Reminders on the path

Don’t worry so much.
Just relax.
You’re only doing the best you can.
Fully embrace every aspect of who you are right now.
Rest in being here right now.
Decided to feel good.
Don’t try so hard.
Just stop
Just sit
Just be yourself
Be the ONE
When sitting in meditation be comfortable, don’t try to meditate.
Watch your breath go in and out.
If you have thoughts, no problem just keep sitting.
If your butt hurts that’s fine just keep sitting.
If you can’t sit, just sit anyway.

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Once upon a time there was a thought, and the thought was, “a quiet mind is all you need.” A quiet mind is all anyone needs to feel happy, peaceful, whole and complete. If your mind just stops and becomes still, what remains? It’s simple really and anyone can see this. What remains is quiet and quiet by its very nature is peaceful and peace is nice. Peace feels good, it feels serene, and who doesn’t like serene?

Boy oh boy, what a crazy thought (to quiet the mind) because now there was a goal and a mission, an impossible mission at that. I must tell you, if you give the hyper analytical mind of an obsessive being such as myself a goal, you better watch out because it will stop at nothing to achieve said goal. So began the twenty year quest to achieve the impossible, to achieve having a quiet mind.

What a wonderful journey it has been. I have seen so much and learned so much. I’m literally bursting with things to share with you at this plateau of understanding, you the listeners, you the fellow travelers. If I haven’t said it before or often enough, I want to say it again and again. Thank you, fellow adventurer from the bottom of my heart for being here, for being my listening ears. I bow to you all with the deepest, heartfelt gratitude. Without you my friends, I would never have been able to make such a difficult journey.

How can one achieve a quiet mind and feel peace, happiness and contentment all the time? Those questions and many others will be answered in this next series of podcasts that will deal directly with how to quiet your mind. What do you need to do? All you need to do is show up and listen. I’m here to remind you that you are what you seek and happiness is your true nature. We are THAT and a quiet mind can bring peace, happiness and contentment to your life. Is that the end? No I think it’s only a good start but it’s a powerful start. So together let’s do this thing.

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Speak from your heart the latent truth which resides there and it will emerge into the dream world as fact. Nurture the innate wisdom you carry inside by spending time in solitude and silence. Trust in that which arises inside you and guides you to face your fears, to love, to serve and to humble yourself. Open your heart by giving to someone in need. All sentient beings deserve your love. Be grateful for everything that has happened in the past. It has all happened for a reason, to bring you to this point in time. You are blessed. You have everything you need. LIfe is a gift. To see this life as a blessing, practice acceptance, forgiveness and compassion. In doing this you will step into and activate your true nature thus embodying your full potential. This action manifests dormant passions and stimulates your heart’s voice, revealing your purpose for being. Your calling is to love, serve and remember, to remember why you are here and who you truly are.

You are much bigger than you think.

Understand this; you are not the tiny mind that bleats worrisome thoughts inside your brain nor are you the fearful and impotent being you imagine yourself to be. You are not controlled by the media, the government or society. You are not the one who is enslaved and tortured by the stories and lies the mind spins. These ways of deceit and deception that arise in your mind are not true. They are not you and you are not bound to what they say. You are not the story you tell yourself. You are not the tiny mind, timidly living out your time here waiting to go someplace else, some place safer, better, quieter. Life is not a waiting room. You are here now in this moment to wake up and know this as fact. You are the Big Heart, the Big Mind, the Big Love that holds everything in existence. You are the energy that is comprised of love, courage, compassion, joy, bliss and contentment. You are what you are seeking. Nothing needs to be added to you to actualize your True Self and embrace your True Nature of Mind. Do this; stop looking outside for it; seek inside for the answers. No one else can or will acknowledge your true beingness for you; you must do this for yourself. There will be no outside validation of your innate wisdom. There is no one or no thing to be enlightened. There is no tiny mind. The tiny mind, the tiny self, is the only thing in existence that isn’t real. The illusion of self, a separate me, mine and I is all that is holding you back from total freedom. There are pointers to this truth and they are simple.

Be Still.
You are what you seek.
Love is your foundation.
See this inside you.
You are everything and nothing – Be this no thing – Be this everything.
Embrace not knowing.
Throw away being clever.
Stop being right.
You are not broken.
The world is not broken.
Nothing needs fixing.
You are free.
You are not the thoughts that arise in your mind.
Stop. Listen. Breathe and just be YOU.