The Great Work of your Life

Discovering your Dharma and creating the right daily conditions to “show up” every day. The Bhagavad Gita serves as an essential guide to knowing and acting upon your highest spiritual-earthly purpose. 

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you”.

The Gospel of Thomas 

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To Thine Own Self Be True

 

Excerpts on self-actualization according to Soren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow. 

The Pathless Path

Brilliant incorporation and illustration of various Eastern Wisdom teachings that point to primordial Awareness, and Unity of the All-Inclusive Consciousness. “Be still and know, be in motion and know”. 

Practice in self-deconstruction and deliberate practice is essential, beyond merely witnessing and understanding this film on Samadhi.

“Wisdom says I AM nothing, Love says I AM everything, and in between these my life flows”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

To ‘Die’ Freely is to Live Fully

Have you found out what you are? What are you? You are the property, the bank account, the furniture, the carpet, ideas, quarrels, pleasures, despairs, the agony of one’s own life, the contradiction, revolt, discontent, longing for something beautiful to happen. It is a life so lonely, isolated, in which there is no relationship at all, in which there is no love, no beauty, no vastness, no space. That is what you are, and you want that to go on, and you will go on if you think it is worthwhile. What is immortality then, and what is innocence? Can the mind that goes on in routine, weariness, despair, loneliness, with all the misery and confusion, be innocent? Can such a mind be immortal? Is mortality only in the field of memory? The immortal is a state in which time is not. But we are of time – all the pleasures and the pains of youth, the memories of middle age and old age, and the agony of disease and pain. All that is you, and you want that to go on and be made immortal. See the sorrow of it, a mind that is wanting to go on. Only when there is an ending is there a new beginning. Die every day to everything – and we mean to everything, to every pleasure and pain, to all the bitterness and cynicism – to die freely, happily to the past every day, which means never to accumulate. Then the mind is free. Such a mind then is aware of the immortal. From Public Talk 5 in Amsterdam, 14 May 1969 J.Krishnamurti

The Long Road to Freedom

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not all of us require organized religion and orthodox religious ideologies to be initiated on a spiritual quest. While the various religions are often helpful pointers, one is to discover the Christ or Buddha only within no matter what road one chooses to travel. As Hindus emphatically say “while the paths up a given mountain are many, there is but one mountaintop”, loosely quoted. All the same, to each their own. 

I’ve been part of the Catholic Church   and lived at an Ashram, studied Hindu and Buddhist texts. The Essence of all these, as the practice and philosophies of Yoga, Zen, etc.is all that is relevant now, having many teachers to learn from and especially daily life experiences within this Earth School.

This spiritual quest begins with the clear recognition that I am not totally free, but daily struggling with a bondage and confinement that is collectively and individually self-imposed. Knowing this I remain earnest and steady on the high road to freedom, while inwardly dedicating the fruits of my inner and outer labors to the liberation of all beings, beginning with those whom I intimately relate and connect with daily. 

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Awaken into Freedom

“Your light grows so strong that darkness can no longer hold you”… Moments of feeling fear and dark dystopian moods come and go more rapidly. 

Addictions like drinking and overeating cease to have a hold on us because we simply don’t want these any longer. Surrender to your own authentic presence and allow God to fill the space left by all dark energies and entities that once controlled us. 

The awakening of humanity has shifted into high gear, with no going back to dark ages’ ignorance, dark control and oppression. Time to own your freedom and literally “be the change you want to see”.

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An Unwavering Intention

A powerful intention that is made manifest in a state of perfect (one-pointed) attention.

Original & Self Sufficient Mind

Understanding the innocence of infancy as key to beginners mind, without impediments of too much knowledge, experience, memory or sense of mastery. As stated in yoga teachings as well as in Zen, “you must empty your cup to have it refilled” .

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The Unexamined Life & Collective Shadow

An Impeccable explanation of what sadly is happening in the society today. An effective antidote to totalitarian rule is found in alternative societies.

”He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it”.

Yoga Is

Fascinating portrayal of profound perspectives given by various yoga teachers,  within the context of one woman’s spiritual journey and narrative.

The Real Work

Just discovered this. Michael Singer makes crystal  clear the purpose of yoga practice and true spiritual awakening, as removal of the self imposed obstacles that block enlightenment. Witness consciousness and use of mantras as valuable practices to “get out of the water” of mental emotional chaos.

Joel D Zenie

The Illusion of External Happiness

The pain of life is we imagine happiness is found outside ourselves. The world and its pleasures are illusions, so pursuing worldly pleasure and false happiness is inviting more pain and bondage rather than freedom. The temporary dissolving of pain via pleasures is but a momentary escape. For this reason Schopenhauer claims happiness is a negative state as it only denies temporarily the positive reality of pain. So, alternatively connecting with inner well being, good health and a cheerfulness not dependent on outer conditions is the key. Not to pursue pleasure but reduce pain and all unnecessary suffering is the way of freedom and ultimate peace.

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Emotional Intelligence

 

Robert Greene discusses on Impact Theory how a non-reactive/mindful control over unhelpful emotions is the source of true power.

 

Individual Sovereignty

God Bless and Protect the Individual, and the Rights of All Individuals.

Another good one: https://youtu.be/gvPKTVK10JE

How to Stop Thinking

Lesson 1: “Listen to and play this tape as often as you need to, but afterwards don’t think about it.”

Lesson 10: “Power comes from not thinking, which is Intelligence. Your Intelligence has to be there watching the emotion as a cat watches a mouse-hole; that way the mouse, the thought, can’t come out. There is only one way to do this, you’ve got to be in your body and feeling it.”

Barry Long

Why Caring What Others Think Breeds Mental Illness

It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

J.Krishnamurti

A Life of Ultimate Focus

“Do not hold onto possessions you no longer need:

To always travel light so one can focus only on what really matters.”

Miyamoto Musashi

Nothing Comes from Nothing ~ All Spiritual Illusions deconstructed point to Truth, Emptiness or No-Thingness

Neti Neti in Sanskrit, meaning “not this, not that”. “A thorn to remove a thorn” and then itself is discarded. This is true inquiry, the essential practice. 

Shamanic Drums ~ Higher Mind Activation

It works for sure.

Peace on Earth

Deep tranquil relaxation state, listening to each bell sound from beginning to end. 

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Portals to the Absolute

Six portals