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About Mind Movies — 12 Ideas

This entry is part 6 of 12 in the series 12 Ideas
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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self

About Results — 12 Ideas

This entry is part 5 of 12 in the series 12 Ideas
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.
Self Actualizing
self

About Self Actualizing — 12 Ideas

This entry is part 4 of 12 in the series 12 Ideas
Self Actu­al­iz­ing — Self Actu­al­iz­ing means being in charge of one’s wife through both accep­tance and trans­for­ma­tive action.
Taking Action
self

About Taking Action — 12 Ideas

This entry is part 3 of 12 in the series 12 Ideas
About Tak­ing Action — Liv­ing your life is a solo project, under­tak­en in the pres­ence of friends. This step involves
anxiety
Ideas for Living

About Anxiety — 12 Ideas

This entry is part 2 of 12 in the series 12 Ideas
. 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. 
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Ideas for Living

Bring Wisdom — 12 Ideas

This entry is part 1 of 12 in the series 12 Ideas
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. 
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self

About Reality

About Real­i­ty: learn­ing to be in the present moment, in the real, is key to wak­ing up and liv­ing a full life 
emptiness
Zen Ideas

Another Look at Emptiness

Anoth­er Look at Empti­ness — a West­ern look at empti­ness, and how dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of “know­ing” affect us 
emptiness
Zen Ideas

The Emptiness of Everything

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Zen 101
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
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Zen Ideas

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.
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