2 Learn how to Meditate and Embrace a Fulfilling Spiritual Path

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Becoming Like A ‘Virtuoso’ In Meditation – Part 1

The Path of a personal Spiritual Practice includes becoming like a ‘Virtuoso‘ in meditation. The goal of deep meditation is to find an inner peace that turns just sitting and doing ‘nothing’, into an inspiring ineffable experience that is beyond mere words to describe yet is so subtle that most at first won’t notice those

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Becoming Like A ‘Virtuoso’ In Meditation – Part 2

Meditation deepens in stages. As you begin sitting at this early stage of this current meditation, you’re becoming more aware of the subtle nuances in the experience of any tensions, fears, or anxieties… relaxing them and just letting it all go… Don’t sit there an pine about the past, or fret about the future. If

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Becoming Like A ‘Virtuoso’ In Meditation – Part 3

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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Becoming Like A ‘Virtuoso’ In Meditation – Part 4

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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The Deep End

Along The Deep End of the Spiritual Path Is The Progress of Spiritual Insights

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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The Spiritual Path Towards Liberation

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 Start of 2020

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.