It’s so funny that I refer to these conversations we have here as an “understanding”. That’s not what it is at all, really. It’s before understanding. Way before. It’s so close, so immediate, so oozy that we overlook it. A mind and it’s concepts and stories look right “over” it. It’s this aliveness that is everything far
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As Linda woke up to the fact that her mind was trying to help her, but that its conclusions were not accurate or helpful, she was less fooled by it. She saw the wisdom in her habit.She realized that she didn’t have a hard time kicking the wine habit because she was weak or seriously
In this episode, I share a quote that deeply spoke to me about how the objectifying mind is “nothing other than it’s own movement”. How it will “arrange and rearrange its collection of ideas onto a nest and settle down for a little while, but some unexplainable restlessness will prompt it to keep looking for
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The only thing ever going on when there is any bit of discomfort or discontent is this: a thought believed.Thought arises and is viewed as all-there-is.There is never anything else going on. Thought arises and is viewed as truth. That’s it.It is that simple, but here’s why it won’t feel so simple: it will most
There are many concepts and ideas that have been incredibly helpful to me. Things like wisdom, empowerment, hope…From a place of feeling completely immersed in the story of me-and-my-life, going from feeling like life is up to me to seeing that there is something called “wisdom” leading the way was unbelievably helpful.Same with hope. From
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There is only life appearing as everything.There is life appearing as an eating disorder.Life appearing as a memory, frustration, resistance, fear, excitement.Life appearing as a woman getting a promotion, a man getting a divorce, a woman being elected to office. Life appears as a person or a blue bird or a slug; a job, a
Today’s episode is based on a question I received from a listener. The gist of her question was this: “If our thoughts are not real and they’re just making up stories, then how would you explain childhood abuse? Are my thoughts and feelings not true? Is my mind just making this up?”It’s an excellent question,
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When we think our experience is all there is, we’re often afraid to look at it. When it feels uncomfortable or dangerous and true and personal, we numb. We avoid. We look away. We distract ourselves from our experience of life in countless ways, like staying chronically busy, needing to be surrounded by people or noise,
The mind isn’t a real thing. It’s a concept. As a concept, it implies some solidity and some continuity. There’s a story about me-and-my-mind that can’t help but arise.My mind appears to be an entity with some solid qualities. I can like what it does or dislike what it does. I can try to change
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