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Smoking Pot or Meditation?

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November 28, 2020
What goes around, goes around. It’s good to talk about anything. Sometimes we need to relax and have a beer or a good hit of weed. Most agree that it’s ok. Too much of anything seems to be a problem, most would agree. For those choosing neither, a relaxing stimulant, god bless them. It’s a confusing, stress full world for most. Things are changing at alarming rates and the speed of that is out of control. WE need to keep all of our ‘mechanisms’ in top working order especially our mental, emotional, spiritual, and common sense working at top notch.

Any psychological professional would agree that there can be too much beer or too much

weed consumed for personal inner growth. It’s counter to their trying to help free yourself from accumulated ‘flotsam’ floating in the brain and heart. However, it pays the bills and all the luxuries that are gifts from the profession.

Now there is another ‘backup method’ to what stimulates the mind that all sensible, honest, informed professionals of mind or religion like to avoid talking about, or especially promote. That ‘back up method’ is methods of life’s greatest gift, ‘breathing’ or the ‘art of breathing’, sometimes called ‘meditating’ techniques … or meditation. Meditation was unheard of in America until the 2nd half of the 20th century. Stimulants precede our founding fathers as a ‘quick fix’. Now days it’s so quick, some nefarious souls drop it in others drinks for ‘mind control’. It’s kind of like ‘pulling the rug out from under you’ where you lose all control of the mind, and other faculties.

Dancing can become a form of meditation where the dancer becomes the dance and with a natural loss of the mind. Many happenings can become the gift of pure awareness, … and naturally. Meditating frees the heart and mind, and deeply from all prior distractions or impediments to being the ‘free you’ void of all unnecessary fear and control. Meditation brings you up with no down. It’s not a temporary blanket … and it’s free. That’s why the ‘shrink’ avoids bringing it up. In the case of the ‘religion head’, they know, (Or … maybe don’t know it?) frees the need for religion and it’s ‘beliefs’. Beliefs can and do become a ‘drug’ or stimulant. Someone just said to, me if ‘mistletoe’ can be a meditating devise? Hmmm? Well love and especially deeper love is a meditation, and maybe the ‘deeper love’ is all that’s needed. Stimulants are quick picker uppers. What makes you up, will bring you down. Meditation is a clearing of what’s not really you into a natural inner joy and bliss. And, it’s free!

Arhata~

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Forward, Upward, & Onward

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November 27, 2020

Triggering someone’s negative reaction to your ‘good intention’ thoughts is certainly bothersome.You may interact with negative people daily, be they friends, family members, a partner, or a colleague. You love them, you care about them, you can’t just cut them out of your life, but they are negative and their negativity is troublesome. What can you do? The best way of dealing with life’s challenges is to take a good look at ourselves and taking responsibility for what we think, feel and do.

You are running the ‘YOU show’. No need to complain. Make sure you are taking responsibility for your feelings and mood. Why complain that other people’s negativity is affecting you, it will only create more negativity. Take responsibility for your thoughts and feelings and see what you can do to make yourself feel better and change the existing situation. Don’t forget your senses of humor and ability to laugh at yourself.

Take responsibility for your feelings and mood. Complaining about others negativity is useless. See what you can do to make yourself feel better and change the existing situation. Look closely at the negative people in your life. Is what they are doing really that bad or is your brain playing games with you? Remember, the brain is configured to look for trouble, and it focuses on other’s negative qualities. It’ll be very hard to get it to see the positive side of things, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Look for the hidden opportunities.

If you want to cure negativity, sliding down right along with the negative person won’t help, it will just make it worse by validating their thought and behavioral patterns. Rather, focus on solutions, not problems. Instead of being a victim and judge, you need to take full responsibility for your thoughts and feelings, and take a different approach. “Everything that annoys us in others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung.

Work on understanding life’s inevitable duality – accept the negative with the good. Life is really ‘non duality’ where there is no right and wrong, black and white, it’s usually some sense of in between. Don’t harp on people’s negativity, don’t judge or fight them. Let them be, look and accept. Remember, your world is no more real than a reflection of who you are, deep inside. Don’t try to bring everyone into your own world, accept theirs as no less real than yours, and their point of view as no less valid.

Dealing with negativity and trying your best to dispel it can be exhausting, and at some point, you have to move on with your life in a positive way. Find a path that allows you to go on with your life without the negativity of others, but also, without the regret that leaving a loved one or friend behind may cause you. Remember, like a plane – forward, upward, and onward!
Arhata~

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Get on the Ground

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Get on the Ground!!!

November 13, 2020

Drop your mind! Comply to what you are not in control of. Use common sense and awareness with discernment. Life precedes you and stays long, long after you are gone. Always look to make the best decisions. If you don’t, life will come up with one that you may not find to your fancy. Be the caretaker of ‘you’ in body, mind, and spirit. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Not yesterday! Always do not forget to take out the garbage. In this case, always empty the garbage in your head, especially that which has haunted you for years.

No one wants to let garbage pile up. It can be called ‘STUFF’ that is saved decade after decade. The material needs to not accumulate, but particularly the stuff lugged around in the head which serves nothing but the ‘shut down’ of who you really are. Be courageous and do something about it! Believe in a God or not (and remember it’s just a word for the English speaking), and it’s not meant for anyone to worship the letters…that’s not the real thing. Many, many cultures have many languages and perceptions of god.

Be open to love and the feeling in the heart. Let love rise into the mind with discernment of the best possibilities for all situation’s. Life is like a puzzle on how to react/respond to all stimuli and that ‘stimuli’ may be the perceptions within you. BE like ‘Superman’ who was disabled when someone brought a hard substance called Kryptonite making him lose his magical powers. Use that imaginary kryptonite to take the energy out of negativities. Always remember though that the negative can be a teacher, and an opportunity to look for a positive solution. If the negative is harming your life, make the best of it using step by step into the light out of it.

Today was the superstitious ‘Friday the 13th’ where bad luck is more likely…supposedly. Tremendous rain this morning. Haven’t used an umbrella in a long time, and as I started out into the rain someone offered me an umbrella. I opened it on the porch and knocked over a prize plant breaking the vase. Picked up the broken pieces and then the same person brought me a new planter from the garden and all was ok. I decided to stay out of the rain. 20 minutes later a resident alerted me that the overflow sink in the laundry room basement had overflowed. We did our best to fix it. The rest of the day was marvelous. Negativity knows no season but along with it comes positive solutions that reduces negativities. It’s important to keep your feet on the ground, head in the stars and your heart in the one season of open to love. Stop resisting! Get in your heart! Make life a ‘walk in the park’.
Arhata~
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Take, Take, Take
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November 10, 2020

When giving a gift, have no expectations. Giving is receiving and receiving from the heart. The givers heartfelt choice is to not to ask for it back of course. He who gives from the heart has received. End of giving. The receiver is best to receive from the heart. If the giver, later for whatever reason, wants what was given returned, he becomes what most of us learned as ‘kids’, an ‘indian giver’. In other words, someone who has reversed the giving and become a ‘take, take, taker’, and it can only be from the mind which it likely was given from initially.

Nature is nature and gives what it does with no possibility of taking the earthquake or storm back because some didn’t like it for whatever reason. Nature as the giver does not take responsibility for how it’s reacted to. The receiver has the responsibility to make the choice of how to react or respond. Nature is gift giving being it perceived as heartfelt or heatless, it is all in the eyes of the perceiver.

The mind often is looking to serve what it wants selfishly. Wanting something back without regard for it being received from the heart, because of judging that the receiver didn’t appreciate it, is reverse ‘take, take, taking. There is no Santa Clause, but if there were one, he wouldn’t come back to take his toys or decide before the next Christmas that the receiver wasn’t appreciative enough!

Greed is always from the ‘mind’ to serve the wanting of the mind of judgment. Always ‘the receiver’ to be receiving is thank full and appreciative regardless of the outcome. Intent of giving and receiving is of goodwill and joy. Giving a meal in a restaurant is from the heart. Receiving it is from appreciation. How one eats it, be it ‘finished’ or not, is the receivers choice that began and continued with good intentions.

We have seemingly arrived in a time of ‘take, take, take’. Something for nothing; buy one get one free and even having to do nothing but be given free by others. The truth of the matter is that simply by giving you will receive all that you need. Giving is receiving.Today let me find a way to ‘give’ unconditionally and with love.

Give a smile; give a word of appreciation; give a thought of good wishes; give your co-operation for a task. Make today a day of giving and tomorrow you will receive the fruits. Love is more than a word as well as free, and is not of the mind for the real love of the heart. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, NOT YOUR MONEY!
Arhata~
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Philophobia Love ❤️
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November 8, 2020

Some people say that it is very difficult to be positive in this highly negative world. But just as an incense stick spreads fragrance everywhere and dispels bad odor, the power of constantly pure and positive thoughts can transform the negative attitudes and atmosphere of any person or place. You have the ability to be the ‘Canary in the mine/mind’ or a light unto ourselves by making it an intent to set yourself up as an example of what you’d like others to be as far as a positive attitude that like a fragrance is catchy to others.

Life is a potpourri of infinite things to be encountered. Asking most people what is that ‘thing’ which gives them the most difficulty of sorts, and most would say other people. That ‘thing’ is attachment to superfluous habits that need elevating to a new harmonious level. You may have those habits and/or others (others for sure).

Deep in the throes of love who you think you are disappears as well as the ‘beloved’. You enter into a divine silence where all beliefs and thoughts evaporate into a stillness without words, You have left the body, the memories, the past and future into a timelessness that might be called a godliness of the beyond the beyond. It can’t be identified in words especially to those who haven’t been in the experience. In the world of the spiritual, those moments can be called meditation where oneness and stillness pervade in an emptiness where the universe has merged into your being.

The sound of silence is without words. The ‘I love you’, the attachment to all things that you let go of is but a birth into a new reality of consciousness that becomes the mother lode of ‘secrets’. All unconsciously know it’s there but only those in deep belovedness find themselves into a place where all walls have become windows to fly into the vastness of the beyond. You become, no one there or here, but continue to have the ability to go along with what was the ‘you’ that is remembered while finding ways to let the world know that judgments they imprint on you are really reflective of their inability to escape the imprinting prison of who they identify as being.

The eyes of deep love and mediation see what can’t be seen by the eyes of worldliness. Those in that state of attachment to worldliness cannot see the unseeable that is there for anyone to find themselves in by letting go of all the shackles of the past and future to be seen only as a memory within the loving heart. The real you is beyond what you imagine to be the best you.

Arhata~
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Queensboro Bridge Love 🍂 🌺
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November 5, 2020

Coming across the Queensboro Bridge from a glorious, summer weekend in the ‘getaway’ Hamptons at the other end of Long Island, the sight of Manhattan is breathtaking, and reminds one of the marvel of architects and the labor to build this amazing city with hundreds of skyscrapers. ‘I Love New York’ represents a lot of the loving that goes on in this great city. The 1970’s was the decade when unabashed ‘loving’ exploded open for the first time in history everywhere freedoms were the norm. The ‘Big Apple’ was no less than at the forefront.

Heaven is a place on Earth, but sometimes next door to Hell. Life must have the positive and negative for the mindful and consciousness to grow, otherwise people will become useless and lazy as well as unprepared for even natures calamities. Life is one of the bridges or transitions from one experience to another, many very fair and some unfair that frequently come from not paying attention and making best of available choices preferably with a balance of the heart and mind in a space of common sense.

A bridge is sometimes the passage from one experience to the next as in leaving the sands and peacefulness of the Hamptons of the past and crossing that bridge into the unknown future. The mind needs the future for seeking. The mind is a restless avoider of the moment where truth awaits the perceiver. The mind needs the future in order to move. It can move either in the past or in the future. It cannot move in the present; there is no space. The truth is in the present, and mind is always in the future or in the past, so there is no meeting between mind and truth.

Seek not; otherwise you will miss. Seek not and find. Don’t seek and find. The past and the future are rascals cluttering the mind ’til you let go of both and ‘STOP’, into ‘moment’. There is an ancient art of love making which is called, ‘tantra’. To be in the state of tantra, there is no past, no future, no you, no them, no body, just oneness and the moment of stillness where everything is no more. In the beginning, and in the end there is only the sound of silence. To be or not to be is not the question, for there is no question hence no answer.

Not only is the breath a bridge to your body, it is also a bridge between you and the universe. The body is just the universe which has come to you, which is nearer to you. You are the breath. ‘Still’ the breath.
Arhata~
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Boots on the Ground

November 1, 2020
Everyone is really good at a few things, and better than most sometimes by a lot. All of us are not good at most things, and we need to acknowledge that and soften the ego. The list of what I’m not good at would take a few books to list. Take a look at what you are likely better at than almost anyone, surely there are things! I’m in an elite category in 3 or 4 things especially – playing backgammon, public free speech, relationships as a spiritual journey, me ….and I’ll stop there.

So … ‘boots on the ground’ is a military term for ‘slugging it out’ in the thick of conflict. Used in a non military way, it’s a dedication to a purpose with acute attention and intention to be the best or among the best at what ever it is you are doing. Could be anything from cooking to intellect quotient to being lazy to sports to fixing things to ‘you name it’ and you could be at the top of the pyramid. Always focus on the positive things you are best at, or desire to.

Love is a battle field If you pick the wrong one to love, or just maybe YOU have been the wrong one? If you’re waiting for love, you’re not going to get very far. The only thing permanent is change. If love is a ‘battle field’, it’s because with you’re falling into love and end up getting wrecked in the fall, and the culprit is both of you, the other, or just you. In any case, whether the pitcher hits the rock or the rock hits the pitcher, it’s going to be bad for the pitcher. And, you’re the pitcher!

New love can be an ‘airhead’ trip where the heart takes over the mind in what’s a Wall St. term, ‘a friendly takeover’ where the details of each others past becomes put in the closet ’til the unresolved issues open the closet door and expose themselves. Then, the boots of love are on the ground probably for the length of the connection, unless ways are used (meditation and mindfulness) and are deployed to ‘rise the love to the ethers’ that are there waiting for ‘dual’ action. Everything worthwhile needs the appropriate sensitivity and care to grow and maintain it’s ultimate position.

Life need not be picking up the crumbs of a broken connection with yourself and/or another, when paying attention with discernment, the ladder to nirvana is waiting lonely within. Let go of any ‘philophobia’s’ or the condition where a person fears the idea of ‘letting go’ and merging with the fullness of love. Submit to it, and then if real and vulnerable, the surrender comes in silently in the form of divine and limitless love.

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Road to Hell

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October 10, 2020

Have you strayed on the way, and are on the road to Hell? Oh, No!…you just might be on that road to Hell? Wake up and turn around, before there is no way back! The road to Hell is a great big jammed freeway on a rainy, stormy night where you’ll never reach home again. You may not have expected it, but has your life been filled with negativity and apathy to follow the high roads of life. If life stops today, have you filled it with positive actions, blessings for others, and the love of yourself?

Back when, one early rainy night I walked down Wall St. where I worked, I had a feeling in my being that this narrow, short road was ultimately a road to Hell as much as I enjoyed it. It was days before Christmas, and I was headed to a company Christmas celebration at the World Trade Center’s ‘Windows on the World’ 107 stories up over the world and New York City. Out of the crowded room mixed with people from my company and our wealthy clients from law firms, investment banks, and corporations came a surprise unexpected guest from one of the law firms…a girl I had been engaged to a couple months before, came toward me. She wore a blue fox coat with a big greeting smile.

Our encounter only lasted another month, but at that moment as we looked through the night rain out into the magnificent city, I felt that I had reached heaven. A few years went by, remembering that night, I sat out on my 40th floor balcony overlooking Central Park and skyscrapers the day after Christmas, a vision came over me that working in the great city of New York was a road of riches, and maybe a road to Hell. A couple months later I left that road and climbed the stairs to a new life of meditation, giving, and enjoying a simpler life of nature’s riches. The new life began in California, can’t say it’s all been California and West Coast dreamin’, but giving up the ‘high flying’ opened up living on the ‘freeway’ of life to the road least traveled.

Is it the stairway to Heaven? Is there even a Heaven but within? Always climbing to the most heartfelt option is in a sense, ‘a stairway to Heaven’. The stairway is not crowded but open to everyone who opens their heart and journeys up to the valley of the rich in heart. The doors are open and the stairway always beckons waiting for you to move in the direction of the light above. Life has choices…with awareness and discernment of the most conscious path the best answers are forthcoming.

Arhata~

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Love Jail

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Love Jail

December 27, 2020
I discovered a way to keep you from ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’ with little success. Does it work? Only with your help!

Time is speeding up in a ‘laser like speed’. Because of technology, you wear your past that can be accessed and read out by artificial intelligence techniques, especially the negative. Your past, if you have a criminal record, for example, will soon show up on a screen in many businesses and places you enter. In fact, for a small sum, there will be businesses where you can check on a persons criminal past by scanning.

Given that knowledge of how the past can be exposed for the world to see, it behoves everyone to know that you can personally measure your past ‘love history’ into a ‘resume’ too. The good news is that you can use proven methods to leave unfulfilled love experiences behind and move forward to open up into a new and deeper love. It’s time to come out from undercover, and with love you never knew you had! Actually, it’s quite easy, and yet seemingly impossible. To start, first make the decision to go on that journey of self discovery. Each step will open up the methods you need.

One of the first steps after making that commitment is to let go of the attachment to the past, and at the same time seeing what that is in terms of ‘love’ you have experienced, and be able to measure it. There are many areas in life’s abilities that can be measured ‘quantitatively’ like in sports, scholastics, health, and believe it or not, how much love you have experienced with giving and receiving in past relationships beginning with ‘parenting’. Most fear intimacy with love for reasons of unresolved issues from the past that show up as blocks of fear such as abandonment, abuse, insincerity, and just not knowing what real love is.

Begin, after making the decision to increase ‘love ability’, to examine where you’ve been with love, and measure it like a ‘love IQ’, or better put an EQ or ‘emotional quotient’. Intellect quotient has little to do with your ‘EQ’. EQ can be substantially improved with focused intent, and at any age, although the sooner the more likely you’ll move up the ‘love step ladder’. My focus in writing is ‘relationships as a spiritual path’, and from my very insightful experiences. All my ‘essays’, and from experience, are available for free. In addition, I can show you how to find your EQ in relationships so as to begin the narrative of moving the experience to higher levels. Clear the way to greater love within, and find the superconscious love you have waiting for your key to unlock the heart, all the time. It’s a godlike journey to begin the new year. You have a best friend, it’ll just take a little time to find it’s secret hiding place – within your heart! Put yourself on a ‘pedestal of love’! Falling in love comes with hurts, ‘rising in love’ moves to higher planes. Get out of the love jail free!

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Love Jail

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Love Jail

December 27, 2020
I discovered a way to keep you from ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’ with little success. Does it work? Only with your help!

Time is speeding up in a ‘laser like speed’. Because of technology, you wear your past that can be accessed and read out by artificial intelligence techniques, especially the negative. Your past, if you have a criminal record, for example, will soon show up on a screen in many businesses and places you enter. In fact, for a small sum, there will be businesses where you can check on a persons criminal past by scanning.

Given that knowledge of how the past can be exposed for the world to see, it behoves everyone to know that you can personally measure your past ‘love history’ into a ‘resume’ too. The good news is that you can use proven methods to leave unfulfilled love experiences behind and move forward to open up into a new and deeper love. It’s time to come out from undercover, and with love you never knew you had! Actually, it’s quite easy, and yet seemingly impossible. To start, first make the decision to go on that journey of self discovery. Each step will open up the methods you need.

One of the first steps after making that commitment is to let go of the attachment to the past, and at the same time seeing what that is in terms of ‘love’ you have experienced, and be able to measure it. There are many areas in life’s abilities that can be measured ‘quantitatively’ like in sports, scholastics, health, and believe it or not, how much love you have experienced with giving and receiving in past relationships beginning with ‘parenting’. Most fear intimacy with love for reasons of unresolved issues from the past that show up as blocks of fear such as abandonment, abuse, insincerity, and just not knowing what real love is.

Begin, after making the decision to increase ‘love ability’, to examine where you’ve been with love, and measure it like a ‘love IQ’, or better put an EQ or ‘emotional quotient’. Intellect quotient has little to do with your ‘EQ’. EQ can be substantially improved with focused intent, and at any age, although the sooner the more likely you’ll move up the ‘love step ladder’. My focus in writing is ‘relationships as a spiritual path’, and from my very insightful experiences. All my ‘essays’, and from experience, are available for free. In addition, I can show you how to find your EQ in relationships so as to begin the narrative of moving the experience to higher levels. Clear the way to greater love within, and find the superconscious love you have waiting for your key to unlock the heart, all the time. It’s a godlike journey to begin the new year. You have a best friend, it’ll just take a little time to find it’s secret hiding place – within your heart! Put yourself on a ‘pedestal of love’! Falling in love comes with hurts, ‘rising in love’ moves to higher planes. Get out of the love jail free!

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