What’s this? #

Life thoughts. A lot of these are ideas from “The Power of Now”: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808/

Some others are from pop culture, and some are my own constructs.

Mindfulness #

• Your mind is not you. Your thoughts are not you. Your pain is not you.
• Mindfulness => Ability to observe the mind’s stream of thoughts (and body signals) and not be judgmental.
  • Being the Watcher of these reduces the impact they have on you.
• Pain and fear (and all its variations greed, anger, etc.) occur from the (reptile) mind.
• Love and compassion occur from higher consciousness.
• Meditation is just practicing how be more observant in order to quiet mind noise.
• Eventually, even when not meditating, your mind will be quieter and sharper.
• Prayer is a form of meditation.
• The body is our link to the spiritual. Observe within, not just externally.

Psychological Time #

• Psychological suffering stems from dwelling in past or imagined future. Wanting to be there instead of Here.
  • It obscures and dulls the experience of the Now.
• The Present is the only reality.
• The past and future are mind projections.
• Your life situation is not the same as your life.

Principles #

• If you make your calling: service for the sake of others, you’ll never lack purpose in life.
• With great power comes great responsibility.
• Life vs Afterlife. No certainty if life is predetermined or free will or a mix.
  • Therefore, if life is uncertain, what comes after life is can be thought as even more uncertain.
  • Given doubt of what’s next. Live this life in the Eight-Fold Path to hedge within uncertainty.
• No matter how unrelated/seperate you feel you are to another person, we are all are mortal.
  • At some point in another 0 to 90 years we will all perish and return to the cosmic dust,
    • that is the return to the Earth and the Universe from where we came from.
  • So every human, plant, animal, inorganic entity is connected this way so we must cultivate compassion for each other as we are all manifested from the same Being.
• Surrendering to your life situation means not generating resistance to what is.
  • Accepting the Now releases you from all the pains of the past.
  • Nothing can bring you down. In essense, nothing burdens you anymore because you’re invulnerable.