It took quite a bit for me to learn that trying to outwardly act like a Buddha won’t make me a Buddha.
The above line is from one of my students.
Really smart guy, isn’t he?
And I bet you can see that the next step he would take after making this really smart statement is to start… start what?
You see, most of what sounds smart is not that smart. Most of what sounds smart is smoke screen, to hide something.
I watched yet another movie about Alan Turing and how his machine won the war against Nazi Germany. I would not be around without him. And you would live a totally different life… The book (and the Amazon series) The Man in the High Castle approximates… I am in awe. With what he did, with who he was, with genius winning, with goodness winning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QyVZrV3d3o Scientific name for your “how” is Conation. It is innate, and it is NOT changeable. Regardless… I have been looking at taming my own… I find that it is not tamable. It is what it is. But I have come to suspect that what you do after you do what your Conation makes you do is when the magic happens. You see, all people belong to three types. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what happened. But The cell, when it is struggling to perform the functions the cell is designed to do, has a real hard time to give you energy for life. The life that you want to live needs you to have a lot more energy than you have, physical energy, emotional energy, intellectual energy, spiritual energy. And when your cells are dehydrated they can’t give it to you. I don’t know if it is true that death is when enough of your cells die because of dehydration, but it makes a lot of sense. It’s been many years that I “shared” with anyone. Sharing is a Landmark Education distinction: you talk about some gain in your life, in a particular way, and if you did it well, the other person gets a tiny bit more than just a whiff of what you are “sharing”; they get a taste of it. A taste of your gain…As if you’ve given them a bite of your triple chocolate fudge cake… lol. We were both early for the exercise class, and she was really relieved that she wasn’t going to be the only student… As I was changing to shorts, and gym shoes, I asked if it would be OK with her if I bragged.. Most people first-draft-people… they never re-write. Others carefully craft the format, but don’t touch what they said… the content. And then others wait until they think they have something profound to say… and that is rarely. All good writing is re-writing. Both writing literature and “writing”, crafting your life, your story. ((Most people never re-write. They present their first draft in everything. A real good secret of how not to amount to anything or much)) If you are not willing to write badly you are not willing to write well either. And if you can’t see that your first draft is bad, you will never look at it again. In this arti That’s a loaded question, but it’s a valid question. I have done a lot of observation and thinking on this. I have come to the conclusion that the core issue is stinginess that results in scarcity thinking and scarcity behavior. I will list a few variations: I am sure that you’ll find yourself… This is how it goes: In 1967 I applied to participate in a 6-day on site advanced program in Landmark… it was still called Werner Erhard and Associates at the time. I was denied. The staff member for admittance told me: Until you learn the difference between thinking and doing, you can’t do the course. I had no idea what she meant. But I wanted to do the course… so I called her daily. And tried different ways to prove to her that I knew the difference… I got in by mistake. Here we are, 29 years later. You would be better off living in a children’s home where everyone is trained in personal growth. Because parents are much like those fraudulent personal growth, get rich, get well and thin, “take a tablet and become forever young/pain free/etc.” marketers. Why? I guess a stupid person cannot teach another to be smart. What is smart? It is smart to Learn from Life. Life has been around, successfully, way longer than you and me. One of these movies is The Princess Bride. Why do I love The Princess Bride? Why do I watch it a few times a year, especially when my energy level is low? Because, for me, the movie is about persistence. It’s about working towards something remote and maybe even impossible, and yet… There are a ton of amazing quotable sayings in that movie… here is one: Buttercup: You mock my pain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVY2zpVTNg I like everything in the movie, but get especially energized by the Spaniard. Afte
The ability to be in awe… how will it matter for your life?
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine~Alan Turing
The hardest pull to resist is the pull of your “how” nature. Or what type of activity do you rush into… headfirst…
The hardest pull to resist is the pull of your “how” nature. Or what type of activity do you rush into… headfirst… That activity can be four kinds… four conative types, four types of conative actions… reading, planning, action, and execution. Increase your cell hydration is the first step I recommend you take to raise your vibration?
When people want to raise their vibration, when people want to improve their lives, ultimately I recommend that they start with increasing their cell hydration.
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The “and” game… What your resistance says about you
I got lucky today. I got to see something I haven’t seen in a long time. How is living is like writing a book? Good writing is re-writing…
Let’s see how you write… and then we’ll see how you live your life. What is the typical reason people don’t do anything with their lives?
What is the typical reason people don’t do anything with their lives?
A spiritual practice to restore your Intrinsic Self as the captain of your ship
The most important thing I never learned in Landmark… that allowed me to grow
The biggest stumbling block you have to growth that will fail you
Parents are not trained educators. They don’t allow you to be a child: they only care about themselves… not you, no matter how much they pretend, even to themselves. You, as a parent, are the same way…
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something
With some movies I ponder for years why I liked it.
Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.