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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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
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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Ponder this What is really important in your life? What really matters? What would you be better off doing more of? What would you be better off doing less of? The basic Meditations and Mindful Daily Practices I write about are Non-denominational and in Harmony with all Spiritual Traditions. Every one of Every Faith Benefits Greatly by
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Have a good look at this image. Then close your eyes and try to keep this image in your awareness for as long as possible. Keep in mind only this image with no other thoughts. You will be surprised at how soon random thoughts barge right into our awareness. Our triune brains are like a
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Spiritually ‘Inclined‘ and Curious about Deepening an Awareness Within and Mindful Living? After many Wondrous Ceremonies of True Love… We all gaze out at the Sunset… There is often a deep expression or a Longing… for some sort of an ‘understanding‘ of… ~ The Inner Pull ~ Towards something that makes us inherently Feel like we must be part of
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Silence is the language ‘God’ speaks, Meditation helps to still your body enough to open the door to your inner silence. Within this inner silence one can abide the boundless space of our True Nature, It is here deep within ourselves that we can hear the whispers of Wisdom flow through our Being. It is
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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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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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.
