The Way the World… Isn’t

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“When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you ever thought it was.”
~Alan Watts~


“When you can let go of what is bothering you, joy and happiness will naturally re-surface.

The really bad thing is reliving a bad event over and over; holding onto it without being able to let go. The issue is not that bad things have happened. It’s whether or not we want to live and struggle with them – or eventually let them go.

That’s the key to meditation; dissolving and releasing trauma into the clear space of awareness.”

 ~ Bruce Frantzis 

Let’s Not Be Serious – Let’s Just Be Sincere.

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Every master knows that we are all Buddha disguised as the Self. It’s just that some of us are playing the victim and some of us are free. Like Alan Watts asked,

“Do you define yourself as a victim of the world, or as the world?”

Most of us are walking tragedies, suffering in a cruel world. We all experience pain. We all have scars.

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But true masters choose happiness without reason. They choose laughter and joy over anger and spite. They honor their scars rather than resent them. They choose dancing rather than depression.

“You must change in order to find your truest self,” writes Bradford Keeney in The Bushman’s Way of Tracking God. “And keep changing. The false idol is any form that hangs around too long and gets fossilized. It’s worth considering that if your ideas of God don’t change, then your ideas are dead. God is not dead. He simply went elsewhere because you were too boring.” Yes! Buddha is us.

Let’s not be serious, let’s just be sincere. Continue reading →