Month: March 2017

The Work is meditation. And yes, there are a few ropes to learn: four questions, turnarounds, examples. But once you get a handle on the ropes, it’s time to allow the experience of inquiry to carry you home. Home to your own truth. Home to your own peace. That’s the only purpose of The Work.

The real problem may be that my passion is focused on something I cannot get. Or I may be trying to passionately hold onto something that I can no longer have.

I started burning out. It was like I was using this mental muscle over and over and over without rest for weeks and months. And eventually it was too much.

The only way I can see the color of my eye is to use a mirror. I literally have to look outwardly in order to see inwardly. My mirror can be of glass and silver, or it can be a friend relating the color of my eyes to me. But I must use something outside of myself in order to see myself that closely. And the same Is true when doing The Work.

Wanting to be happy literally creates the opposite of happiness. Yet, how much energy, money, time, and effort do I spend looking for happiness? Yearning for it? Celebrating it when it comes? And crying when it goes?

I remember a few years ago when the baseline fear I used to feel stopped being there. That little feeling of anxiety in my stomach went away due to a lot of work I was doing on my motives. But something else remained…

It’s easier to learn a new skill when you take some training. For example, I love learning languages. But if I just buy a dictionary and try to learn a few words on my own, chances are I won’t get very far. When I want to learn a language, I sign-up for a course. The advantage of a course is that there’s a structure to the learning.