There is an inherent part of our human nature that feels a strong sense of wanting to belong to something that is bigger than life typically reveals to us. Also, it is hard wired into our DNA to always be mindful of our survival and the ever continued-ness of our species… so, being concerned with […]
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Stage Two: Interrupted Attention and Overcoming Mind-Wandering You will learn to work smart, not hard, using finesse, patience, and positive reinforcement rather than willpower. Keeping your attention on the breath may seem like a simple task, but you’ll quickly discover how challenging it can be. Most novice meditators are surprised by how unruly the mind
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THE PRACTICE of mindfulness leads to both psychological healing and profound spiritual insights. To understand how, we first need to look at the role of the mind in the formation of personality. The person you are today was shaped by your past. Imprints of past experiences exert a powerful but unconscious influence on your thoughts,
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Just about everyone, at some point in their life, has contemplated… “The meaning of lifeâ€. 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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and The Three Characteristics In the stage of Cause and Effect, the relationships between mental and physical phenomena become very clear and sometimes ratchet-like. There is a cause, such as intention, and then an effect, such as movement. There is a cause, such as a sensation, and there is an effect, namely a mental impression.
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Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and no-self. It becomes more obvious that all the constituents of our experience are quickly arising and passing, somewhat jarring, and not particularly in our control or to be identified with as “meâ€. Further, as these sensations are all observed, including the crude mental impression that follows them (“consciousnessâ€), it becomes clear 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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Maui Marrying Man – Making Dreams Come True on Maui’s Romantic Beaches.
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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.
