Tibetan Bells

To ring in this New Year with calm healing vibrations...

Stoic Self Reliance, Serenity and a Thicker Skin

Moral strength and a life of substance. The power of restraint, self control and true discipline, living virtuously, knowing deep joy and peace, neither avoiding pain nor caving to pleasures.

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Zen Mind ~ Beginners Mind

Author: Shunryu Suzuki 

Read by Peter Coyote

“Awaken to Who I Really Am in Truth”

Ram Dass’ lucid and humorous insight(s) into discovering true being as eternally present amidst the ever changing and impermanent phenomena of our human experience: physical, psychological and astral. Physical/Psychological death as we know it can be understood as awakening by ending an old idea or illusion of who I thought my self to be in this current incarnation/dream of selfhood. Mentions work with the hospice and their enlightened way of accompanying and comforting the dying. Coming to know the Eternal within themselves, in their last moments the departing souls peacefully and willingly let go their mortal coil without fear or remorse.

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Spiritual Emergency

Precious Wisdom of the Divine Feminine, so rare to find in our predominantly patriarchal workaday world. To know that you’re not entirely alone with this process and which nowadays is more common than one would suspect; is the first step to responding skillfully with understanding, inner peace and calm.

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Unborn and Deathless

”You can only be what you are in Reality; you can only appear to be what you are not”.

Wu Wei

“The action moves you, not the other way around.”

“Life is always in flux and change the only constant”... thus to adapt and flow with the transience of experience is to live gracefully, in harmony with Tao and in alignment with the truth of one’s Being.

The scriptures in Bhagavad-Gita refer to this state as “inaction in action” or stillness in motion. In Gnostic teachings it is the “zone of silence” which becomes “effortless attention “.

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Stoic Fortitude Quotes

“True stoics don’t care about the outcome.  They just care to give their best shot, right here, right now..”

Marcus Aurelius 

“It is not daily increase, but daily decrease. Hack away at the inessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is”.

Bruce Lee

Ending of Me Consciousness

In the light of choice-less awareness.

Becoming Supernatural: Healing Past Hardwiring with Joe Dispenza

To meditate is to "become familiar with”, meaning you become so aware of and used to experiencing your unconscious self (your negative thoughts and emotions) that when/if these appear again (and again) they no longer distract or disturb you in your day to day consciousness.

Joe Dispenza

I am confident, I am serene, I am sure

“You can either be a host to God or a hostage to your ego, it’s your call”.

Wisdom from the Heart

“Freedom is not an ocean you want to swim in, it’s a river you must cross to get rooted on the other side.“

5 Hindrances to Self Mastery

Sensuality, Attachment

Ill Will, Aversion, Negativity

Inactivity, Dullness, Depression

Restlessness, Agitation, Inattention

Self-Doubt, Skepticism, Over-thinking

There is no Try, Either Do or Don’t Do

The school of thought practiced by Taoists and the opposite of western world Confucianism. He who is obsessed always with winning, is attached to outcomes and constantly worried about future successes versus failures has already led himself astray. No matter how skilled and learned, a human life is not really successful until one truly is able to let go; saying ‘yes’ to life now, going with flow, and ‘no’ to all extraneous petty and insecure obsessions of the chronically self absorbed ego.

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Stay Conscious when Facing Adversity

“When the ego weeps for what it has lost, Spirit rejoices for what it has found”.

Solitude and Self-Realization

The hub of life experience in one’s life work.. more than vocation and petty material ambitions, the spiritual mission, illumination, evolution.

JDZ

How Seneca Slayed Stress (and the Rest of Us Can Too) | Ryan Holiday | S...

Timeless Stoic Wisdom

Clarifying and uplifting quotes on universal life challenges.

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It All Starts Right Now | Alan Watts | Powerful Life Advice

"To no longer define oneself by what has gone before is liberation from the ridiculous situation of being like a dog wagged by it's tail." Liberation from personal karma so well explained here, simply in being open to the freshness of now.

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Ten Signs of Awakening

Really speaks to the individual, brilliantly! 

Awakening is initiation into a living luminous process unfolding, an evolution of consciousness in motion. There is necessarily conflict and struggle. Self-reliance proves as always to be the only solution and ultimately being “a light unto oneself “.

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Cleaning as Spiritual Practice

Alchemy and self-purification in action: what’s outside ourselves as environment truly is inseparable from what’s inside.

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Just Let Go

Based on the novel and film “The Fight Club”, written by Chuck Palahniuk. 

Living the Heroic Life

To live by true values. A sense of the exalted, adventurous and meaningful in the everyday. Self-discovery, not self-sacrifice, is the true essence of heroism. Authenticity free of every form of conformity and mediocrity. Though a “happy life” may be impossible to achieve, each in their own way is called to live the heroic life.

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Bashar on 2020 ~ Live in the eye of the storm

Our individual belief systems create our own unique experiences of the world. Many parallel versions of Earth and experience manifesting simultaneously.

JDZ 

Dark Night of the Soul (losing who we thought we were)

https://youtu.be/GXq6YyvA_vM

10 Lessons from “Ego is the Enemy” by Ryan Holiday

https://youtu.be/ITNVxT7qpgs

Overcoming Reactivity - Eckhart Tolle

“To grow in consciousness (in part..) means to accept and suffer the consequences of your own unconsciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle

https://youtu.be/eoVE_li__Kg

Life as a Quest - Antidote to Excessive, Oppressive Routine

Another great piece w/ crystal clear universal insight from the Academy of Ideas.
Jdz 

https://youtu.be/z9vMczQ3jiM

Seneca: On the Shortness of Life

Remaining True in a Time of Crisis

How to be Stoic in a Crisis

sto·ic

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noun

1. 1. 

   a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

PAPAJI - Call Off The Search (Full Documentary)

"Just keep quiet..."

Quantum Leaps of Consciousness

The time to turn attention inward to real values and the change that benefits you and others has never been so critical. What sounds to some like a pollyanna "making light of tragedies" is perhaps what many need to hear now. Own your power, and be vigilant most of all by minding your own inner process, a reality within humans which has far more power over immunity and resilience than most are normally aware of.

My thoughts do not create objective reality but when repetitive, habitual and compulsive, DO in fact influence the emotional, experiential and actionable components manifesting as what I SEE, and thereby experience as MY REALITY.

 The key point Dr. Dispenza points to regularly is to be more emotionally invested in thoughts and ideas about my future, as I deliberately choose it, and not with the repetitious past thought patterns that keep one endlessly stuck. Train your brain to do what may feel unnatural/uncomfortable at first to be ever more in touch with your super-natural true nature; unconditioned and free, calmer than before and fully alert in the face of all earthly dangers, disease and catastrophe.

The real solution you seek is always only within, although many 'outside' teachers serve to remind us often. Likewise, to stay at home and isolate is an opportunity for many of us to keep the mind inwardly focused, on matters closest to home which all too often are overlooked or under-valued in this modern world, which runs almost exclusively on extroverted pursuits and always seeking answers or happiness outside.

JDZ
(03-22-2020)

Domestication and the Dream - Don Miguel Ruiz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLa2QWcT-Pw

Always Do Your Best ~ 4th Agreement

The 4th Agreement really puts the first three into perspective. Practical, impeccable wisdom for living and doing well.

JDZ.

Path of the Heart | Ram Dass Full Lecture 1992

In the Face of Chaos - Ram Dass Full Lecture 1994