Are you using social networking to avoid being social.

Have you noticed yourself Tweet-ing and Facebook-ing in social situations to avoid talking and interacting with people?  I’m constantly observing people in line at the store, at the airport, on a plane and in the elevator engaged with their device.  We are immersing ourselves in a medium that is helping to create social barriers with our fellow beings.  A new distraction that keeps us from meeting our true self in the form of those around us that manifests as our peers.  Our peers can represent aspects of ourselves we may be having trouble accepting and we don’t want to confront that because it’s uncomfortable.

• put your phone down at lunch
• in the elevator put the phone down and smile at someone
• make a time at night to turn off all devices and sit quietly for five minutes
• leave your phone at home one weekend day or part of that day

Take it slow, take your time and be easy on yourself.

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How can we obtain that which we already have?  Should we drop the goal of obtaining peace as a result of our meditation practice?  Can we just sit without wanting something to happen and just be with what is?  Having a gaining idea can lead us into a circle of suffering, pain and confusion.  Nothing is permanent, so trying to reach a state of permanent peace is an unreachable goal.  Can we accept that we will never have a continuous, blissful state of oneness?  Can we call off the search and see that the thing we are looking for is right here, right now, in this moment?  It can be nowhere else but here because only this moment exists.  Everything else is only thought.

• The one who seeks peace doesn’t exist.
• The one who is looking for enlightenment doesn’t exist.
• The one who wants to keep peace blocks the peaceful state that already exists.
• It’s not possible to attain a perfect, constant state of peace.
• That which thinks it’s not at peace will never attain it.

We must ask who or what is seeking peace.  Who or what is not at peace or is agitated with present circumstances.

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Don’t be fooled by the carrot life is dangling before you.  That which you seek is inside of you waiting to be discovered.  There is no need to look outside yourself for happiness, love, bliss or completeness; everything that you seek, you already possess.  Look no further than your next breath.

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Are you a spiritual seeker?  Do you want to control your own destiny, the universe or just your dog?  This podcast may have the answers that you seek.

• Who are you?
• Where did you come from?
• Where do you go when you die?

Big questions aren’t they?  Have you ever asked yourself who is the one asking these questions?  Who is the one that is seeking something?  Who is the one that is looking for the answers?  Who is the one that I call myself, me?  Who is the one that we call “I”.  Want to learn more?  Listen to the podcast.

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