LIVING LIFE WITH A GOOD HEART The Antidote to Selfishness By Lama Thubten Yeshe

There is no way to get everlasting satisfaction unless you change your attitude from one of holding yourself to one where you open your heart and dedicate yourself to others. If you can do this, you are guaranteed of satisfaction and will never be lazy. The selfish mind is incredible, worse than a knife in your heart. Selfishness kills you, destroys your life. All the political troubles in the world today come from the selfish attitude. It doesn't matter what the object of your selfishness is - your own reputation, your own nation, the planet's resources, money the selfish attitude is the main troublemaker. We kill each other because of the self-cherishing thought, holding ourselves dear and not worrying about the welfare of others. All bad relationships - between husband and wife, guru and disciple - come from the selfish attitude. When you think about it, you can see that every problem on earth comes from being concerned for oneself instead of others. Selfishness is painful, really painful. If you want to be free of the pain in your heart, open it by developing universal concern for others, bringing all sentient beings into your heart as much as you possibly can. That is the antidote to the selfish attitude that is the pain in your heart. I truly believe that this is the way to liberation.

Oh dears.

Usually, little children say the most completely obvious yet randomly valuable and crushingly adorable things that fill me with joy in the most needed moments.

A Happy New Year.

 "Happy new year, Year!"
"Happy new year, Luke.
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the seagulls are flying, it'll be a good year for you."

Unconscious/Conscience Love Contrasted

An unconscious love starts in the heart and tickles the mind, but does not reconnect with the soul.
An unconscious love waits in the heart while it tempts the mind, but does not employ the soul.
An unconscious love possesses the heart like a prison, breaks down the mind like a malfunction, and becomes blind to the needs of the soul.
An unconscious love burns in the heart, whirlwinds the mind, and does not remember the soul exists.

A conscience love reconnects with the soul, fills the heart, and frees the mind.
A conscience love reconnects with the needs of the soul, fulfills the heart, and opens the mind.
A conscience love is the soul being fulfilled, becoming the heart, and filling the mind with love.
A conscience love is the soul purpose, opening your body and mind to fulfillment of itself in communion with others.

Mona Lisa, Nat King Cole

Fairytale of New York

Christmas is a time we're supposed to be  with the ones we love.

The Zen Porch.

Maybe meditating on the porch has brought about the amount of Sun we've had lately here in West Seattle. Or, maybe yesterday being the beginning of the Bronze Age of time when the Sun's orbit has aligned with the Sirius sun on opposite axis but are ascending now, not descending anymore, has brought this to us. The sun's orbit definitely affects/coincides with our human conscience. So maybe since there's been full sun since yesterday morning, Seattle's outlook will from now on be sunnier than ever known before!

"The Song of the Conscious Ant"

This world can offer me the desires of my ego

This world can offer me the figments of my youth

I can carry my life on my back up to the top of the earth

I can stand at the edge of the corner of the continent

I can move like the sea and work like the bee

As though mine is the only work that exists

Until I reach the pinnacle of faith in God

And stand at the ledge of the western corner of the world

And shout up to the sky, to the universe, to the Heavens, to God,

"Can you see me now?!

I am an ant on this earth

Like a pin prick in a vast of holes
Conceived for one form in unity

I have no desire to be seen

No desires for any things

But, for the world I left for this one

The world of life in my dreams."

Just Another Day to Begin.

What if.. December 21st is just another day?
What if you woke up today and everything seemed to be just like the day before? 
What if something passed through our sleeping, vulnerable mind?
What if a change occurred?
What if it was a change in our conscience as a humankind?
What if suddenly everyone became aware that something was different.
What if it was easy to love.
Not possessive love. 
Love through believing.
Maybe a mass consciousness of human beings will believe finally love IS the way, the truth, and the life. 
What if you woke up today and felt different. 
What if you only had the capacity to love your neighbor as yourself. 
What if you woke today and you just knew your heart was opened wider. 
What if today the more people you past by the more love you felt for each of them. 
What if today you talked to a friend and noticed them with a new light and they in you.
What if Christ's love woke you up with blinding white light.
What if it encompassed your whole vision?
Like you've suddenly went blind
And had no control of opening and closing your eyes
You couldn't see anything at all but brilliant light.
All you could do was believe in the light.
What if that all occurs within us, and we have the choice to live in that light or fight against it within ourselves. 

"Fear not, for I am with thee"  Isaiah 41:10

"Be still and know I am God" Psalm 46:10

"The only thing to fear, is fear itself." FDR
"All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus Christ
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  John 13:34

Choose to live in love. Nothing else. 


Not in fear. Not in judgement. Not in selfishness. Not in denial.

Jericho.

In the end, you don't need to learn another hard lesson.
You need nothing but to walk in trust.

passion

I am not a madman

I'm a lover

I lose myself in love

and go mad

Fishing Brothers

If

If I were a train, I'd be late.

I failed, and the only thing good I can hope for is change.

Canadian Island

"Life is what you're missing while you aren't making plans."  

- Luke Daniel Mathers

"I AM the way, the truth, and the light."  - Jesus Christ

Matthew 18  1In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, 3and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me: 6But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.