FEARLESS ENCOUNTERS 04 March 2002 ¬ LEAVING OUR HAPPINESS AT THE FEET OF OTHERS AND OUTSIDE THINGS IT IS INEVITABLE IT WILL STEPPED UPON - Love is like oxygen from a tree it takes what is around it (environment) and returns oxygen for anything to (freely) use - nature while it is chaotic there is an order - nothing is solid (permenant) it is a manifestation/illusion of the mind - a special life force controls and pervades everything + the seed -> plant -> death + one acorn has the potential for many trees add-enfinitem - unless something is understood it cant be used/manipulated to its potential - CLARITY cannot be attained and Addiction (dis-empowerment) dissolved without commitment - we are conditioned to gratify our senses - commitment to clarity will be tested by temptation to gratify the senses - TOUCH LIFE GENTLY - dont interfer with the natural balance - ADDICTION is a broken balance - STUCK IN A GROOVE and maintaining the groove is ADDICTION - DETACHMENT is about caring enough to let others be themselves yourself be yourself - ADDICTION need maintance and control to preserve the "happiness" - this "maintance and control" is draining and dis-empowering - eg addiction to a structure blinds us to a different point of view A1 not only are things that we desire addictions, so are things we avoid A2 A3 - addiction is never ending = disempowering - commitment is achievable = empowering - addiction is unbalanced commitment 12 COMMITMENTS TO FEARLESS ENCOUNTERS ===================================== S1 Freeing myself from my intoxication with the illusory 1.1 I LET GO OF MY ADDICTIOS TO MATERIAL SECURITY FLEETING SENSATIONS AND POWER TRIP WHICH CREATE UNENDING TURMOIL IN THE MIND AND PREVENT ME FROM FORMING ENRICHING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE WORLD - addictions create harm in our lives and destroy happiness and joy because the are associated with external and transient things - you cannot have even 1 pet addiction and be happy - there can be no healthy addictions - every action is like planting a seed, each seed can lead to many things - we need to plant and tend seeds of HOPE - unresolved conflicts are Hurt Storage Capsules which will be emptied somewhere somehow ? willing to do what it takes to WAKE UP ? willing to sacrifice, let go of smaller to gain the greater - you get what you pay for - difficult situations are a chance to practice the skill of being more AWAKE - that which does not kill us make us stronger - tunnel vision = dont beleive that better is available/possible - we are unskilled at the using the power within us * we have put the growth/germination of our inner ACORN of hope on hold/cold storage 1.2 I LET GO OF MY DESIRE TO HURT OTHERS; BECAUSE I REALISE AS FALSE THE PERCEPTION WHICH MAKE ME BELEIVE THAT THEY ARE BEING HURTFUL TO ME. 1.3 I WELCOME EVERY OPPORTUNITY LIFE PRESENTS ME WITH, HOWEVER PAINFUL TO LET GO OF MY MEDICORITY AND WAKE UP TO MY RADIANCE - my reality is in my head (heart ?) - the power is within trust it - joy is an inside factor - the "beautiful sun set" is beautiful because we choose (mood circumstance influences that choice) to perceive it so others may not be so stimulated - seek a "way of evaluating" the situation that can bring joy - if our "way of evaluating" is clouded we struggle to find joy - suffering is the manure of the garden of LITE - I CHOOSE TO FEEL LIKE SHIT, SO THINGS LOOK LIKE SHIT - the way we feel is an indication of the frequency we are resonating on - we need to be multi-frequency scanners not single station receivers - we trust the familiar and known beacuse it gratifies the senses - but our joy is in our perception, thus it is our perception that must be cultivated - when you touch your intuition you will know what is to be done S2 Being here now 2.1 I trust in the JOY within me to keep me EMPOWERED in each moment 2.2 I take full responsibility for my evaluation and responses to everything I experience in life because I have attracted it to me 2.3 I trust fully in the richness which difference, unknown and uncertainity bring into my life - why we need differences for as long as we push "things" away we detract from the full picture Q Which of the 6 needs most work Q what does it mean to you - I need to that JOY is real - I need to know that I can learn the skills and clear the path to enable my joy - turn the obsessions with "getting ready" into a commitment to enjoy now - not let the non-attainment of preparedness from enjoying now - dripping ice-cream - balancing plates on sticks keep all the plates in focus and tended - beleive the confident aire I put forward - STILLNESS is the WORKSHOP where I find the TOOLS to access my POWER - stillness is a 12 in 1 multitool - trusting that i can deal with it - DESIRING mind create movement and with movement, there is no stillness thus no space for clarity