Stoic Meditations on Character and the Triumph of Reason

Stoic principles contemplated in Marcus Aurelius’ journals embody a mindful right action philosophy and a work ethic that practices integral harmony of thought, word and deed. Duty in stoicism is about embracing the tough realism of daily living with positive perspective(s), great strength in self-control and conversely releasing all thoughts of control over what is beyond our human capacity to change. 

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Letting Go of Ego

Impeccably illustrated synopsis of Ryan Holiday’s best selling work. Stoic guidance (understanding the immature ego to be dysfunction itself) taken from ancient philosophers which have as much relevance today. 

This writer does believe that a mature and healthy ego (self-confident) exists in the individual whose in alignment with this core wisdom, with nature itself.. These more evolved egos are highly competent, creative and productive, having reduced or eliminated entirely any/all inflated sense of personal importance.

Jdz

Letting Things Go

The “commitment to stay conscious” is based on knowing that you are the light of consciousness and not the objects It shines upon. The things in themselves are of creation (13.8 billion years!) and have nothing to do with me personally. Only the conscious awareness is really you and not anything you are momentarily aware of in consciousness.

JDZ

“Love says I AM EVERYthing, Wisdom says I AM NOthing, and in between these my life flows”.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Doing the Inner Work

Quite refreshing and informative to hear a more enlightened perspective on the Virgoan archetype, two days before my Solar return. 

Thanks and Blessings..

JDZ

Staying Centered in the Seat of Self — Your Central Purpose

Commitment to Stay Conscious ~ Michael Singer

The inner work, to “relax and release” (Singer’s terms), to let everything be, then to let it all go. To let go of anything you must own it and allow it to exist fully in the light of your consciousness. 

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“You commit to maintaining your center of consciousness, which nothing can take away from you, and you do the work to make it happen.”

Micheal Singer

True Self Love

Learning to quiet the critical inner voice and see through the self-induced pressures (socially learned) to achieve an imagined state of perfection. Mistakes are food for learning and exercises in self-compassion.

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Consciousness Shared By All

 The impossibility of humans having separate consciousness though it feels this way to everyone. All share the common experience of being the conscious center or subject of the universe, and thus our seemingly personal experience is really trans personal intelligence.

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Devotional Chants to Shiva ~ Positive Negation preceding All (Co)Creation

“Emptiness is Form, Form Emptiness”

Inner Wealth precedes Outer Abundance…

Core Intention is Regeneration, from the inside out…

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Goddess Energy to Purify Heart

Uplifting sounds from India..

Michael Singer Podcast ~ The “Meaning of Life” is your own Experience

Meaning of Time Between Birth and Death

Existence vs Consciousness

Does Anything Really Exist - Rupert Spira

Open the Door

 Our daily life – going to work, coming back home, sex, quarrels, anxiety, competition – is rather superficial and empty. We are discontented, and out of this discontent we escape or do things to become contented. So our life is a very superficial, light affair. We can carry on like this until we die, and most people do, accumulating a little property, a car or two, and so on. When you see that, you say, ‘It’s all right, but it isn’t good enough.’ There is music, paintings, the mountains, the rivers, the trees, the squalor, the splendour of the sky and so on, and we say, ‘Yes, it’s all right, up to a certain point.’ Don’t you feel that you want to open a door that will give a new freshness, a new vitality, a new energy, a new beauty, a tremendous view to the whole of existence?

From Public Discussion 6, Saanen, 9 August 1964

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thich Nhat Hanh - Depend on Your Innermost Being Alone

Beyond Buddhist ideas on interdependence, as everyday ordinary humans, we come to the essential spiritual teachings and practice. A refreshingly different perspective conversely claiming “I am indeed an island unto myself”, yet inseparable from the great ocean surrounding myself and all islands; and here I am divinely connected and take ultimate refuge. 

JDZ

2/5/22

Count Your Inner Blessings

What we call ‘pessimistic’ is often in fact just realism in response to that which is outside of our control and subject to an endless battle of will, individual and collective. It could be argued that Schopenhauer was the first philosopher in the Western world to fully grasp and teach Eastern ways. Getting back to the basics and re-learning the lost art of simple contentment with life as it is, here now.

Jdz