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About Mind Movies — The stories we create might be interesting (to us) but they are just that… stories. Reality is right in front of us, not in our heads.
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The usefulness or validity of an action is always determined by the result. If it ain’t working, doing more of it isn’t going to work either.
About Results — 12 Ideas
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Self Actualizing — Self Actualizing means being in charge of one’s wife through both acceptance and transformative action.
About Self Actualizing — 12 Ideas
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About Taking Action — Living your life is a solo project, undertaken in the presence of friends. This step involves
About Taking Action — 12 Ideas
Ideas for Living
. It is impossible to live life free of anxiety. There is the anxiety that comes when deciding to shift one’s way of being–the anxiety of change, of pain, of growth. And, there is the anxiety of trying to stay the same, in denial, pretending.
About Anxiety — 12 Ideas
Ideas for Living
Bring Wisdom — If life has any meaning, it is this: each event of life has the potential to bring wisdom. The wise person is able to see through the events of life to their essence, in a moment of simple engagement.
Bring Wisdom — 12 Ideas
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About Reality
About Reality: learning to be in the present moment, in the real, is key to waking up and living a full life
Zen Ideas
Another Look at Emptiness
Another Look at Emptiness — a Western look at emptiness, and how different categories of “knowing” affect us
Zen Ideas
The Emptiness of Everything — watching the workings of our mind as we invent meanings — how doing this gets us into trouble, is the point of the Heart Sutra
The Emptiness of Everything
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Life, Death, and “Gone”
Life, Death, and “Gone”– we take life for granted, putting off the work we need to do. And then, poof… we’re gone.