About Mind
Step #1 Find out who you are. You are your body, you are your soul, you are your life. Include everything, and everything becomes an expression of you. Exclude it – and it becomes an expression of your trauma.
Step #2 Include death into your life. Death is wonderful, it is a graduation, a transition, as much as birth. What’s there to be sad about? What’s there to grieve about?
Step #3 Choose. Do not wait for God, universe, spirit, purpose, destiny, authorities or society to do it for you.
Step #4 Be present to what you are creating, right now. Before you learn how to create what you want, realize how you created what you have.
Step #5 Do not think. What you want is not the result of your thoughts but an expression of what you are.
Step #6 Travel far. When your background changes you see what is only you, in sharp relief.
Step #7 Believe what you say you believe.
Step #8 Don’t lie. Not to yourself, not to others. Never.
Step #9 Consider the possibility of your future being entirely different than your past.
Step #10 Go find out what you want, don’t wait until it finds you.
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“Contemporary spirituality” … what an interesting concept … what is it that we call “spirituality”, exactly? Is it subject to fashion? Or progress? Does God change with the times?
Spirituality, defined as being present as what we truly are, appears to me to be beyond times, societies, theories, schools, ideas and concepts. We are – and we make up stories. And sometimes making up stories about what we truly are, and then studying those stories, is called spirituality.
It always begins with an experience – let it end there.
I can not think of anything that would render humans unconscious of the reality around us more effectively than the concepts of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust. While we focus on determining what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s just, what’s unjust, we are missing what’s so.
To effect any change it is usefull to be present to the whole picture, to see the entire situation in all it’s implications. The ideas of rightness, justice, goodness, injustice, evil, limit the perspective drastically and make the change nearly impossible to occure.
How did I learn what I know? What teachers did I work with? What books have I read? What workshops have I attended?
I can tell you all this, I can tell you the stories of my life but they will give you nothing at all.
How did I learn what I know…
I learned by choosing to look, by choosing to question, by choosing to consider. I learned by listening to others and then looking within myself for my response to their words, for my opinion, for my way of seeing what they see.
I learned by looking inside to see my way of being me. [click to continue…]
It hit again this morning. I found a spot behind my ear, it wasn’t there before … or was it? Was it smaller? Did it grow? Have I seen it? Could I have forgotten?
The initial feeling of “this is okay, there is no need to worry about this” was swallowed by fear, quickly. Fear soon turned into terror and I froze. My insides froze, my head froze. A straight jacket of fear kept me stiff, rigid. I could not think, I could not speak, I could not live.
But this is not the first time, this has happened before. This fear has happened before. My mind knows that, while my body is torn to shreds, gutted, burned by fear. I can’t do anything, I am frozen, I can’t move.
But this has happened before.
Is this it? This time, is this it? Is it cancer? Will I die? Now?! [click to continue…]
