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Life keeps coming just like waves on the ocean.  They just keep coming, some knock you down, but just keep getting back up and keep walking.  After a while you will notice the waves appear to be getting smaller.  The key is to keep getting back up; if you don’t, you will drown.

We are all on the path of life, it’s like climbing a mountain.  We all use different paths to climb the mountain and use different methods to reach the summit.  However, there is only one summit.  There we no longer need our path or our method, it is where we all share exactly the same vista.

Your spirit energy is always with you, and you can use it in any way you want, it is inexhaustible.  It is the infinite gateway to mysteries within mysteries.  If you attempt to fix a picture of spirit in your mind you will lose it, why not be content with simply experiencing it?

Political structures change, as do nations, but life and our basic life’s needs remain eternally the same.  These needs cannot be changed no matter our disposition or education.  The need for harmony can be achieved when a leader and people work together in cooperation with a unity of purpose.

Quote: One must simplify the world to discover something new about it.

How do you want to feel tomorrow, next week, next year?  It is up to you how you use your life.  It doesn’t mean you are the best at cheering up, or your habitual tendencies don’t get the better of you.  Keep reminding yourself that it is your life to live and every action you do has a result.

The ancient teachings are simple, they are profound, and yet plain.  They contain the entire truth of the universe.  To understand them and learn the truths, take joy in doing your work and the service that comes to you, this will put you in harmony with the teachings.

Settle your mind like the universe settles the stars in the night sky.  Connecting your mind to that subtle origin, it will become calm and tranquil, then it will naturally expand and ultimately your mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.

The ancient teachings are there to offer you guidance for favorable action in your daily life and, at the same time, to avoid misconduct that invites misfortune.  Consulting these teachings will help you plan for the future and gives you a chance to study your past actions.

Quote: The past and future become completely unimportant when we realize that there’s only now.

When you wake up in the morning and get a moment of sadness and longing, or just that something is wrong, use this moment as an opportunity to relax and touch the limitless space of your human heart.  Next time the opportunity arises experiment with this.

If you want to catch the subtle things in life you need to refine yourself, but then the coarser things of life become more obvious.  If you don’t want the coarse, the solution lies in going with the flow of life, uniting with it, then we no longer seek to hold  or to reject.

To cleanse oneself of contaminations such as anger, resistance, or self-absorption practice undiscriminating virtue.  To practice virtue, give without limitations, without prejudice, and without expectations.  If your willingness to give is limited, so is your ability to receive.

The best way to fight evil is to make energetic progress towards the good.  If we try to fight or compromise with evil we lose because we get entangled in hatred and passion.  Our own faults and shortcomings should be handled the same way, if we wrestle with them, they will remain victorious.

Quote: One extends one’s limits only by exceeding them.

Acknowledge your thoughts, let them go and come back to the freshness of the present moment.  By doing this you are sowing seeds of wakefulness in your subconscious. You are conditioning yourself towards opening up and, after a while, you become more wakeful and aware of life.

Once we feel we have sufficient knowledge and power we must be careful to not let it get the better of us and lose our sense of inquiry into what is right.  Use your common sense and be humble, do not brag about your power or use it unwisely; doing so can cause you suffering.

To accept all things means to hold no anger or resistance towards anything, rid yourself of any concept of separation.  Foregoing antagonism and separation you enter into the harmonious oneness with all things.  Acceptance is the very essence of life.

The words and deeds of the past can be used to strengthen and elevate your character.  When you study the past do not confine yourself to knowledge of history but apply that knowledge now to give actuality to the past; begin with these ancient teachings.

Quote: Who makes much of a miracle? As for me I know nothing but miracles.  Whitman

Impermanence can teach you a lot about how to cheer up.  It’s okay if the thoughts of impermanence scare you, this can make you start asking questions and start you wondering.  Maybe you are afraid of the most exciting things you have yet to learn.

Lying dormant inside of us are points of healing and well-being.  These points, when concentrated upon yield specific forces, cure ailments, alter consciousness and still the mind.  These spots only await discovery before they give you wondrous powers.

When things arise, let them come; when things depart, let them go; don’t possess, don’t expect.  Practice undiscriminating virtue, take care of those who are deserving also, equally take care of those who are not.  These practices calm the mind and bring one into harmony with all things.

Whenever a feeling is voiced with truth and frankness, whenever a deed is the clear expression of sentiment, a far-reaching influence is exerted.  The root of this influence lies in your inner being and the effect reflects something that emanates from your heart to all.

Quote: What we do, even what we think, changes what happens. It changes reality for everyone.

Let your mind and your heart be big enough to hang out in the space where we’re not entirely certain who is right and who is wrong.  Practice meeting people with no agenda, just see, hear and feel them as they really are, not trying to make them right or wrong.  True communication can only happen in that open space.

We are not required to make any effort in life, we can all go the easy way.  However, if we do make an effort and take care of our physical, mental and spiritual bodies, we will have better control of what is happening to us, rather than aimlessly going through life.

The truth is always right there before you and what you need is always right in front of you.  All you need to do is open your mind and heart and look.  You can do this by being present in this moment, accepting that you don’t know, then the truth will become clear.

As we age, we should take time to enjoy the blessings of life.  If you only sigh and remember the sorrowful times you will bring on misfortune.  Use your intelligence and wisdom to deal with the varying course of life, the good things that come as well as the bad.

Quote: Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of.

Fully acknowledge your sadness and the sadness of life, but do not be consumed by it.  Remember your true nature, of balance and completeness, joining vision with practicality.  This quality of being continuously awake will help you remember who you really are.

Your consciousness colours your perception of the world around you.  It colours such things as your objective reality and your subjective realty. It colours everything, but if you want the highest state of being, aim for a consciousness without colour, where you become one with everything and there is no duality.

We are told to be “good” in the framework of an inhuman world.  The ancients tell us to transcend every false premise of our culture, and to be reborn in the form of our essential humanity which needs no tests of performance, wealth, achievement or goodness to validate itself.

Living a life of sincerity and integrity, is not any guarantee against bad luck or ugly surprises.  But life has learned that these traits will improve the odds of success, that working with a natural merit and practicing a natural good can be two of the best rules one can live by.

Quote: The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being ignorant about your emotions or struggling against them only makes matters worse.  Become more attentive to your emotions, get to know them better.  To dissolve their power, use your wholehearted intelligent attention, this will help you discover their insubstantial nature.

All cultures know a mystical core that emphasizes continuing refinement, meditation, and unification with the greater cosmos.  If you have a spiritual or meditation practice, practice it more and you will be thoroughly sustained and rewarded by this continued practice.

There is an alternative way of living, start with detoxifying the mental-emotional spiritual garbage we all inherit.  We do this by returning to our own natural humanity; we can then realize our full human potential, enabling us to transform our institutions and ourselves.

Stillness is accomplished by realizing the truth, not by resting the body, but inwardly still being aware of the body.  In action you act correctly, acting in the truth, not in obedience to others, and stopping in the proper place.  Both action and stillness come from mindlessness.

Quote: Once you make a decision act on it.

We have a tendency to block, freeze or refuse to take a step into the unknown.  Learn to step into the unknown again and again, then life becomes a process of growing up and you becoming more fearless and flexible.  This adds up to an inspirational and uplifted feeling.

Accept others in spite of their inherent shortcomings and insecurities.  Accepting all others is being more patient, selfless, generous, and kind. Considering others to be as important as yourself, you find a transcendence and a unity that is unattainable alone.

Since the advent of civilization, we have exchanged our natural harmony for ego-orientated lifestyles.  Clinging to our old habitual ways of doing things keeps us chained to a lifestyle that violates our true nature.   We have the ways and means to liberate ourselves, just look.

If you encounter hinderances at the beginning of an enterprise, do not try to force advance, but pause and take thought.  However, do not let anything put you off your course, persevere and keep your goal in sight.  But, no matter how confident you are, nothing should be taken lightly.

Quote: No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

We have what it takes to wake up, we just need some encouragement to be aware of what we think, say, and do.  By cultivating a mind that does not grasp at right and wrong, you will find a fresh state of being, the ultimate cessation of suffering comes from that.

Life is in the details and as you put it together piece by piece, you must always keep the big picture in mind.  Following this way, you will keep your mind and heart open, and you will not lose sight of the relationship between the microcosm and macrocosm.

The ancients used the term “not trying”, this doesn’t mean we should accept our current situation. They identify trying with forcing.  To act without trying means to act without coercion.  They suggest “being” as an alternative, to be that totally human person that our nature craves.

Stillness is accomplished by realizing the truth, not by resting the body but inwardly still, being aware of the body.  In action you act correctly, acting in the truth, not in obedience to others, and stopping in the proper place.  Both action and stillness come from mindlessness.

Quote: Your life is not determined by what happens to you, but by how you respond to what happens to you.