No matter what is happening in your life, you are always fundamentally okay. Your True Nature is one of great peace, contentment, unconditional love, and complete freedom from all suffering. Nothing that happens in this life can take that away from you or change it in any way. It is only your conditioned thoughts that hide the direct experience of this from you. May this video help you remember.
Infinite Wisdom of your True Nature
Discover the Infinite Wisdom of Your True Nature
In this video of a Wednesday night Satsang, we explore the infinite wisdom that is our True Nature. I love answering people’s questions, as you may know, but we all have access to unlimited wisdom by simply returning to the silence and stillness of our True Nature. In this Satsang and guided meditation, I help you return to your True Nature where all questions can be answered.
This video is from Facebook Live, where I just began offering Satsang. You can attend now on Facebook Live, the Zoom meeting room or at the Sedona Zendo. A wealth of options. Hope to see you here.
Realizing Truth
Can Truth be found in words or thoughts or is it something more? In this video I introduce the deep Truth that is always here beyond the limitations of words and thoughts. Enjoy.
Three Advanced Meditation Techniques
Three Advanced Meditation Techniques
In this video I offer three advanced meditation techniques. These meditations are considered advanced and yet anyone can do them. True meditation does not begin until the experience of the meditator dissolves. Each of these practices helps free us from attachment to all thoughts, including the thought of the separate self. The great experience of freedom, peace, bliss and love shows you that you’re successful.
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Seeing with the Eyes of Love
Seeing with the Eyes of Love
When we see another person, the first thing we see is a person: male or female, young or old, attractive or not so much, etc. Generally, we’re not automatically filled to overflowing with unconditional love. Instead of love, we’re usually filled with thoughts and judgments.
To be filled with unconditional love, we need to see beyond the person. We need to let go of all those thoughts and judgments. We need to see deeper. If we focus intently and keep our attention focused, the thoughts will begin to fade. Keep looking and something more than the limitations of conditioned thoughts and judgments will be revealed. At the same time, the thoughts and judgments that create you as a person are fading. As you get used to this kind of deeper seeing, a great unconditional love will flow. No longer are you a person looking at a person. Both persons have dissolved. Now there is God looking at God. All separation has gone. It has always been like this, but your thoughts and judgments have hidden this from you. Now it’s revealed. And what else can there be but the infinite all pervasive energy of love?
Happy Valentine’s Day
For the month of February as a gift of love, I am offering a FREE download of The Zen of Love – Discover Your Own Awakened Heart. I’m not asking for anything in return. You don’t even have to give your name or email. It’s a gift of love. Here is a link to the download page: FREE Download
Love and Thoughts
We’ve all thought about a loved one, remembering a time when we were together, or looking forward to the next time we’re together.
There may even be a time when we first met when we were so attracted we were overwhelmed, so flustered we could barely speak. Butterflies took over our stomach. Our heart pounded. Being with this person was surely the most important thing in our entire life and we didn’t want to blow it.
At other times love feels like longing, disappointment, rejection, abandonment, jealousy or betrayal.
We usually call this love, but it really has nothing to do with love. It has a lot to do with thoughts, fantasy, imagination, illusion mixed in with some basic physical needs. Some of these thoughts may be deeply unconscious, things that happened in early childhood or even infancy. Something in the other person triggers these unconscious thoughts into powerful feelings.
But this is not love. Love is unconditional. Love is present. Love has no pain or suffering in it. It has no ups and downs. It has no possessiveness, need, desire or control. Love is always complete. It doesn’t even need another person. It is always present and complete in every moment. We can never be without love. We can never be separate from love.
What we call love is not love. What we think is love are thoughts and conditioning. And these thoughts and conditioning that we call love are very different from love. They have their ups and downs, their good days and bad days. They are not complete. They depend on another person. And usually a very specific person. And we imagine that without this other person we don’t have love. Thought based love distracts us from real love which is always here.
When we suffer over what we call love, when we experience heartbreak, longing, need, desire or confusion, we are only experiencing thought-based-love. This is not love. These are thoughts. Love has no suffering and cannot cause suffering. That is impossible. Thoughts frequently cause suffering when we believe them.
Unless we experience real love, that person we think we love is just a projection, a series of thoughts, an illusion. And the one who is experiencing this is also an illusion.
The truth is we don’t know who we are. And we don’t know who the other person is. Any feeling that we do is illusion. Bodhidharma was a famous enlightened monk who is credited with being the first Zen patriarch and bringing Buddhism to China. The Emperor brought him to the court to teach. When the Emperor asked Bodhidharma who he was, Bodhidharma replied, “I don’t know.” Bodhidharma only spoke Truth. This not knowing is not only true of Bodhidharma, it is true for all of us.
We may believe we know who we are and who the person we love is. But this is illusion. Our image and sense of the other person is just a projection of our mind. Often relationships that began so wonderfully begin to crumble when the person begins to act in a way that no longer fits our original projection. We may feel that the person has betrayed us. But it is only our projection that has betrayed us. It was never showing us truth. The great gift that intimate relationships can give us is the realization that our projections are not reality. This can be quite painful, but if we stick with it and don’t run away, we can learn a great deal about the world and ourself. We can learn to let these projections fall away and reveal the true love that always lies underneath these fantasies.
For the month of February as a gift of love, I am offer a FREE download of the book The Zen of Love. There are no catches. You don’t even need to give your name or email address. The book is free. Here is a link to the page where you can download it: FREE Download The Zen of Love
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