you always are: aware. Without awareness, you could not do anything. There is a living knowledge that is always within you, always guiding… You can know it in the silence before a decision or […]
When is “it” Right?
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” What a great quote from Pema Chodron. My brother, Dennis, and I enjoyed boxing. He was three years older and quite a bit bigger, so he could whip me pretty easily … in the beginning. I checked out boxing books from […]
The Riddle of Existence
When we’re deludedthere’s a world to escape.When we’re awarethere’s nothing to escape. -Bodhidharma Your mind will not bother you when you stop believing its stories. The mind continuously forms desires from sensory experiences. What if some, or maybe all, desires are detrimental? To want anything to be different is our only problem. Imagine an upcoming unpleasant […]
Who’s in Charge?
“If one is determined to reach enlightenment, what is the most essential method one can practice?” “The most essential method, which includes all other methods, is beholding the mind” -Bodhidharma The thoughts we are unaware of cause all our problems. Unlike children, adults are typically in a state of continuous distraction: While doing some routine task, […]