- Attention is all you need: #advaita - More clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. - To know, to do, to discover, or to create you must give your heart to it- which means attention. All the blessings flow from it. - All your life is connected with the universe. Your past and future, your desires and fears, all have the roots in the world. Without the world. Where are you, who are you? - Anything you want to perpetuate in your life give it your focus give it your attention ruminate on it stew in it really think about it consider all the angles play it out in your head dress up like characters and act it out whatever we focus on is what we amplify in our world. - Discernment: - discernment the ability to see something without being completely embroiled in it - what discernment does is it allows you to choose between situations experiences people's opportunities that are a yes and a no for you from a place of inner empowerment being the reality Creator you are and dreaming up this amazing experience that you find yourself in. - give yourself permission to feel the low lows, for this expands your capacity to feel the high highs - Relax into your new understanding, you new faith, into your new conviction, that everything is fine. - - Mastering of any skill is mastering the foundations of that skill. - eg. you are in martial arts, its actually basic movements that really get you that mastering edge. - Its not the complicated stuff, its actually the basic stuff which gets you mastery. The foundation. - With Awakening, mastering is relaxing. - READ; After the Ecstasy - The Landry, by Jack Cornfield - DO: Single point meditation ; Called: Samata in Buddhism - - How to relax your mind? - Give it something to pay attention to and discard any distraction. - Give it something simple to do - a mantra. - something you can clearly notice when you are getting distracted again. - Because its the distractions where the suffering abides. - Knowledge makes you ignorant. Just drop it!