♦ DISCOMFORT an INTRODUCTION - May As Well START HERE

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♦ SO, WHAT IS
GOING ON
INSIDE YOU ?

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♦ SO, WHAT IS
GOING ON
INSIDE YOU ?
“There is no such thing
as a "Problem" without
somehow a ‘Gift’ for you

in its hands ---
Sometimes you have problems
because you need their Gifts.
It is through Gifts that you grow"

~ Richard Bach

“There is no such thing
as a "Problem" without
somehow a ‘Gift’ for you

in its hands ---
Sometimes you have problems
because you need their Gifts.
It is through Gifts that you grow"
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♦ DEPRESSION Notes on
"UNSATISFACTORINESS" 
Go See Someone Soon
BIG DISCOMFORT:
an INTRODUCTION
Slowly Graze Ponder  
CONTEMPLATIVELY
slowly search each word
You COULD START HERE

Jjust START SOMEWHERE ~ Please Go See Someone~ 

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"The Major Big Problem" ?
It's Familiar Usually Ongoing

EMOTIONAL PAIN:

How We Could Develop Relief

and Experience True Clarity

to our Better 'Understanding'

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An UNHAPPY Diagnosis
SUFFERING

One Size Fits All

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♦ DISCOMFORT: Feelings

What Really May Be Going On
Emotionally Inside of  You ?

♦ DISCOMFORT: Navigation

What Really May Be Going On
In ”The Big Overwhelm” of Things

for Everyone to Now Actively Consider

♦ An UNHAPPY Diagnosis: Bad Karma,

Chaos, Social and Cultural Upheaval right

under our nose-- Suffering personal Chaos.
That's "A REAL Huge Big Problem" --Ouch !

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This is Serious Stuff to be Taken Seriously:

As Human Compassion’s Higher Wisdom with 

Buddhist Concern for Endangered Kindness  
and Safety, Sanity and Survival of the Living

“Spirit” of Humanity's Wholesome Welfare --
This just has got to be a Kinder Better Path !

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 “So What Really May Be Going On“
In the Really Big Picture of Things for
Now Everyone to Actively Consider

There’s a Missing LOST Dog:

We Complain A Lot. The Remedy:

Take Your LIFE Back--
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~ The American Poet Laureate Robert Bly suggests.
this quote below bears constant repeating, so we will
.

”THE REMEDY ~ 
BRING YOUR 
LIFE BACK

FROM THE ‘EXILE

OF YOUR SPIRIT --
and INTO AUTHENTIC

SACRED BALANCE AGAIN.”

THAT'S ABOUT IT !
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Please ZOOM In / Up 175 %

  

The Main Topic: 

Our SUFFERING 

Our personal 'Suffering'
of the vast never-ending
unstable 'IMPERMANCE' 
and the 'Not-Self' of it ALL !
-- of people places and things:
an insecure 'impermanence'
which is, frankly, just too much

for most to bear -- an insecurity

that is at the very existential root 
core of the Buddhist psychology

of Supreme Suffering --Seriously.

Ate you serious ? --or just
badly managed gravitas ?
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Buddha said
so many times --

"All Our Suffering in Life
is from our unconscious  
Mental-Attachments 
that Continually Mistake 
the 'Impermanent'
for being ‘Permanent’."
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"UNDERSTANDING" Get Free.
We all need to fully 'Get' this !
We all need to 'understand'
that there is 'some thing'
you need to comprehend -- 
at least carefully consider
thinking it through enough to 
tbegin to clearly get the point -
to at least consider to consider
our subjective experience
of the raw working-concept
of ongoing 'impermanence'
-- or we all just might as well
Go Home ! It's called LOSS...
There are currently millions of
types of Painful Loss worldwide
Everyone alive will suffer Loss.
Existence itself is Collateral Loss...
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" You are more attached to your
desire-thoughts'' themselves --
than you are attached to the
actual 'object' of desire itself."

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We Continually Mistake 
the 'Impermanent'
for being ‘Permanent’."
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UNDERSTAND  
This Mistake 
and Get Free
We all need to
fully 'Get' this ! 
And we can still 
be Loving and Kind.

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 ( Edit ) " What don't you Understand ?" -- 

This page is all about understanding Understanding 'Better'. Buddhism calls the category "Right View / Right Understanding -- and the Resistances to ‘Getting It’ to go with it. Then what would you have ?  I’d have Nothing to K’Vetch about. I prefer the really difficult mental emotional wrangle tangle that pursuit of the real Truth offers us. Uncompromising. That’s a tough audience.-- but can be can be --- “COMPLETE” UNDERSTANDING using the 8-Fold Dharma Path as a grande resource tool: ( Booklist ) Briefly, in other better words, understanding better the actual working concept of the word 'Understanding' itself, and effectively having 'Better' - but not yet 'Best' - having good emotional Feelings, possibly as a result of better understanding / better communication. Having better body 'experiences', integrating better basic, positive thought-idea 'experiences' that are already "Bodhisattva" level of natural development afeta accompli --or almost there...

Small 'enlightenments' with the use of 'comprehension' / 'understanding' -- this could be understood better for your overall 'Good/Better' life-functioning and meditation, to one degree or another. 
'Understanding' along with ignorance / not-knowing that there's a 'knowing' to be known -- is the key term that all Clarity swings on - so you gottta' have some teeny-tiny 'understanding' of the operating principle of this whole arising and passing away 'experience' thing, somewhat first. Existence is presented 'Live' - a constantly, ever changing, emotional operatic dramatic flux, major feature -- or mostly just paralyzed -- here and gone, infatuation and heartbreak, gain and loss. Buddha talked a lot about "Loss" and "Impermanence" a lot. Really a lot. You really need to get this... then the basic discomfort of the emptiness of 'Empty' is better when there really is Nothing to stand on-- that's zen minimalism for ya'. Then there comes 'support' divinely in the form of Grace by the lessening of suffering and stress, a reduction because of the replacement approach to 'Letting Go' of semi-conscious primitive primal ideas of a vast, parenting, comforting, delusively solid stable 'Permanence' ( like a God ) - yet there is the Best of Understanding in our "Feeling Better" cache - and so to be Compassionately Kind and relatively Suffering Free. Self-healing and boundless benevolence to others -- spontaneously emerges.  

Sure, It's ALL Relative, subjective and conditionally compromised from a Buddha's Absolute Enlightened point of view -- Life itself IS Relative. Existence itself is Relative. Feeling Better is relative for Better Livin' by the Living -- and "It" too is Relative. Death itself IS Relative -- 'cept there is no one around to verifiably, subjectively experience that relativity - tree falls in forest parable. The Mantra here at Laughing Buddha is "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" ---- strongly vocalized repeatedly every day or so, for just a few minutes, all strung together head to tail... in however the Ways that Spirits may apply ...Enjoy it Better while you've got it Good -- or Better. Buddhism suggests we all get into a better frame of mind about all this.  ~ Akasa Levi with Billy Bo Sat ( Caveat: Don't ever take either of these mentors seriously ) 

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♦ DISCOMFORT:
an INTRODUCTION to 

What May Be
Going On
Emotionally
Inside of  You ?
What's
"The Problem"
How we Experience
Better 'Understanding'

It's ALL Relative, subjective and conditionally compromised from a Buddha's Absolute Enlightened point of view -- Life itself IS Relative. Existence itself is Relative. Feeling Better is relative for Better Livin' by the Living -- and "It" too is Relative. Death itself IS Relative -- 'cept there is no one around to verifiably, subjectively experience that relativity - tree falls in forest parable. The Mantra here at Laughing Buddha is "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" - "Let It Be" - "Let It Go" ---- strongly vocalized repeatedly every day or so, for just a few minutes, all strung together head to tail... in however the Ways that Spirits may apply ...Enjoy it Better while you've got it Good -- or Better. Buddhism suggests we all get into a better frame of mind about all this...
~ Billy Bo Sat ( caveat: Don't ever take this mentor seriously ) 

Our personal 'Suffering'
of the vast 'Impermanence'
and the 'Not-Self' of it ALL
-- of people places and things:
an unstable 'impermanence' 
which is, frankly, just  too much
to bear -- an insecurity that is
at the very Core  of the Buddhist psychology of Positive Suffering. 

Buddha said many times --

"All Our Suffering in Life
is from our unconscious  
Mental-Attachments that
Continually Mistake 
the 'Impermanent'
for being ‘Permanent’."
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UNDERSTAND :: Get Free 
We all need to fully 'Get' this !
We all need to 'understand'
that there is 'some thing'
you need to comprehend,
to at least carefully consider
thinking it through enough
to begin to get the point - 
to at least consider to consider
our subjective experience  
of the raw working concept
of ongoing 'impermanence'
-- or we all just might as well
Go Home ! It's called LOSS...
There are currently millions of 
types of Loss worldwide...
Everyone alive will suffer Loss.
Existence itself is Collateral Loss...

” THE GREATEST RISK ...
IS NOT TAKING ONE ! ” 

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♦ SO, WHAT IS
GOING ON
INSIDE YOU ?
“There is no such thing
as a "Problem" without
somehow a ‘Gift’ for you
in its hands ---
Sometimes you have problems
because you need their Gifts.
It is through Gifts that you grow"

~ Richard Bach

WWWWWWWW


In the Really Big Picture for Everyone
What's "The Real Problem" ?
At the Highest Tier of Spirit for Humanity
almost sounding indigenous, it may be this...

"TO BRING YOUR LIFE BACK
FROM THE ‘EXILE’ OF YOUR SPIRIT --
and INTO A SACRED BALANCE AGAIN ! "
 ~ American Poet Laureate Robert Bly 


 Buddhist  Therapy:
It’s been done
very effectively 
for 1000’s of years
__________________ 

♦ The 'Discomfort' you came in with...
a mindfulness meditation will clear,
cool and calm you down soon – you're

also going to relax and open up to a fact :
The highly useful psychology aphorism
"That it's OK - that it's not OK" --- 
 That's the 'What Is' of it – and so let's
jump in - we simply Meditate and Talk -  
It's really in the deep Heart we Heal -
It's not just words, it's a unique kind
of "conversation" we will be having.

There's another thing, another fact:
Beyond the tenacious grip
of Denial, Excuses, Explanations,
Rationalizations, Justifications, 
and the quick to be so Critical --
is the insensitive "Judging-mind" 
-- you're just plain Hurting. And, of course, you've got
some neglected healing.
Together, we've gotta go
somewhat willingly in 'there' -
WITH a STRANGER to do
some Inner-Questing together.
This is a TOGETHER thing
....and a STRANGER thing.
Going to see some 'Other'
for help is a very personal thing.
I respect that in you. Really Good "Therapy"
is not found in even
the best of books,
or in the electronic media.
It is a very 'Live' Interactive
Relating-Process between
client and counselor or teacher.
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E M O T I O N A L 
A S S I S T A N C E ~
It always has been
this way -
Two people sit down
and they empathically
'Work'on one of them --Together


"Spiritual Adulthood"
is a much more 'radical' outspoken form of Counseling – geared to intelligent people in the contemporary Creative Arts and New Thought minded sensibilities. The people who do eventually come to us - are usually more explorative, curious, have a more active intellect, and are intensely inquisitive people just by their nature.

You, Me, and other 'Inner-Searchers of True Meaning and Comprehension' - are people who relish the uncharted outcome of it – the inner 'search', the 'inquiry', the open 'adventure' of it, the 'quest' of it - hurting or not - rather than having a life of cliché 'awesome' notions, or trite ideas or banal prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat. "Enlightened Inner Freedom" is certainly not a home deliverable product. Never was. For each of us - for all of us - authentic Liberation is gained by taking a disturbingly candid, life-long 'psychological pilgrimage' experienced thru a Happy Heart of good humored disposition --  Yours.
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Thank you for reading all this so far !
Hopefully you'll learn to increasingly Enjoy
a Rough-hewn, Ragged, Rugged Journey –
for " The Journey Itself IS the Destination "
So Be Brave, Courageous, Stay the Course,
and Stay Conscious. Keep The Faith ....
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WHATEVER IT IS.... YOU’RE JUST
“A-NOT-SO-HAPPY-PERSON"
Many, many folks just aren’t.

We’re in very agitated, anxious,

turbulent, confused uncertain times.
Everyone knows that... but it still Hurts.

• Life-Purpose Despair, Career, Emotional Reactivity Stuff, Mood Swings, Mid-Life Changes, Painful Family Issues or Partner Relationship Dilemmas or Deep Unhappiness and Loneliness don’t make it any easier. Life can ride rough on ya' - Hopelessness sets in.

‘You’ - need to be really heard from way deep inside, and coached forward and thru by a skillful, empathic counseling therapist - someone who's fully listening. 

• So get up out of your own ‘protective’ self-imposed isolation – numb and barely conscious
• Stuck in a closed loop with very few options or healthy growth resources - even tho' available 
• By Myself: that counter productive, over preached litany “I can do this by myself” - that worn out old mantra – reinforced by all those shoulda -woulda -coulda laments 

• Ego- pride- shame- hurt- loss- fear cycles - backed up by those STORIES, Oh Those Many Misery Stories of mine. • So just literally PUT yourself into a series of contemplative sessions and/or mindfulness meditation sittings for awhile. • It’ll be good for you • Of course, you’ll get compassionately busted into a bit, for sure • You’ll be on a guided 'accompanied path' to get some wider meditative space, deeper relief and meaningful resolution that sticks, and even some joy and laughter. • There is NO obligation to have a conversation by phone if this could feel right and be workable for you • So please, go ’see’ somebody - here or elsewhere - but Do GO and really settle in and settle down and start working it out with the facilitation of a skillful someone who can 'Hear' you - and hear your 'glitch' and hear your hurtin' heart as the song goes. • You, deeply understood - very human to human • Way beyond blaming, excusing, justifying or rationalizing • Open life up into a gentle place of Safety and Trust • Here may be a place where you can work on Your Stuff, and work on Your Soul: both together on a ‘frequent enough’ basis to make a really Noticeable Difference ~

Hidden S T R E S S :: :: :: :: ::

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOU ?

" TOXIC LEVELS "of OVER-COOKED
SOCIAL MEDIA SATURATION - Yuck -
Too much Mental Sensory Emotional
OVERWHELM ~ Display Screen Burnout
What are your Levels of Social Media Tolerances ?
It's out there, it's in here... it's everywhere...
Another Very Basic Problem

" There's no room anymore for my own intelligence 
to simply, sanely, sort and separate out anything
from anything anymore. Emotional intelligence is dead."

Emotional Overload Sensation-loops
get to so totally run thinking.
So What IS true ?
Emotions and Feelings get to be
so totally run BY thinking.
Which IS true ?

• Emotions run Thinking,
Thinkings run Emotions.
• An embedded Depression
being pushed downward
and smothers Anxiety -
• An embedded Anxiety
and obsesses, agitates, 
and starves Depression.
• Exhaustive thoughts
get so enmeshed and
mixed with yukky feelings
and old embedded war 'stories'
of wounds and betrayals.
Feelings so overwhelmed
and flooded with thinking.
Flooding is all that's
happening sometimes.
Emotions run thinking -
Mindfulness opens and
clears the way to needed
awareness-space to just be...


.... – s s t t r r e e s s s s –  S t r e s s Thinking Just Runs Emotion Painful old memory 'thought-illusion' fantasies
have the 'appearance' of a Reality - and are not.
Overwhelm, confusion, delusion, hopeless and numb... Your own version of Paralysis: Angry and Sad - both - bad sleep, lotsa' stress, stuck in a tar pit. " Sick and Tired of being sick and tired "


S T R E S S leads to stress irritation 

leads to stress inflammation

leads to stress infection

leads to a severe drop
in stress immunity....   
Doctors have been talking about Diet and Exercise
for some decades now ... Now hey are talking about Mindfulness Meditation. At Last !

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♦ The notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’. . . .
and the notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’ person.
Just Maybe You’re a Very "Uncommon Person".
.
“An Unusual ‘Uncommon Person’
Already, Always Feels Different --
Always Feels 'Non-Ordinary' -- Always"
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
in a very Non-Assimilate-able Way.
Always — and knows it, and feels it,
Just not ‘fitting in’.
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
for an unrecognized, uncommon few people.
• But alas, for the truly odd, gifted, singular,
‘uncommon' one — this 'Non-Ordinary'
being in the world and being different...
It’s sort of a double-whammy to carry
— knowing it, and feeling it."

~ irrational psychology creator Ab'ram Majick(1947) 
• UNHAPPY UNUSUAL ‘UNCOMMON’ PEOPLE
are often unrecognized 'sensitives', 'creatives' - smart, intelligent, individualistic, higher-consciousness oriented people - artistic, intellectual, nerdy, techy, mystical, musical, magical, expressive, geeky, poetic and spiritual. And still very 'existentially' Unhappy. 
• 'Specialness' - so you probably also need a non-traditional therapist’ ( like me ) who 'gets' it ~ a rogue therapist who 'sorta understands “non-mainstream”, being/getting off the grid, non ordinary lifestyles, hip spirituality, or the creative Act itself - a seasoned 'meta'-thinker who can be deeply empathic - and who genuinely understands ‘uncommon’ and ‘unusual’ -- ‘Non-ordinary’ people that are quite unique or gifted, yet still unhappy — People who are carrying the twin burden of 'specialness' and yet self-effacing - all buttoned up in an undiagnosed, unconscious psychological 'Disorder'. Hard to get to.

• The access portal to get there is thru an awareness-style of mindfulness meditation to reach the un-aware levels of mind - and heal oneself there... Buddha and Jung both suggested that our therapeutic practice on and within ourselves is to make the unconscious conscious.  

• You may be a very private ‘Individual’ Person
who normally feels very naturally directed inward,
'spiritual-oriented' - and yet you’re struggling
to get ‘worldly’ problems and emotional issues
handled realistically and with integrity as well –
yet without you having to commit to any sort
of religious path whatsoever! We DON'T DO any
‘religious’ preaching or dogma - No special jargon.
Nothing to 'buy into' or be persuaded to ‘believe’ in.
Just the daily emergence of your own individual
true 'Knowing' - and personal excellence !

• We assist you in self-discovering a ‘natural unfolding’ of unshakable balance, boundless wisdom and joy! And your innate good humor!

• Liberating a new sense of caring and connectedness with yourself, other people and your widening universe – an embracing and expanded "Inner-Acceptance and Outer Effectiveness" -- That's ALL of It !

EMPTYNESS: A ‘True’ Buddha's Happiness is the happiness of Getting EMPTY by being Empty of 'Grasping' and 'Holding' - more and more independent of unsatisfying Stuff - much thru a Mindful Non-Reactivity based practice that intuitively acknowledges the constant, unavoidable effects of ‘everyday’ circumstances and conditions. A responsible, authentic ‘true inner freedom’ as they’ve spoken about for millennia in those profound Ancient Wisdom teachings - can be an attainable reality for you - just practice - like a musical instrument - just practice. It starts and concludes with meditation.
A Buddhist Guided Mindfulness Meditation Silent Sitting slows the body/mind system Way, Way Down to a more self-regulated and manageable level more and more Aware of it's own Process and what can be made ready for 'change' and LET GO OF naturally... Just That. Mindfulness Meditation as the new 'star' healing-treatment in town, utilizing methods from a highly respected ancient empiric, experiential Buddhist tradition - it was found to be surprisingly quite effective.

♦ A Buddhist-based very accessible Wisdom Therapy offers highly effective, connective, compassionate
yet realistic 'Alternative Conscious approaches to

relating with Your 'Self' and All Other Living Beings.

It's eventually gonna come down to Love itself...

of course, how could it not... .
. Some Very HAPPY
UNCOMMON PEOPLE Have Said . . . .

 "You began as a creation.
Now become a Creator.
Never, never wait at a barrier."
.

~ Rumi .
.
"Our 'constant inquiry' is our passion –
and our passion itself is our daily task.
'Inquiry' is our passion. From there –
the rest is the marvelous madness of art."
.

~ Henry James, "The Middle Years" .
.
"Be daring, be different, be impractical,
.....................be anything
that will assert 'Integrity of Purpose'
and Imaginative Vision –
in contrast to the play-it-safers, the sad
self-limiting creatures of the commonplace,
the sleeping slaves of the unconscious mundane."
.
~ Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980) English portrait
..photographer, film & stage designer.


Question: 

" Grandfather - What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY is every step we’re taking
and going thru right now - to get there ”
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder

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"You Really Must Consciously Choose
to Make and to Re-Make the Choice
to Re-Choose again and again -
to Openly Talk with Someone…
and keep it up – Talking It Out –
to Openly keep Talking with Someone.
Trust in gradually letting the deep clear
water rise up from down the old well -
flow, flush and unfold –
Messy or tidy,
neat or controlled -
we all have these feelings."   ~ Bhante Sudu Hom'Dru


"Eighty percent of success is just showing up"  ~ Woody Allen


Go ahead and please get into some quality
counseling-therapy – you, really being heard –
here or somewhere. That they will really take a deep caring
to listen to YOU – really, really hear you.
That’s a very courageous move on your part –
it just may be the right place for you to start.
Be very welcome to inquire more about us,
as you search out where to do this inner-work.



Maimonides, more than 800 years ago said:

"a single deed,
a single word,
a single action,
even just one single thought,
has the power to TIP the scales
and bring redemption to your world.
no matter how dark that world
may seem or feel ~
light is just a single action away."


"There is now a rapidly growing number of
bright American people who basically need
a whole other level, a much higher level,
an intelligent, deeper level of assistance
for their Inner-Unfolding of Spirit"
~ 'The Culture Creatives' (2001)
.
– and we wish to assist you as you
bring yourself to this new level
of a natural, highly conscious,
sensitive awareness –
and fearless unfolding...

The END of
♦ DISCOMFORT:
a Basic INTRODUCTION

What's Going On
Emotionally
Inside of  You ?
What's
"The Problem"
May As Well START HERE
or START SOMEWHERE ! 

__________________
_________________


Some Very HAPPY
UNCOMMON PEOPLE Have Said . . . .

 "You began as a creation.
Now become a Creator.
Never, never wait at a barrier." ~ Rumi


"Our 'constant inquiry' is our passion –
and our passion itself is our daily task.
'Inquiry' is our passion. From there –
the rest is the marvelous madness of art."

~ Henry James, "The Middle Years"
.
.
"Be daring, be different, be impractical,
....................  Be Anything
that will assert 'Integrity of Purpose'
and Imaginative Vision –
in contrast to the play-it-safers, the sad
self-limiting creatures of the commonplace,
the sleeping slaves of the unconscious mundane."
.
~ Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980)
English portrait photographer,
film stage designer.

Guys, it's going to become clear,
cool and calmed down fairly soon –
It's also going to open up to ....
"That it's OK - that it's not OK" -
That's the 'What Is' of it – and
jump in - let's do the inner-'work' from there –
It's simply a fact: Beyond the grip of denial,
you're hurting and you've got some problems.
Together, we've gotta go in 'there' –
a sort of inner-Questing together.
Good "Therapy" is not found in even
the best of books, CDs, or on the media..
It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process
between client and counselor.

it always has been ---
Two people sit down and together,
they empathically 'Work' on one of them.

"Spiritual Adulthood"
is a much more 'radical' form of Counseling –
geared to intelligent people in the contemporary
Creative Arts and New Thought minded sensibilities.
The people who do eventually come to us - are usually
more explorative, curious, have a more active intellect,
and are intensely inquisitive people just by their nature.

You, Me, the other 'Inner-Searchers of Comprehension'

are people who relish the 'safari' of it – the 'search',

the 'inquiry', the adventure of it, the 'quest' of it -

hurting or not - rather than having cliché notions

or ideas or prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat.

"Enlightened Freedom" is certainly not

a home deliverable product. Never was.
For each of us - for all of us - Freedom
is a life-long Psychological Pilgrimage
experienced thru a Spiritualized Heart . . .
------------------------------------------
Thank you for reading all this!
Hopefully you'll learn to Enjoy

a Rough-hewn, Ragged, Rugged Journey –

for " The Journey Itself IS the Destination "
So Be Brave, Courageous, Stay the Course.
Keep The Faith . . .

Question: 

" Grandfather - What is Destiny? "

“ DESTINY is every step we’re taking
and going thru right now - to get there ” ~ Grandfather Bearheart,
contemporary Creek Elder
-------------------------------------------------------------

"You Really Must Consciously Choose
to Make and to Re-Make the Choice
to Re-Choose again and again -
to Openly Talk with Someone…
and keep it up – Talking It Out –
to Openly keep Talking with Someone.
Trust in gradually letting the deep clear
water rise up from down the old well -
flow, flush and unfold –
Messy or tidy,
neat or controlled -
we all have these feelings."   
~ Bhante Sudu Hom'Dru


"Eighty percent of success is just showing up"  ~ Woody Allen


 "You began as a creation.
Now become a Creator.
Never, never wait at a barrier."
.

~ Rumi

 "Our 'constant inquiry' is our passion –
and our passion itself is our daily task.
'Inquiry' is our passion. From there –
the rest is the marvelous madness of art."
.
~ Henry James, "The Middle Years"
..
"Be daring, be different, be impractical,
..................... Be Anything
that will assert 'Integrity of Purpose'
and Imaginative Vision –
in contrast to the play-it-safers, the sad
self-limiting creatures of the commonplace,
the sleeping slaves of the unconscious mundane."
.
~ Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980) English portrait
..photographer, film  stage designer.
 __________________________
 
Buddhist Counseling Therapy:
It’s been done very effectively
for 1000’s of years …
” THE GREATEST RISK
...IS NOT TAKING ONE ! ”
____________________

" The Journey Itself
IS the Destination! " 

Good Start Page ~
Akasa Levi
I’m a ONE MAN SHOP ~

Always have been....
I offer Time to See people.
People create Time to See me.

Buddhist  Therapy:
It’s been done
very effectively
for 1000’s of years….
 -----------------------------------------------------

♦ Our Personal Suffering
of the 'Impermanence'
and the disillusioning
'Not-Self' quality of it All –
is at the very Basic Core of
Buddhist psychology – in that...
__________________________

"All Our Suffering in Life
is from our Mental-Attachments
that Continually Mistake
the 'Impermanent' for being 'Permanent'
__________________________________

" You are more attached to
your 'desire thoughts' themselves -
- than you are attached to
the actual 'object' of desire itself.
______________________

" What is 'accepted'
by the majority of people -
- does not mean it is Real."
_______________________
_________________________

What's Going On Inside You ?
What's "The Problem"
Are You Up for a Solution ?
♦ Buddhist-based
Wisdom Insight Therapy
offers effective, compassionate
'Alternative Approaches'
to Relating with Your 'Self'
and All Other Living Beings -
as we go through
Our Suffering of
the 'Impermanence'
of it ALL absolutely

The  SPIRITUAL  ADULTHOOD  PROJECT

An UNHAPPY Diagnosis
and some Poetry and
Profound Quotes to
to keep Mind active
with BIG PRINT
so your Soul
can't miss 'em  (1)


more and more

"You Really Must Consciously Choose
 to Make and to Re-Make the Choice
 to Re-Choose again and again -
 to Openly Talk with Someone…
and keep it up – Talking It Out –
to Openly keep Talking with Someone.
 Trust in gradually letting the deep clear
 water rise up from down the old well -
 flow, flush and unfold –
Messy or tidy,
 neat or controlled -
 we all have these feelings."   ~ Bhante Sudu Hom'Dru
more and more

more and more
EMPTYNESS: A ‘True’ Buddha's Happiness is the happiness of Getting EMPTY by being Empty of 'Grasping' and 'Holding' - mo re and more

more and more

♦  All Our Suffering in Life is from our
 Mental-Attachments that Continually Mistake
 the 'Impermanent' for being ‘Permanent’.
 _________________________________________________

" You are more attached to your 'desire-thoughts' themselves -- than you are attached to the actual 'object' of desire itself.
 _______________________________________________

In the Really Big Picture for Everyone....
What's "The Real Problem" ?
TO BRING YOUR LIFE BACK
 FROM THE ‘EXILE’ OF YOUR SPIRIT --
and INTO A SACRED BALANCE AGAIN !
~ American Poet Laureate Robert Bly

Buddhist  Therapy:
It’s been done
very effectively for 1000’s of years …

"Spiritual Adulthood"
 is a much more 'radical' outspoken form of Counseling –
geared to intelligent people in the contemporary Creative Arts and New Thought minded sensibilities.The people who do eventually come to us - are usually more explorative, curious, have a more active intellect, and are intensely inquisitive people just by their nature.
 You, Me, and other 'Inner-Searchers of Comprehension' -
 are people who relish the 'safari' of it – the inner 'search',
 the 'inquiry', the open 'adventure' of it, the 'quest' of it -
 hurting or not - rather than having a life of cliché notions,
 or trite ideas or prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat. .
 "Enlightened Freedom" is certainly not a home deliverable
product. Never was. For each of us - for all of us - authentic
Freedom is gained by taking a disturbingly candid, life-long 'psychological pilgrimage' experienced thru a happy
and good humored Spiritualized Heart - Yours.

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

WHATEVER IT IS.... YOU’RE JUST
“A-NOT-SO-HAPPY-PERSON"
• Life-Purpose Despair, Career, Emotional Stuff, Mood Swings, Mid-Life Changes, Painful Family Issues or Partner Relationship Dilemmas or Deep Unhappiness and Loneliness don’t make it any easier. Life can ride rough on ya' - Hopelessness sets in.

‘You’ - need to be really heard from way deep inside, and coached forward and thru by a skillful, empathic counseling therapist - someone who's fully listening.

• So get up out of your own ‘protective’ self-imposed isolation – numb and barely conscious
• Stuck in a closed loop with very few options or healthy growth resources - even tho' available
• By Myself: that counter productive, over preached litany “I can do this by myself” - that worn out old mantra – reinforced by all those shoulda -woulda -coulda laments
• Ego- pride- shame- hurt- loss- fear cycles - backed by those STORIES, Oh Those Many Misery Stories of mine.
• So just literally PUT yourself into a series of contemplative "conversation" sessions for awhile.
• It’ll be good for you
• Of course, you’ll get compassionately busted into a bit, for sure
• You’ll be on an 'accompanied path' to get some wider meditative space, deeper relief and meaningful resolution that sticks, and even some joy and laughter.
• There is NO obligation to see if by phone if this could feel right and be workable for you
• So please, go ’see’ somebody - here or elsewhere - but Do GO and really settle in and settle down and start working it out with the facilitation of a skillful someone who can 'Hear' you - and hear your 'glitch' and hear your hurtin' heart as the song goes.
• You, deeply understood - very human to human
• Way beyond blaming, excusing, justifying or rationalizing
• Open life up into a gentle place of Safety and Trust
• Here may be a place where you can work on Your Stuff, and work on Your Soul: both together on a ‘frequent enough’ basis to make a really Noticeable Difference ~

Hidden S T R E S S :: :: :: :: ::
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOU ?

" TOXIC LEVELS "of OVER DONE
SOCIAL MEDIA SATURATION - Yuck -
Too much Mental Sensory Emotional OVERWHELM
 ~ Cognitive Toxic Pollution ~ jammed circuits ~
 What are your Levels of Social Media Tolerances ?
 It's out there, it's in here... it's everywhere...
Another Very Basic Problem

" There's no room anymore for my own intelligence
to simply, sanely, sort and separate out anything
from anything anymore. Emotional intelligence is dead."

Emotional Overload Sensation-loops get to so totally run thinking.
So What IS true ?
 Emotions and Feelings get to be
so totally run BY thinking.
Which IS true ?
• Emotions run Thinking,
Thinkings run Emotions.
• An embedded Depression
being pushed downward
and smothers Anxiety -
• An embedded Anxiety
and obsesses, agit
ates, and starves Depression.
• Exhaustive thoughts
get so enmeshed and
mixed with yukky fee
lings and old embded war 'stories'
 of wounds and betrayals. Feelings so overwhelmed
 and flooded with thinking. Flooding is all that's
happening sometimes. Emotions run thinking -
Mindfulness opens and
clears the way to needed
awareness-space to just be...

.... – s s t t r r e e s s s s –  S t r e s s Thinking Just Runs Emotion Painful old memory 'thought-illusion' fantasies
 have the 'appearance' of a Reality - and are not.
 Overwhelm, confusion, delusion, hopeless and numb... Your own version of Paralysis: Angry and Sad - both - bad sleep, lotsa' stress, stuck in a tar pit. " Sick and Tired of being sick and tired "
S T R E S S leads to stress irritation  ds to stress inflammation leads to stress infection leads to a severe drop in stress immunity....  Doctors have been talking about Diet and Exercise or some decades now ... Now hey are talking about Mindfulness Meditation. At Last !
___________________________________________

♦ The notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’. . . .
and the notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’ person.
 Just Maybe You’re a Very "Uncommon Person".
 .
“An Unusual ‘Uncommon Person’Already, Always Feels Different -- Always Feels 'Non-Ordinary' -- Always"
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
in a very Non-Assimilate-able Way.
 Always — and knows it, and feels it,
 Just not ‘fitting in’.
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
for an unrecognized, uncommon few people.
• But alas, for the truly odd, gifted, singular,
‘uncommon' one — this 'Non-Ordinary'
being in the world and being different...
It’s sort of a double-whammy to carry
— knowing it, and feeling it."
~ irrational psychology creator Ab'ram Majick(1947)


• UNHAPPY UNUSUAL ‘UNCOMMON’ PEOPLE
are often unrecognized 'sensitives', 'creatives' - smart, intelligent, individualistic, higher-consciousness oriented people - artistic, intellectual, nerdy, techy, mystical, musical, magical, expressive, geeky, poetic and spiritual. And still very 'existentially' Unhappy.
• 'Specialness' - so you probably also need a non-traditional therapist’ ( like me ) who 'gets' it ~ a rogue therapist who 'sorta understands “non-mainstream”, being/getting off the grid, non ordinary lifestyles, hip spirituality, or the creative Act itself - a seasoned 'meta'-thinker who can be deeply empathic - and who genuinely understands ‘uncommon’ and ‘unusual’ -- ‘Non-ordinary’ people that are quite unique or gifted, yet still unhappy — People who are carrying the twin burden of 'specialness' and yet self-effacing - all buttoned up in an undiagnosed, unconscious psychological 'Disorder'. Hard to get to.
• The access portal to get there is thru an awareness-style of mindfulness meditation to reach the un-aware levels of mind - and heal oneself there... Buddha and Jung both suggested that our therapeutic practice on and within ourselves is to make the unconscious conscious. 
• You may be a very private ‘Individual’ Personwho normally feels very naturally directed inward,
 'spiritual-oriented' - and yet you’re struggling
 to get ‘worldly’ problems and emotional issues
 handled realistically and with integrity as well –
yet without you having to commit to any sort
 of religious path whatsoever! We DON'T DO any
‘religious’ preaching or dogma - No special jargon.
 Nothing to 'buy into' or be persuaded to ‘believe’ in.
 Just the daily emergence of your own individual
 true 'Knowing' - and personal excellence !
• We assist you in self-discovering a ‘natural unfolding’ of unshakable balance, boundless wisdom and joy! And your innate good humor!
• Liberating a new sense of caring and connectedness with yourself, other people and your widening universe – an embracing and expanded "Inner-Acceptance and Outer Effectiveness" -- That's ALL of It !


EMPTYNESS: A ‘True’ Buddha's Happiness is the happiness of Getting EMPTY by being Empty of 'Grasping' and 'Holding' - more and more independent of unsatisfying Stuff - much thru a Mindful Non-Reactivity based practice that intuitively acknowledges the constant, unavoidable effects of ‘everyday’ circumstances and conditions. A responsible, authentic ‘true inner freedom’ as they’ve spoken about for millennia in those profound Ancient Wisdom teachings - can be an attainable reality for you - just practice - like a musical instrument - just practice. It starts and concludes with meditation.
 A Buddhist Guided Mindfulness Meditation Silent Sitting slows the body/mind system Way, Way Down to a more self-regulated and manageable level more and more Aware of it's own Process and what can be made ready for 'change' and LET GO OF naturally... Just That. Mindfulness Meditation as the new 'star' healing-treatment in town, utilizing methods from a highly respected ancient empiric, experiential Buddhist tradition - it was found to be surprisingly quite effective.

♦ A Buddhist-based very accessible Wisdom Therapy offers highly effective, connective, compassionate
 yet realistic 'Alternative Conscious approaches to
relating with Your 'Self' and All Other Living Beings.
It's eventually gonna come down to Love itself...
of course, how could it not... .
 . Some Very HAPPY
 UNCOMMON PEOPLE Have Said . . . .



  "You began as a creation.
 Now become a Creator.
 Never, never wait at a barrier."
 .



~ Rumi  .
 .
 "Our 'constant inquiry' is our passion –
and our passion itself is our daily task.
 'Inquiry' is our passion. From there –
the rest is the marvelous madness of art."
 .



~ Henry James, "The Middle Years"  .
 .
 "Be daring, be different, be impractical,
 .....................be anything
 that will assert 'Integrity of Purpose'
 and Imaginative Vision –
in contrast to the play-it-safers, the sad
 self-limiting creatures of the commonplace,
 the sleeping slaves of the unconscious mundane."
 .
 ~ Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980) English portrait
 ..photographer, film & stage designer.
 Question: 



" Grandfather - What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY is every step we’re taking
 and going thru right now - to get there ”
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 "You Really Must Consciously Choose
 to Make and to Re-Make the Choice
 to Re-Choose again and again -
 to Openly Talk with Someone…
and keep it up – Talking It Out –
to Openly keep Talking with Someone.
 Trust in gradually letting the deep clear
 water rise up from down the old well -
 flow, flush and unfold –
Messy or tidy,
 neat or controlled -
 we all have these feelings."   ~ Bhante Sudu Hom'Dru

 "Eighty percent of success is just showing up"  ~ Woody Allen

 Go ahead and please get into some quality
counseling-therapy – you, really being heard –
here or somewhere. That they will really take a deep caring
 to listen to YOU – really, really hear you.
 That’s a very courageous move on your part –
it just may be the right place for you to start.
 Be very welcome to inquire more about us,
 as you search out where to do this inner-work.

 Maimonides, more than 800 years ago said:
"a single deed,
 a single word,
 a single action,
 even just one single thought,
 has the power to TIP the scales
 and bring redemption to your world.
 no matter how dark that world
 may seem or feel ~
 light is just a single action away."

 "There is now a rapidly growing number of
 bright American people who basically need
a whole other level, a much higher level,
 an intelligent, deeper level of assistance
 for their Inner-Unfolding of Spirit"
 ~ 'The Culture Creatives' (2001)
 .
– and we wish to assist you as you
 bring yourself to this new level
 of a natural, highly conscious,
 sensitive awareness –
and fearless unfolding..._______________________


 Some Very HAPPY
 UNCOMMON PEOPLE Have Said . . . .

  "You began as a creation.
 Now become a Creator.
 Never, never wait at a barrier."
 .


~ Rumi
 .
 .
 "Our 'constant inquiry' is our passion –
and our passion itself is our daily task.
 'Inquiry' is our passion. From there –
the rest is the marvelous madness of art."
 .


~ Henry James, "The Middle Years"
 .
 .
 "Be daring, be different, be impractical,
 .....................be anything
 that will assert 'Integrity of Purpose'
 and Imaginative Vision –
in contrast to the play-it-safers, the sad
 self-limiting creatures of the commonplace,
 the sleeping slaves of the unconscious mundane."
 .
 ~ Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980) English portrait
 ..photographer, film & stage designer.
 _______________________________ .
 .

 Question: 

"You Really Must Consciously Choose
 to Make and to Re-Make the Choice
 to Re-Choose again and again -
 to Openly Talk with Someone…
and keep it up – Talking It Out –
to Openly keep Talking with Someone.
 Trust in gradually letting the deep clear
 water rise up from down the old well -
 flow, flush and unfold –
Messy or tidy,
 neat or controlled -
 we all have these feelings."   ~ Bhante Sudu Hom'Dru

" Grandfather - What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY is every step we’re taking
 and going thru right now - to get there ”
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
 -------------------------------------------------------------
 "You Really Must Consciously Choose
 to Make and to Re-Make the Choice
 to Re-Choose again and again -
 to Openly Talk with Someone…
and keep it up – Talking It Out –
to Openly keep Talking with Someone.
 Trust in gradually letting the deep clear
 water rise up from down the old well -
 flow, flush and unfold –
Messy or tidy,
 neat or controlled -
 we all have these feelings."   ~ Bhante Sudu Hom'Dru

 "Eighty percent of success is just showing up"  ~ Woody Allen.
 .Some Very HAPPY
 UNCOMMON PEOPLE Have Said . . .  .


 "You began as a creation.
 Now become a Creator.
 Never, never wait at a barrier."
 .
~ Rumi
 .
 .
 "Our 'constant inquiry' is our passion –
and our passion itself is our daily task.
 'Inquiry' is our passion. From there –
the rest is the marvelous madness of art."
 .

~ Henry James, "The Middle Years"
 .
 .
 "Be daring, be different, be impractical,
.....................be anything
 that will assert 'Integrity of Purpose'
 and Imaginative Vision –
in contrast to the play-it-safers, the sad
 self-limiting creatures of the commonplace,
 the sleeping slaves of the unconscious mundane."
 .
 ~ Sir Cecil Beaton 1904-1980) English portrait
 ..photographer, film & stage designer.
_______________________________ .
 .Buddhist Counseling & Therapy:
 It’s been done very effectively
for 1000’s of years …  ” THE GREATEST RISK
...IS NOT TAKING ONE ! ”
________________________
.
.
 " The Journey Itself
 IS the Destination! "


 








UNHAPPY Diagnosis and some Great Quotes in BIG PRINT so your Soul can't' miss 'em • May as Well START HERE or START SOMEWHERE Teaching Series  ( 1 )



-:¦:- UPDATE:


• The Spiritual Adulthood Therapy Project


• The Laughing Buddha Meditation Sangha


• guided by Akasa Levi, DhMA ( D.Min ) SUNY - a U.S.Military Vet and former ordained American Buddhist forest monk - who lived many years in rural Asia - to be with the last living Buddhist teachers of the pre-global era • Now a feisty 75 - this odd, eccentric, really funny ole' Dharma-mentor, a rogue teacher into nourishing a maverick, atheistic, iconoclast intelligence in the people he treats, teaches, counsels or coaches at his little meditation shrine room filled with statues of the ancient Buddha • Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.
 " Every community needs a group
of Angelic Troublemakers "
~ Bayard Rustin, black activist social reformer




• Recently diagnosed with the lopsided, dementia 'curse' of Parkinson's - Akasa invites those actively practicing an 'awareness-based’ mindfulness meditation to come visit before he forgets the poetry of all the good n' strange soul-stories he’s lived. Time to hangout ? - when not working, afternoons are good ( 310-450-2268 )
Mindfulness meditation at the VA is having an odd, sweetening way with him. It also seems to be doing his private therapy clients a lot of good too. Loving-kindness ~ go figger. Curiously motivated new beginners to the Buddha Dharma be very welcome • Akasa is known for his spontaneity, ready warmth, and wry unpredictable humor.


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( 1 ) •♦• INTRODUCTION •♦• ( ~A~ )
May as Well START HERE
or START SOMEWHERE




~ Gautama the Buddha, 500 BC North India ~




Buddha Taught:

_______________




♦ Our Personal Suffering
of the 'Impermanence'
and the disillusioning
'Not-Self' quality of it All –
is at the very Basic Core of
Buddhist psychology – in that...
__________________________

"All Our Suffering in Life
is from our Mental-Attachments
that Continually Mistake
the 'Impermanent' for being 'Permanent'
__________________________________

" You are more attached to
your 'desire thoughts' themselves -
- than you are attached to
the actual 'object' of desire itself.
______________________

" What is 'accepted'
by the majority of people -
- does not mean it is Real."
_______________________
_________________________

What's Going On Inside You ?
What's "The Problem"
Are You Up for a Solution ?
♦ Buddhist-based
Wisdom Insight Therapy
offers effective, compassionate
'Alternative Approaches'
to Relating with Your 'Self'
and All Other Living Beings -
as we go through
Our Suffering of
the 'Impermanence'
of it ALL absolutely

The  SPIRITUAL  ADULTHOOD  PROJECT


~ a truly effective Buddhist-based 'Alternative' way

complementary to contemporary psychotherapy


for the Discomforted Mind, Wounded Spirit or


Disheartened, Despairing Relationship ~


all in the midst of our very edgy,


over-driven, survival-stressed


Uncertain Times


____________­_ 



 What About Uncertain Times ?



" It was the best of times,

It was the worst of times,

It was the age of wisdom,

It was the age of foolishness, 

It was the epoch of belief,

It was the epoch of incredulity,

It was the season of Light, 

It was the season of Darkness,

It was the spring of hope, 

It was the winter of despair, 

We had everything before us, 

We had nothing before us,

We were all going direct to Heaven,

We were all going direct the other way.

In short, the period was so far  -:¦:-

just like the present period.  

~ Sir Charles Dickens ~  

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

____________________

 





Akasa Levi
I’m a ONE MAN SHOP ~

Always have been....
I offer Time to See people.
People create Time to See me.

Buddhist  Therapy:
It’s been done
very effectively
for 1000’s of years….
 -----------------------------------------------------


I Counsel both Adult Women and Men in

• One-to-One Individual Private Therapy

 • Buddha Dharma Counseling sessions 

• Mindfulness Meditation practice as an important adjunct to ALL Therapies.
It just doesn't work without it. Period .

 • Dharma Life-Coaching  

 • Relationship Counseling for Partnering issues, Couples, and Self-identity dilemmas.

We get very verbal, inter-active, face to face,

 We get very personal, kind and caring, as well as ‘tough-love’ - and a bit of shamanic 'ritual-work' as appropriate directive ‘tasks’ and even homework - in clear, hopefully effective sessions. “Relationships” can be very difficult.

 Everyone knows that. We do 'em anyway....

 _______________________________




” THE  GREATEST  RISK ...
IS  NOT  TAKING ONE ! ”



 “ There is no such thing

as a "Problem" without somehow
a ‘Gift’ for you in its hands.
Sometimes you have problems
because you need their gifts.
It is through gifts that you grow " ~ Richard Bach


In the Really Big Picture for Everyone....
What's "The Real Problem" ?
SOUL - in Mythopoetic-speak ~
TO BRING YOUR LIFE BACK
FROM THE ‘EXILE’ of YOUR SPIRIT
-- and INTO A SACRED BALANCE AGAIN !


~ American Poet Laureate Robert Bly



" The Journey Itself
 IS the Destination! "...

Buddhist  Therapy:
It’s been done
very effectively
for 1000’s of years….

________________________


Together ~


The 'Discomfort' you came in with...
a mindfulness meditation will clear, cool and calm you down soon – you're also going to relax and open up to a fact "That it's OK - that it's not OK" - That's the 'What Is' of it – and so let's just jump in - we Meditate and Talk -  

It's in the 'How' we do this kind of work. It's not just words, it's a unique kind of existential healing "conversation" you

and I will be having.



There's another thing, another karma-fact:

"Everything" that exists is a "Contributing Factor" to everything else that exists. Whether you're seeing it or not. Please 'Get' that. Or just at least 'consider' it.  

Everything counts. Butterflies in Brazil.
Everything.


Beyond the tenacious grip of Defenses, Denial, Excuses, Explanations, Rationalizations, Justifications, Distractions and Jokes - It seems like you're just plain Hurting.
 And, you've got some neglected Self-healing

To Do Together with a caring professional.

You've gotta' go deeper somewhat willingly

in 'There' - Yet with a total Stranger to do some Self-caring work - strong yet gentle -

Inner-Questing -- Together.
This is a Together thing
....and a Stranger thing.


Hey, Go See Someone ~ It's not forever...

You've gotta go 'See' someone

Let's call 'me' -- An 'Other' -- 

Come 'see' me at first very regularly,

later to 'see' me somewhat regularly --

and yet much more willingly to go 'see' that 'Other' for help

-- is a very brave, personal thing.

To you who are reading this:

I respect that courage in you.

____________________





H E L P ~

It has always

been this way --

in every tribe,

everywhere.


Two people sit down -

and together,

they empathically

'Work' on one of them.





_____________________


 




" L I V E " Contributing Factors


Really Good Therapy is only pointed to --

Not found in even the best of spoken or writing devices, or online electronic media.

Healing: It takes place with 'People'.

Actual People in a room. Two People Dyad.

Living Warmth - Moment to Moment - Alive !
People with actual human energies. Nothing robotic electronic in between. They smell.

It's a 'Live' Interactive Relating Process

between client and counselor or mentor.

_______________________________

Maybe the 'Damage' happened long, long ago, in a far place, in a Live Setting with a living Parent at the time, maybe within a    dysfunctional partnering, with resentful sibs, a confused family as major "contributing factors" -- along with all sorts of society's disordered, addicted, angry, abusive impacts - everyone knows that. And this was ALL brought to you 'LIVE' at the time -- so it makes reasonable sense that an emotional Healing could take place in a Live setting also -- possibly in an adult two-some mindfully 'being' ( with ) the 'Process' of them - in a living Dyad. Like back in childhood days.... Tricky
____________________



Two people sit down -

and together,

they empathically
'Work' on one of them.

___________________



"Spiritual Adulthood" is a much more 'radical' outspoken form of Counseling –

geared to aesthetically intelligent people in the contemporary Creative Arts and New Thought minded sensibilities. The people who do eventually come to me - are usually more explorative, highly curious, have a more active intellect, have some great humor in there, and are intensely inquisitive people just by their 'true' nature.
"Know-thy-Self" ~ You, Me, and Other 'Inner-Searchers of Comprehension' - are people who relish the 'Journey', the 'Safari' of it - the inner 'Search', the 'Inquiry', the open road 'Adventure' of it, the 'Quest' of it - Hurting or not - rather than having a Not-Knowing Life of cliché notions, or trite ideas, or spiritual prescriptions just 'served-up' ready to eat. "Enlightened Liberation" is certainly not a home deliverable Yum-Yum item. Never was. For each of us - for all of us - authentic Freedom is gained by taking an often disturbingly candid, life-long 'psychological pilgrimage' to places of a meditative clarity experienced thru a happy and good humored Spiritualized Heart - Yours.

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


Thank You for reading all this so far. Hopefully you'll learn to increasingly enjoy the incomplete, rough-hewn 'realizations' of a rugged Journey to your Core – for "The Journey Itself IS the Destination" -- So Be Brave, Courageous, Stay the Course,
 and Stay Conscious. Keep The Faith . . .
 ______________________________




• On Being Heard
WHATEVER IT IS.... YOU’RE JUST
“A-NOT-SO-HAPPY-PERSON"


Many, many folks just aren’t.

We’re in very agitated, anxious,

turbulent, confused uncertain times.

Everyone knows that... but I still Hurt.

• Life-Purpose Despair: standard textbook Anxiety and standard textbook Depression symptoms -- look 'em up in Wikipedia -- Humans are not that complicated, but their Stories appear to be: that's their layers of protection - their Wall -- with their fingers in the dyke: an unsure insecure career, hot emotional turbulence, scary medical issues, hourly mis-communication stuff, mood swings, mid-life changes, painful family confusions, financial delusions, disappointments, risky addiction and indulgence behaviors, daily partnering relationship dilemmas -- or just a deep unhappiness and inner loneliness that don’t make it all any easier.

"and... I ajn't even got me no "Religion"...

as the song goes.


• Life can ride rough on ya' - resentment and hopelessness sets in.

‘You’ - need to be really heard from way deep inside, and coached forward and thru by a skillful, empathic counseling therapist - by someone who's fully listening.


• So get up out of your own ‘protective’ self-imposed isolation – numb and barely conscious -- Stuck in a closed loop, in a paralyzed limited thinking with very few options or healthy growth resources - even tho' available. There's a thick unwillingness.



• "By Myself" - is that counter productive, is that over preached litany “I can do this by myself” - is that worn out old mantra – reinforced by all those shoulda -woulda -coulda laments.



• Stories Ego- pride- shame- hurt- loss- fear cycles - backed by those STORIES ( Oh Those Many Mystery Misery Stories ) of mine. I depend on them. At this point your stories are certainly important to you. As Katie would ask: "Who Would You Be Without Your Story"

• So just literally PUT yourself into a series of private insight meditation "conversation" sessions for awhile.



Let's find the Real Basic You.

It's meant to be. It’ll be good for you.

• Of course, from time to time, you’ll get compassionately, skillfully 'busted' - called out on your shit, for sure. Therapy could feel invasive / insensitive. Sometimes you're such a Wus. A Victim. A Big Bully. Hang in there. It's only an affiliation with an 'Identity'.

• You’ll be on an 'accompanied path' ( with me ) to get some wider Buddhist meditative perspective, creative space, deeper relief and meaningful resolution that sticks, and even some joy and laughter. We DO insist on you 'practicing' this meditation. The 'cure' is pre-installed, built into it...

• There is NO obligation with me to see by phone if maybe this could begin to feel right and be skillfully workable for you. Check it out...

• So please, go ’See’ somebody - here or elsewhere - but Do GO and really settle in and settle down and start working it out with the facilitation of a skillful 'someone' -- an 'Other' who can 'Hear' you -- and hear your 'Glitch' and hear your Hurtin' Heart as the song goes.

• You, thirsting to be deeply understood - very human to human - yet deeply vulnerable. 

• Get way beyond blaming, compromising, excusing, craving, resenting or rationalizing.

• Open your Life up into a gentle place of Safety, Softness and Trust.

• Here may be a place, a space where:

You can work on Your Stuff, and work

on Your Soul: both together on a ‘frequent enough’ basis to make a really Noticeable Difference ~

_____________


:: ::Hidden:: ::

::S T R E S S::

:: ::Levels:: ::    

( Pardon me,

a wee bit of 

Toxic Humor 

Everyone else

is on the Phone )

________________

"TOXIC LEVELS"

of OVER DOSED,
of OVER DONE,

OVER COOKED

SOCIAL MEDIA

SATURATION

SUBMERGED
in OVERWHELM
CO-DEPENDECY 

Too much Feeling
Sensory Emotional
Overload Static 
Toxic Cognitive

Status Pollution
Jammed Circuits 

Try Again Later...


" L I K E " Me ~ Please Like Me....
What are your Anxiety Levels of Social Media Status Rating Obsessions ? Tolerances ? The Incredible Levels of WiFi Electronic White Noise Running in The Background like a Perpetual Toilet with The Constant Sound of a Planetary Buzzing - It's out There, it's in Here, it's all over Me, it's Everywhere... it's another very basic problem.... Saturated / Submerged into The Grid ( The Matrix is not science fiction any longer, it's science fact ) It is No Surprise that we're a culture going pathologically crazy. And, quite don't know it yet. Oiy !


" There's no room anymore

for my own intelligence

to simply, sanely, sort

and separate out anything

from anything anymore.

My emotional intelligence

feels dead."  ~ Josh



Emotional Overload
Sensation-loops

get to so totally run Thinking.
So What IS true ?
 Emotions and Feelings get to be
so totally run BY Thinking.
Which IS true ?

Feelings / Sensations ?
Thought / Content ?
Context / Container ?


• Emotions run Thinking,

Thinkings run Emotions.

• An embedded Depression

pushed downward and

smothers Anxiety -

• An embedded Anxiety

angsting away, agitates,

and starves Depression.
• Exhaustive thoughts

get so enmeshed and

mixed with yukky feelings

and embedded war 'stories'

of worry, wounds, betrayals.

Feelings so overwhelmed
 and flooded with thinking.

Flooding is all that's
happening sometimes.

Emotions run thinking -
Mindfulness opens and

clears the way -

changing the perspective

of the view-point that will

enhance understanding

of what you just experienced,

for a needed awareness space

to just be...


S t r e s s Thinking Just Runs Emotion. Painful old memory 'thought-illusion' fantasies have the 'appearance' of a Reality - and are not. Overwhelm, confusion, delusion, hopeless and numb... Your own version of Paralysis: Angry and Sad - both - bad sleep, lotsa' stress, stuck in a tar pit. " Sick and Tired of being sick and tired "




S T R E S S

leads to stress irritation 

leads to stress inflammation

leads to stress infection

leads to a severe drop
in stress immunity
in the stress community   

Doctors have been talking
about Diet and Exercise for some forever now ...
Now they are talking
about Mindfulness and
Insight Meditation... At Last !
____________________________


♦ The notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’. . . .
and the notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’ Person.
 Just Maybe You’re a Very "Uncommon Person".
 .
“An Unusual ‘Uncommon Person’ Already, Always Feels Different --
Always Feels 'Non-Ordinary' -- Always"
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
in a very Non-Assimilate-able Way.
 Always — and knows it, and feels it,
 Just not ‘fitting in’.
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
for an unrecognized, uncommon few people.
• But alas, for the truly odd, gifted, singular,
‘uncommon' one — this 'Non-Ordinary'
being in the world and being different...
It’s sort of a double-whammy to carry
— knowing it, and feeling it."
~ irrational psychology creator Ab'ram Majick(1947)


• UNHAPPY UNUSUAL ‘UNCOMMON’ PEOPLE
are often unrecognized 'sensitives', 'creatives' - smart, intelligent, individualistic, higher-consciousness oriented people - artistic, intellectual, nerdy, techy, mystical, musical, magical, expressive, geeky, poetic and spiritual. And still very 'existentially' Unhappy.


• 'Specialness' - so you probably also need a non-traditional therapist’ ( like me ) who 'gets' it ~ a rogue therapist who 'sorta understands “non-mainstream”, being/getting off the grid, non ordinary lifestyles, hip spirituality, or the creative Act itself - a seasoned 'meta'-thinker who can be deeply empathic - and who genuinely understands ‘uncommon’ and ‘unusual’ -- ‘Non-ordinary’ people that are quite unique or gifted, yet still unhappy — People who are carrying the twin burden of 'specialness' and yet self-effacing - all buttoned up in an undiagnosed, unconscious psychological 'Disorder'. Hard to get to.
• The access portal to get there is thru an awareness-style of mindfulness meditation to reach the un-aware levels of mind - and heal oneself there... Buddha and Jung both suggested that our therapeutic practice on and within ourselves is to make the unconscious conscious. 
• You may be a very private ‘Individual’ Personwho normally feels very naturally directed inward,
 'spiritual-oriented' - and yet you’re struggling
 to get ‘worldly’ problems and emotional issues
 handled realistically and with integrity as well –
yet without you having to commit to any sort
 of religious path whatsoever! We DON'T DO any
‘religious’ preaching or dogma - No special jargon.
 Nothing to 'buy into' or be persuaded to ‘believe’ in.
 Just the daily emergence of your own individual
 true 'Knowing' - and personal excellence !
• We assist you in self-discovering a ‘natural unfolding’ of unshakable balance, boundless wisdom and joy! And your innate good humor!
• Liberating a new sense of caring and connectedness with yourself, other people and your widening universe – an embracing and expanded "Inner-Acceptance and Outer Effectiveness" -- That's ALL of It !





EMPTYNESS: A ‘True’ Buddha's Happiness is the happiness of Getting EMPTY by being Empty of 'Grasping' and 'Holding' - more and more independent of unsatisfying Stuff - much thru a Mindful Non-Reactivity based practice that intuitively acknowledges the constant, unavoidable effects of ‘everyday’ circumstances and conditions. A responsible, authentic ‘true inner freedom’ as they’ve spoken about for millennia in those profound Ancient Wisdom teachings - can be an attainable reality for you - just practice - like a musical instrument - just practice. It starts and concludes with meditation.
 A Buddhist Guided Mindfulness Meditation Silent Sitting slows the body/mind system Way, Way Down to a more self-regulated and manageable level more and more Aware of it's own Process and what can be made ready for 'change' and LET GO OF naturally... Just That. Mindfulness Meditation as the new 'star' healing-treatment in town, utilizing methods from a highly respected ancient empiric, experiential Buddhist tradition - it was found to be surprisingly quite effective.



♦ A Buddhist-based very accessible Wisdom Therapy offers highly effective, connective, compassionate yet realistic 'Alternative Conscious approaches to relating with Your 'Self' and All Other Living Beings.

It's eventually gonna come down to Love itself...

of course, how could it not... .

__________________

Friends, this is Pep Talk # 109
 The 'Discomfort' you came in with...
a mindfulness meditation will clear,
 cool and calm you down soon –
you're also going to relax and open up
to a fact "That it's OK - that it's not OK" -
 That's the 'What Is' of it – and so let's
jump in - we simply Meditate and Talk -  
It's in the 'How' we do this kind of work --
It's not just words, it's a unique kind
of "conversation" we will be having.
There's another thing, another fact:
 Beyond the grip of Denial, Excuses,
Explanations, Rationalizations,
Justifications, you're just plain Hurting.
And, you've got some neglected healing.
Together, you've gotta go somewhat
willingly in 'there' - WITH a STRANGER
to do some Inner-Questing together.
 This is a TOGETHER thing
....and a STRANGER thing.
Going to 'see' some Other for help is a
very personal thing. I respect that in you.
Really Good "Therapy" is not found in eventhe best of books, or in the electronic media.
It's a very 'Live' Interactive Relating-Process
between client and counselor or teacher.
 ________________________________________
H E L P ~ It always has been this way --
Two people sit down - and together,
they empathically 'Work' on one of them.




Hidden S T R E S S :: :: :: :: ::
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOU ?

" TOXIC LEVELS "of OVER DONE
SOCIAL MEDIA SATURATION - Yuck -
Too much Mental Sensory Emotional OVERWHELM
 ~ Cognitive Toxic Pollution ~ jammed circuits ~
 What are your Levels of Social Media Tolerances ?
 It's out there, it's in here... it's everywhere...
Another Very Basic Problem

" There's no room anymore for my own intelligence
to simply, sanely, sort and separate out anything
from anything anymore. Emotional intelligence is dead."



Emotional Overload Sensation-loops
get to so totally run thinking.
So What IS true ?
 Emotions and Feelings get to be
so totally run BY thinking.
Which IS true ?
• Emotions run Thinking,
Thinkings run Emotions.
• An embedded Depression
being pushed downward
and smothers Anxiety -
• An embedded Anxiety
and obsesses, agitates,
and starves Depression.
• Exhaustive thoughts
get so enmeshed and
mixed with yukky feelings
and old embedded war 'stories'
 of wounds and betrayals.
Feelings so overwhelmed
 and flooded with thinking.
Flooding is all that's
happening sometimes.
Emotions run thinking -
Mindfulness opens and
clears the way to needed
awareness-space to just be...

.... – s s t t r r e e s s s s –  S t r e s s Thinking Just Runs Emotion Painful old memory 'thought-illusion' fantasies
 have the 'appearance' of a Reality - and are not.
 Overwhelm, confusion, delusion, hopeless and numb... Your own version of Paralysis: Angry and Sad - both - bad sleep, lotsa' stress, stuck in a tar pit. " Sick and Tired of being sick and tired "

S T R E S S leads to stress irritation 

leads to stress inflammation


leads to stress infection
leads to a severe drop
in stress immunity....   
Doctors have been talking about Diet and Exercise
for some decades now ... Now hey are talking about Mindfulness Meditation. At Last !
___________________________________________
♦ The notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’. . . .
and the notion of the ‘Non-ordinary’ person.
 Just Maybe You’re a Very "Uncommon Person".
 .
“An Unusual ‘Uncommon Person’Already, Always Feels Different --
Always Feels 'Non-Ordinary' -- Always"
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
in a very Non-Assimilate-able Way.
 Always — and knows it, and feels it,
 Just not ‘fitting in’.
• Always — and always knows it, and feels it
for an unrecognized, uncommon few people.
• But alas, for the truly odd, gifted, singular,
‘uncommon' one — this 'Non-Ordinary'
being in the world and being different...
It’s sort of a double-whammy to carry
— knowing it, and feeling it."
~ irrational psychology creator Ab'ram Majick(1947)
• UNHAPPY UNUSUAL ‘UNCOMMON’ PEOPLE
are often unrecognized 'sensitives', 'creatives' - smart, intelligent, individualistic, higher-consciousness oriented people - artistic, intellectual, nerdy, techy, mystical, musical, magical, expressive, geeky, poetic and spiritual. And still very 'existentially' Unhappy.
• 'Specialness' - so you probably also need a non-traditional therapist’ ( like me ) who 'gets' it ~ a rogue therapist who 'sorta understands “non-mainstream”, being/getting off the grid, non ordinary lifestyles, hip spirituality, or the creative Act itself - a seasoned 'meta'-thinker who can be deeply empathic - and who genuinely understands ‘uncommon’ and ‘unusual’ -- ‘Non-ordinary’ people that are quite unique or gifted, yet still unhappy — People who are carrying the twin burden of 'specialness' and yet self-effacing - all buttoned up in an undiagnosed, unconscious psychological 'Disorder'. Hard to get to.
• The access portal to get there is thru an awareness-style of mindfulness meditation to reach the un-aware levels of mind - and heal oneself there... Buddha and Jung both suggested that our therapeutic practice on and within ourselves is to make the unconscious conscious. 
• You may be a very private ‘Individual’ Personwho normally feels very naturally directed inward,
 'spiritual-oriented' - and yet you’re struggling
 to get ‘worldly’ problems and emotional issues
 handled realistically and with integrity as well –
yet without you having to commit to any sort
 of religious path whatsoever! We DON'T DO any
‘religious’ preaching or dogma - No special jargon.
 Nothing to 'buy into' or be persuaded to ‘believe’ in.
 Just the daily emergence of your own individual
 true 'Knowing' - and personal excellence !
• We assist you in self-discovering a ‘natural unfolding’ of unshakable balance, boundless wisdom and joy! And your innate good humor!
• Liberating a new sense of caring and connectedness with yourself, other people and your widening universe – an embracing and expanded "Inner-Acceptance and Outer Effectiveness" -- That's ALL of It !








EMPTYNESS: A ‘True’ Buddha's Happiness is the happiness of Getting EMPTY by being Empty of 'Grasping' and 'Holding' - more and more independent of unsatisfying Stuff - much thru a Mindful Non-Reactivity based practice that intuitively acknowledges the constant, unavoidable effects of ‘everyday’ circumstances and conditions. A responsible, authentic ‘true inner freedom’ as they’ve spoken about for millennia in those profound Ancient Wisdom teachings - can be an attainable reality for you - just practice - like a musical instrument - just practice. It starts and concludes with meditation.
 A Buddhist Guided Mindfulness Meditation Silent Sitting slows the body/mind system Way, Way Down to a more self-regulated and manageable level more and more Aware of it's own Process and what can be made ready for 'change' and LET GO OF naturally... Just That. Mindfulness Meditation as the new 'star' healing-treatment in town, utilizing methods from a highly respected ancient empiric, experiential Buddhist tradition - it was found to be surprisingly quite effective.






♦ A Buddhist-based very accessible Wisdom Therapy offers highly effective, connective, compassionate
 yet realistic 'Alternative Conscious approaches to



relating with Your 'Self' and All Other Living Beings.


It's eventually gonna come down to Love itself...
 

of course, how could it not... .