You are not your body or your mind. In this video, we will explore what you really are beyond the limitations of body and mind, your True Unlimited Nature.
The Secret to Happiness
The secret to happiness is so obvious. It’s been staring you right in the face your entire life. And that’s why you don’t notice it. We all have many reasons to be unhappy. And sometimes we think we have reasons to be happy. But there actually is no reason to be happy. Happiness is our natural state of being. Although you may not notice it, it’s always right here.
We may think we are happy because of a certain person or situation, but that is never really true. When that person or situation is in our life, we’ve simply stopped looking for anything else. We have what we want and we don’t want anything to be different from the way it is. Not wanting anything to be different from the way it is IS happiness.
It’s not the person or situation. It’s that we are no longer resisting life at that moment and wishing it were different. That’s happiness.
When we resist life and want it to be different from the way it is, we are unhappy. When we stop resisting and wishing it were different, we’re happy. That’s it. It’s the most obvious thing there is, yet few people are aware of it. Because we’re not aware of it we search for happiness in people, things, events, and situations, usually things that are not present in our life right at this moment. And that is why we’re not happy.
If you want to experience the natural happiness that is ALWAYS present no matter what situation is going on, simply fully accept everything in this moment exactly as it is. Do it. You’ll see. That’s happiness. Happiness is always right here in this moment. And it is never anywhere else.
This video should help you experience the happiness that is always here.
The Secret to Happiness
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Social Distancing?
At one time, I walked, chanted, and sat in meditation with hundreds of monks, nuns, and lay practitioners of the Way.
Today I seemingly walk, chant, and sit in meditation alone.
But is this really true?
In my direct experience, I am walking, chanting, and sitting meditation with infinite Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
I am walking, chanting, and sitting with infinite awakened beings from all traditions and no traditions.
All those I have walked, chanted, and sat with in person, I am still waking, chanting, and sitting with today.
Even those not on a spiritual path who do not walk, chant, and sit in such devotion, love, and awareness are all here with me.
It is not only walking, chanting, and sitting, but in every moment I am never alone. Throughout the infinite universe there has never been a moment of separation.
You might say, “But your body is alone.”
Even here I must say that is not my experience.
The mountains and trees are my bones. The rivers are my blood. The wind is my breath. The sun is my heart. Can you really find any separation here? I cannot.
Even now the birds have begun the chanting session, singing the Eternal Unity of all existence.
Some people feel alone with social distancing. I would ask them to pay a little closer attention and not be distracted by their thoughts.
Staying Healthy
These videos offer tips, demonstrations, and motivation for staying healthy during the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Your primary protection from the COVID-19 Coronavirus is your own immune system. These videos offer practical, proven tips to keep it strong at any age.
Tour the Home Gym
What I do to remain healthy after the gyms closed. See a tour of my home gym.
Let Food Be Thy Medicine
What you put into your body is as important for good health as what you do with it. Hippocrates’s advice has never been more important: “Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Simple Exercises Anyone Can Do
I wanted to offer exercises that anyone can do to stay healthy or become healthy without any equipment and at any stage in their life. These simple basic exercises don’t need weights or any equipment. A small bit of floor space is all you need. To be healthy, the human body needs to move. It needs strength, flexibility, and stamina. These simple basic exercises provide all of that.
I will probably be adding more when I feel they are important and beneficial. Stay tuned. You can see many more videos on The Enlightened Way YouTube channel. The Enlightened Way
Dealing with the COVID-19 Coronavirus – WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
Dealing With the COVID-19 Coronavirus
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
If you want to heal from the effects and life disruptions of the Coronavirus physically, emotionally, psychologically, energetically, and spiritually, be a beacon of light and love.
If you are a beacon of light and love, you will flow through these changes gracefully, effortlessly, joyfully, and gratefully, bringing great benefit to both you and the world.
Right now there is a lot of darkness in people’s minds. There is a lot of fear, suspicion, anger, and resentment. Perhaps this is true of your mind as well. Social media is full of this darkness. It spreads just like the COVID-19 Coronavirus does, only to the mind rather than the body.
It spreads through lies, distortions, misinformation, fear, suspicion, paranoia, and anger, all being called things like the “untold truth” or “the secret truth the media doesn’t want you to know”. I know many people who have been infected by this mental virus and believe this is truth. They believe things like Tom Hanks was arrested for being part of a secret Hollywood pedophile ring when he was actually quarantined for 14 days in Australia for the COVID-19 virus and is now back home in Los Angeles. They believe the COVID-19 Coronavirus is fake news, a government scam to take away their freedom, doesn’t really exist, or isn’t as bad as the news says it is. As someone who has gone through the COVID-19 Coronavirus, I can tell you from first-hand experience, it’s not fake news. It’s very real. It came close to killing me. If you ask the doctors and nurses watching people die from it, I assure you they won’t tell you it’s fake news.
With so much real fake news, lies, distortions, and misinformation on social media, how can you tell what is true? I have a simple suggestion and practice.
Ask:
“What would love do?”
In order to know what love would do, you first have to experience love. Allow your attention to shift to love until all the fear, suspicion, judgment, and anger dissolves like shadows in a dark room when you turn on the light. Think of someone you love if that helps. Allow love to fill you completely until there is only love and light.
Now the question will be answered for you. There is nothing else you need to do. You are now a beacon of love and light in the world.
From this position, not one of fear, suspicion, anger, and hatred, but one of love and light, what do you think of all these messages of fear, anger, and resentment disguised as “the real truth”? Do you still believe them? Do you feel like sharing them and spreading them around the internet to your friends? Do you feel like you are waking people up to the “real truth” they need to know? Or do you see them simply as the darkness of the human mind and ego, something that increases fear, suspicion, anger, hatred, and powerlessness in you and the world?
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
If you make this your mantra for everything you see on social media and mainstream media, you will be a beacon of love and light in the world. You will benefit yourself and all beings. You can’t do this by listening to your mind. It is your mind that has been infected with this virus of fear, anger, hatred, and suffering, not only now with this COVID-19 Coronavirus. It has been there long before this. Some undiscovered and repressed aspects of it are just being released and revealed now. So your mind doesn’t know what love would do. Your heart does.
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
Stop listening to your mind and listen to your heart. Your heart knows what do do. Love knows what to do. When you listen to your mind, you are listening to your ego, your false self. You are listening to fear, anger, and the suffering of a separate self. It cannot help you or the world.
When you listen to your heart, you are listening to love. You are listening to your intrinsic oneness with all beings.
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
You already know what fear, anger, suspicion, blame, and suffering do. You can see it all over social media. Is that really how you want to live? Is that what you want for those you love?
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
What if you lost your job, you can’t pay your rent, you don’t have money for food? How can love help me with that?
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
Love is not blind. And it is not confused the way the mind is. Love sees that everything is changing. Jobs that existed before no longer exist. New opportunities that didn’t exist now exist or soon will and perhaps you can be the first one to introduce them. Love is creative and so are you. Love doesn’t think only about what the limited ego wants to do or has done in the past. Love asks what the world needs now and then through its natural and infinite creativity discovers a way to deliver it. Love puts the benefit of self and others above self-centered interests, fear, anger, and powerlessness. What you personally need to live follows. Trust it. It always does.
Forget about what you have done before or what you want to do. That’s the past. This is now. What does the world need from you now?
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
Love helps. Love gives. Love serves. Love acts. Your heart already knows this intimately. It is only your mind that is confused. Your heart is filled with infinite creativity. It always knows exactly what to do in every situation. You only need to shut off the voice in your mind for a moment so you can hear love’s infinite wisdom.
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
For me, at this moment, love is writing this to you. What is love asking of you?
WHAT WOULD LOVE DO?
Many or One? A Visual Koan
Whenever Zen Master Gutei was asked about Zen, he would simply hold up one finger.
His teaching was known as “one finger Zen”.
This photograph of leaves,
the Shodo (Zen calligraphy) for “one”,
and Gutei’s one finger Zen,
are they the same or different?
If you say different,
you are caught in the weeds of conceptual thinking.
If you say the same,
you have swallowed a poison you cannot spit out.
Not falling into either trap, what can you say?
Do not think this is an idle question.
Your very life hangs in the balance.
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These leaves all came from the same tree. They were photographed with a high-resolution scanner at 4800 dots per inch.
The calligraphy is the Shodo (Zen calligraphy) for one.
The combination of the two has a deeper meaning than either alone.
In Zen, we say that the all is in the one and the one is in the all.
This is not something the conceptual mind of duality can understand
and yet we can directly realize the profound truth of this.
Perhaps this image, the koan, and the teaching of Zen Master Gutei can help.
You can find more Visual Koans at the online Zen Art Gallery
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