Together ‘Waking up’, ‘Growing up’ and ‘Cleaning up’ determine our overall capacity to ‘Show up’ and make truly creative, skillful, and appropriate choices in our lives, our relationships, our careers etc. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven Ralph Waldo Emerson What we need are two lists. On the left side: This is What Matters[…]
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Wake Up!
Our Business is to Wake Up! Aldous Huxley “Waking up” is a way to reveal the opportunity for creative choice in every moment, helping us recognize the creative potential beyond the limits of our past. Mind precedes all things;mind is their chief, mind is their maker.If one speaks or does a deedwith a mind that is pure within,happiness then follows[…]
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We see things not as they are, but as we are H.M. Tomlinson “Growing up” helps us discern more possible choices, to understand the moral / ethical impact of those choices, and to align our creative choices with our deepest felt purpose, thereby increasing the overall quality and impact of our choices. There’s a discrepancy between your inspiration and the[…]
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us Robert Bly “Cleaning up” helps liberate our choices from our own hidden biases, allergies, addictions, and other behavioural patterns.
Read moreWelcome to SLO 2.0
Welcome to Sortlifeout (SLO) 2.0
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Wholeheartedness Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably. In doing that, you again and again encounter your own uptightness, your own headaches, your own falling flat on your face. But in wholeheartedly practicing and wholeheartedly following that path, this[…]
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Whatever our external circumstances, in the end happiness or unhappiness depends on the mind. Consider that the one companion whom we stay with, continually, day and night, is our mind. Would you really want to travel with someone who endlessly complains and tells you how useless you are, how hopeless you are; someone who reminds you of all the awful[…]
Read moreWhat is Buddhism in One Word?
Buddhism essentially consists of two things: the view, which means a definitive understanding of the interdependence of all things, and action, which can be loosely defined as nonviolence. But if one were to summarize the Buddha’s teaching in one word, we would have to say that it is universal interdependence, of which nonviolence is a natural consequence. Since we are[…]
Read moreKnow Thyself, Self Deception, Humour & Kindness
Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor[…]
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Your Best By Atisha The best learning is realizing the truth of no-self. The best discipline is taming your mindstream. The best excellence is to have great altruism. The best instruction is the constant observation of your mind. The best antidote is the recognition that everything is devoid of intrinsic existence. The best conduct is that which is at odds[…]
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Saṁsāra literally means “wandering-on.” Many people think of it as the Buddhist name for the place where we currently live—the place we leave when we go to nibbāna. But in the early Buddhist texts, it’s the answer, not to the question , “Where are we?” but to the question, “What are we doing?” Instead of a place, it’s a process:[…]
Read more“Impermanent are all compounded things….”
Impermanent are all compounded things. When one perceives this with true insight, then one becomes detached from suffering; this is the path of purification Dhammapada 20.277
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