An Unpleasant Feeling
One must recognize that all we do as humans is to seek out a pleasant feeling while avoiding the unpleasant feeling. What is fear but the anxiety over an unpleasant…
If I Were To Teach
I recently did a long and deep meditation trying to discover how to help a friend of Becki’s that was having a rough time in life. I felt the need…
Driving Ms. Becki
While driving in the car my wife and I were having a most interesting conversation. I had mentioned that if our higher selves were guiding us down the path, why…
Firewood
Consider the body to be as firewood, its usefulness is in its consumption. As with anything in the physical realm, it is only temporary and passing. Why become attached to…
Wrestling With Epictetus
If your body were put in a high place by fate, a judicial bench, or in a low place, a prison, what difference does that make to you who can…
The Insult
If someone made a rude comment about you and you did not hear it, what effect does it have? None? Why then should the effect be different if you did…
Good Days And Bad Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJUxkbNgESs Do not wish for a good day, nor expect a bad one. You goal for the day should be only to remember that you are not the body, nor…
Thoughts
Paper and ink are the body and mind, but it is the message hidden within the words that is the true self. Hell is living in bondage to the ego,…
Why?
It has been with much trepidation and mental rumination that I come to this blog. . . .You see, I am in the winding down stage of life. I have…