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WHO ?...
Comes Here
To Do 'Inner-Work'
On Themselves ?

Seriously...

OK,
We'll Gladly Tell you
WHO does come here
to independently learn
and personally refine
the Power of ‘Mindfulness’
for themselves.  Observing --
Simply sitting silently watching
the grass grow, the dog scratch.
This time understanding 'silence'.
Ordinary all inclusiveness.
Silence may not be quiet.
It is you that is silent.

WHO ? Are You ?

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“A Butcher, a Baker,
a Candlestick-maker ---
a Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief.
a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor -
Rich man, Poor man,
Beggar-man, Thief --
an Old Man, a Young Man,
Fiddler, Jailer, Pirate,
Captain, Crewman, Chef --
Plowman, Farmer, Teacher,
Fiddler, Farmer, Teacher,
Banker, Gardener, Cooper, Cook,
Burglar, Boxer, Baker, Preacher,
a Professor, Politician, or Crook.
People Who Teach Experience.
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•♦• Much of this inner-work is 'Spiritual'
NONE of this inner-work is 'Religious'

….And Buddhism is quite playful also !
It better be -- since we're also going
to reintroduce Atheism / my Doubt-buster,
one of my favorite iconoclastic disrupting
wisdom-factors - balanced with calm,
caring, loving kindness on our way
towards merging and re-emerging
into 'emptiness' moments -- the
good kind of Empty, like HDL the good kind.
Usually, the people who do come to me - students of the Unknown, students who are more explorative, curious, do have a more active intellect, are innately, intensely inquisitive people by their nature. The 'Inner-Search', 'The Quest', The 'Understanding' of IT. Seekers: Now they may be Millennial avant garde' ---adventuresome people who relish the 'safari' quality of it – the 'search', the 'inquiry', the brave 'quest' of it - fueled on chutz'pah, emotionally hurting or not - rather than settle for conventional 'popular', politically correct remedies and shallow packaged spiritual prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat. Still consuming instead of creating. Enlightened Freedom is just not an OnDemand product. For each of us -- what works is a much more fulfilling, loving, life long psychological pilgrimage --mind-FULLY experienced thru your own evolving, compassionate Spiritual Heart... Something's gotta give -- in a good way !
_______________________

A BIG QUESTION

" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny ? "

“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taking and going through this moment right now - each step to get me there -- or here. So, you really must consciously Choose directions moment to moment – and support the Choice to Choose again and again-- Here's the thing --
the precious Gift of Freedom to openly 'Talk Truth' with someone... and keep the Truth Talk up. To keep open the Truth Talking with someone and keep it up. To be open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all -- the conditions that are good, are bad and are ugly -- all can safely arise into mindfulness to be observed not reacted to. I have these feelings. It's nothing new."

~ Grandfather Bearheart,
contemporary Creek Elder

Those who are of MAVERICK-MIND.
The Practice of Dharma Arts.
The highly educable,
the dedicated dharma student
or the committed therapy clien
or those appreciative of effective
conventional western psychotherapy
---- and yet now going way beyond it.

So, Who Does Come Here To Explore this close and intimate practice of Mentor / Mentee ? Teacher / Student. The relationship to the idea and practice of mentoring is ancient. And has held up quite well among humans. We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive minded people, with a sensitive, natural, deep love of learning - who relish the inquiry: abstract, and even the absurd – and have a genuine taste for the indefinable, esoteric 'existential' stuff.
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•♦• Much of this inner-work is 'Spiritual'
NONE of this inner-work is 'Religious'
______________________________

"Cultural Creatives"

"There is now a rapidly growing number of very bright

American people who basically need a whole other level,

a much, much higher level of true intellect, an intelligent,

a 'reformed', a deeper level of Inner-Unfolding of Spirit".

But without formal 'Religion' - or many other religion-ized

forms of 'cultish' language and obsequious behaviors

around new media jargons, social settings and events....

~ "The Cultural Creatives" ( 2000 )

.

"Cultural Creatives" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Cultural Creatives, a term coined by sociologist Paul H. Ray

and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson to describe a large

segment in Western society that has recently developed

beyond the 'standard paradigm' of established Modernists

versus Traditionalists or Conservatives. The concept was

presented in 2000 in their book The Cultural Creatives -

How 50 Million People Are Changing the World

( Harmony Books, New York ), where they claim to have

found that 50 million adult Americans ( slightly over

one quarter of the adult population) can now be

'identified' as belonging to this 'group' of individuals

which have not yet found its OWN 'identity' – but

is disenchanted with materialism and consumerism,

and most of what is currently available in the daily round.

Dr. Ray calls this segment The New Progressives.

This growing section of the population is

admittedly 'Spiritual' and embraces the 'practice'

of spiritual values in daily life without formal religion.

'Not Identified' means that they themselves

do not know they are part of a larger

sociological grouping, that it has a 'name',

and that there are 'others' like them out there.

Many of this urban cohort patronize specialty stores and

specialty children's schools etc. that support their values.

Many adherents to the tenets of the 'cultural creatives'

tend to become familiar with a variety of religions

and seek to identify with principles that are universal

among all religions. The intention is to search for universal,

practical spiritual principles that have deep intrinsic value,

and do not depend on ecclesiastical authority whatsoever.

Thank you for reading all this !

Hopefully you'll learn to cherish the Life-Journey

even more – for again, always remember that

"The Journey Itself IS the Destination!"

Be Brave, Courageous

and Enjoy the Journey ~

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Links to alternative lifestyle;
modernism and postmodernism;
post-materialism; radicals;
voluntary simplicity

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

“A Butcher, a Baker,

a Candlestick-maker ---

a Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief.

a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor -

Rich man, Poor man,

Beggar man, Thief --

an Old Man, Young Man,

Fiddler, Jailer, Pirate,

Captain, Crewman, Chef --

Plowman, Farmer, Teacher,

Banker, Gardener, Cooper, Cook,

Burglar, Boxer, Baker, Preacher,

a Professor, Politician, or Crook.

People Who Teach Experience.

-----------------------------------------

Those who are of

DHARMA-MIND.

The highly educable,

the dedicated dharma student,

or the committed therapy client

or those inclusive of effective

conventional western psychology

-- and yet now going way beyond it.

SO, WHO DOES COME HERE to SEE US ?

We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive minded

people, with a sensitive, natural, deep love of learning -

who relish the abstract, and even the absurd –

and have a genuine taste for the

indefinable 'existential' stuff.

A Buddhist Heretic's

Theory of Everything.

We are truly 'non-denominational' and 'non-religious' and welcome all journeyers of all Ways or especially even those of no way. 'Spiritual' doesn't mean 'Religion'. Actually, you can't even become a 'Buddhist', if you ask about it, our monks laugh sweetly -- as that too is just another appellation -- a 'label'. Yet monk's robes are worn for society's sake-- It makes for easy identification. Mugger-free, monks don't carry or handle money.

The ONE Web

of All Existence

The ONE Web of All Existence, 'Living-consciousness' that can Reflect on itself, talk to itself, take one-self to task has many 'Names' ( Nama / Namaste ) in many different world cultures. " IT " --The ONE Web "ITself', really has NO name at all. YHVH. All cultures on the planet call it ‘The ONE’ ( Adonoi Eluhanu Adonoi Echud ) So we just simply call it "EVERYTHING". All of 'Creation' itself. ‘Creator’ and ‘Creation’ is all the same thing, the same One-ness doing what IT does. We simply leave it at that. The One is One and there is nothing outside of it. It's All ONE. Buddhism does not see the personal relevancy of a God/s if you don't need the assistance / blessings of One -- yet the gods are there IF you DO need one --- it's all optional. Buddha was not a savior, Buddha was a teacher-monk -- somewhat like the Dalai Lama. You gotta’ love it all. We try to love it All. Most of the time, piece by piece in peace.

Akasa is quite dogmatic:

There's really no such thing as a strictly

'secular'-only therapy

'Spiritus' of Benevolence

is always there --or that

a truly modern therapy

is scientific and 'non-spiritual'

SPIRIT is ALL that we Are !

Native people call Humans

'Spirit Talking Two-leggeds'.

" There is no such thing as a strictly 'secular'-only therapy or that a truly modern therapy is scientific and  'non-spiritual' .. That’s where establishment psychological sciences are poetically naïve. EVERY 'therapy' is spiritual if it deals with matters of the heart and emotions and feelings. Buddhist approaches in particular, are 'spiritual' BUT non-religious. The historical Buddha was a Humanist & a Pragmatist. There's a freedom of intelligence & openness to that - a big difference. "

• WHY of ALL Possible Things - 

Am I Buddhist-based ???

I particularly use the Buddhist branding name, because those Asian cultures have got some of the most skillfully mature, very grounded, least misleading, most inclusive and the very best of the mind-healing techniques available so far - so far as we've come across. So we use 'em. And we're still strongly very eclectic: we use many diverse approaches - so we'll use what YOU need, not what 'we' like best or 'believe in'. We're on your side! We practice as Buddhist ministers not as licensed MFT or clinical psychologists.

'INNER-WORK

on THEMSELVES ?

Those who are of

 DHARMA-MIND.

The highly educable,

the dedicated dharma student,

or the committed therapy client

or those inclusive of effective

conventional western psychology

-- and yet now going way beyond it.

SO, WHO DOES COME HERE to SEE US ?

We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive minded

people, with a sensitive, natural, deep love of learning -

who relish the abstract, and even the absurd –

and have a genuine taste for the

indefinable 'existential' stuff.

….And Buddhism is mucho playful too !

"Have you ever noticed, that it's Always NOW "

~ said Alan Watts --

He suggests you repeatedly keep noticing this fact

mindfully many, many, many, many times a day . . .

" Electronic screens aside --

these days I really like to be

in the same room

with the teacher... "  ~ Anya Mandel

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- concerned, self- " absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

WHO ? is this

'specialty' counsel for ?

Actually anyone who walks in

the door and asks for the 'keys' --

maybe it's just the rest room keys,

but an 'asking' did take place,

and a 'transmission' did occur."

 

“Directionless ?

Know that The Way

always faces East....”

“The Road Now Taken”

And, after that...

Be most welcome

to read Akasa's Journal Notes 

of an American Buddhist Monk ~

A Star-studded Adventure Story

Full of Illuminated Luminaries

with an invitation to sit nearby

to watch them work that ‘thing’

they do so well: sharing the true

Wisdom of Loving Kindness, the

way Buddha must've radiated it.

Essentially you still have to go out,

search and find these special people.

Bring Sweets -- Bring Sweets

Don't show up empty handed

Back in the day it was all accessible

and Live. No click button to register -

and Asia was much more 'primitive',

yet more user-friendly intimate in a way...

but even today, in our edgy, uncertain times,

you still have to search your heart

as you search for human beings

who are 'Pointers-out' of The Way.

Asians do it all the time:

It's called Going on Pilgrimage.

16 Himalaya Lama Lane ~

Little Tulku came thru here

with Particular and Peculiar

Early 'Contributing Factors'

and Unexpected 'Conditions'

KARMA arrived, showing up as a series

of many 'Non-Ordinary' Human Influences,

Impressions and Impacts were consistent,

yet unusual 'Contributing Factors' - early

Magical 'Conditions' the best of Fine Arts

layered onto a little receptive boy person

and that has made all the difference --

“Only Slav --

Do You Speak Any English ?

You Lost What Kind of Key ?

A Dorkee, Hauskee, Kark-kee,

Porchkee, maybe a Gerachkee

Oh - A Key !

“Directionless ?

Know that The Way

always faces East....”

“The Road Now Taken”

And, after that... Be most welcome to read Akasa's Himalayan Journal

of an American Buddhist Monk ~ A Star-studded Adventure Story Full of Illuminated Luminaries with an invitation to sit nearby to watch them work that ‘thing’ they do so well: sharing the true

Wisdom of Loving Kindness, the way Buddha must've radiated it. Essentially you still have to go out,

search and find these special people.Bring Sweets -- Bring SweetsDon't show up empty handed

Back in the day it was all accessible and Live. No click button to register - and Asia was much more 'primitive', yet more user-friendly intimate in a way... but even today, in our edgy, uncertain times,

you still have to search your heart as you search for human beings who are 'pointers-out' of the Way. Asians do it all the time: It's called going on Pilgrimage.

16 Himalaya Lama Lane ~ London

Little Tulku came thru here

with Particular and Peculiar

Early 'Contributing Factors'

and Unexpected 'Conditions'

KARMA arrived, showing up as a series

of many 'Non-Ordinary' Human Influences,

Impressions and Impacts were consistent,

yet unusual 'Contributing Factors' - early

Magical 'Conditions' the best of Fine Arts

layered onto a little receptive boy person

and that has made all the difference --

So Guys,

It’s Time this Show "

Gets up in your Bid'nes ! "

It's really gotta' become fairly clear, fairly quickly

that it has to be - at some point in your exploration:

"That it's really OK - that it's just not OK" –

accepting but not liking that's the 'What Is' of it –

and let's get to 'work' on ourselves right from here –

It's a fact: You, or your loved ones, or your clients --

You're hurting - and you've got problems.

Together, we've gotta go in 'There' questing together.

As your counselor, coach, mentor, facilitator, friend -

We together go right in and - " Gets right up in your Bid'nes !

" Therapy gets personal. Opening up,

Disclosing, Revealing - if not Here, Where ?

"THERAPY" itself is not found in even the best of

academia or electronic devices or social media methods.

It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process - It always has been.

Two people sit down and empathically 'Work'

on one of them Together... It's a living 'dynamic' -

it's a 'dyad' of two people in on this. Therapy

or counseling is a 'relationship' in it's truest form.

That's so 'risky' for the Wounded Spirit to chance.

" The Journey Itself

 IS the Destination! "

_________________

" Two people sit down,

and empathically 'Work'

with one of them,

Together...

 Mentoring, Counsel, Coaching,

Protégé Guidance and Therapy.

All of them a Living 'dynamic' ---

truly Alive !It's a 'dyad'

of two people in on this.

...and now we're just beginning

to interface with the ancient ideas

found in "mentoring" traditions,

in new living-body technologies --

as we each pass on our

specially honored learnings

and applied wisdom skills.

Ooops !... EMOTIONS 

They Crowd Out REASON overrun..

And that's a Big Basic Fundamental Problem to heal

Emotions get to overrun - and then run thinking itself.

Thoughts get so embedded in feelings ~ Avoidant,

confused, hopeless, numb, crazy, angry and sad.

Maybe You've Become So Overwhelmingly ‘Identified’ And Over-Involved In Your Own Difficult 'Life-Story' That You Can’t See The Forest Because of All The Trees !

Your 'Story' of being such a driven 'Winner' or a victimized 'Loser' - or just a plain Nobody ’out there’ - “I didn’t come to LA for this”… you're just so overwhelmed, you’ve become under-whelming - feeling so isolated - that you just plain 'hurt'. Maybe you’ve lost the path, or forgotten the way, or just feel so ineffective in your 'deeper' inner-search. Or you’ve just never yet really sought out Who ‘You’ really, really are - ‘in here’. Inside.

The Greatest Risk is Not Taking One

RE-DISCOVERING and DEFINING "Yourself" - totally defined in/on your OWN TERMS ! ( not society’s term’s or religion's terms or family’s terms ). YOUR Own Terms is what of Cultivation the Spirit' is largely about ! Healing of the 'True' Spirit is really where ALL mind / spirit / soul-healing MUST eventually start…. and conclude. True healing has to start and end with the Heart ! It’s been that way in every culture all through time !

It's just only that until very recently, the 'choices' of these kind of 'Healings' have always been so few and restricted in availability to either doctors or shamans or the church. No longer. Every approach world-wide is now available to you! It's from this very Big Approach that you can truly find yourself and then truly give back to others in a valuable, clear, sweet and easy-going and natural way ... true 'Goodness'. Faith in ourselves simply as ‘Humans-restored’. And it can and will be 'Spiritual' AND YET totally NON-RELIGIOUS.. Please consider that !

___________________________________

“The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD PROJECT” is a Buddhist-based Psycho/Spiritual oriented Resource, Counseling and Alternative Therapy. The world renown and respected ancient tradition of Buddhist Mindfulness as an applicable psychology, as a path of cultivating a 'transcendent' - a 'higher sanity' - a very clear-seeing ability for yourself. By developing this wisdom understanding, you are now available to generate a much more all-inclusive compassion - which leads to an authentic peace in ourselves, which we can then extend out to our family, friends and the world.

Learning and using a 2500 year-old, tested self-development approaches and techniques, towards a clear, wholesome, peaceful, joyful mind.

Traditional contemporary Buddhism is absolutely NOT a ‘religious path’ but more of an empirical, practical, pragmatic, highly intelligent ‘Humanism’ -

There are NO gods and NO worship and NO religious superstitions involved in anything we offer in any way whatsoever. Unless you do want to hear more about it -- Historically it’s very kewl too ! Working archetype-forms that are really just good stories -- Or not. The Buddha ( 528 BC ) himself was an atheist to the bone. There are some challenging bewilderments in Buddhism for the mind. Zen is founded on it… Just discovering and uncovering the essence of a sane, wise, peaceful, pure spirit that is YOU.

 Guys, it's really gotta' become fairly clear,

fairly quickly that it has to be - at  some point:

"That it's OK - that it's just not OK" –

That's the 'What Is' of it – and let's go to 'work' on ourselves from here – It's a fact: You're hurting - and you've got problems. Together, we've gotta go in 'There' questing together. As your counselor / facilitator - we together go right in and - " Gets up in your Bid'nes ! " Therapy gets personal.   Opening up, disclosing, revealing - if not Here, Where ? "THERAPY" itself is not found in even the best of academia or electronic devices or social media methods.It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process - It always has been. Two people sit down and empathically 'Work' on one of them Together... It's a living 'dynamic' - t's a 'dyad' of two people in on this. Therapy or counseling is a 'relationship' in it's truest form. That's so 'risky' for the Wounded Spirit to chance.

"Spiritual Adulthood"

form of Counseling – more geared to people in the whole spectrum of contemporary 'Creatives' and the 'New-Thought-minded' and Millennial media sensibilities. Basically experiencing more social contact than less. We're actually learning to communicate, talk and write all over again - actually quite progressively remarkable. Maybe more Voluntary Simplicity has emerged in the culture- Green or Liberal or Socialist. Maybe much better tempered Radicals are revealing themselves and contributing. Maybe it's just You.

" The Buddhist Mentor Project " an exploration that encourages and supports a very eclectic “Inquiry into Self” an experiential inner practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Mindfulness Meditation.

We can then loosen up, soften up our poor, tightened, threatened, fear-filled anxious  inner world -- countering

our stress with the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits

the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' - helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

Humans are tough nuts to crack.

Soak 'em in kindness...

" One easily-made, very common mistake

is to think that 'your reality’ is THE Reality.

You must always be prepared to bravely leave

your reality for a greater one."    ~  Buddha

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

" WHO ? is this

'specialty' counsel for ?

Actually anyone who walks in

the door and asks for the 'keys' --

maybe it's just the rest room keys,

but an 'asking' did take place,

and a 'transmission' did occur."

WHO ? “A Butcher, a Baker,

a Candlestick-maker ---

You've heard this

famous aphorism

many times before,

of course you have ~

" The Journey Itself

IS the Destination! "  ~ Tao

_________________

You've heard this

famous aphorism

many times before,

of course you have ~

" The Journey Itself

IS the Destination! "  ~ Tao

_________________

" Two people sit down

and empathically 'Work'

with One of them,

Together...

Mentoring, Counsel, Coaching,

Protégé Guidance and Therapy.

All of them a Living 'dynamic' ---

truly Alive !It's a 'dyad'

of two people in on this.

...and now we're just beginning

to interface with the ancient ideas

found in "mentoring" traditions,

in new living-body technologies --

as we each pass on our

specially honored learnings

and applied wisdom skills.

" Two people sit down

and empathically 'Work'

with One of them,

Together...

Ooops !... EMOTIONS 

They Crowd Out REASON

And that's a Big Basic Fundamental Problem to heal.

Emotions get to overrun - and then run thinking itself.

Thoughts get so embedded in feelings ~ Avoidant,

confused, hopeless, numb, crazy, angry and sad.

Maybe You've Become So Overwhelmingly ‘Identified’

And Over-Involved In Your Own Difficult 'Life-Story'

That You Can’t See The Forest Because of All The Trees !

Your 'Story' of being such a driven 'Winner' or a victimized 'Loser' - or just a plain Nobody ’out there’ - “I didn’t come to LA for this”… you're just so overwhelmed, you’ve become under-whelming - feeling so isolated - that you just plain 'hurt'. Maybe you’ve lost the path, or forgotten the way, or just feel so ineffective in your 'deeper' inner-search. Or you’ve just never yet really sought out Who ‘You’ really, really are - ‘in here’. Inside.

The Greatest Risk is Not Taking One

RE-DISCOVERING and DEFINING "Yourself" - totally defined in/on your OWN TERMS ! ( not society’s term’s or religion's terms or family’s terms ). YOUR Own Terms is what of Cultivation the Spirit' is largely about ! Healing of the 'True' Spirit is really where ALL mind / spirit / soul-healing MUST eventually start…. and conclude. True healing has to start and end with the Heart ! It’s been that way in every culture all through time !

It's just only that until very recently, the 'choices' of these kind of 'Healings' have always been so few and restricted in availability to either doctors or shamans or the church. No longer. Every approach world-wide is now available to you! It's from this very Big Approach that you can truly find yourself and then truly give back to others in a valuable, clear, sweet and easy-going and natural way ... true 'Goodness'. Faith in ourselves simply as ‘Humans-restored’. And it can and will be 'Spiritual' AND YET totally NON-RELIGIOUS.. Please consider that!

___________________________________

“The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD PROJECT” is a Buddhist-based Psycho/Spiritual oriented Resource, Counseling and Alternative Therapy. The world renown and respected ancient tradition of Buddhist Mindfulness as an applicable psychology, as a path of cultivating a 'transcendent' - a 'higher sanity' - a very clear-seeing ability for yourself. By developing this wisdom understanding, you are now available to generate a much more all-inclusive compassion - which leads to an authentic peace in ourselves, which we can then extend out to our family, friends and the world. Learning and using a 2500 year-old, tested self-development approaches and techniques, towards a clear, wholesome, peaceful, joyful mind.

Traditional contemporary Buddhism is absolutely NOT a ‘religious path’ but more of an empirical, practical, pragmatic, highly intelligent ‘Humanism’ - There are NO gods and NO worship and NO religious superstitions involved in anything we offer in any way whatsoever. Unless you do want to hear more about it -- Historically it’s very kewl too ! Working archetype-forms that are really just good stories -- Or not. The Buddha ( 528 BC ) himself was an atheist to the bone. There are some challenging bewilderments in Buddhism for the mind. Zen is founded on it… Just discovering and uncovering the essence of a sane, wise, peaceful, pure spirit that is YOU.

Guys, it's really gotta' become fairly clear,

fairly quickly that it has to be - at  some point:

"That it's OK - that it's just not OK" –

that's the 'What Is' of it – and let's go to 'work' on ourselves from here – It's a fact: You're hurting -

and you've got problems. Together, we've gotta

go in 'There' questing together. As your counselor / facilitator - we together go right in and -

" Gets up in your Bid'nes ! " Therapy gets personal.

Opening up, disclosing, revealing - if not Here, Where ?

"THERAPY" itself is not found in even the best of

academia or electronic devices or social media methods.

It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process - It always has been.

Two people sit down and empathically 'Work'

on one of them Together... It's a living 'dynamic' -

it's a 'dyad' of two people in on this. Therapy

or counseling is a 'relationship' in it's truest form.

That's so 'risky' for the Wounded Spirit to chance.

"Spiritual Adulthood"

is offering 

a much more 'radical'

form of Counseling --

--more geared to people in the whole spectrum of contemporary 'Creatives' and the 'New-Thought-minded' and Millennial media sensibilities. Basically experiencing more social contact than less. We're actually learning to communicate, talk and write all over again - actually quite progressively remarkable. Maybe more Voluntary Simplicity has emerged in the culture- Green or Liberal or Socialist. Maybe much better tempered Radicals are revealing themselves and contributing. Maybe it's just You.

" The Buddhist Mentor Project " an exploration that encourages and supports a very eclectic “Inquiry into Self” an experiential inner practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Mindfulness Meditation.

We can then loosen up, soften up our poor, tightened, threatened, fear-filled anxious  inner world -- countering

our stress with the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of th

'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits

the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' - helping you

in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

Humans are tough nuts to crack. Soak 'em in kindness...

" One easily-made, very common mistake

is to think that 'your reality’ is THE Reality.

You must always be prepared to bravely leave

your reality for a greater one."    ~  Buddha

WHO COMES HERE to SEE US ?

We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive minded

people, with a natural, deep love of learning -

who relish the abstract, and even the absurd –

and have a genuine taste for the

indefinable 'existential' stuff.

~ and Buddhism is

mucho playful too.

".... ever noticed,

that it's Always NOW " ~ Alan Watts

He suggests you repeatedly keep noticing this

many, many, many times a day . . .

Usually, the people who do eventually come to us -

are more explorative, curious, do have a more active intellect, are innately, intensely inquisitive people bytheir nature. The 'Inner-Search', 'The Quest', The 'Understanding' of it All. They are people who relish the 'safari' of it – the 'search', the'inquiry', the brave 'quest' of it - hurting or not - rather than settle         or 'popular' ideas and shallow packaged prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat. Enlightened Freedom is ust not a 'home-deliverable product'. For each of us -

it's all a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced

thru your own compassionate Spiritual Heart. . .

__________________________

Little Tulku came thru here

with Particular and Peculiar

Early 'Contributing Factors'

and Unexpected 'Conditions'

KARMA arrived, showing up as a series

of many 'Non-Ordinary' Human Influences,

Impressions and Impacts were consistent,

yet unusual 'Contributing Factors' - early

Magical 'Conditions' the best of Fine Arts

layered onto a little receptive boy person

and that has made all the difference --

xx split WHO ?

COMES HERE

TO DO 'INNER-WORK'

on THEMSELVES ?

Those who are

MENTORING-MINDED ---

The dedicated dharma student

or the committed therapy client,

those inclusive of conventional

western psychology...

and yet going beyond it.

" Electronic screens aside ---

these days I like to be

in the same room

with the teacher... "  ~ Anya Mandel

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

" WHO ? is this

'specialty' counsel for ?

Actually anyone who walks in

the door and asks for the 'keys' --

maybe it's just the rest room keys,

but an 'asking' did take place,

and a 'transmission' did occur."

WHO ? “A Butcher, a Baker,

a Candlestick-maker ---

Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief -

Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, Tailor -

Rich man, Poor man,

Beggar man, Thief “

...and Dharma-people

What kind of Key ???

A Dorkey, Hauskee, Kark-kee,

Porchekee, Gerachkee, Gaat-ki,

A Key !

.

" The Journey Itself

 IS the Destination! "

______________

" Two people sit down,

and empathically 'Work'

with one of them, Together...

------------------------------

Mentoring, Counsel, Coaching,

Protégé Guidance and Therapy.

All of them a Living 'dynamic' ---

truly Alive !

It's a 'dyad' of two people in on this.

...and now we're just beginning

to interface with the ancient ideas

found in "mentoring" traditions,

in living-body technologies --

as we each pass on our

specially honored learnings

and applied wisdom skills.

Ooops !... EMOTIONS :

They Crowd Out REASON

And that's a Big Basic Problem to heal.

Emotions get to overrun - and run thinking.

Thoughts get so embedded in feelings ~

Confusion, hopeless, numb... angry and sad

MAYBE YOU'VE BECOME SO OVERWHELMINGLY ‘IDENTIFIED’ and OVER-INVOLVED IN YOUR OWN DIFFICULT 'LIFE-STORY'

That You Can’t See The Forest Because of All The Trees!

Your 'Story' of being such a driven 'Winner' or a victimized 'Loser' - or just a plain Nobody ’out there’ - you're just so overwhelmed, you’ve become under-whelming - feeling so isolated - that you just plain 'hurt'. Maybe you’ve lost the path, or forgotten the way, or just feel so ineffective in your 'deeper' inner-search. Or you’ve just never yet really sought out Who ‘You’ really, really are - ‘in here’. Inside.

RE-DISCOVERING and DEFINING "Yourself" - totally defined in/on your OWN TERMS ! ( not society’s term’s or religion's terms or family’s terms ). YOUR Own Terms is what 'Therapy of the Spirit' is largely about ! Therapy of the 'True' Spirit is really where ALL mind / spirit / soul-healing MUST eventually start. True therapy has to start and end with the Heart ! It’s been that way in every culture all through time!

It's just only that until very recently, the 'choices' of these kind of 'healings' have always been so few and restricted in availability to either doctors or shamans or the church. No longer. Every approach world-wide is now available to you! It's from this very Big Approach that you can truly find yourself and then truly give back to others in a valuable, clear, easy-going and natural way ... true 'Goodness'. Faith in ourselves simply as Humans-restored. And it can be 'Spiritual' AND YET totally NON-RELIGIOUS.. Please consider that!

________________________________

“The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD PROJECT” is a Buddhist-based Psycho/Spiritual oriented Counseling and Alternative Therapy. The world renown and respected ancient tradition of Buddhist Mindfulness Psychology is a path of cultivating a 'transcendent' - a 'higher sanity' - a very clear-seeing ability for yourself. By developing this wisdom understanding, you are now available to generate a much more all-inclusive compassion - which leads to an authentic peace in ourselves, which we can then extend out to our family, friends and the world. Learning and using a 2500 year-old tested self-development approaches and techniques towards a clear, wholesome, peaceful, joyful mind.

Traditional contemporary Buddhism is absolutely NOT a ‘religious path’ but more of an empirical, practical, pragmatic, highly intelligent ‘Humanism’ -

There are NO gods and NO worship and NO religious superstitions involved in anything we offer in any way whatsoever. Unless you do want to hear more about it. Working archetype-forms that are really just good stories…. Or not. The Buddha ( 528 BC ) himself was an atheist. There are some challenging bewilderments in Buddhism for the mind. Zen is founded on it… Just discovering and uncovering the essence of a sane, wise, peaceful, pure spirit that is YOU.

____________________

“And then the day came

when the risk to

remain tight in a bud

was more than the risk

it took to blossom”    ~ Anais Nin

_____________________________

•♦• Much of this inner-work is 'Spiritual'

NONE of this inner-work is 'Religious'

____________________________________________

The Greatest Risk is Not Taking One

Directionless ?

Know that The Way

always faces East....

16 Himalaya Lama Lane ~

The Road Now Taken

And, after that...

Be most welcome to read Akasa's

Himalayan Journal

of an American Buddhist Monk ~

A Spiritual Star-studded Adventure Story

Full of Illuminated Luminaries

with an invitation to sit nearby

to watch them work that thing

they do so well: sharing the true

Wisdom of Loving Kindness, the

way Buddha must've radiated it.

Essentially you still have to go out,

search and find these special people.

Sweets: Don't show up empty handed

Back in the day it was all accessible

and Live. No click button to register -

and Asia was much more 'primitive',

yet more user-friendly intimate in a way...

but even today, in our edgy, uncertain times,

you still have to search your heart as you search

for human beings who are 'pointers-out' of the Way.

Asians do it all the time: It's called going on Pilgrimage.

Early 'Contributing Factors'

and Unexpected 'Conditions'

KARMA arrived, showing up as a series of

many 'Non-Ordinary' Human Influences,

Impressions and Impacts were consistent,

yet unusual 'Contributing Factors' - early

magical 'Conditions' the best of Fine Arts

layered onto a little receptive boy person

and that has made all the difference --

Himalayan Diary of an

American Buddhist Monk

at Kopan Gompa Monastery

Bodh’nath, Kathmandu, Nepal

___________________________________

Dear Reader ~

This same never-ending story in every human culture

always repeats itself, it always begins with a 'Search' -

through the deep Unknown with raw beginner's skills

that are barely known to an unaware beginner's mind.

Spiritually speaking, that's a very classic way to start.

At one's Core, something got lost - and one goes out

to try'n find it.  Don't we all kinda' relate with that ?

__________________________________

Foolish Nasreddin's Lost Keys ~

One late evening Nasreddin is walking home.

He can be seen to be upset about something.

Just then a young man comes along

and sees the Mullah's distress.

"Mullah, please tell me - What is wrong? "

"Friend, I seem to have lost my keys.

Would you help me search for them ?

I had them when I left the tea house.

So he helps Nasreddin search for the keys.

For quite a while the young man is searching

here and there but no keys are to be found.

He looks over to Nasreddin and sees him

searching only a very small limited area

around an old oil street lamp.

" Mullah, why are you only searching over there ? "

" Because there's much more light over here. Should I foolishly search where there is no light ? "

The Mullah Nasreddin never found his keys.

_______________________________¬¬___

" We shall not cease

from exploration,

And the end of

all our exploring

will be to arrive

where we started ~

And know the place

for the very first time."  ~ T.S. Eliot

________________________________

This LONGER Story version presented here, hops around, makes a bunch of confusing time-jumps, leaves the story or ideas dangerously hanging, at times makes no sense or non-sense or takes you nowhere until you actually go somewhere or get something: and you are still asking Why ? - But the text drops enough names you can use as 'keywords' so that you can do this miraculous Wikipedia thing called 'Search' - and their site opens up like a blossoming lotus flower - because my muddy site here has no fancy formats and links yet…

Sorry, Worthy and Good Seeker, ya' gotta Work it.a bit…

All On Board 

__________________________________________________

MYSTERY of  MYSTERIES ~ 1948

.

Thank you for reading all this !

Hopefully you'll learn to cherish the Life-Journey

even more – for again, always remember that

"The Journey Itself IS the Destination!"

Be Brave, Courageous

and Enjoy the Journey ~
---------------------------

Links to alternative lifestyle;

modernism and postmodernism;

post-materialism; radicals;

voluntary simplicity

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

“A Butcher, a Baker,
a Candlestick-maker ---
a Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief.
a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor -
Rich man, Poor man,
Beggar man, Thief --
an Old Man, Young Man,

Fiddler, Jailer, Pirate,

Captain, Crewman, Chef --

Plowman, Farmer, Teacher,

Banker, Gardener, Cooper, Cook,

Burglar, Boxer, Baker, Preacher,

a Professor, Politician, or Crook.

People Who Teach Experience. 

-----------------------------------------

Those who are of
DHARMA-MIND.

The highly educable,

the dedicated dharma student,

or the committed therapy client

or those inclusive of effective

conventional western psychology

-- and yet now going way beyond it.

SO, WHO DOES COME HERE to SEE US ?

We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive minded

people, with a sensitive, natural, deep love of learning -

who relish the abstract, and even the absurd –

and have a genuine taste for the

indefinable 'existential' stuff.

 

A Buddhist Heretic's

Theory of Everything.
We are truly 'non-denominational' and 'non-religious' and welcome all journeyers of all Ways or especially even those of no way. 'Spiritual' doesn't mean 'Religion'. Actually, you can't even become a 'Buddhist', if you ask about it, our monks laugh sweetly -- as that too is just another appellation -- a 'label'. Yet monk's robes are worn for society's sake-- It makes for easy identification. Mugger-free, monks don't carry or handle money.

The ONE Web

of All Existence

The ONE Web of All Existence, 'Living-consciousness' that can Reflect on itself, talk to itself, take one-self to task has many 'Names' ( Nama / Namaste ) in many different world cultures. " IT " --The ONE Web "ITself', really has NO name at all. YHVH. All cultures on the planet call it ‘The ONE’ ( Adonoi Eluhanu Adonoi Echud ) So we just simply call it "EVERYTHING". All of 'Creation' itself. ‘Creator’ and ‘Creation’ is all the same thing, the same One-ness doing what IT does. We simply leave it at that. The One is One and there is nothing outside of it. It's All ONE. Buddhism does not see the personal relevancy of a God/s if you don't need the assistance / blessings of One -- yet the gods are there IF you DO need one --- it's all optional. Buddha was not a savior, Buddha was a teacher-monk -- somewhat like the Dalai Lama. You gotta’ love it all. We try to love it All. Most of the time, piece by piece in peace.

Akasa is quite dogmatic:

There's really no such thing as a strictly

'secular'-only therapy

'Spiritus' of Benevolence 

is always there --or that

a truly modern therapy

is scientific and 'non-spiritual'

SPIRIT is ALL that we Are !

Native people call Humans

'Spirit Talking Two-leggeds'.

" There is no such thing as a strictly 'secular'-only therapy or that a truly modern therapy is scientific and  'non-spiritual' .. That’s where establishment psychological sciences are poetically naïve. EVERY 'therapy' is spiritual if it deals with matters of the heart and emotions and feelings. Buddhist approaches in particular, are 'spiritual' BUT non-religious. The historical Buddha was a Humanist & a Pragmatist. There's a freedom of intelligence & openness to that - a big difference. "

• WHY of ALL Possible Things -  

Am I Buddhist-based ???

I particularly use the Buddhist branding name, because those Asian cultures have got some of the most skillfully mature, very grounded, least misleading, most inclusive and the very best of the mind-healing techniques available so far - so far as we've come across. So we use 'em. And we're still strongly very eclectic: we use many diverse approaches - so we'll use what YOU need, not what 'we' like best or 'believe in'. We're on your side! We practice as Buddhist ministers not as licensed MFT or clinical psychologists.

'INNER-WORK

on THEMSELVES ?

Those who are of
 DHARMA-MIND.

The highly educable,

the dedicated dharma student,

or the committed therapy client

or those inclusive of effective

conventional western psychology

-- and yet now going way beyond it.

SO, WHO DOES COME HERE to SEE US ?

We encourage highly inquisitive, progressive minded

people, with a sensitive, natural, deep love of learning -

who relish the abstract, and even the absurd –

and have a genuine taste for the

indefinable 'existential' stuff.

….And Buddhism is mucho playful too !

"Have you ever noticed, that it's Always NOW "

~ said Alan Watts --

He suggests you repeatedly keep noticing this fact

mindfully many, many, many, many times a day . . .

" Electronic screens aside --

these days I really like to be

in the same room
with the teacher... "  ~ Anya Mandel

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- concerned, self- " absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

WHO ? is this
'specialty' counsel for ? 

Actually anyone who walks in
the door and asks for the 'keys' --
maybe it's just the rest room keys,
but an 'asking' did take place,
and a 'transmission' did occur."

  

“Directionless ?

Know that The Way

always faces East....”

“The Road Now Taken”

And, after that...
Be most welcome

to read Akasa's Journal Notes  

of an American Buddhist Monk ~
A Star-studded Adventure Story
Full of Illuminated Luminaries
with an invitation to sit nearby
to watch them work that ‘thing’
they do so well: sharing the true
Wisdom of Loving Kindness, the
way Buddha must've radiated it.
Essentially you still have to go out,
search and find these special people.

Bring Sweets -- Bring Sweets

Don't show up empty handed

Back in the day it was all accessible
and Live. No click button to register -
and Asia was much more 'primitive',
yet more user-friendly intimate in a way...
but even today, in our edgy, uncertain times,
you still have to search your heart

as you search for human beings

who are 'Pointers-out' of The Way.
Asians do it all the time:

It's called Going on Pilgrimage.

16 Himalaya Lama Lane ~

Little Tulku came thru here

with Particular and Peculiar

Early 'Contributing Factors' 

and Unexpected 'Conditions'

KARMA arrived, showing up as a series

of many 'Non-Ordinary' Human Influences,
Impressions and Impacts were consistent,
yet unusual 'Contributing Factors' - early

Magical 'Conditions' the best of Fine Arts
layered onto a little receptive boy person
and that has made all the difference --

“Only Slav --

Do You Speak Any English ?

You Lost What Kind of Key ?

A Dorkee, Hauskee, Kark-kee,
Porchkee, maybe a Gerachkee
Oh - A Key !

“Directionless ?

Know that The Way

always faces East....”

“The Road Now Taken”

And, after that... Be most welcome to read Akasa's Himalayan Journal

of an American Buddhist Monk ~ A Star-studded Adventure Story Full of Illuminated Luminaries with an invitation to sit nearby to watch them work that ‘thing’ they do so well: sharing the true
Wisdom of Loving Kindness, the way Buddha must've radiated it. Essentially you still have to go out,
search and find these special people.Bring Sweets -- Bring SweetsDon't show up empty handed

Back in the day it was all accessible and Live. No click button to register - and Asia was much more 'primitive', yet more user-friendly intimate in a way... but even today, in our edgy, uncertain times,
you still have to search your heart as you search for human beings who are 'pointers-out' of the Way. Asians do it all the time: It's called going on Pilgrimage.

16 Himalaya Lama Lane ~ London

Little Tulku came thru here

with Particular and Peculiar

Early 'Contributing Factors' 

and Unexpected 'Conditions'

KARMA arrived, showing up as a series

of many 'Non-Ordinary' Human Influences,
Impressions and Impacts were consistent,
yet unusual 'Contributing Factors' - early

Magical 'Conditions' the best of Fine Arts
layered onto a little receptive boy person
and that has made all the difference --

So Guys,

It’s Time this Show " 

Gets up in your Bid'nes ! "

It's really gotta' become fairly clear, fairly quickly

that it has to be - at some point in your exploration:

"That it's really OK - that it's just not OK" –

accepting but not liking that's the 'What Is' of it –

and let's get to 'work' on ourselves right from here –

It's a fact: You, or your loved ones, or your clients --

You're hurting - and you've got problems.

Together, we've gotta go in 'There' questing together.

As your counselor, coach, mentor, facilitator, friend -

We together go right in and - " Gets right up in your Bid'nes !

" Therapy gets personal. Opening up,

Disclosing, Revealing - if not Here, Where ?

"THERAPY" itself is not found in even the best of

academia or electronic devices or social media methods.

It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process - It always has been.

Two people sit down and empathically 'Work'

on one of them Together... It's a living 'dynamic' -

it's a 'dyad' of two people in on this. Therapy

or counseling is a 'relationship' in it's truest form.

That's so 'risky' for the Wounded Spirit to chance.

" The Journey Itself

 IS the Destination! "
_________________

" Two people sit down,

and empathically 'Work'

with one of them,

Together...

 Mentoring, Counsel, Coaching,

Protégé Guidance and Therapy.
All of them a Living 'dynamic' ---

truly Alive !It's a 'dyad'

of two people in on this.
...and now we're just beginning
to interface with the ancient ideas
found in "mentoring" traditions,

in new living-body technologies -- 

as we each pass on our

specially honored learnings
and applied wisdom skills. 

Ooops !... EMOTIONS  

They Crowd Out REASON overrun..

And that's a Big Basic Fundamental Problem to heal

Emotions get to overrun - and then run thinking itself.

Thoughts get so embedded in feelings ~ Avoidant,

confused, hopeless, numb, crazy, angry and sad.

Maybe You've Become So Overwhelmingly ‘Identified’ And Over-Involved In Your Own Difficult 'Life-Story' That You Can’t See The Forest Because of All The Trees !

Your 'Story' of being such a driven 'Winner' or a victimized 'Loser' - or just a plain Nobody ’out there’ - “I didn’t come to LA for this”… you're just so overwhelmed, you’ve become under-whelming - feeling so isolated - that you just plain 'hurt'. Maybe you’ve lost the path, or forgotten the way, or just feel so ineffective in your 'deeper' inner-search. Or you’ve just never yet really sought out Who ‘You’ really, really are - ‘in here’. Inside.

The Greatest Risk is Not Taking One

RE-DISCOVERING and DEFINING "Yourself" - totally defined in/on your OWN TERMS ! ( not society’s term’s or religion's terms or family’s terms ). YOUR Own Terms is what of Cultivation the Spirit' is largely about ! Healing of the 'True' Spirit is really where ALL mind / spirit / soul-healing MUST eventually start…. and conclude. True healing has to start and end with the Heart ! It’s been that way in every culture all through time !

It's just only that until very recently, the 'choices' of these kind of 'Healings' have always been so few and restricted in availability to either doctors or shamans or the church. No longer. Every approach world-wide is now available to you! It's from this very Big Approach that you can truly find yourself and then truly give back to others in a valuable, clear, sweet and easy-going and natural way ... true 'Goodness'. Faith in ourselves simply as ‘Humans-restored’. And it can and will be 'Spiritual' AND YET totally NON-RELIGIOUS.. Please consider that !

___________________________________

“The SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD PROJECT” is a Buddhist-based Psycho/Spiritual oriented Resource, Counseling and Alternative Therapy. The world renown and respected ancient tradition of Buddhist Mindfulness as an applicable psychology, as a path of cultivating a 'transcendent' - a 'higher sanity' - a very clear-seeing ability for yourself. By developing this wisdom understanding, you are now available to generate a much more all-inclusive compassion - which leads to an authentic peace in ourselves, which we can then extend out to our family, friends and the world.

Learning and using a 2500 year-old, tested self-development approaches and techniques, towards a clear, wholesome, peaceful, joyful mind.

Traditional contemporary Buddhism is absolutely NOT a ‘religious path’ but more of an empirical, practical, pragmatic, highly intelligent ‘Humanism’ -
There are NO gods and NO worship and NO religious superstitions involved in anything we offer in any way whatsoever. Unless you do want to hear more about it -- Historically it’s very kewl too ! Working archetype-forms that are really just good stories -- Or not. The Buddha ( 528 BC ) himself was an atheist to the bone. There are some challenging bewilderments in Buddhism for the mind. Zen is founded on it… Just discovering and uncovering the essence of a sane, wise, peaceful, pure spirit that is YOU.

 Guys, it's really gotta' become fairly clear,

fairly quickly that it has to be - at  some point:

"That it's OK - that it's just not OK" –

That's the 'What Is' of it – and let's go to 'work' on ourselves from here – It's a fact: You're hurting - and you've got problems. Together, we've gotta go in 'There' questing together. As your counselor / facilitator - we together go right in and - " Gets up in your Bid'nes ! " Therapy gets personal.   Opening up, disclosing, revealing - if not Here, Where ? "THERAPY" itself is not found in even the best of academia or electronic devices or social media methods.It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process - It always has been. Two people sit down and empathically 'Work' on one of them Together... It's a living 'dynamic' - t's a 'dyad' of two people in on this. Therapy or counseling is a 'relationship' in it's truest form. That's so 'risky' for the Wounded Spirit to chance.

"Spiritual Adulthood"

form of Counseling – more geared to people in the whole spectrum of contemporary 'Creatives' and the 'New-Thought-minded' and Millennial media sensibilities. Basically experiencing more social contact than less. We're actually learning to communicate, talk and write all over again - actually quite progressively remarkable. Maybe more Voluntary Simplicity has emerged in the culture- Green or Liberal or Socialist. Maybe much better tempered Radicals are revealing themselves and contributing. Maybe it's just You.

" The Buddhist Mentor Project " an exploration that encourages and supports a very eclectic “Inquiry into Self” an experiential inner practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Mindfulness Meditation.

We can then loosen up, soften up our poor, tightened, threatened, fear-filled anxious  inner world -- countering

our stress with the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits

the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' - helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

Humans are tough nuts to crack.

Soak 'em in kindness...

" One easily-made, very common mistake
is to think that 'your reality’ is THE Reality.
You must always be prepared to bravely leave
your reality for a greater one."    ~  Buddha

" The Buddhist Mentoring Project " ~ 'Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols into the village Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very intimate and candid “Inquiry into personal-Self” with an initiated guiding teacher, in an experiential inner-practice, combining the cool, calm 'observation' approach of traditional, quiet Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation --- along side the 'Crazy Wisdom' irrationality of the 'Zen-mind Realizations' that cognitively short-circuits the common chronic suffering of ' My Self ' --- helping you in dismantling your so obsessive self- involved, self- absorbed, self- Identified ego-mind.

" WHO ? is this
'specialty' counsel for ? 

Actually anyone who walks in
the door and asks for the 'keys' --
maybe it's just the rest room keys,
but an 'asking' did take place,
and a 'transmission' did occur."

WHO ? “A Butcher, a Baker,
a Candlestick-maker --- 

You've heard this
famous aphorism
many times before,
of course you have ~

" The Journey Itself

IS the Destination! "  ~ Tao
_________________

You've heard this
famous aphorism
many times before,
of course you have ~
" The Journey Itself

IS the Destination! "  ~ Tao
_________________

" Two people sit down

and empathically 'Work'

with One of them,

Together...

Mentoring, Counsel, Coaching,

Protégé Guidance and Therapy.
All of them a Living 'dynamic' ---

truly Alive !It's a 'dyad'

of two people in on this.
...and now we're just beginning
to interface with the ancient ideas
found in "mentoring" traditions,

in new living-body technologies -- 

as we each pass on our

specially honored learnings
and applied wisdom skills. 

" Two people sit down

and empathically 'Work'

with One of them,

Together...

Ooops !... EMOTIONS  

They Crowd Out REASON

And that's a Big Basic Fundamental Problem to heal.

Emotions get to overrun - and then run thinking itself.

Thoughts get so embedded in feelings ~ Avoidant,

confused, hopeless, numb, crazy, angry and sad.

Maybe You've Become So Overwhelmingly ‘Identified’

And Over-Involved In Your Own Difficult 'Life-Story'

That You Can’t See The Forest Because of All The Trees !

Your 'Story' of being such a driven 'Winner' or a victimized 'Loser' - or just a plain Nobody ’out there’ - “I didn’t come to LA for this”… you're just so overwhelmed, you’ve become under-whelming - feeling so isolated - that you just plain 'hurt'. Maybe you’ve lost the path, or forgotten the way, or just feel so ineffective in your 'deeper' inner-search. Or you’ve just never yet really sought out Who ‘You’ really, really are - ‘in here’. Inside.