Some of my students are starting to see that if they didn’t have the self-concern: The ITCH, they would react to life differently, they would be less upset, they would have a life, maybe, worth living.
So how does this work?
When you are in reality, things are as they are. A is A.It is what it is.
In fact, it is not just success, but any supposedly positive outcome as the focus, as the destination will cause a failed life. As certainly as that the sun will come up in the morning.
I have a student who wants to be worthy.
The question to ask: why? Why would you want to be worthy?
All your wants are fueled by a desire to fix.
It is human nature, it is not personal. What is personal is what you want to fix… not the desire to fix. The desire to fix is universal.
In February 1988 my career as an architect ended with a whimper
It went out like a light.
I was 41 years old.
I was sure I had nothing to offer, I had no value, and I had no future.
It felt like I was on a stormy sea, on a ship, and had no control where the ship was going. I was not the captain, I didn’t hold the levers and dials in my hand.
Until that point I went wherever the ship went, and did what I could: do a good job, or not, wear clothes, read books, and be a passenger.
Shaktipat or ?aktip?ta (Sanskrit, from shakti – “(psychic) energy” – and p?ta, “to fall”) refers in Hinduism to the conferring of spiritual “energy” upon one person by another.
Refers in Hinduism to the conferring of spiritual “energy” upon one person by another. Shaktipat can be transmitted with a sacred word or mantra, or by a look, thought or touch – the last usually to the ajna chakra or third eye of the recipient.
Saktipat is considered an act of grace (anugraha) on the part of the guru or the divine. It cannot be imposed by force, nor can a receiver make it happen. The very consciousness of the god or guru is held to enter into the Self of the disciple, constituting an initiation into the school or the spiritual family (kula) of the guru. It is held that Shaktipat can be transmitted in person or at a distance, through an object such as a flower or fruit or else by telephone or letter.
If we look at shaktipat (shakti=energy, pat=falling, transferring) we could say that
Bach Flower Essences are specially made remedies, aqueous (water based) essences made with fresh water, the sun, and a specific and special flower (for the most part it’s a flower).
Edward Bach, who was a medical doctor, was an empath himself, and a very sensitive man. He correctly intuited that emotional disturbances cause all physical illnesses, blockages, and therefore if the blockages are released, the person will be well.
The blockages are caused by ego-based attitudes: we could call them character flaws. Bach found the 38 flowers in 10 years. Once he completed the set and he was satisfied, his work on Earth done, he died.
I was first relating to his work with distrust and aversion. I think I related to everything that way… but I can’t really remember. But later on I got curious and I got “hooked” by the simplicity and the elegance of his method.
Dictionary: a difference that you can see, hear, smell, feel, etc. : a noticeable difference between things or people
: the separation of people or things into different groups
: importance, excellence, or achievement
Many people use the word wrongly… it doesn’t really mean “difference”, it is simply saying: this is THIS and NOT THAT. It shows that there is an invisible or visible else-ness between two things.
You are unique, because you are NOT anyone else… you are distinct, definable, but not separate.
What changed? Where did your energy go? Where did your curiosity go? Where did your joy of discovery, the joy of building something, the joy of learning something go?
If we wanted to demonstrate you and the changes that happened we could use a water balloon to do that.
You fill up a balloon with water and tie off the opening. And then watch.
If you shoot at the balloon with arrows, each arrow will create a hole. Soon the balloon will look like a porcupine where it leaks at every arrow that pierced it.
These arrows are what I call attachments. They are particular arrows dragging with themselves a string or a chain… slowing you down, restrictive your movements, restricting your vision, diminishing you.
There are all kinds of attachments, some self-inflicted, some came from others.
Here is a list of what kind of attachments I have already discovered, and my hunch is that there is at least one more… I just haven’t been a
This question around entitlement is asked on google thousands times a day, and the trend is that this number is growing steadily.
More in certain countries… More in religious countries… Christian countries… Countries with deep Christian roots, like Ireland. One can safely assume that entitled, and deserving was invented by Christianity to promote certain behaviors that a father would want their child to demonstrate.
Other words that express this same entitlement are deserve and deserving.
Entitled means: believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
Inherently means: in a permanent, essential, or characteristic way… as i
In this movie, a man, unconscious of himself, his actions, of anything about himself, starts to hear his life narrated in his head (the Observer or the Witness), and starts living his life from that perspective, outside of his body, outside of his mind.
The movie is brilliant. Stranger than fiction. It stars Will Farrell, and Will Farrel could be you.
Now, here is a clue about you: how you will read this article can tell you everything about you.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
It will tell you your future more reliably than anything else you could hear or read.
It will tell you your level of intelligence.
It will tell you what you can hope to get out of my products, my courses, my work. Reliably.
When I was a kid I read a book about Sam Small, The Flying Yorkshireman. I read it in Hungarian… It was easier to read in Hungarian than in English… Ugh… that Yorkshire accent in writing… impossible to tolerate.
Anyway, this Sam Small could fly. And I decided that I wanted to fly too. I spent all my imagination… what it would be like to fly.
Unfortunately all my fancies were about escaping… I don’t know what it is about me: I still have nightmares about escaping, and there is always flying.