2. FOO WHO ?
‘All-the-time-Awareness’
Training Beginners Very Welcome !
Training Beginners Very Welcome !
“ HOW TO BECOME
THE CLARITY OF YOUR
YOUR OWN CHOOSING.
Maybe It’s Time You
Became A Disciple
of Your Own Awareness,”
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“ If Nothing Changes,
Nothing Changes ! “
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QUESTION ~
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“ DESTINY, my son, is
every step we’re taking
and going thru right now
- to get there "
So, you must consciously choose to make a move–
and make the
choice to re-choose again and
openly
'talk truth' with
someone...and keep the truth-talk up !
To openly keep
talking with someone and keep it up --
To be open to
'trust' in gradually letting it ALLl arise --
We all have this
Destiny Question --it's nothing new."
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
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So,
Who Does
Come Here
To Explore ?
Mostly, Those Who
Have
a Smart MAVERICK-MINDed-ness.
Those
who Practice Mindfulness-minda Smart MAVERICK-MINDed-ness.
Those who are personally refining the
‘Power of ‘Mindfulness’ for themselves
Those who are highly educable people
Those who are dedicated to the dharma
Those who are involved in the intricate
Learning process of Mentor / Mentee
Those who we encourage are highly
inquisitive, progressive minded people,
with a natural, deep love of learning -
Those who are committed their therapy
Those
who are appreciative of effective,
conventional western
psychotherapy.
Those who are now going way beyond it.
So, Is That It --- Who Come Here ?
My Preferences As an Instructor Are ...
Those who really relish the Inquiry itself
Those who are now going way beyond it.
So, Is That It --- Who Come Here ?
My Preferences As an Instructor Are ...
Those who really relish the Inquiry itself
--- the abstract,
and even the absurd –
and
have a genuine taste for the
indefinable
'existential' stuff. ---------------------------------
" Teaching: A Buddhist Mentoring Project "
Mentoring' is an ancient tribal 'teaching-exploration' found in every indigenous culture planet wide -- Asian Buddhist sub-culture has it's own traditions and mentoring protocols of the village Monastics and Elders passing on critical, skilled 'knowledges' that encourage, guide and support a very self-confrontive and candid “Inquiry into personal illusory Self” with an initiated guiding teacher. Counseling those in the Individual Mentoring program and teaching levels.
This is 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.
Can you dismantle your 'Self' when there isn't one?
That's impossible.
What kind of foolishness are you teaching here ?
HAVING A ‘SELF’ IS SO EXHAUSTING !
THE COOL, CALM 'OBSERVATION' APPROACH
of TRADITIONAL, QUIET VIPASSANA INSIGHT
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION --- ALONG SIDE
THE 'CRAZY WISDOM' IRRATIONALITY
of THE 'ZEN-MIND REALIZATIONS'
THAT COGNITIVELY SHORT-CIRCUIT
THE COMMON CHRONIC OBSESSIVE
SUFFERING of 'MY SELF.
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" Buddhism's
all about experiential,
natural, uncompromised truth ---
natural, uncompromised truth ---
Buddhism is so much
closer
to 'science' than it
is to 'theology'
To be 'Buddhist' is
to be
both delightfully
perplexed,
awakened and
sweetened
by the strangely
sane,
refreshingly
'rational'
path Buddha created.
The Spirituality of
contemporary Buddhism
is so flexibly open and universal
( and agnostic ) - that it can
always be expressed in your own way.”
contemporary Buddhism
is so flexibly open and universal
( and agnostic ) - that it can
always be expressed in your own way.”
‘All-the-time-Awareness’
Beginners Very Welcome !
Hi and Welcome and
Nama’ste !
The LAUGHING BUDDHA SANGHA / Therapy
When you really should go see somebody,
The LAUGHING BUDDHA SANGHA / Therapy
When you really should go see somebody,
you could go see
him - as one of your options
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WHAT
IS THERAPY ?
Therapy is where
IS THERAPY ?
Therapy is where
two people sit down
and empathically
and empathically
work on one of them
-- Together
And, PLEASE,
please do not expect only
a few sessions to be
sufficient:
Betrayed
Expectation is partly how you got here...
Self-healing'
your difficult issues and wounded feelings --
One
of the most classic therapy-gained Truths --
comes
as a deep personal realization and
a
sharp pointed reminder of time fleeting
--when
asking how long does therapy take ?
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Working on yourself, your difficult issues,
Working on yourself, your difficult issues,
bruised,
hurt, wounded feelings, damage ---
FEELINGS that took your
whole Life-time to develop,
-- will certainly take some
time
.... to turn around.
”
Whatever the Question,
'Kindness'
is the Answer.”
~ The Dalai Lama
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_/\_
with palms joined together
The Laughing Buddha Sangha - Santa Monica
encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest
encourages a Maverick Spirited Inner-Quest
thru a "Mindfulness-Awakening" Meditation
that Nourishes an Iconoclast Intelligence and cultivates a Big
Good-Hearted Mind –
Eventually 'Me' discovering my own 'Buddha-Nature' by Awakening the Compassionate Healing Awareness -- a Wise Empathy Naturally Deep Within Us All.
Eventually 'Me' discovering my own 'Buddha-Nature' by Awakening the Compassionate Healing Awareness -- a Wise Empathy Naturally Deep Within Us All.
Ready to be ‘worked’ with ? --- so we will work with THAT…For What ? Just the natural
emergence of your own individual True 'Knowing’ and personal excellence.
It's taken you a long time to become your very own"Bodhisattva" - a
sort of "Buddha-in-the-making".
And here you are Becoming Happier as the True You. The
Spirituality of contemporary Buddhism is so flexiblyopen and universal ( and
agnostic ) - that it can always beexpressed in your own way. Right at start,
it's all about you.
THERAPY for MAVERICKS - THERAPY for SMART PEOPLE
" The Greatest Risk
Is Not Taking One "
Is Not Taking One "
THERAPY here with me --
is an interactive Buddhist-based teaching
of more self-compassion and certainly less
clinical protocol--
a more 'alternative' approach
to relating with Your True Self.
clinical protocol--
a more 'alternative' approach
to relating with Your True Self.
• One-to-One individual therapy or relationship
counseling -
all kinds of
stressful partnering issues: couples, genders, family.
Difficult to
communicate or resolve feelings. Existential Angst
is alive and
suffering terribly well within all of us. Bewilderment
follows on
their coat tails continually asking "Why".
• Therapy for
"Creatives" -- Counseling for Smart People:
Often Lost,
often quite gifted, sensitive, artistic, intellectual,
funny,
outsiders, outlaws, intuitives and lovable fugitives
--gifted yet
domestically or 'existentially' unhappy people.
• Maybe a more Maverick Spirited deeper
inner-quest
to nourish a rebellious, iconoclast intelligence
and
a Big Good-Hearted Mind can actually ‘work’
for you !
• 'Theravada' Mindfulness ~ the original, earliest 'Path of The Elders' -- an India, Buddhist South Asia & Sri Lanka Lineage-based Practice of traditional Vipassana Satpatthana Mindfulness Meditation – alongside a skillful, eclectic-mix of other world-wide Buddhist psychology teachings.
♦ The Main CORE PURPOSE
of Vipassana Insight MINDFULNESS Meditation Practice Veh.poss.ana in
the Pali-language of the original Buddha's teachings, is the simple and direct
practice of ‘moment-to-moment’ mindfulness. Through careful 'sustained
observation', we experience directly for ourselves the ever-changing flow of
the mind/body process. This keen awareness leads us to accept more fully the
pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that life inevitably
brings to all our ‘experiences’. As Insight-Awareness deepens, we develop
greater equanimity and peace - in the face of Change--.Mindfulness, Wisdom and
Compassion increasingly become the major Dharma guiding-principles ‘informing’
our lives.. ~ Joseph Goldstein
"
The Greatest Risk Is Not Taking One "
• GUIDANCE: Mentoring, Direction and Pointing
That's why I offer a lengthy FREE phone
consultation - First - before coming in here for the first time. Inner-Healing MUST be a very, very 'Human' thing. A 'therapist' or a 'counselor'
is a special new 'human' in your life. Beginning to go to 'therapy' is
sort of a professional Blind-Date. Do you two even 'Like' each other
? Maybe, maybe not.
• So go easy on the immediate impulse to judge or
evaluate these first few session impressions.
So give a fresh new experience a fresh new chance. Therapy
takes time and takes work. And, please, do not expect only a few sessions to be
sufficient --- Self-healing' your difficult issues and wounded feelings
- FEELINGS that took your whole life-time to develop - will
certainly take some time to turn around.
• There are NO silver bullets, no magic pills or
divine interventions. No 'spiritual' fantasies. There IS a lot of 'resistance'.
Of course there is, that's how you muscled-up and survived so far... It's You
and me, your counselor, are going to
have to work, walk and talk in each other’s
one-to-one presence -- that could seem intimidating and
kinda ‘creepy’ intimate – be truthful, trusting and honest.
Not sabotage. Change takes a willingness to work it, and to work it off, and to
give it time -- and to begin to responsibly really KNOW that….
“ If Nothing Changes,
Nothing Changes ! “
And at times you will experience painful,
awful sobbing moments, even days -
and even 'scrape bottom' --where hidden
hopelessness lies...don't sabotage, be brave.
After a short time gradually - you will begin
to consciously 'process' --as you progress
in your 'mindfulness meditation' - towards
a healthy noticeable 'shift' in your very
own 'experience' of yourself.
Yet, it's gonna take some TIME.
WHO ?
COMES HERE
TO DO
COMES HERE
TO DO
'INNER-WORK'
on THEMSELVES ?
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on THEMSELVES ?
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Thru Reasonably
Frequent Short Sits
of MINDFULNESS
Insight Meditation
and Dharma Study--
Open and Letting-Go
Frequent Short Sits
of MINDFULNESS
Insight Meditation
and Dharma Study--
Open and Letting-Go
You Can Cultivate the
Momentary Seeds of
Constant Beginnings,
Little AWAKENINLGS,
Momentary Seeds of
Constant Beginnings,
Little AWAKENINLGS,
Repeated "Wake Ups" !
You Can Re-Awaken.
Just Keep Introducing
the Dawn of the Newly
Awakening 'Inner-World'
to the illusory 'Outer World'
and just say ---Booo !
Just Keep Introducing
the Dawn of the Newly
Awakening 'Inner-World'
to the illusory 'Outer World'
and just say ---Booo !
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raison d’etre
“reason for being"--
justification or
purpose of existence.
"
The Journey Itself
IS the Destination! "
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In Co-Counsel Therapy
is also where jointly,
Two people sit down --
and empathically 'Work'
on one
of them
---
Together
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QUESTION
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QUESTION
" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taki
and going thru right now - to get there " So, You Really Must Consciously Choose –
and make the Choice to Re-Choose again and
to Openly 'Talk Truth' with Someone
...and keep the talk up !
...and keep the talk up !
To Openly keep Talking with Someone
and keep it uTo be Open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all arisand We all 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
So, Who Does Come Here To Explore
This close and intimate practice of Mentor / Mentee ?
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 'existential' stuff.
" 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.
OK, WHO does come ?To learn and personally refine
the Power of ‘Mindfulness’
for themselves ?
WHO ?
“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 --
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, Ploughboy, Farmer, Teacher,
Banker, Gardener, Cooper, Cook,
Burglar, Boxer, Baker, Preacher,
a Professor, Politician, or Crook.
People Who Teach Experience.
….And Buddhism is quite playful also !
The Buddhist’s Theory of Everything.
" There is no such thing as a strictly 'secular' therapy - or that a therapy is '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. "
~ Ab'ram Wolsam
~ Ab'ram Wolsam
• WHY of ALL Possible Things - are we Buddhist-based ???
We 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.
WHO ?
COMES HERE
TO DO 'INNER-WORK
on THEMSELVES ?
Those who are of
DHARMA-MIND.
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 ?
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
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."
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 “
a Candlestick-maker ---
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief -
Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, Tailor -
Rich man, Poor man,
Beggar man, Thief “
...and Dharma-people
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
"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! "
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" 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' ---
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,
...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.
and applied wisdom skills.
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!
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“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,
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"
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.
Gotta' 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
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 by
their 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
for 'popular' ideas and shallow packaged prescriptions
just 'served-up' ready to eat. Enlightened Freedom is
just not a 'home-deliverable product'. For each of us -
it's all a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced
thru your own compassionate Spiritual Heart. . .
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Question:
" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taking
and going thru right now - to get there ”
" So, You Really Must Consciously Choose –
and make the Choice to Re-Choose again and again -
to Openly 'Talk Truth' with Someone…
...and keep the talk up !
To Openly keep Talking with Someone -
and keep it up.
To be Open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all arise
and unfold - Messy or tidy, depressed or distressed.
We all have these feelings. It's nothing new."
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
.
"Eighty percent of success
is just showing up" ~ Woody Allen
So go ahead and get into
some quality counseling-therapy –
You, really being heard –
here or somewhere –
Where someone will really take
a deep caring to listen to YOU –
and really, really hear you ....
AND, that’s a very courageous move on your part –
to go get some help for yourself thru some 'counseling'.
It just may be the right place for you to start. Open to it.
Be very welcome to inquire more about me,
as you search out where to do this inner-work.
Please Read Some More on this site.
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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 and resolve to your world.
No matter how dark that world may seem or feel
~ Light is just a single action away."
.
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"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 ) read footnote below
.
– and we wish to assist you as you bring yourself
to this new level of a natural, highly conscious,
sensitive awareness – and fearless unfolding...
_____________________________________
.
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 ~
_________________________________________
footnote:
.
"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.
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.
Links to alternative lifestyle; modernism and postmodernism;
post-materialism; radicals; voluntary simplicity.
____________________
“And then the day came
“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'
____________________________________________
“Directionless ?
Know that The Way
always faces East....”
“The Road Now Taken”
And, after that...
Be most welcome to read
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.
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:
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
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 --
layered onto a little receptive boy person
and that has made all the difference --
What kind of Key ???
A Dorkey, Hauskee, Kark-kee,
Porchekee, Gerachkee, Gaat-ki,
A Key !
Porchekee, Gerachkee, Gaat-ki,
A Key !
COMES HERE
TO DO 'INNER-WORK'
on THEMSELVES ?
Those who are of
MENTORING-MIND.
MENTORING-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.
".... ever noticed, that it's Always NOW "
~ said Alan Watts
He suggests you repeatedly keep noticing this
mindfully many, many, many times a day . . .
.
" Electronic screens aside --
these days I like to be
in the same room
with the teacher... " ~ Anya Mandel
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."
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 “
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,
Porchkee, Gerachkee
A Key !
Porchkee, Gerachkee
A Key !
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.
You've heard this
famous aphorism
many times before,
of course you have ~
" The Journey Itself
IS the Destination! " ~ Tao
_________________
_________________
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' ---
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,
...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.
and applied wisdom skills.
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,
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 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
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 by
their 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
for 'popular' ideas and shallow packaged prescriptions
just 'served-up' ready to eat. Enlightened Freedom is
just not a 'home-deliverable product'. For each of us -
it's all a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced
thru your own compassionate Spiritual Heart. . .
__________________________
Ques
" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taki
and going thru right now - to get there " So, You Really Must Consciously Choose –
and make the Choice to Re-Choose again and
to Openly 'Talk Truth' with Someone
...and keep the talk up !
...and keep the talk up !
To Openly keep Talking with Someone
and keep it uTo be Open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all arisand We all have these feelings. It's nothing new."~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
.
Ques
" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taki
and going thru right now - to get there " So, You Really Must Consciously Choose –
and make the Choice to Re-Choose again and
to Openly 'Talk Truth' with Someone
...and keep the talk up !
...and keep the talk up !
To Openly keep Talking with Someone
and keep it uTo be Open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all arisand We all have these feelings. It's nothing new."~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
.
"Eighty percent of success
is just showing up" ~ Woody Allen
So go ahead and get into
some quality counseling-therapy –
You, really being heard –
here or somewhere –
Where someone will really take
a deep caring to listen to YOU –
and really, really hear you ....
AND, that’s a very courageous move on your part –
to go get some help for yourself thru some 'counseling'.
It just may be the right place for you to start. Open to it.
Be very welcome to inquire more about me,
as you search out where to do this inner-work.
Please Read Some More on this site.
_______________________________
.
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 and resolve to your world.
No matter how dark that world may seem or feel
~ Light is just a single action away."
.
_______________________
"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 ) read footnote below
.
– and we wish to assist you as you bring yourself
to this new level of a natural, highly conscious,
sensitive awareness – and fearless unfolding...
_____________________________________
.
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 ~
_________________________________________
footnote:
.
"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.
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.
Links to alternative lifestyle; modernism and postmodernism;
post-materialism; radicals; voluntary simplicity.
____________________
“And then the day came
“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'
____________________________________________
“Directionless ?
Know that The Way
always faces East....”
“The Road Now Taken”
And, after that...
Be most welcome to read
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.
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:
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.
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
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 --
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.
“And then the day came
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!
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!
________________________________ 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.
____________________ 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'
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The Greatest Risk is Not Taking One
Directionless ?
Know that The Way
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.
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'
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
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 --
layered onto a little receptive boy person
and that has made all the difference --
Notebook Journal of an
American Buddhist Monk
at Kopan Gompa Monastery
Bodh’nath, Kathmandu, Nepal
Himalayan Diary of an
American Buddhist Monk
at Kopan Gompa Monastery
Bodh’nath, Kathmandu, Nepal
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 ?
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 ?
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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? "
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.
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
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.
" 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.
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" 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
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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
__________________________________________________All On Board
MYSTERY of MYSTERIES ~ 1948
I lost my Mom to breast cancer when I was seven. My whole future relationship with women’s lovely souls and the sweet softness of the goddess Kwan Yin and my male Yang changed. So did my relationship with Death and Life. The young potent power-filled Son with no Mother to come home to proudly protect, stalled. Arrested development. A dark cloud home where everybody’s clothing had the salty smell of tear soaked tragic dampness. For now Reader, I’m keeping all that boy into man Oedipal Phallic Freudian stuff for me to explore with Doctor Max Zugger, the Don Rickles of insult psychiatry. It’s in his office where I heard it for the first time -- 'Shit Happens'.
“ It’s a pity that misery is wasted on the miserable “~ Woody Allen
Suffering Early Childhood Loss: I was a miserable kid. The totally transitory, totally unarguable, ever changing, unforgiving, unstable, unreliable, absolute Suffering the 'Impermanence' of it all. Buddha's Dharma ( teachings ) is sort of the Reality Science School of Ultimate Total Loss - The What Is of The Way It Is. This IS It. The healthy, not morbid, Wisdom that is experientially developed directly out of insecurity itself, is the prominent cornerstone of Buddhism's acceptance teachings on Impermanence. "Unfortunately for human beings" - said The Dalai Lama giggling, "Buddhism has no Savior, yet people still have a desire for one - meanwhile they do have TV ".
At the time though, I experienced a suddenly new phenomena very few kids get to have: Real ‘Death’ up close. Death lived with my family by the beach in Far Rockaway, New York. Death had a room upstairs. Death ate at the table, Death sobbed along with everyone else sobbing. No alternative weekends with a divorced parent. There wasn't any. No back-button. No click Undo. No relief from broken hearted stories told half in English, half in German about “How talented… “How gifted… your Mother was… Ahh, Beatrice was the maestro Rubakian’s best piano student. She had radiated a young painter’s delight with our little farm up in Woodstock… and of course, the eminent reality of a recital in Carnegie Hall and all.
So I sat on the floor as a mommy-less little kid and watched everything. I sat on the grass and watched. I sat at the window and watched. I was a sullen kid - and overcame the tedium by taking an uninvolved, yet steady interest in what I was watching since that was " IT " for what was currently available in that moment. I was conscious. So I just watched. Not much content. No ‘story’ line with it. I just watched. Watching was all too real for me to be a voyeur. It was enough for me just to be in the presence of all that. Death by Default -- Whew ! I was sorta' like Peter Seller's character in the film "Being There" ~ I was a passive Watcher, not a Doer, a Watcher. I'm a llife-long meditative, mindfulness trained 'Observer'. I like to simply watch.
I developed a child’s un-informed notion that - So maybe there were bona fide resurrection ‘Miracles’ out there. That would bring Mommy Beatrice back and stop the random outbursts of continual sobbing. So at ten years old I began to practice and perform stage Magic, to see if there was such a thing. Anyway, I didn’t like the reedy clarinet or the clarinet teacher who smelled funny. God forbid, I should turn my back on the oh so sacred piano. It was funny how all the music teachers had really flakey dandruff and smelled funny - and no store-bought, standard kid’s hobby took my interest or my heart.
But I was very adept at being critical, complaining and genetically k'vetchy. Surprisingly, this was the beginnings of an oddly developing Wisdom - if’ the ability’ was apprehended in time. It usually isn’t and the kid becomes a ‘crank’. If it is, the kid learns that ‘Wisdom’ Really Likes ‘Wisdom’ - and the kid will search the world over for confirmation that he ‘Knows’ - and that he is highly desirable and is worthy of being loved for that. He soon found that nobody gave a shit. Unfortunately the wounded, narcissistic, gifted kid had become cynical, contemptuous and disdainful - and could simply get lost out there - go downstairs for a pack of smokes and never return.
Just around the corner of my beingness, as a Pre-Bar Mitzvah Boy, with a smelly Hebrew teacher, I started hanging around with some older boys who were local amateur magicians and a few performing stage 'pro's -- after my Dad would really check them out first. But wait, there’s more ! Besides being the son of an extraordinarily talented, almost worshipped, deceased classical pianist and painter -- I was also the physically way under-developed, seemingly talentless, disinterested, chubby son of an athletic, muscular NYPD police officer who sang German and Italian opera on Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour on TV as The Singing Patrolman. Back in the 1950’s you’d never say ‘Cop’.
Through Whitey, Dad’s friend the antique dealer who was a magician, I met my first real teaching ‘mentors’ in the City, where they clustered at Harry Houdini’s old shop upstairs near Penn Station. Jeez, the peculiar company I kept ! I never saw it that way. What I saw was that these guys, they kinda of 'knew' stuff - stuff that ‘ordinary’ people didn’t know. Esoteric stuff. I found that I genuinely, thoroughly, wasn’t ordinary. Uncommon or Non-ordinary were new academic terms it was called. Back in the 50’s I was pretty alone in all this -- all of us Magi sti
Soon, as the remarkable teenage Mr.Magic, I got booked to do children’s birthday parties on weekends, earning pocket and later, gas and date money for college at SUNY Running In the background to all this was, of course, a Certified Wicked Witch of the West Jewish Stepmother that Doctor Zugger has already reserved for a water boarding in Milton’s Purgatory. I’m currently attempting to share the dharma teachings with my less resistive clients, students and myself: on boundless appreciation, unconditional acceptance and the authentic magic of continual forgiveness. Keep forgiveness mindfully in front of you, and keep try’in …..
" Go to holy places,
you'll meet up
with holy people "
you'll meet up
with holy people "
1959 Rebel without a cause -- with AKASA LEVI ~ There is only once around, only once upon a time, long, long ago, and for Akasa it was the body and mind of a Long Island high school kid in a black turtleneck, driving a 51' Chevy lime green coupe, Kerouac and non filter Pall Malls in his pocket, and a condom - every guy had to have the circular badge of a condom bulge in his wallet. Akasa was actually there in the Village experiencing the very last remnants of the Beat generation. Akasa did some rather singular things in his life, when others were not. Not yet ! But very soon. They were a comin' - to the sound of a different drummer. Hey, good clichés rule !
At the movies, James Hilton’s 1939 "Lost Horizon" jump started ‘something’ really serious buried deep in my soul when I was sixteen. My first 'contact' with the movie depiction of a lead character called the Grand Lama became a living reality when I first met His Holiness The Dalai Lama in India years later. It brings a slight swelling behind my eyes even now as I write this. Weekly, I soaked myself in a young Jean Shepard’s heady late night, late 50's WOR jazz/talk radio show in the Village ( New York City ), where he read from the "Amazing Adventures of Doctor Fu Manchu" and lots of Tao and Zen poetry. I started to grow a tiny teenage goatee, hung around the Art Room crowd, explored the social dangers of wearing black and read Kerouac. Forget high school sports, me and The Exotic Esoteric were off and running! In 1959 I concluded high school with Paul Reps’ "Zen Flesh Zen Bones", the Buddhist-theories of D.T. Suzuki and lots of Alan Watts "The Wisdom of Insecurity". There’s ‘wisdom’ in insecurity ? Why that title of all things ? It really made me ‘question’ it all. I learned that Buddhists laugh a lot and are still willing to give voice to ‘impermanence' and 'uncertainty in an Age of A-Bomb Anxiety and devastating Hollywood Blacklisting. In 1959 the winter snows were just melting as the young Tibetan Dalai Lama and a small horseback party began the final crossing into exile in India. His Holiness has never been home since.
Hear, Here and Gone ~ in the radical hotbed it became, SUNY Harpur College / Binghamton University in sleepy upstate New York, Akasa was mostly gone - having a front aisle seat at the back beat sound of this new emerging round of old but unsurprising classic 'inner' explorations of the mind. Except, they work ! Without the dependency on "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" -- and he did. Through a plethora of 'Far Out' incredible Music, permissive Love and the psychedelic insights that fueled Hippies, lots and lots of Hippies. But there were the painful, unforgiving Addictions. Most of us had to go sweetly, stubbornly or go suffering: The Only Way Out Is Through". With more organized gravitas: the Activists and Progressive people of all Liberation and Freedom loving ideals, and very, very vocal Civil Rights risk takers stood up, stood proud, stood strong. There were the heroic miracles of Dr. King, and many others deeply influenced impressions at the Heart level by the great classic European thinkers - and the compassionate Wisdom teachings of the East. There was the chaotic but growing critical mass community of fresh, newly awakened consciousness expanding really opening minds in process. Warm, young concerned bodies out in the surround, in the streets and other 'Live' venues - seeking and absorbing 'non-ordinary', truly 'uncommon' experiences that would emotionally support me by making all the difference. So I could help make a difference ! I wasn't alone in my mind and being-ness anymore...
SUNY, the State University of New York in the heating-up Sixties, revealed to me the tight-assed academia, the ill-conceived struggles for misunderstood meanings of Western philosophy, that I didn’t ‘get’ anyway - and the permissive, easy-going spaciousness of Eastern ‘emptiness’. Emptiness is the ‘joy’ of uncertainty 'realized’. Living in Greenwich Village after being a journalist in the U.S.Army ( Desert Storm: First / 81st Armored Division, PIO information specialist 63’-65’ )
Finally his number literally came up, and Akasa found his charlatan ass drafted, serving the Army as a Special Services journalist, till he came home honorably discharged, only to be spit on in the heat of the 60's Counter-Culture generation's zeal. Be it Protesters, Yuppies or Hippies - his soul exhausted, this ex-pat-Vet, eventually went on to live abroad.
I was right there with another generational shift I witnessed at the poetic heroic wane of the Beat-era -- and my ‘Self’ becoming ‘consciously’ reconstituted with my own beginnings, of my own authentic Hippie soul. The birth of a fledgling Bodhisattva - a few old ones still here - new stock arriving all the time.
The Puer: The Most Interesting Boy Man In The World ~
Akasa found it just plain ol' fun to be the epitome of Hip - eccentric/artistic, a well dressed intellectual smoothie, a lovable fraud, he would charm and talk his way in - he became a young "creative" that simply knew that it simply was all created. Constructed. Fabricated. Designing himself as a savvy young 'designer' in men's wear fashion, or directing TV deodorant spots or canned dog food commercials on Mad Ave, or gory Slasher film production for the elusive Rabbi Herb Freed.
Akasa found it just plain ol' fun to be the epitome of Hip - eccentric/artistic, a well dressed intellectual smoothie, a lovable fraud, he would charm and talk his way in - he became a young "creative" that simply knew that it simply was all created. Constructed. Fabricated. Designing himself as a savvy young 'designer' in men's wear fashion, or directing TV deodorant spots or canned dog food commercials on Mad Ave, or gory Slasher film production for the elusive Rabbi Herb Freed.
My personal archetype was as ‘The Outsider’ - that was quite clear. I was / I still am an acquired taste for a few - but the Wunderkind me was soon making expensive visual magic at a TV commercial production company directing pilot spots. It so happened that I smoked some outstanding weed one day in ’68, and left for a long sojourn in Europe and points unknown. "Freedom From the Known" as Krishnamurti deliciously and disturbingly called it. In Israel I just kept meeting people coming back from India - and they all said “India Man, You gotta go, Man - You gotta go ! - That’s the ‘real’ Holy Land!.” Further East, the compass pointed the direction I needed. I met lotsa’ helpful Indiana Jones- types along the Silk Route when it was still archeologically more intact.
Winter 1972 - 'Over-Land' to Secret India --
Saying farewell to Rosh Pina, the Kibbutz, and daily rocket fire from Syria -Akasa sets off as a filmmaker and ongoing student of the Sufi teacher Gurdjieff and his pioneering Mindfulness 'Work' - "Meetings With Remarkable Men". Icy slick snow on the ground, driving the treacherous ancient “Silk Route” in a lightly armed tight caravan formation from Istanbul in Mick's five smuggled Benz luxury limos on a single lane nearly empty road, except for horseback bandits cum road tax locals, who would actually kill you. No accommodations meaning there was just nothing there - we all slept on donkey hair mats in a big smelly black goat skin tent - had multiple vehicle breakdowns, actual film-making waylaid yet another few months, and my own complete psycho-physical breakdown near Herat, Afghanistan - where quite to my surprise, I found a small ongoing orthodox Jewish community, still wearing kaftans and get this, they were abiding here at least a thousands years, having come with Al Xander ! Nursed with their chicken soup, of course, and other 'medicine' certainly from elsewhere - some kind of far out black sticky stuff - and soon I'm healed up good to go. Over the Khyber Pass and Paki food at last - finally arriving at the Amritsar crossing into Mother India."
I wasn’t aware then, that I was traveling with a spiritual ‘dedicated purpose’, a mission, a holy 'intent' as Lama taught me later. I traveled in an old Russian mini-bus, overland thru the thick snows of Eastern Turkey, the Shah’s Iran and many months of a restorative, recuperative layover with the Jewish community in Herat, Afghanistan during the brutal winter 1972-73. I kept observing a subtly different, ‘alternative’ cultural paradigm out there. Asia was not Kansas anymore, Coney. It certainly wasn’t the South Shore of Long Island where I was raised W.J.M., either. Here, people looked right into your ‘mind’. They can read you. In India they had a legacy of deeply observing and comprehending the human mind - a very complete, ancient ‘science-teaching’ about the true nature of mind. No ‘churches’ that could suppress it - no matter how the Brits tried to civilize the Wogs…
At the Eastern Pakistani/Indian border in Amritsar, a seasoned ex-patriot American yogi who looked like Shiva said to me, unsolicited - “Hey Man, Just skip Hinduism altogether, my friend, and go straight to Dharamsala / McClod Ganj where The Dalai Lama lived, and hang around with the Buddhists” - “You’ll end up a Buddhist anyway, from what I see in you.” He then gave me the address of a very special ‘Teacher’ to visit there, and literally vanished. Weeks later I ambled down a crooked little street high up in the thick pine covered foothills of Northern India, past a flock of laughing Tibetan Buddhist monks full of horseplay, back from their visit to The Dalai Lama’s residence up the hill -- and ‘Lost Horizon’ became a reality.
After a plate of Tibetan mo-mo dim sum, I went to pay, and discovered the teacher’s address deep in my shoulder bag. As described, I found an alley, then a door, knocked - and a voice said “Come in”. Sitting in full lotus on the floor nursing a single-burner propane stove and tea, was the same yogi guy I met at the border ! He looked up at me, smiled, then laughed and said “You made it man - Good, I have some great people for you to go up into the hills here to meet”…
I said to myself ~ " Way to go Mr. Magic, let me wholeheartedly praise you - You ‘showed up’ for yourself again -
It made all the difference ~ Whew !
It made all the difference ~ Whew !
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"How and Who I met - What sacred 'transmissions' they would share from directly within their very own inconscious paradigm surrounded by their very own cultural artifacts lived resplendently by a little nut brown man in a tiny hut sitting on a woven mat. Or the woman art-maker activist who embraces and holds tiny, mistreated babies, and won her nation's highest regard for literally saving, feeding and caressing the souls of abused children in Nepal, or maybe it was South India, or maybe it was South Central. Or the actor who went to dig in the muddy fields beyond the jungle, and found his own magic celebrity-energy transform into indelible compassion. Many empathic Americans served abroad in the Peace Core. You can find them there too -the teachers, the tortured - and sometimes it's just me mostly writing about ‘me’ and my Parkinson's medication side effects... and I'd rather go back now to my pisha'ka travel 'story', and my basic bad writing...
Hopefully the wider, deeper, Greater Purpose here gets awakened and somewhat achieved by reciting my peculiar life story: to get you interested, or get you interested once again - and gets you going out on the road less traveled - doing some serious sacred 'searching' here in the USA, or better, for the really gutsy, brave and unattached, if you take the risk to go abroad. You get to mindfully see and eat and shit and live and serve in these raw cultural contexts that these unbelievable ancient spiritual practices originate from -- Roots, always look for the roots of things, always look for the indigenous origins ! Notice the similarities everywhere !
♦ The Himalayan Diary in these pages ardently encourages you to 'search' out some of the history of the renown Buddhist teachers mentioned, as well as the many inspiring, un-named unknown un-educated teacher's wise and clarifying counsel and potent clean energy influences - literally what arises out of them and flies over into you. Sacred seeds a plenty are dropped during these meetings with remarkable people - unique indigenous people who recognize the potential value of a good student, possibly to serve as a future teacher - in service to this idea, these senior guides themselves would pass you around, sending you Hither and Yon to meet other teaching masters too - human to human, this is how the sacred "Teachings" and their highest cultural traditions are kept vibrantly alive, kept going, and are aurally preserved in perpetuity thru other specially 'taught' humans -- these were basic precious human 'realizations' that would carry me and make ALL the difference on the road less traveled. ( Friends ~ They are still out there to be learned from... Mister G. would be proud -- so far... )
♦ " Like Attracts Like " Wisdom LIKES Wisdom
So basically, Wisdom Attracts Wisdom. The very beginnings of true Wisdom is very attracted to Higher Wisdom. Wisdom likes Wisdom - as Stupidity likes Stupidity, and seeks out more Stupidity. Ignorance seeks out Ignorance. And so it goes... And so the very beginnings of Awakened Enlightened-mind -- "Enlightenment" seeks out Enlightenment and is so happy to find more enlightenment out there, that it never wants to go back to ignorant stupidity."
~ Lama Thubten Teshe
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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 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
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 by
their 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
for 'popular' ideas and shallow packaged prescriptions
just 'served-up' ready to eat. Enlightened Freedom is
just not a 'home-deliverable product'. For each of us -
it's all a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced
thru your own compassionate Spiritual Heart. . .
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Question:
" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taking
and going thru right now - to get there ”
" So, You Really Must Consciously Choose –
and make the Choice to Re-Choose again and again -
to Openly 'Talk Truth' with Someone…
...and keep the talk up !
To Openly keep Talking with Someone -
and keep it up.
To be Open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all arise
and unfold - Messy or tidy, depressed or distressed.
We all have these feelings. It's nothing new."
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
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"Eighty percent of success
is just showing up" ~ Woody Allen
So go ahead and get into
some quality counseling-therapy –
You, really being heard –
here or somewhere –
Where someone will really take
a deep caring to listen to YOU –
and really, really hear you ....
AND, that’s a very courageous move on your part –
to go get some help for yourself thru some 'counseling'.
It just may be the right place for you to start. Open to it.
Be very welcome to inquire more about me,
as you search out where to do this inner-work.
Please Read Some More on this site.
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Maimonides, more than 800 years ago said:
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"A Single Deed,
a Single Word,
a Single Action --
even just One Single Thought --
has the power to TIP the scales
and bring redemption and resolve to your world.
No matter how dark that world may seem or feel
~ Light is just a single action away."
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"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 ) read footnote below
.
– and we wish to assist you as you bring yourself
to this new level of a natural, highly conscious,
sensitive awareness – and fearless unfolding...
_____________________________________
.
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 ~
_________________________________________
footnote:
.
"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.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Creatives
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.
raison d’etre
“reason for being"--
justification or
purpose of existence.
" The Journey Itself
IS the Destination! "
_______________
_______________
In Co-Counsel is where
Two people sit down --
and empathically 'Work'
on one of them,
--- Together...
--------------------------------
Great Faith
| One night at the dharma talk, a student asked Zen Master Seung Sahn, “What is great faith?” He held up his little finger: “Do you see this?” And she said, “Yes.” “That,” he said quietly, “is great faith.” In the simplest way, he was encouraging us to trust our perception. Faith is a kind of confidence; it’s complete trust in the truth of what we see, even when we’re being told something different.The teachings of mindfulness and self-compassion ask us to trust and stand up for what’s most important, to live the truth in our hearts. The teachings of understanding and love inspire us to see the nature of reality with wisdom; the content of wisdom is compassion. Compassion cares about racial and environmental equity, women’s rights, the earth. Compassion cares about what Mahatma Gandhi called satyagraha, the force of truth. Self-compassion says, it’s time to trust our own perceptions and act—to change both the world within and the world around us. For a little while during the night, our Los Angeles horizon was wreathed in gorgeous, towering cumulus clouds we rarely see. They dissolved into mist and vanished with the pouring rain. Great faith means trusting the fleeting truth of this moment, moment by moment. Like love and compassion, trust is invisible—yet it lights our path. ~ Trudy Goodman |
Remember…
“Language Is ALL We Got” So Speak Up !
The ‘Words’ in almost every culture’s language
can be Contemplated ~ to notice and observe,
to ponder, mull over, deep ecstatic consideration--
with so much rich goodies packed into even
a mean man’s bag of bad words -- oh that too,
Everything can be Contemplated.
‘Contemplation’ could always mean
Preparation, Practice, Pause, Ponder --
No, that would be too postured, posed,
A Feast Full with Empty Profundity
Enter here where others have entered.
Well meaning ideas can really help you,
but can be a set-up to hinder you with
ready-made answers, too much too soon.
FYI --- Etymology: the ‘study of words’
“Language Is All We Got” ! All individual ‘Words’
in every culture’s language can be ‘Contemplated --’
open to ponder, mull over, deep ecstatic consideration
The Etymology of ‘Etymology’ itself is relatively
straightforward -- the "true origin of a word" -- in Latin.
“ Everything’s Copy “ ~ Nora Ephron
________________________
POETIC Understandings
of Sounds Long
Gone Home
for Lunch
WHO ? does
come here ~
The highly educable.
The dedicated dharma student,
The committed therapy client,
or those appreciative of effective
conventional western psychotherapy
and yet now want to go way beyond it.
WHO does
come here ~
“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 --
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, Ploughboy, Farmer, Teacher,
Banker, Gardener, Cooper, Cook,
Burglar, Boxer, Baker, Preacher,
a Professor, Politician, or Crook.
People Who Can Explain and
Teach Experience.
….And Buddhism is quite playful also !
"Have you ever noticed,
that it's Always NOW "
~ said Alan Watts --
He suggests you repeatedly
keep noticing this ‘fact ‘mindfully-
many, many, many times a day . . .
.
“ Healing Language
on the Ever Soft Wings
of a Sweet Healing Breath.
Honey, It’s Here ! ~
I So Want To Be One
Who Has One “…
‘Contemplation’ as in a Reverie -- Rev(Ə)rēe
Con.təmˈplāSH(ə)n -- Deep Reflective Thought,
Musing, Looking at Something For A Long Time.
A Trance, Pleasantly Lost In One's Thoughts. in
a Religious sense Meditation-based Introspection, ,
many types of Contemp’lative Prayer or Meditation.
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To Speak to use Words could mean Your Passion
is on the line to begin Practice, Pause, Ponder,
A Feast Full with Empty Profundity ---
and so cute…. Scruffy Angels carry Blessings.
Enter here where others have bravely entered.
The Path of No Expectations. Wait.
35 Short Moments or a long silent pause
over a designated something or other --
amuse the muse to give some panache to
“The Zesty Way To Wonder in Wonder”
Getting Lost in Holy Words morphed into
the Splendor of a really Awesome Word.
The lyrical tattoos on the nut brown skin
of my dear wrinkled old mentor - had the
village boys perpetually spooked anyway--
so they blew ghost stories into rising smoke.
The sagely Elder promised me -- hang in there,
just contemplate your magic Word - that will bring
around Liberation-minded friends. Come back to us
and share what you’ve experienced. C’ ya
“ Maybe It’s Time
You Became
A Disciple of Your
Own Awareness”
WHO:
Refuge Seekers,
they come here ~
Aren’t we all seeking
a classical re-birth,
in a way - a yearning
to somehow revive, renew,
to somehow revive, renew,
recharge, reconnect, relearn,
restore, refresh and rededicate
to refine their original practice--
Power of ‘Mindfulness’ thru a
cobbled together self-styled,
sorta initiation ritual of informal
Refuge of the Buddha-Dharma
Teachings and Contemplations
-- when it is the Soul itself that
really wants the real deal true thing.
Formal Refuge and Precepts.:
How do I ask for it ? Ask about it.
Formal Refuge-taking-- .It works !
So, Who Does Come Here To Explore
the Structure of various Mentored Tiers of
a Beginner’s Mind of Inter-Cooperativeness.
This close and intimate practice of Mentor / Mentee,
Teacher / Student, Master / Disciple or Protégé…
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 unexplainable, ineffable,
indefinable 'existential' stuff. And some foolishness also.
FYI --- Etymology: the ‘study of words’
“Language Is All We Got” ! All individual ‘Words’
in every culture’s language can be ‘Contemplated --’
open to ponder, mull over, deep ecstatic consideration
The Etymology of ‘Etymology’ itself is relatively
straightforward -- the "true origin of a word" -- in Latin.
" Electronic screens aside --
these days I really like to actually be
in the same room with the teacher--
It’s much more rewarding." ~ Anya Mandel
Self Dismantling ‘Self’ ~ How can that be ?
Today, here with many contemporary needs of guiding,
coaching and mentoring-- we’re 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.
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…
4 GOOD- Recent WHO ? COMES HERE ???
COMES HERE
it.
~ and Buddhism is mucho playful too.
".... ever noticed, that it's Always NOW "
~ said Alan Watts
He suggests you repeatedly keep noticing this
mindfully many, many, many times a day . . .
.
" Electronic screens aside --
these days I like to be
in the same room
with the teacher... " ~ Anya Mandel
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."
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 --- Dharma-people
a Candlestick-maker --- Dharma-people
What kind of Key ???
A Dorkey, Hauskee, Kark-kee,
Porchkee
Porchkee
So Guys,
It’s 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' ---
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,
...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.
and applied wisdom skills.
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!
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“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,
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 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
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 by
their 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
for 'popular' ideas and shallow packaged prescriptions
just 'served-up' ready to eat. Enlightened Freedom is
just not a 'home-deliverable product'. For each of us -
it's all a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced
thru your own compassionate Spiritual Heart. . .
__________________________
Question:
" Respected Grandfather, What is Destiny? "
“ DESTINY, my son, is every step we’re taking
and going thru right now - to get there ”
" So, You Really Must Consciously Choose –
and make the Choice to Re-Choose again and again -
to Openly 'Talk Truth' with Someone…
...and keep the talk up !
To Openly keep Talking with Someone -
and keep it up.
To be Open to 'Trust' in gradually letting it all arise
and unfold - Messy or tidy, depressed or distressed.
We all have these feelings. It's nothing new."
~ Grandfather Bearheart, contemporary Creek Elder
.
"Eighty percent of success
is just showing up" ~ Woody Allen
So go ahead and get into
some quality counseling-therapy –
You, really being heard –
here or somewhere –
Where someone will really take
a deep caring to listen to YOU –
and really, really hear you ....
AND, that’s a very courageous move on your part –
to go get some help for yourself thru some 'counseling'.
It just may be the right place for you to start. Open to it.
Be very welcome to inquire more about me,
as you search out where to do this inner-work.
Please Read Some More on this site.
_______________________________
.
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 and resolve to your world.
No matter how dark that world may seem or feel
~ Light is just a single action away."
.
_______________________
"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 ) read footnote below
.
– and we wish to assist you as you bring yourself
to this new level of a natural, highly conscious,
sensitive awareness – and fearless unfolding...
_____________________________________
.
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 ~
_________________________________________
footnote:
.
"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.
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.
Links to alternative lifestyle; modernism and postmodernism;
post-materialism; radicals; voluntary simplicity.
____________________
“And then the day came
“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'
____________________________________________
“Directionless ?
Know that The Way
always faces East....”
“The Road Now Taken”
And, after that...
Be most welcome to read
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.
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:
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.
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
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 --
layered onto a little receptive boy person
and that has made all the difference --
as we each pass on our
specially honored learnings
and applied wisdom skills.
and applied wisdom skills.
Those who are of
MENTORING-MIND.
MENTORING-MIND.
The highly e “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."
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 ---
, Thief “
a Candlestick-maker ---
, Thief “
...and Dharma-people
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! "
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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!
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“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,
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 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
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.
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~ 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 . . .
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Usually, the people who do eventually come to us -
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 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
for 'popular' ideas and shallow packaged prescriptions
just 'served-up' ready to eat. Enlightened Freedom is
just not a 'home-deliverable product'. For each of us -
it's all a life-long psychological pilgrimage, experienced
thru your own compassionate Spiritual Heart. . .
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"Eighty percent of success
is just showing up" ~ Woody Allen
So go ahead and get into
some quality counseling-therapy –
You, really being heard –
here or somewhere –
Where someone will really take
a deep caring to listen to YOU –
and really, really hear you ....
AND, that’s a very courageous move on your part –
to go get some help for yourself thru some 'counseling'.
It just may be the right place for you to start. Open to it.
Be very welcome to inquire more about me,
as you search out where to do this inner-work.
Please Read Some More on this site.
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Maimonides, more than 800 years ago said:
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"A Single Deed,
a Single Word,
a Single Action --
even just One Single Thought --
has the power to TIP the scales
and bring redemption and resolve to your world.
No matter how dark that world may seem or feel
~ Light is just a single action away."
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"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 ) read footnote below
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– and we wish to assist you as you bring yourself
to this new level of a natural, highly conscious,
sensitive awareness – and fearless unfolding...
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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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footnote:
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"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.
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.
Links to alternative lifestyle; modernism and postmodernism;
post-materialism; radicals; voluntary simplicity.
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“And then the day came
“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
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•♦• Much of this inner-work is 'Spiritual'
NONE of this inner-work is 'Religious'
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“Directionless ?
Know that The Way
always faces East....”
“The Road Now Taken”
And, after that...
Be most welcome to read
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.
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:
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
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 --
layered onto a little receptive boy person
and that has made all the difference --
What kind of Key ???
A Dorkey, Hauskee, Kark-kee,
Porchekee, Gerachkee, Gaat-ki,
A Key ! Like in Poukeepsie.
Porchekee, Gerachkee, Gaat-ki,
A Key ! Like in Poukeepsie.
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