Look Beyond the Rational

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Scientists are agreeing with what our “”gut” has told us all along: We function best when we engage both our heart – intuition, feelings, compassion – our right-brain, as well as our cognitive intelligence – the rational, factual – the left-brain. (But  “right brained” or “left brained” is more of a metaphor – it’s not literally true.)  It turns out that there are valid reasons why we refer to “the gut” for instinct and “the heart” for emotion, feeling and love. We have messenger-cells throughout the body. So it’s not about right or left – it’s more about how integrated we are.

Maybe we should call the heart our organ of intelligence, while the brain is our organ of cognition. 

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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Happy Feet!

 

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 →