Journeying into the Present
Not “Are you hard of hearing?”, Are you hard to hear?” Have you ever thought about the effect your ability to listen (or not) to others, has on them? Are you able to hold a sacred space in conversations in which you truly hear what they are saying, without your internal voice full of its…
Whatever is mind-created will lose you in its logic until you learn to rise above that creation. Analyzing and dissecting why things are the way they are, can help the mind to understand and sometimes to relax enough to let go. But what mind has learned throughout a lifetime of experience runs along intricate and…
We are at a turning point on this planet and by living from Presence – as improbable as that may seem at times – we contribute mightily to the healing of the planet. Here’s the thing – EVERY SINGLE THOUGHT YOU THINK GOES OUT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HAS A CONSEQUENCE. Every single thought has an…
A Zen Master, Hakuin, was accused of getting the teenage daughter of a neighbor pregnant. The village was shocked, the Master lost his reputation and no-one came to see him anymore. When the baby was born, the parents demanded he look after it, which he did for a year. The daughter finally confessed who the…
Judgment begins with naming things. First we name and then we assign values. The world then becomes how things are, have been and should be, according to mind. Eckhart Tolle talks of taking a walk in nature, looking at the trees and flowers and practicing not naming them – just seeing them, experiencing them. The…
When we are attached – to thinking, people, places, situations, things, health, money, status, to name just a few attachments – we end up believing that our happiness depends on the having of those things and the not-having becomes a cause of suffering and unhappiness. (Or the reverse). There are 3 tenets of Buddhism that when…
Have you ever thought of your hands as an entry point into the present moment? Recently reading Russel Williams in Not I, Not Other than I: The Life and Teachings of Russell Williams, brought this truth to my conscious awareness. He is answering a question about evolving gradually towards a spiritual state as opposed to…
Trying to make something happen originates in the mind; allowing something to happen originates in Presence, in the Present Moment – the Universe expressing its magnificence through you. In trying to make something happen, there’s an element of needing to control events, situations and people. There may be intense effort, frustration when things don’t turn…
Remember when you were a kid and on a car trip that seemed to take forever, and you just couldn’t wait to be there? Remember that feeling of frustration and impatience? Are we there yet? was the question of the moment. The now, in that car, mile after boring mile peeling away under those trusty…
How likes and dislikes color our days, our decisions and our peace of mind. I travel a lot throughout the USA in a motor home and have done so for many years. It’s a 34 ft (10.5 m) motor home and I tow a car – so while it’s not a big rig as we…
Without commitment, dreams fall by the wayside into the dust of a barren land, never to come to the realization of their fullest potential. Enthusiasm for a new idea is not commitment. Learning, researching, talking about an idea – all of which are valuable at some stage of making a dream come true – are…
Eastern philosophy and teachings describe the endless chatter of the mind as the monkey mind – it just won’t get off your back. The non-stop commentary can become very tiresome as you start to become more aware of the fact you aren’t your mind – which is simply an aspect of your personality built from…
Are you willing to stop mid-flight in the busyness of your days and create space for Presence / Life Itself to flow, even just for a moment or two, a minute or two? It takes time and commitment to free yourself from the noisy mind that controls our day-to-day living through our learned brain tracks.…
Brain tracks run our lives. They support us in living a passionate and fulfilled life, they cause to live a life of ‘quiet desperation’ – or somewhere in the middle. What IS a brain track and why do I need to be aware of or even care about knowing what my brain tracks are? Most…
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there’s a field. I’ll meet you there” – Rumi There’s a place – beyond your thinking and emotions, beyond your beliefs, suppositions and habits -where you can go to find whatever it is in life that you seek. There are no answers or solutions in the so-called ‘outside…
Happy 2018 is the traditional welcome to a new year. I hope all your wishes and dreams come true. I experienced a New Year of an entirely different kind last night at Mickey Singer‘s Temple of the Universe. Our focus was on all that we were conscious of inside us that wasn’t working in our…
An enormous depth in my understanding and awareness of the Present Moment has been opening up recently for me. Michael Singer‘s online course “Living From a Place of Surrender” is responsible for this opening. I absolutely love his description of how life from the big bang on has invested 35.8 billion years in the making…
Today I heard a friend describe how she wasn’t deserving of a special love relationship in her life and had decided therefore that being in such a relationship wasn’t her ‘lesson’. My immediate RE-action was to say that was her ego mind talking, and what did ‘who she really was’ have to say about that.…
… that is butterfly kiss fragile. It exists between longing/wishing/hoping/wanting more because we see our lives as lacking, and guilt/anger/despair/hopelessness – all of which is the endless story telling of the mind. In between this array of hope and despair is a gossamer thin line, an entryway into infinite wisdom, joy, love and laughter. In…
It’s funny where inspiration comes from. Here I am having committed to an 8 week boot camp with a program called Bright Line Eating, which is about healing addictions to flour and sugar and creating a healthy, thin and free lifestyle and I find myself diving into new depths of understanding how integrity works or…
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