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Emotions

How Our Emotions Effect Our Health And How To Control That

September 13, 2013
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Our emotions have a powerful effect on our body, giving it all sorts of stress related illnesses. Our mind creates our emotions. What we think is happening is the beginning of our emotional responses. Emotions begin with an event that we interpret, thus all em...

Acceptance

How Hopelessness Brings Infinite Happiness

September 6, 2013
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When anyone asks; "How are you?" I am always well. The secret to always being happy is to have nothing you want to do. This is the essence of the Buddhist teaching that all suffering is caused by desires. The more we desire, the more we suffer, either through ...

Acceptance

The Comfort In Discomfort

August 31, 2013
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If you feel totally comfortable in your life, then something is wrong because it is not possible to feel perfectly and totally comfortable. The reason is simply that perfect comfort is a state that you would never leave or change and that means we stop moving,...

Spiritual Growth

Why Needing Money Is Necessary For Conscious Development

August 23, 2013
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Many people hate money because our life is controlled by it. That is valid and true, but for every negative there is a positive, and the positive side of being controlled by money is what I would like to discuss. The most important part of achieving a happy li...

Emotional Independence

Not Only Desires, But Obligations, Cause Suffering

August 16, 2013
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Buddha is famous for the saying; “Life is suffering and desires are the cause of suffering.” I have spent my life working on eliminating desires, and of course, it is not possible for a human being to eliminate all desires. We will always have something we wan...

Emotional Independence

How Can We Learn To Trust And Let Go?

August 9, 2013
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I think the problem is the ego wanting to be individual. It goes back to when we are children, the ‘terrible two’s’ when a child starts to say no to everything. That is a point in our life that we develop the idea that we are separate individuals and want ackn...

Self-Improvement

How Being Graceful Equals Being Awake

July 25, 2013
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Many people would like to be more present, awake, aware, as well as financially successful and equally importantly, have better relationships with someone who is actually ‘there’. In my years of trying to teach people how to attain these qualities I have been ...

Emotional Independence

The Difference Between Not Caring and Not Being Concerned

July 22, 2013
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Not caring is an empty, dead feeling. Not being concerned is a very alive vibrant feeling that can come by keeping the awareness in the chest with no other thought, fully present. One is full and the other is empty. For this to be a full feeling, training and ...

Self-Improvement

Who Should Pay The Bill

July 18, 2013
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The concept of splitting the bill when out with your friends for a meal or coffee for example, each paying for themselves, is a terrible thing because it robs us of the joy of giving and joy of receiving. Not only the joy is lost, but there is a far more insid...

Acceptance

Why We Resist Change

July 15, 2013
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Many people do not like change. They just don’t like it and are not sure why or cannot even begin to come up with a reason, they just don’t like change, it upsets them. In the hopes of eliminating yet one more frequently repeated negative state which limits...

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