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get over it
Ideas for Living

Get Over It

Get Over It — There’s real­i­ty and what you do with real­i­ty in your head. All emo­tion comes from you not accept­ing what is right in front of you, and work­ing from there.

Non-Habitual Living and Being
Zen Ideas

Non-Habitual Living and Being

The way we view our lives, and ‘real­i­ty’ is not true. In fact, it’s sim­ply an uncon­scious habit. Learn ways to rec­og­nize habit­u­al think­ing and behav­ing, and then, learn how to change it.

The joy of non-duality
Ideas for Living

The Joy of Non-duality

The joy of non-dual­i­ty — we cre­ate inter­nal rep­re­sen­ta­tions of every­thing we inter­act with. It’s all just a sto­ry. Joy is let­ting go of all of them.

Like Clouds Drifting By
Zen Ideas

Like Clouds Drifting By

Like Clouds Mov­ing By — two twisty, turny lit­tle ideas. The first idea is this: we know things by their oppo­site, and all cou­plets are an essen­tial uni­ty. The sec­ond idea is this: thoughts are not real — they are, in a sense, like clouds drift­ing along on a blue sky day.

Changing Channels on Your Thinking
Ideas for Living

Changing Channels on Your Thinking

Chang­ing Chan­nels on Your Think­ing — While cer­tain aspects of our per­son­al­i­ty and behav­iour are hard-wired in, what we choose to do with each sit­u­a­tion is, for­tu­nate­ly, com­plete­ly our choice.

Soft Eyes and an Open Heart
Zen Ideas

Soft Eyes and an Open Heart

Soft Eyes and an Open Heart — open heart­ed­ness requires an emp­ty heart — a dif­fi­cult con­cept for West­ern­ers to grasp. Soft eyes pro­duce astound­ing clar­i­ty. Let’s see how this works as a dance of intimacy.

Blame and the Guilt Button
Ideas for Living

Blame and the Guilt Button

Blame and the Guilt But­ton — peo­ple use blam­ing as a weapon — using guilt as a way to manip­u­late oth­ers into doing their bid­ding. The cure? Self-responsibility.

Changes of Behaviour
Ideas for Living

Changes of Behaviour

Chang­ing Your Approach — let­ting go of blam­ing exter­nals is hard, but blam­ing exter­nals means stay­ing stuck

accepting tyourself
self

Accepting Yourself

Accept­ing Your­self — learn­ing to accept and work with all of you is key to liv­ing a ful­fill­ing life

reality mismatch
relationships

Reality Mismatch

We all have devel­oped an inter­nal pic­ture, (or pic­tures) of “real­i­ty.” We stack evi­dence for the valid­i­ty of our inter­nal pic­ture. Stress occurs when our inter­nal pic­ture clash­es with the exter­nal world.

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