Secrets of Success – Addendum
Lists from part one. Richard St. John found 8 common factors: 1) Passion – for love, not money 2) Work – it’s hard work but fun when in passion. “Workafrolic” 3) Good – get good …
Secrets of Success, Part 4
The Past And finally, the big one in the closet, our past. Consciously or not, we are intending all the time. Dreaming, wishing, desiring, and craving. All of this is programming our life experience or …
Secrets of Success, Part 3
Obligation There’s another detail here that can get in the way of our seeing or living to purpose. That is obligation. For example, if you have a child or elderly parents, this creates certain obligations, …
Secrets of Success, Part 2
Believe it or not, everything we experience arises in the mind. We tend to think of the mind as responding to sensory input from a preexisting world. But that sensory input is actually the feedback …
Secrets of Success, Part 1 of 5
One of the curious things about life is that success and happiness are it’s nature. The very function of it’s movement through our lives. Yet while many of us live a life, we find happiness …
Control Your Mind, Control Your Life, or not
When we first begin to become aware how powerful the mind is at creating our reality, we often will take the ego’s perspective. If I can control this mind, I will control my life, my …
Seeing Through it
On this blog, there are a number of posts about clearing, releasing or allowing. Many teachers talk about this as it’s a key aspect of preparing the ground for awakening. I’d like to take it …
Awakening is not Experienced
I was discussing Adyashanti’s idea of abiding and non-abiding awakening with a good friend of mine last night. He reminded me of an important observation to make on this subject. I touched on it in …
Lorn and Lucia Links
There are various posts mentioning Lorn and Lucia here. See the Category LuciaLorn to find them. For an intro, see Lorn and Lucia. As their web site and video channel are regularly updated, I’ll refer …
The End of Your World Overview – Adyashanti
I ended up writing a number of posts around points raised in Adyashanti’s new book, The End of Your World. If you’re interested, here are links to the related articles. The End of Your World …
The Flower of Awakening
Right after I wrote Grace or Practice, a friend of mine sent me an article by Nirmala touching on the same subject. Using the analogy of a flower, he asks what is involved in it’s …
Abide some More
Back on Abide with Me, I discussed Adyashanti’s concept of abiding and non-abiding awakening. I thought it would be worth exploring this a little more. As people have a need to verify and understand their …