How to find your life and live it Three things are required: Emptiness, Silence, Stillness. The right kind of emptiness is the emptiness between breaths. Inhale, exhale, pause for a count of five (synced to your heart beat/pulse rate if possible). Inhale, exhale, pause for a count of five… Do this for five rounds. AtContinue reading “October 19-C, 2022”
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October 19-B, 2022
It is either going or coming, or going and coming at the same time. This is the flow of life. My choice is to be going and coming at once. Staying and leaving, living to this and dying to that, being one with the moment as momentary as a moment can be, alive to itContinue reading “October 19-B, 2022”
October 19-A, 2022
Living toward having preferences without opinions or judgment will keep us within the normal distribution curve of balance and harmony. Having wants and desires without having to have them works the same way. Being clear about the source of our fear, hatred, anger, sadness, anxiety, depression, jealousy, envy, resentment, etc. will help restore balance andContinue reading “October 19-A, 2022”
October 18-B, 2022
Scattered and fragmented, searching for a new pattern of life, wondering where the toothpaste is hidden, and the coffee filters… waiting for it all to come back together. Waking up in the uncertainties of another world, giving a different slant to “The old has passed away, behold, the new has come,” on the morning ofContinue reading “October 18-B, 2022”
October 18-A, 2022
Living out of our own center Keeps us grounded in what is meaningful to us. Meaning is our guiding light. Follow the meaning! Allowing meaning to lead us keeps us connected to our core, living out of our own center. Allowing everything else to revolve around that, to fall into place around that. Live toContinue reading “October 18-A, 2022”
October 17-B, 2020
We have to find ways of telling our story– of saying out loud, or written out, what is so about us– of saying what must be said. We have to “go there.” This is the primary function of psychotherapy, allowing/forcing people to tell their story, who they are, what they are about, what is theirsContinue reading “October 17-B, 2020”
October, 3rd Week, 2022
This is the first day in the new house, and every family member– me, my wife and our three daughters– are exhausted by the trauma of buying/selling/moving. And it has been the best experience of my life. Like the Cyclops was for Ulysses, so moving 25 minutes and 13 miles away, to be within aContinue reading “October, 3rd Week, 2022”
October 17-A, 2022
Circumstances have a mind of their own. We are awash upon a sea of circumstances. A pandemic comes along, global warming washes away the world, fascism becomes a thing, Republicans threaten to end civil rights and health care… and it all boiled up seemingly out of nowhere, but there was a long build-up of apparentlyContinue reading “October 17-A, 2022”
October 16-B, 2022
Cooperation, coordination, being on the same page, or, at least, in the same book, makes life possible, even enjoyable. Where do you experience something akin to this in your life? And where do you experience being alone against the world? “Community” means abandoning yourself at the door, putting on your corporate face, and thinking/doing whatContinue reading “October 16-B, 2022”
October 16-A, 2022
What is the origin of the motivation to do what is necessary to be a life-long student of the moment, of the here/now? The Buddha sat under the Bo Tree until enlightenment dawned. Jesus went to the cross rather than not be true to himself. Why? What motivated them to be so single-minded in theirContinue reading “October 16-A, 2022”
October 15-B, 2022
If your life isn’t what you want it to be, it is because you want it to be something it is not capable of being– and are pushing, forcing, shaping, compelling it to be what you want it to be and not cooperating with, listening to, seeing, hearing, knowing, comprehending, assisting, serving, doing what yourContinue reading “October 15-B, 2022”
October 15-A, 2022
Staying out of each other’s way, and trusting the other to take care of their own business would go a long way toward peace on earth. It may wrap it up and tie it in a bow. Who is minding your business these days? Whose business are you minding? “Everybody in their own life, andContinue reading “October 15-A, 2022”
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