Thich Nhat Hanh interview w/ Ram Dass

Interview Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edOW5hvB8hs

Intention & Core Values: Follow your Passion, Sustain the Pain

Life Is Willingness To Die

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EvzVClx9Og

"The whole fun of the situation of the game is that you don't know the outcome, and that's why it's worth playing. This is one example of a viable game, one that involves a certain combination of skill and chance. Another example of a more ethical type I would call "trusting the game" because if you won't gamble, then you won't play."
Alan Watts

"He who takes the safe road is good as dead. From there nothing more happens, at least not the right things anyway".
Carl Jung

TAOISM | The Philosophy Of Flow

Tao Te Ching

Eloquently read and spoken by Stephen Mitchell.

Skepticism and The Free Spirit

Nietzsche: Amor Fati

Amor Fati: “Love of one’s own fate”, no lingering regrets about anything past and no resistance to being fully awake and living in the present. The good, bad, ugly and the beautiful, all are embraced as interconnected phenomenon which we are powerless to prevent, so why not love what is without any reservation or wishing that things were different. The wounds may not ever heal nor the broken heart fully mend, but here is where divine light enters and illumines the dark confusion, angst and turmoil deep within the murky depths of the wounded soul.
JDZ
(12/22/19 @ 3:46 a.m.)

Nietzsche on the Pessimism of Strength:
“The trust in life is gone: Life itself has become a problem. Yet one should not jump to the conclusion that this necessarily makes one gloomy. Love is still possible, only one loves differently.” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5-E1dVzbc

The Power of Perspective

"The greatest discovery of my generation is the fact that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind". William James

As A Man Thinketh-James Allen

“The human will, that force unseen, offspring to a deathless soul, can hew it’s way to any goal, though walls of granite intervene”.
James Allen ~ As a Man Thinketh

Interview With The Devil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWI6Wj9xDI

Being New

Surrender

Hold on to "I Am" only

The first agreement - Be impeccable with your word- Don Miguel Ruiz

In retrospect, I should have read or listened to this great work upon first hearing about it years ago! Today I am thankful for the receiving of all such ancient practical teachings. "Impeccability with the Word" is where the creative journey begins, and often (as a masterful writing coach once put it in our session) this clear expression is both concise and precise, for the purpose of communicating only Truth, Light and/or Love whenever possible, and most importantly remembering kindness unto oneself. All implies a Being of Divine Essence within each individual Soul, that which IS the true beholder of Light, Love, Truth, capable of correcting all sin (defined as "going against yourself") and also of working by example to create/experience “Heaven on Earth”. Word becomes deed, however it be interpreted by me, according to my cultural/lingual dispostion. Meaning that is intuitively grasped, immediately & spontaneously.

Jdz

The SECOND Agreement: Don't Take Anything Personally

"Listen,Trust & Obey"

"The work of Awareness creates bliss, removing obstacles and releasing energy simply by understanding the true nature of Life and Mind. Intelligence is the way to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.”

“All that lives, works for protecting, perpetuating, and elevating consciousness. This is the world’s sole meaning and purpose, the very essence of yoga...”

Face the Fact...

  "I’m in sorrow. Psychologically I’m terribly disturbed; and I have an idea about it: what I should do, what I should not do, how it should be changed. That idea, that formula, that concept prevents me from looking at the fact of what is. Ideation and the formula are escapes from what is. There is immediate action when there is great danger. Then you have no idea. You don’t formulate an idea and then act according to that idea. The mind has become lazy, indolent through a formula which has given it a means of escape from action with regard to what is.

 

 Seeing for ourselves the whole structure of what has been said, not because it has been pointed out to us, is it possible to face the fact: the fact that we are violent, as an example? We are violent human beings, and we have chosen violence as the way of life—war and all the rest of it. Though we talk everlastingly, especially in the East, of non-violence, we are not non-violent people; we are violent people. The idea of non-violence is an idea, which can be used politically. That’s a different meaning, but it is an idea, and not a fact. Because the human being is incapable of meeting the fact of violence, he has invented the ideal of non-violence, which prevents him from dealing with the fact. After all, the fact is that I’m violent; I’m angry. 

 

What is the need of an idea? It is not the idea of being angry; it’s the actual fact of being angry that is important, like the actual fact of being hungry. There’s no idea about being hungry. The idea then comes as to what you should eat, and then according to the dictates of pleasure, you eat. There is only action with regard to what is when there is no idea of what should be done about that which confronts you, which is what is."

 

 The Book of Life, August 23, HarperSanFrancisco, 1995

 https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/face-fact

 

Awakening from the Dream of Creation and Delusions of Imagination

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ I Am That (chapters 55, 56, 57)

Samadhi - Part 2 (It's Not What You Think)

Samadhi ~ Part 1: "Maya, the Illusion of the Self"

Jean Klein ~ Vedanta

Interview with enlightened teacher, author of "Who Am I? The Sacred Quest"

Interesting context here, addressing individual/collective issues of addiction to mind altering substances. Always Klein presents an honest inquiry into the spiritual-human condition and awakened discovery (via acceptance) of clear intelligent solutions from within.

JDZ