Just about everyone, at some point in their life, has contemplated… “The meaning of life”. Along with how their life fits into… ‘The timeless wonder of it all’. Who am I really… in the grand scheme of it all? Is there a God? Do we have a soul or eternalness that preceded this life and […]
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Putting a ‘Voice’ to Mental Mind Processes These Voices that represent the many facets of our thought processes Fall into a few main category types. The Guardians Have instinctually become the animalistic sense of ‘self’ In charge of protecting the ‘self’ The Controller Wants to control everything, loss of control is a big concern Wants
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This process compartmentalizes the countless parts of our mind and how ‘it’ thinks about certain situations. These mental departments become overwhelmed. Since we are not typically in True Awareness of our many mental capacities, These ‘voices’ carry on in the mind as if they are in charge. In other words, These ‘departments of egos’, distract
This Big Mind evaluation is created from ancient Zen, Transcended and Integrated into the Deepest aspects, practice and training of Modern Zen, Integrating Jungian Phycology techniques, thus, Manifesting a ‘way’ To look at the way ‘we – our -self’ initially sees … Life ~ Read on For a Deeper Way ~ This process compartmentalizes the
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The goal of ‘Liberation’ is to De-program our mistaken identity of being an ego mind body. The essential endeavors to become “Self-Realized” is a required process. Since we don’t really know who or what ‘we’ are, we can use negative deduction to whittle down the objects that are not Ultimately… our True Being. We are
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The Instinctive Seeker would be wise to gain the common core Wisdoms from Buddha, Advaita Vedanta, Dzogchen, Zen, Tao, Judaism, and Islam… for starters… Even Christianity’s early roots gave meditation and spiritual contemplation a very strong recommendation for not taking someone else word for the ‘Word of God’, but to experientially experiencing the ‘Grace’ of Divinity. Even
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Everything of ‘Life’ is Cyclic as you will learn more deeply with Spiritual ‘practice’. We all notice that there is a certain ineffable ‘flow’ to our personal lives and how we interact with the life around us. There are times when we feel like we are in the ‘zone’ of an effortless groove. And other
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Take meditation Beyond the Breath to a place where all your troubles and concerns can’t follow you and even if they do they dissolve the boundless spaciousness of your True Nature… the “I am” of Advaita Vedanta or Rigpa of Tibetan Dzogchen and become so insignificant… Like helium escaping from a balloon which can’t get
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We’ve relaxed our tensions, let go of any non-present moment objects like the past or the future… But those thoughts just keep popping up in our monkey mind. This is when it is helpful to just have one object of meditation… The breath. This is a good place to understand that the best way to
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Along a personal Spiritual Path, the self-inquiry of one’s ‘True Nature’ must be contemplated. If there is some part of ‘us’ that is eternal, or at least goes on somehow after this life… just what would that be…? Consider that whoever “we” think ‘we’ are can be deduced by negating the obvious, in Buddhism it’s
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Our business was doing great, but we still couldn’t afford to buy a house or a condo. Renting in Maui for another 30 years was not an option we wanted to take. Then, Bobbie Jo suggested we buy a sailboat that is comfortable to cruise and live in. By the end of January, we started looking for our new home.
After a long search, we found our dream boat in Mazatlan, Mexico. COVID-19 was not yet a concern when our boat hunt began, but masks were starting to appear at airports by the time we flew to Mazatlan. Originally, we had planned to get the boat ready as fast as possible to cover a full calendar for the busy wedding season. However, it was apparent our business was going to tank amid the pandemic, and the struggle went on until the end of the year.
Luckily, we scored an awesome condo for only $19 a day at Mazatlan. On the 10th day of our stay, we received the news that all harbors will be closed the next Monday morning. We thought we’d be stuck in Mexico longer, but another sailor advised us to leave before sunrise.
We felt the adrenalin of escaping the Mexican harbor master just before the sun rose that faithful day. The seas were rough as waves were building up in the tight channel that led us to the open ocean. We ended up anchored off an adorable little isle just a mile offshore. We enjoyed cruising to many spectacular anchorages and cute villages on our way to Puerto Vallarta, where we would depart for Maui on May 7. On May 30, 2020, we completed our 24-day passage from Mexico to Maui.
