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V Living Life
Ch 19. The Loving eyes of the God
You feel that there’s more of a distance between you
and the thoughts and emotions inside of you.
You don’t feel as much anger, fear, or self-consciousness.
You don’t feel resentment toward people.
You don’t close or get tight as often.
Things still happen that you don’t want to happen, but they don’t seem to touch you as much.
Spiritual Being
As you associate less with the physical and psychological parts of
your being, you begin to identify more with the flow of pure energy.
You used to walk around feeling anxiety and tension;
now you walk around feeling love. You just feel love for no reason.
How Body feels
generally uncomfortable about one thing or another.
How Mind feels
generally full of complaints and fears.
How Spirit/ Soul feels
It always feels high.
It always feels open and light.
Transformations on the Spiritual path
Started feeling tremendous love
for all creatures, for every plant, for every animal, and for all the beauties of nature.
You are no longer judging.
Analogy
When you walk through a beautiful botanical garden,
you feel open and light.
You see beauty. You don’t judge the shape and placement of every leaf. The leaves are of all sizes and shapes and they face every-which-way.
Nature
No judgement.
Willingly gives itself to everyone.
Your relationship with God is the same as your relationship with the sun.
True Love
It means that you love
them more than you love yourself.
unconditional love of a mother.
Transcendental love
Divine Love
Ch 16. The Spiritual Path of Nonresistence
Spiritual work as learning to live life without stress, problems, fear.
the experience of an event does not stop with our sensory observation of it. The event also has to pass through the psyche at an energetic level.
resistance is a tremendous waste of energy.
resist one of two things:
which has already happened
which hasn’t happened yet.
If you want to understand stress,
Realize that you carry around with you your own set of preconceived notions of how things should be. It is based upon these notions that you assert your will to resist what has already happened.
Mental voice tells you to resist something. It literally commands you: “I don’t like what he said. Fix it.”
first let the energy make it through you.
Then deal with the current event,
If you don’t, you will not actually be dealing with the current event, you will be dealing with your own blocked energies from the past.
You will not be coming from a place of clarity, but from a place of inner resistance and tension.
begin dealing with each situation with acceptance. Acceptance means that events can make it through you without resistance. If an event takes place and is able to make it through your psyche, you will be left face-to-face with the actual situation as it truly exists. Since you are dealing with the actual event, rather than stored energies stimulated by the event, you won’t assert reactive energy from your past.
events are not problems; they’re just events. Your resistance to them is what causes the problem.
Most situations there’s nothing to deal with except for your
own fears and desires.
If you’re not trying to make people fit into your preconceived notions of what you like and dislike, you will find that relationships are not really that difficult.
spiritual path
Path of nonresistance =>
the path of acceptance =>
the path of surrender.
life is a gift
that gift is the flow of events
that takes place between your birth and your death.
Ch 17. Contemplating Death
one of the best teachers in all of life
turns out to be death.
Death is giving meaning to
your life.
Imagine if you knew
you were going to die within a week
Think honestly about what you would do with your last week. What a wonderful thought to contemplate. Then ponder this question: If that’s really what you would do with your last week, what are you doing with the rest of your time? Wasting it? Throwing it away? Treating it like it’s not something precious? What are you doing with life? That is what death asks you.
Fully experienced life
Learn to live as though you are facing death at all times, and you’ll become bolder and more open.
If you live life fully, you won’t have any last wishes.
You will have lived them every moment.
challenge yourself to live
as though it were your last week,
your mind may come up with all kinds of suppressed desires.
It may start talking about all the things that you’ve always wanted to do.
It is scarcity that makes things precious.
You should be experiencing the life that’s happening to you, not the one you wish was happening. Don’t waste a moment of life trying to make other things happen; appreciate the moments you are given. Don’t you understand that every minute you’re a step closer to death? This is how to live your life. You live it as though you were on the verge of death, because you are.
You’re not
living life; you’re living mind.
if something terrible happens,
all things are temporal;
they are all just passing through time
and space.
remind the frailty of the body and the inevitability of death.
Ch15. The Path of Unconditional Happiness
Enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do.
Every time a part of you begins to get unhappy,
let it go.
Use affirmations, or
do whatever you need to do to stay open.
Breakthrough Points
Meditation strengthens your center of consciousness so that you’re always aware enough to not allow your heart to close.
You remain open by simply letting go and releasing the tendency to close.
You just relax your heart when it starts to tighten.
You’re just having fun with the different situations that unfold.
Ch 18. The Secret of the Middle Way
The Tao
Balance of the Yin and Yang
Peaceful harmony
Where there is no energy push.
stop swinging between the opposites
Struggling with the opposites versus
staying centered in order to get something done.
How to come to Balance?
Don't feed the extremes with energy.
Just let the extremes go.
Life's events will no longer seem confusing or overwhelming,
no matter what they are.
If you have no preference,
if the only thing you want is to remain centered,
then life unfolds while you simply feel for the center.
Example: Sailing
You, the wind, the sail, and the water are one. All the forces are in harmony. Should one force shift, the others shift at the same instant. Then the wind shifts and you adjust to it.
Dynamic Equilibrium
You move from
balance point to balance point,
from center to center.
You can’t have any concepts or preferences;
you have to let the forces move you.
nothing is personal.
Core Message:
Interest lies in the balance and
not in any personal preference for how things should be.
It’s that way with all of life.
Core Message
interest lies in the balance and
not in any personal preference for how things should be.
It’s that way with all of life.
Effortless action is what happens when you come into the Tao
Life happens, you’re there, but you don’t make it happen. There is no burden; there is no stress. The forces take care of themselves as you sit in the center.
How to live in the Tao?
Analogy: A blind person walks down a city street
with the use of a cane.
People who walk with the use of that cane often tap from side to side. They’re not trying to find where they should walk; they’re trying to find where they shouldn’t walk.
If you cannot see your way, all you can do is feel for the edges.
But if you feel the edges, and don’t go there, you will stay in the Way.