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Taking on the Sacred Regimen
A Sacred Regimen can be a powerful developmental practice if you have the will and the skill to carry it out in the right way. What is a Sacred Regimen? A Sacred Regimen is a formal agreement you make with yourself to carry out a sacrifice to enhance your life and serve the greater good.…
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Working with Momentum
There is a momentum in the trajectory of your life that is crucial to work with intelligently. Each of our lives is a trajectory between birth and death in which energy and change are constantly at work so that we are always in motion. Sports contests and political campaigns are frequently evaluated in terms of…
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Working with Momentum
There is a momentum in the trajectory of your life that is crucial to work with intelligently. Each of our lives is a trajectory between birth and death in which energy and change are constantly at work so that we are always in motion. Sports contests and political campaigns are frequently evaluated in terms of…
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Miles to Go Before You Sleep — Protecting your Life Drive and Will to Live
A successful human incarnation means that you must protect your life drive and your will to live. To do so, you must be aware of what things enhance your will to live and what things undermine it. The most fundamental thing that enhances will to live is meaningfulness, moving toward the experience of meaning, and…
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Beginner’s Mind
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” — Suzuki Roshi A beginner’s mind is open, curious, even awed by what is, and free of preconceptions, expectations, and prejudices. Beginner’s mind is like the mind of a small child that discovers things anew and is filled with wonder…
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Beginner’s Mind
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” — Suzuki Roshi A beginner’s mind is open, curious, even awed by what is, and free of preconceptions, expectations, and prejudices. Beginner’s mind is like the mind of a small child that discovers things anew and is filled with wonder…
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Projection Head
Perception so often tricks us into seeing our inner contents out in the world. The world so easily becomes our projection screen, a globe of a thousand mirrors reflecting back to us fragments of our fragmented selves. Most violence, physical, psychological, environmental, is done in a state of projection. Imagine the following thought experiment. You…
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Pulling Back the Curtain
In order not to live continually clouded by the many wizards of deception, you must keep your will focused on pulling back the curtain. First you must never lose sight of the curtain and the awareness that there are forces just out of sight, manipulating our perception, even constructing the reality we perceive. We look…
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Pulling Back the Curtain
In order not to live continually clouded by the many wizards of deception, you must keep your will focused on pulling back the curtain. First you must never lose sight of the curtain and the awareness that there are forces just out of sight, manipulating our perception, even constructing the reality we perceive. We look…
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Pulling Back the Curtain
In order not to live continually clouded by the many wizards of deception, you must keep your will focused on pulling back the curtain. First you must never lose sight of the curtain and the awareness that there are forces just out of sight, manipulating our perception, even constructing the reality we perceive. We look…