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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word. The Unmanifested is present in this world as silence. That is why it has been said that nothing in this world is so like God as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.
credit: Manatari
Tagged with: Eckhart Tolle, silence, The Power of Now
A reader left the following comment the other day, and I thought I would write a longer reply. Here is Mark’s comment:
Tom, I’m in the midst of a bi-Polar manic episode.I can relate to your depiction of your experience’s at the retreat when Adya entered the room as being like a “10,000 watt light bulb in side my head” In my manic stage I’m like that my every waking moment. It’s quite a challenge to stay inside my own skin sometimes.With the help of my wife and a couple of good drs. and oh yeah some medications, I’m able to maintain a somewhat normal outward appearance.I’d be interested to here your take on this condition as it relates to an Awakening.
If you would only rid yourselves of the concepts of ordinary and Enlightened, you would find that there is no other Buddha than the Buddha in your own Mind.
The arising and the elimination of illusion are both illusory. Illusion is not something rooted in Reality; it exists because of your dualistic thinking.
If you will only cease to indulge in opposed concepts such as ‘ordinary’ and ‘Enlightened’, illusion will cease of itself.
Tagged with: Buddha, duality, enlightenment, Zen
While mine is a blog devoted to discussing spirituality, consciousness and awakening, today marks a moment in time when I feel I cannot keep silent any longer. I feel that I must stand up and be counted. And today I choose to be counted as a lover of peace amongst men. It is time to bring the troops home. It is time to end the War in Iraq (and Afghanistan). And for that matter, let’s bring home all U.S. service men and women from the 100+ countries they serve in around the world.
I’m speaking out today because the number of soldiers killed reached 4,000 in Iraq. While in Vietnam terms this number may not seem “excessive,” the fact that one person lost his or her life in an unnecessary… Read the rest →
Tagged with: war
Michelle Vandepas from Divine Purpose Unleashed asked me to do an interview with her on her BlogTalkRadio show last Friday morning. It was a blast. You can listen to our conversation below or download to your iPod at Divine Purpose Unleashed. Enjoy.
A few days ago, a potential client wrote to me asking a few questions about how coaching and The Sedona Method would apply to his career, professional commodities trading. With his permission, I’d like to share his question with you and my response (with a few additional thoughts added).
The Question
Hi Tom
I am wondering since you are familiar with the [commodity] trading aspect [of my work], how do you deal with the difficulties of trading when you don’t take losses after you said you would and doing the opposite of what you planned to do? How does, or even does, this work help with that?
My Response
In a nutshell, if I’m following your question… Read the rest →
In my last article, Desire, Part 1: The Agony of Lack, I discussed how desire often creates agony, primarily because, as I saw it at the time I originally wrote that article a year ago, desire comes from a place of feeling empty, of lacking, of feeling an emptiness that we want to fill. I would like to go much further in this article, and I will begin with a reader’s comment that got the ball rolling on the subject of desire. It sparked a mini-debate that spurred me into thinking more about it.
So, let me begin with my reader’s comment:
I notice that the Sedona Method, in its sidebar ad, promises that you will “have all that you desire”
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.
Recently, two readers left some comments on my article Sedona Method Coaching concerning the subject of desire. I’m writing a long response to their comments, but while putting together my thoughts, I remembered an article I had written a year ago for my old blog. I think much of what I wrote fits with my thinking today, so I wanted to re-print it here. Enjoy!
Wanting hurts. I really don’t know of any other way to describe it. As time has passed, and as I have journeyed down the road of getting more in touch with my feelings, releasing them, and experiencing the tastes of inner joy, I have become more acutely aware of desire, of wanting. I don’t think the desires and wants have grown… Read the rest →
When I look within and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom.
When I look without and see that I am everything, that is love.
And between these two, my life turns.
I heard a story a few years ago that perfectly illustrates most people’s experience with the spiritual journey and personal growth.
It seems a well known Tibetan Buddhist was speaking to a rather large gathering. He asked the audience at the beginning of his talk,
“Who among you feel strongly that you are on a spiritual path?
About half the crowd raised their hands. Rinpoche then said,
“Those of you who didn’t raise your hands should probably leave and not listen to my talk. If you are not on a spiritual path, don’t start now. It is way too hard and demanding, and you will often hate it.”
The audience was stunned. They came to hear a spiritual… Read the rest →
Tagged with: Buddhism, meditation
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