Today I want to discuss evolution. There are many ways to think about evolving: Individual evolution, societal evolution, human evolution Evolutions like Homo Erectus to Homo Sapien, etc. Agricultural age, to Industrial Age, to Information age An individual growing through identification with self to identification with society etc. A good definition of evolution is this: A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form....
Aug 29, 2006•9 min
In this show I promise not to be too deep. Today I spend a few moments fostering presence with you. I open with a couple of conscious breaths, then onto examples of, and reasons for, bringing your focus back to your breath. I end mentioning that in regard to any learning, we deeply need to apply what we learn. Learning alone isn’t enough. Without application, it’s just spin. Fostering presence will be the next evolution of man. Join in that evolution by bringing your attention back to your breat...
Aug 22, 2006•9 min
In this talk I describe why we seem to be stuck in time, and what an enlightened mind might look like. If we have the fundamental understanding that there is only this moment; meaning we cannot leave it to go elsewhere, or more specifically that time is a construct of thought, we can start to understand that we need to relate differently to this moment.
Aug 15, 2006•8 min
Today’s show will be a brief overview of the power of Intention Setting, Hypnosis, Neural Linguistic Programming, Hemi Sync, Goal Setting and Positive Thinking. All of these “technologies” affect our opinions and beliefs, and hence our perception of the world. Referenced: Tony Robbins
Aug 07, 2006•21 min
In this talk I want to discuss what might be our biggest challenge. To find a state of stillness, and remain productive in the world. How do we accomplish, while remaining present. Why are most of us unable to hold on to stillness? Many of us can find stillness, but why isn’t it easier to just stay there? This talk assumes that you know what I mean when I say stillness. Some call it big mind, or a state of presence. I did a talk before called Stillness in Motion. While this talk is similar, it w...
Aug 01, 2006•11 min
Fear of death and the unknown is enormous. But death makes everything matter. Living forever would take value away from lots of things. You’d be able to take literally forever to master things, so being a master chef as an example would have little meaning. We’d constantly be approaching everyone knowing everything, with no risk because we’d have forever to fix any problems, etc. It would be a very different existence for sure. Certainly different than most people would fantasize. Death is a par...
Jul 24, 2006•33 min
We’re going to discuss what addiction is, and then talk about how we can come to terms with it and what can we do to stop it. To do this, I’ll talk about addiction, in broad terms. Then we’ll do a quick exercise that might help you find what your addictions are. This could be considered an addiction “workshop”, albeit a very short one. Then we’re going to discuss the different quality of being that allows for better choices. That state of mind, one of presence, can help us end addiction....
Jul 17, 2006•23 min
If we as a people could see the importance in loosening our attachment to sacred things, or rather, notice that everything is sacred, we could begin to end conflict. No land is better than any other land. Everything has the essence of being in it. Space does, objects do. That awareness is in you, so learn to foster it. Realize that when you are in a mind of preference, that you might be able to look at things differently. You might be able to see that it’s all sacred. Show Music: Wholeness &...
Jul 09, 2006•16 min
So what pressure are you creating? This talk points out that we can spend time working on, or watching, what pressures we create for ourselves. The exercise we could do would be to learn to find your self created limits, or pressures. Once you see what yours are, you may choose to soften them, or you may not. It’s nice to learn that you can lose your job You can move. Your life could be different. The other side of that is the fact that a conscious goal is a powerful one. We can choose to work h...
Jul 05, 2006•12 min
Question I’d really like answered for a future talk: What, if anything, would be the best thing humans could do to make the world a better place? Please leave an answer as a comment to this blog or email me directly. In this talk we explore paradoxes and logic and point out where we’ll find them in learning about stillness. One interesting paradox is “This sentence is false.” Another might have to do with using language to define impossible situations. The logical mind doesn’t like paradoxes....
Jun 27, 2006•15 min
When we come to the Now in this moment (whenever that is), we realize that this moment is always here. So that is all we have to do. The mind will kick up again and say things like “You won’t be able to do that in the future.” And that may even knock us off a bit, but seeing that once we DO come back, there is no tally of how long we’ve been gone. So doing it now IS doing it forever. Because the illusion is the mind that creates a future that doesn’t exist. So doing it in the now is as simple as...
Jun 19, 2006•13 min
Important thought: The gap between our experience and our expectation is our unhappiness. Experience is what’s happening to us. Expectation is what we’d like to happen to us. How many people do you know who live in a state of almost constant disappointment over their life situation? They are simply comparing what they experience to what the expect, and leaving a huge gap between the two. There is a freedom away from this type of mind if we want to find it. It takes a different mind set. It will ...
Jun 12, 2006•16 min
If we can learn to identify with god-consciousness, we will see that we are a part of the whole. That realization allows us to not fear things. We are temporary, but we are part of the infinite. All things in the infinite will change, but the infinite itself is timeless.
Jun 05, 2006•12 min
Happiness comes from being. All the things we enjoy (dancing, drinking, drugging, driving cars, watching sports, etc.), the parts of those things that bring joy are the “being” parts. So what this means is that the things we chase don’t bring us joy or bliss. We already have happiness inside us, we just need to learn to listen to it. Just being is blissful. If you start judging and call a situation bad or good, you’re not being anymore. You’re thinking.
May 30, 2006•14 min
Making any kind of change is very difficult when we aren’t truly committed to it. So what is commitment and how do we find it? In this talk, the light switch is the idea that being committed makes change easy. Finding commitment can be hard, but once we find it quitting smoking, eating differently, losing weight, meditation, all become simple. So what’s your reason to stay committed? Make that an “ah ha!” for you. Create new grooves of thought. Be awake to your pain. Change.
May 22, 2006•14 min
I want to clarify what I mean by “to be” because it is actually more than one thing. It is both “to be – still” and also “to be – what you are.” This may be hard to stomach because these seem to be in opposition, but they are both really important. It’s actually many many layers, and facets of things to wade through. So let’s look for more language around this issue.
May 15, 2006•12 min
Anger has its place. It is there to move us. It tells us things aren’t right. But we don’t want to get lost in anger. We need to be conscious of it. Compassion means: Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. There are two phases to turning anger into compassion. Phase one is looking at the situation from the other person’s perspective. Phase two is understanding that people must be in pain to act the way they act.
May 07, 2006•14 min
I discuss the need to talk. The need to fill space with commentary. Truth comes from the act of listening, not speaking. I also mentioned oneness and unity consciousness. Mentioned the book Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Bucke, and Ken Wilber’s No Boundary. All the greats had this state of mind, or state of being. Other interesting points: Math is a language. We use words to define other words.
May 02, 2006•12 min
The main point of this talk is that once you find yourself with strong opinions, use that as an anchor to wake up. Even if you are morally correct, once you are attached to an idea, you start to become just as lost as someone doing wrong. It is much more important to bring presence to a situation, than the right action. Referenced: Joel Goldsmith
Apr 24, 2006•14 min
All worry is the same thing and we need to learn what it really is: An irrational habit of imagining a future that often doesn’t come. We ruin this moment when we worry. We think we’re helping ourselves by planning for the worst, but it’s a very negative, and unhealthy way to live. We can see that worry is useless. Once we see it’s uselessness, why would we ever let it affect us again? The next time we are deep within a situation, we tend lose perspective. We think that the new situation is the ...
Apr 16, 2006•14 min
What is the definition of form? I’m not sure I’ve seen as many different definitions for a word before. On dictionary.com there are twelve different definitions before moving into forming and other variations of the word. So what I’ll do is try to tell you how I mean it here… Two points to make today: There is a literal practice of bringing our attention from the form realm to the experience of feeling realm. When we’re not doing that practice, we become very attached and sad unnecessarily. The ...
Apr 10, 2006•15 min
A talk about impermanence. Mentioned that pain comes when we try to hold on to things that can’t be held onto: relationships, jobs, hopes. In holding onto those ideas, we are not free to appreciate the true quality of being. We aren’t able to appreciate that everything is change. We try to create a ground where there isn’t one. I talk about how stillness *is* motion, and a time based mind is stuck. This is the paradox of change. You would think a time based mind has motion and a still mind is st...
Apr 03, 2006•13 min
Meditation is the realization of this moment. The “practice of meditation” is the sitting down to work on this before it becomes fully natural to live that way. To abstract it further, we can use anchors such as counting, visualization, and pointed awareness to help bring our attention to our breath. I’d like you to stay as present as possible during this talk, but I will be talking much more than a normal guided meditation, hence the “sort of” in the title. I want to show you different ways to ...
Mar 27, 2006•16 min
Trauma is horrible, and we shouldn’t forget that. We all have trauma to one degree or another. We all have “our stuff.” Trauma has the potential to widen and deepen our experience of pain. Which allows us to have a higher “high.” Imagine someone who hasn’t had much stimulation in either direction, good or bad. Their circumstances are not as wide and as varied to draw from. They have a skinnier history to draw from. So something somewhat “bad” seems potentially horrible – like gas prices going up...
Mar 19, 2006•17 min
What is the human condition? Humanity seems quite insane. What is the root of that insanity? Our core problem is the fact that we feel separate. We are ego, but we are not only ego. We need to evolve into the realization that we are much more than that. Discussed lots of the old shows and mentioned briefly how they relate to this core condition. Referenced: Eckhart Tolle
Mar 12, 2006•16 min
This is an advanced talk. Many people may find this content weird, but I’m serious when I say that the world is your body. We’re trying to learn to look at the world differently. This is very literally a different way to look at the world. It’s a shift in consciousness. Show music: La Bella Monterosa by Sahnas
Mar 06, 2006•17 min
Consciousness expands from being an infant through different identifications with social groups. The highest level on average is the national level. We identify with our family, our neighborhood, our state, our nation. Why not our world and beyond? Show Music: At Home And Unaffected by Decomposure Referenced: Bill Hicks, Ken Wilber
Feb 26, 2006•19 min
In this talk we widened the definition of an itch to include not only physical itches, but also emotional and mental bothers as well. How can an itch be beautiful? We described actually enjoying an itch. Diving into the feeling without judgment allows us to experience itches in a different way. Energy then actually becomes literally beautiful. Another way to see the beauty in an itch is to realize that they are the largest anchor there is. We use bothers, and itches as reminders to bring our att...
Feb 20, 2006•21 min
What are anchors? The dictionary defines an anchor as something that is the source of security or stability. I’m discussing using things that occur in the world as reminders to bring your attention back to the moment, or back to awareness. Examples of anchors are things like: Going through doorways. When we walk somewhere. When we listen to people. Why use anchors? It is a way to bring stillness into the everyday experience. Many people learn to meditate on a seat, but have difficulty bringing t...
Feb 12, 2006•10 min
We don’t want to avoid things through meditation. The act of dropping thought is used to learn about thinking, and to show that thinking isn’t all there is. It is not used to abandon thought entirely. Krishnamurti’s book “Think On These Things” was mentioned to point that out. It was also mentioned that Krishnamurti often suggests “looking at things deeply” which implies using thought. To sum up, it is okay to think when you are aware you are thinking. Thinking is a tool, and we need to learn to...
Feb 06, 2006•16 min
