♦ DISSED’ and 'PISSED' ? • Disappointed Distressed Depressed ?
The Great AFFIRMATION Cures 2/17
The Great AFFIRMATION Cures 2/17
I’m Dissed and I’m Pissed...
_/!\_
yet still with
palms joined
palms joined
Nama'ste
Akasa Levi • The Laughing Buddha Sangha
The First Wave of Western Meditators • 1970's
Be Guided "Mind-FULLY" with ZEN-ABSURDITY
Santa Monica CA 90405 • 1-310-450-2268
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-:¦:- Big Bro • “Understanding” • To Go
ARE YOU STILL FEELING
‘DISSED’ and 'PISSED' ?
The Complaining-mind
‘Dissing’ and ‘Pissing’
At Least You ARE Feeling.
Mindfulness Meditation
of Self-Compassion,
Affirmation-work and
Contemplation-work.
Definitions Can Help
The Practice Works
Let It Go with
some Flushing Out !
Let It Go with
some Flushing Out !
Tomatoes Love Pee-Pee
Gardens-work Warm Water.
Gardens-work Warm Water.
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"Do not be daunted by the
enormity of the world's grief.
Do justly by it now.
Do justly by it now.
You are not obligated
to complete the work
but neither are you free
to abandon it"
--The Talmud
“All That We Are
Is The Result of
All That We Have
Thought”
~Buddha~
So, ARE YOU FEELING ‘DISSED’ ?
and ARE YOU FEELING ‘PISSED’ ?
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At Least, YOU ARE 'FEELING'?
Now We Can Certainly Work With That
Your Insecure Ambiguous Feelings.
There Is Always Less To No Control
Over What’s Happening Out There
With Other People’s Raw Feelings
of Discouraged Misery and Anger.
So Don’t Ask ‘Why’ It’s That Way
or with Any 'Content' Not Yours--
Not Directly Experienced By You.
Because It’s Theirs Till It’s Not
and You’ll Never Know Anyway
If It’s This or That or That or This.
At Least,
You ARE Now THINKING
as well as 'FEELING.
Go Slow Into Your
EXPERIENCING.
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Wake Up and Get Up
and Bravely Counter
and Bravely Counter
the Negative-mind
" Every community needs
a group of angelic troublemakers "
~ Bayard Rustin, social reformer
" Our constant 'Inner-Inquiry' is our Passion
and our Passion is our Life-task.
All the rest is the wonderful
madness of art." ~ Henry James
" Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything !
Anything that will assert Integrity of Purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers
the creatures of the commonplace, the
slaves of the ordinary." ~ Sir Cecil Beaton
" Be not afraid of Absurdity -
Do not shrink from the fantastic !
From right Within a dilemma -
Choose the most unheard-of,
the most Audacious solution !
De l'audace! De l'audace !
Et encore de l'audace !
Be audacious."
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Karen Blixen
‘Out of Africa'
Ambivalent Ambiguity
Am’big-u-ous
Disambiguate the Ambiguous !
My Lama always asked me
over and over and over again:
over and over and over again:
“Are You Sure ?
Are You Sure You’re Sure ?”
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To Disambiguate is To Remove the Ambiguity from the vague parts of your Vocabulary-Life --to make Existence so much more Useful, Unambiguous and Understandable - it being our mission to Disambiguate a word or a phrase - with much more precision when there is more than one meaning existing -- in let’s say a Wikipedia article or a word or phrase is resolving literary conflicts that arise, because it refers to more than one subject --the word "Mercury" can refer to a chemical element, a planet, a Roman god, and many other things - and so the the Search needs to Disambiguate at this point.
Here are all the outstanding Miserable, Unhappy, Disambiguated “DIS-words” that are necessary to get Disinterred from their former hidden state in your head of being Not Very Sure or Unsure and Ambiguous -- and whoa --are we an Ambiguous Culture or what ? Next time we do this, maybe we’ll go to the words Vague or Waffle, or Vacillating or Oscillating-- or my Big All-Time Favorite: Ambivalency ! Here’s all the words you’ll ever need to express and present your Suffering and Misery --Seriously - Seriously !
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So, Are You Still Feeling ‘Dissed’ ? • Disappointed • Discouraged • Distressed • Depressed -- Are You Feeling Chronically Dissatisfied • Really Not So Good - Here's The Official Word-List of Misery Alphabetically • Starting with Disabled • Distrustful • And , Seriously, Very Disturbed About the times we’re Lliving In… Yeah, I’m Suffering Also Through My Very Own Karma Legacy of Contributing Conditions and Disturbing Feelings - Disadvantaged • Disemboweled • Disaffected • Disagreeable • Disapproved • Disarrayed • Disassociated • Discarded • Discombobulated •Discomforted • Disconcerted • Disconnected • Disconsolate • Discontent • Discord • Discounted • Discouraged • Discredited • Discriminated • Disdained • Disenchanted • Disenfranchised • Disfavored • Disfigured • Disgraced • Disgruntled • Disgusted • Disharmonious • Disheartened • Disheveled • Dishonest • Dishonored • Disillusioned • Disintegrated • Disinterested • Disliked • Dismal • Dismayed • Dismissed • Disorganized • Disoriented • Disgusted • Disparaged • Dispassionate • Dispensable • Displaced • Displeased • Displeasure • Disposable • Dispossessed • Disqualified • Disregarded • Disreputable • Disrespected • Disrupted • Dissatisfied • Dissociated • Distanced • Distant • Distasteful • Distorted • Distracted • Distraught • Distressed • Disunity • Disused • Distrustful and Very Disturbed About It All --
Are You Also Feeling Overwhelmingly Dissatisfied ? • And Seriously, We Too Are Also Very Disturbed About the ‘Uncertain Times’ We’re All Living In --Full of ‘Dissing’ • Yeah, I Too Are Personally Suffering My Very Own Self-created Dysfunctional Disturbances Which Gives Even More Continual Enabling Negative Support To My Misery. Some Times I Think That’s Al I Know How To Do: Complain ! ---Comin’ up soon: A Course on ‘Appreciation’ !
“It’s too bad that misery
is wasted on the miserable” ~ Woody Allen
GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA Was Mostly Interested In Observing and Understanding The Direct Experience Of The Human Condition Living It's Spirituality in a State of Attachment, And How It Is Expressed Emotionally -- And Be So Willing To Be Empathically Shared In Kindness By Other Humans In A Painful Cluster of Internal and Social Process of Conditions Generally Known As “SUFFERING” Demonstrated By The Actions of My Self or Actions Other Humans Make - As Weil As Actions Made By One’s Self Alone • Be So Carefully Mindful • Are These Words Getting To You ? Hang In With This Exercise and Build Strong Tolerances To Some Difficult Language • Unhappy Language • Disappointed ? Discouraged ? Distressed ? Depressed ? • Feeling Dissatisfied • You Too May Be Feeling Disabled • Disadvantaged • Disaffected • Disagreeable • Disambiguated • Disapproved • Disappointed • Discarded • Dumped • Dissed And Pissed Off ! – “I Am A World Class Disaster” - Said An Unhappy, Disgruntled, Disaffected Person…
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♦ Maybe You’ve Become Lame -
So Overwhelmingly ‘Identified’
Enmeshed, Way Over-Involved
In Your Own Difficult ‘Life-Story’
That You Can’t See the Forest
In Your Own Difficult ‘Life-Story’
That You Can’t See the Forest
Anymore ‘cause of All the Trees
Your ‘Story’ of Being Such
An Anxiety-Driven ‘Winner’
or A Victimized ‘Loser’ ---
or A Victimized ‘Loser’ ---
Discouraged, Resentful, Bitter --
" I Came Here with Talents and
" I Came Here with Talents and
Remarkable Brilliant Gifts
To Be Recognized --
Not Just To Be A Plain
Not Just To Be A Plain
Nobody ’Out There’.
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“DEFEATISM”
You’re so Underwhelming
Feeling so unseen and Isolated
that you just plain ‘Hurt’ inside.
Shitty, Yucky, Numb or Angry.
Maybe you’ve Lost the Path,
or Forgotten the Way -
Feeling so ineffective in your
deeper’ inner-search within -
Or you’ve just never really
Feeling so unseen and Isolated
that you just plain ‘Hurt’ inside.
Shitty, Yucky, Numb or Angry.
Maybe you’ve Lost the Path,
or Forgotten the Way -
Feeling so ineffective in your
deeper’ inner-search within -
Or you’ve just never really
sought out your Freedom.
Who ‘You’ really, really are -
Free ‘in here’. Inside.
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The Always There
Who ‘You’ really, really are -
Free ‘in here’. Inside.
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The Always There
'Comparing-Mind'
So Defeats You and
Your So Precious 'Story'.
It just Ruins It.
Now I Got Nothing
I'm Feeling Dissed
and Pissed Off Alright ! --
A Friggin' Disaster.
A Friggin' Disaster.
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And that HURTS too...
This Whole ‘Dis’ This
This Whole ‘Dis’ This
or ‘Dis’ That 'Thing' -
That Big Crippling
'Reason' you Blame
About Your Failed Life ?
Your Precious 'Story'.
Your Precious 'Story'.
How It Didn't Work.
You certainly CAN
You certainly CAN
Change That !
We Certainly CAN
We Certainly CAN
Help Assist You.
BUT 'Doing The Work’
BUT 'Doing The Work’
is a Huge Personal
Challenge of Passions !
And YOU DO Have
And YOU DO Have
To Show Up for Yourself
To Make It Really Happen !
You Gotta' Start Someplace
To Make It Really Happen !
You Gotta' Start Someplace
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" Eighty Percent Of Success
Is Just Showing Up " ~ Woody Allen
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“ Who Would I Be
Without My 'Story'
and How it's Job
Is To Limit Me,
To Come From
A Place of Misery ? “ ~ Byron Katie
Without My 'Story'
and How it's Job
Is To Limit Me,
To Come From
A Place of Misery ? “ ~ Byron Katie
" If Nothing Changes,
Nothing Changes ! "
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Affirmation-Work
is inner verbal vocal
Mindfulness work
monitored by the present
Mindfulness Aware Mind
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Doing Constant
Repetitions,
Doing Constant Repetition,
Doing Constant Repetition,
Doing Constant Repetition is
How we Learned as a child --
also by Watching a Repetitive
Role-model Doing Repetition --
Usually Our Parent(s)
They SHOW The WAY TO US
AND DEMONSTRATE TO US:
And then it gets messy and
dysfunctional, convoluted
and confusing --and complex
and we’ll instruct this part Live:
It gets tangled and sticky even at best.
Repeated doses will knock out toxins.
BUT YOU GOTTA KEEP IT UP. We have
some delightful approaches ~
How To Do or Think or Act
How Not To Do or Think or Act
How To Do or Think or Act
How Not To Do or Think or Act
How To Do or Think or Act
How To Do or Think or Act
How Not To Do or Think or Act
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It’s a major key to Change
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It’s a major key to Change
It’s a major key to Change.
It’s a major key to Change.
It’s a major key to Change. .
Again and again and again
Again and again and again
-- Again and again and again
-- Again and again and again
-- Ask this key Question many,
many times in your day...
many times in your day...
Affirmation Work
Works !
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Mindfulness Knows When
You’re ON Affirmation and
When You’re OFF Affirmation
Affirmation Work is inner
verbal Mindfulness work
monitored by the present
Mindfulness Aware Mind
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Embraced by
The All-The-Time
Awareness Mind
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
“ I’m a Real
Disaster ”
so I’ve so often said…
I Will Right Now CHANGE
That Thought To:
I Will Right Now CHANGE
That Thought To:
I Will Right Now CHANGE
That Thought To:
“ I’m Not a Disaster,
I Am Not a Disaster,
I May Do Disastrous Things,
I May Have Done Disastrous Actions,
I May Have Made Disastrous Choices,
Even Now, I’m a Person, Possibly Living
With A Disaster. Still, I’m Not a Disaster “
- Change Thought To -
Affirmation-work is possibly the most ancient guide within your own ‘process’ for compassionately creating the best of personal improvement human potential results that is available to all people that speak a language-- make prayer, blessing, or song-- or encourage going to the next level of excellence, bringing along that which goes to your well intentioned heart.
- Change Thought To -
The Big Classic ‘Affirmation’
of this Timeless Self-Help,
Self-Compassion Approach
IS VERY RAW and DIRECT
and addresses a Core Issue
for many unmotivated people /
becoming motivated people.
“ I’m A Fuck Up ”
- Change Thought To -
No, I’m Not A Fuck Up,
No, I’m Not Fucked Up,
I May Have Done
Some Fucked Up Things,
But, I am NOT A Fuck Up.
I Am Basically a Good Person.”
- Change Thought To -
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“ What You Can Do
Is Praise Yourself Very Often --
Your Soul Really Needs That... ” ~ Poet Robert Bly
Try the effective, yet simple Boy Scout Oath
is recited at weekly neighborhood meetings:
“ Be Prepared --
I Am Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful,
Friendly, Courteous, Kind,
Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty,
Brave, Clean and Reverent.
Do a Good Turn Daily --
Be Prepared I
That’s Who I Am “
Very Positive !
It’s a Real Start.
NON-TOXIC INNER-TALK: Get Amazon Online, find a book, find a video, find a CD, find a local community college or rec center workshop on Affirmations and/or positive thinking to sweeten your mental mood and inner self talk LEARNS to become non-toxic.
SEARCH and FIND your particular style of language, words or issues -- get your new ‘home schooling’ materials together and teach yourself to use affirmations to work on positive thinking of expression to get the field cleared for more room to work on yourself. Get your school materials and Get Workin’.
It’s A Real Old Time Personal Growth Technique that’s been around a long time of continual success… called AFFIRMATIONS. You Change Your Mind’s View and outlook by finding new vocabulary words, powerful words, positive words, good words instead of negative toxic words to refer to yourself and others and situations and things... That’s it. Get a better mind for the work… to ‘repetitious-schooling’ them in.
Changing the wording of your thinking mind anchored with mindfulness meditation. The online surfing is part of the search itself, shop very carefully and mindfully, the phrases you ingest and integrate will become a part of your mind’s new vocabulary. Your are what you think - for a while as you learn to reprogram. Later on, you’ll be able to use your growing meditation vocabulary in addition to what you’ve already affrifirmed.
AFFIRMATION-materials: Go shopping ! Search and find the latest hotest most powerful tough love effective slim trim relevant to you, not wordy book that is the darling of the Leadership and Affirmation market and get one that you can actually hold in your hands and practice repetitions with.. it works great in combo with Mindfulness ! ! ! Sitting meditation locks it in ... A relevant book or CD or iPhone app, or basic online program will get you started. No need to join anything. It’s old. It works. “ I'm So Dissed and Pissed Off ! – I’m a Real Disaster !” gets to be history. It’s a Start. I’m Good.
“ Many people Suffer Life,
simply because they
are poor students of Life “
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Please,
Become Happy ~ Be A Hapy Buddha
Get some Quality Counseling Therapy -
here, somewhere, anywhere good . . .
That may be a place for you to start.
I keep coming back to
referring people to my
Theravada Buddhist roots,
the original Mindfulness practices
of India, Burma, Thailand and
Sri Lanka, Now Here
Get some Quality Counseling Therapy -
here, somewhere, anywhere good . . .
That may be a place for you to start.
I keep coming back to
referring people to my
Theravada Buddhist roots,
the original Mindfulness practices
of India, Burma, Thailand and
Sri Lanka, Now Here
in Santa Monica and
Los Angeles go to:
InsightLA.org
Los Angeles go to:
InsightLA.org
and
againstthestream.org
both EXCELLENT --
againstthestream.org
both EXCELLENT --
both ‘Spirit Rock’ affiliated
and both have a full line-up
of groups and classes,
and very inexpensive.
Ask there also about
and both have a full line-up
of groups and classes,
and very inexpensive.
Ask there also about
individual counseling.
A Very Good place to start !
A Very Good place to start !
Be Welcome to give me a call
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If you know me
from the Buddhist community,
you know I have my views on classes,
teachers and styles of spiritual practice
that are offered right here locally. So Search !
you know I have my views on classes,
teachers and styles of spiritual practice
that are offered right here locally. So Search !
Try an intern doing one-on-one private therapy
backed by an inexpensive group class and
steady self-support thru mindfulness sitting
meditation at home - bring it all within reason.
A Healing of Spirit needs to be designed by you.
maybe we can point you in a direction.
Again, Search,
that may be a place for you to start your 'practice'.
backed by an inexpensive group class and
steady self-support thru mindfulness sitting
meditation at home - bring it all within reason.
A Healing of Spirit needs to be designed by you.
maybe we can point you in a direction.
Again, Search,
that may be a place for you to start your 'practice'.
Remember what it's about: at your Core-level
it's about one main element:
your personal Freedom.
it's about one main element:
your personal Freedom.
Take the Risk.
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the end is insight...
AFFIRMATIONS: Search and find the latest hotest most powerful tough love effective slim trim relevant to you, not wordy book that is the darling of the Leadership and Affirmation market and get one that you can actually hold in your hands and practice repetitions with.. it works great in combo with Mindfulness ! ! ! Sitting meditation locks it in ...
AFFIRMATIONS: Search and find the latest hotest most powerful tough love effective slim trim relevant to you, not wordy book that is the darling of the Leadership and Affirmation market and get one that you can actually hold in your hands and practice repetitions with.. it works great in combo with Mindfulness ! ! ! Sitting meditation locks it in ...
It’s an old time technique: been around a long time of success…
AFFIRMATIONS. You Change your mind’s view and outlook by finding new words to think with and ‘repetitious-schooling’ them in. Changing the wording of your thinkng mind ancored with mindfulness meditation. The online surfing is part of the search itself, shop very carefully and mindfully, the phrases you ingest and integrate will become a part of your mind’s new vocabulary. Your are what you thnk - for a while as you learn to reprogram. Later on, you’ll be able to use youre growing meditation vocabulay in addition to what you’ve already affrifirmed. A relevant book or CD or iPhone app, or basic online program will get you started. No need to join anything. It’s old. It works. “ I'm So Dissed and Pissed Off ! – I’m a Real Disaster !” gets to be history. It’s a Start. I’m Good.
PROFILE ---
-:¦:- AKASA MAITREYA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) ~ SUNY Harpur College / State University of New York, Binghamton University • Akasa guides The BUDDHIST MENTORING PROJECT • The Laughing Buddha Sangha • Buddhist Counseling / Mindfulness Therapy • Santa Monica.
• Once upon a time, long, long ago in the late-60’s, Akasa was a ‘Desert Srorm’ U.S.Army Vet - and later on, 1975, an officially ordained Vipassana Buddhist Bhikkhu forest monk, six years in ‘beggar-man’s orange robes in rural Asia - trained and ordained into the Theravada monastic lineage by the revered Bhante Nyaka-Thera Ananda Maitreya and Kassapa Mahathera of Sri Lanka • Akasa became a Vajrayana initiate of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Zopa Rinpoche in Nepal, a Vipassana student of Sri Anagarika Munindra Barua in Bodhgaya, India - and got to dialog Non-Duality daily in satsang with ‘Bede Baba’ Nisargadatta Maharaj in Bombay • These tutorials went on for several months • Akasa’s aspiration: TO BE DIRECTLY WITH THE LAST LIVING BUDDHIST MEDITATION TEACHERS of THE PRE-GLOBAL ERA, most passed on now.
• Returning from the whole 70’s decade abroad, Akasa studied Western psycho-dynamic therapy at UCLA • He teaches Mindfulness Insight-Meditation at The Laughing Buddha Sangha - leads ZEN•MEN growth groups - and offers Buddhist-based Counseling and Therapy.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - the epitome of mindfulness playing itself as the authentic curmudgeon, in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered. He’s strangely sweet, oddly funny, an eccentric Dharma Dude and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder. K'vetchy by nature, but not too creepy, and always the flamboyant old rogue. He is definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. Akasa is into nourishing the basic ‘person’ as welll as mentoring a maverick, iconoclast intelligence in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or dharma-life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa, now an emeritus-level senior meditation teacher, also instructs us in the empirical secular spirit of the moment in contemporary Mindfulness practice as well. He knows that simply by ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, fearless and loving, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
ABOUT MY "SELF" • I WAS CONSTRUCTED
OUT OF MY OWN WOUNDED 'IDEA' OF A "SELF"
• WHAT DID I KNOW ?
-:¦:- PROFILE ♦ AKASA LEVI, DhMA ( D.Min ) - SUNY Harpur College, Binghamton University, New York • The BUDDHIST MENTORING PROJECT • The Laughing Buddha Meditation Sangha • Buddhist Counseling Mindfulness Therapy • Guided by AKASA LEVI
• Once upon a time, long, long ago Akasa Levi was a U.S.Army Vet - and later, an officially ordained Buddhist Bhikkhu forest monk, who lived several years in rural Asia - to be with the last living Buddhist meditation teachers of the Asian Pre-Global Era - most passed on now.
• Akasa is a feisty 75 - and intentionally pretentious, playing himself as an authentic curmudgeon, in that he didn't like the other life-choices offered. Full of metaphysical mischief, he's an oddly sweet, strangely funny, eccentric old Dharma Dude and a respected BuJu Tribal Elder. K'vetchy by nature, but not too creepy, and always the compassionate rogue. Akasa is into nourishing and mentoring a maverick, iconoclast intelligence in the students and people he treats, teaches, counsels or dharma-life coaches at his little meditation shrine room near the beach, filled with old ritual objects and statues of the ancient Buddha.
• Akasa, now an emeritus-level meditation teacher, also instructs us in the scientific secular spirit of the moment in contemporary Mindfulness meditation practice as well. He is definitely an acquired taste like Thai shrimp paste. He knows that simply by ‘practice’ you can effect a calm, meaningful, noticeable difference in yourself. Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor. .
Whew ! I affected, ostentatious, pompous, high-sounding, grandiose, flamboyant, flashy, highfalutin,