When the guru is wrong...

Today I learned a lesson so cruelly cutting, my stomach hurt from it.

Now, being on the other side of it, it has opened my eyes to so many things, I am surprised.

I found out that some of my carefully crafted assumptions based in decades of education might be wrong.

I have been fighting it for more than a week now... and finally, today, I had to face the piper.

The polar pitcher, the equipment I use for energizing water, has changed: the pitcher you get on Amazon today are slightly smaller than what I own and have based my water energizing system on.

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Updated: Hungry? Eager? How resisting "hunger" can raise your vibration.

Hunger is a poor advisor
It is said by many people, that you shouldn"t go grocery shopping when you are hungry.

Why? Because when you are hungry, the context of your being becomes to satisfy that hunger. Everything seems to be the answer to the question: this is the best way to eliminate hunger, to satisfy hunger.

So you end up spending money on stuff that is not good for you, that you should not have bought, maybe ever, in the first place.
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Why getting well is so difficult for us, people without a Self

There is never a better time to experience what you experience, than right when you experience it.

This morning I was hit with a strong feeling of despair, loneliness.

I didn"t have time to hang out with it, I was in the middle of something. I wanted to shoo it away, and I also wanted to indulge in it.

But then I decided to just feel it, acknowledge it, and let it go. I paid attention to what it said... nodded, wept a little, and let it go.

Is this familiar to you? I didn"t think so. You don"t know who you are, and you don"t want to find out.
There are many reasons you don"t know yourself.
One of these reasons is that you resist your emotions.
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That which does not kill us, makes us stronger

A few years ago I lost my sense of smell.

Then I changed my diet and the sense of smell came back.

Surprisingly I often smell things that didn"t seem to be there... Bringing up memories of the times I smelled the same... good smell, bad smell, neutral smell.

It"s hot here, unseasonably hot, and to accommodate it I am taking cold showers and I am eating differently.
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Osho on Knowledge and Knowing

ASCENDING TO THE HIGH SEAT, DOGEN ZENJI SAID: "ZEN MASTER HOGEN STUDIED WITH KEISHIN ZENJI.
ONCE KEISHIN ZENJI ASKED HIM, JOZA, WHERE DO YOU GO?"
HOGEN SAID. "I AM MAKING PILGRIMAGE AIMLESSLY."
KEISHIN SAID, "WHAT IS THE MATTER OF YOUR PILGRIMAGE?"
HOGEN SAID, "I DON"T KNOW."
KEISHIN SAID, "NOT KNOWING IS THE MOST INTIMATE."
HOGEN SUDDENLY ATTAINED GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT."
ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique -- unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It is the most ordinary because it does not believe in knowledge, it does not believe in mind. It is not a philosophy, not a religion either. It is the acceptance of the ordinary existence with a total heart, with one"s total being, not desiring some other world, supra-mundane, supra-mental.

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Osho: The art of walking the tightrope

In this series of Osho talks he examines stories from different ancient cultures. This is an excellent companion to what I teach. Enjoy!



ONCE, WHEN THE HASIDIM WERE SEATED TOGETHER
IN ALL BROTHERLINESS,
PIPE IN HAND, RABBI ISRAEL JOINED THEM.
BECAUSE HE WAS SO FRIENDLY THEY ASKED HIM,
"TELL US, DEAR RABBI, HOW SHOULD WE SERVE GOD?"



HE WAS SURPRISED AT THE QUESTION,
AND REPLIED, "HOW SHOULD I KNOW?"

BUT THEN HE WENT ON TO TELL THEM THIS STORY..
THERE WERE TWO FRIENDS OF THE KING,
AND BOTH WERE PROVED GUILTY OF A CRIME.

SINCE HE LOVED THEM THE KING WANTED TO SHOW THEM MERCY,
BUT HE COULD NOT ACQUIT THEM BECAUSE EVEN A KING"S WORD
CANNOT PREVAIL OVER THE LAW.

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The poisonous tree that you are... and what you can do about it...

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie, Our Precarious Habitat

The "What"s The Truth About You" workshop series is kicking off this afternoon.

As usual I haven"t done any preparation: I never do. I like my life, my teaching fluid. Freezing it would be to ignore guidance, stop growing, and start becoming a sculpture on a pedestal.

I slept well last night. I had a ton of guiding dreams. All about what I am trying to do in the workshop this afternoon: take you over the threshold between human and human being.

Being human means being a poisonous tree.

You weren"t born that, you became that. You are poisonous in predictable ways, along predictable lines, predicted by your soul correction.

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Living Dangerously: The habits that keep us feling safe, small, bankrupt, and feeling dead UPDATED

I had a one-on-one session with a student yesterday.

Sometimes I notice something "out"... something that doesn"t fit the picture, and just like a good detective, I latch onto it, and watch it, and if I can, I use it to unravel the mystery someone"s life is.

But sometimes it takes a while to really identify what it is that doesn"t fit... it is just a hunch, it is just a feeling... like the faint scent of death for a search dog...

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Life is a lot like traveling by train...

Life is like being in a train: you can look out on the left side, the right side, the back, the front... but it won"t change that you are on a train that will arrive to its destination, no matter where you look.

Most of us live this way most of the time.

We do our jobs, we do our relationships, we do our projects, we do our lives this way.

Fulfilling? No. Enjoyable? It depends...

Ultimately we are plagued by a nagging sense that we are out of control, that no matter what we do won"t change anything. Some of us feel doomed. Some of us fight it tooth and nail... with bloody broken teeth and broken nails to prove it.
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Who or What is calling the shot in your life? Commitment - new thoughts, new experiences

This is a continuation of the c-word article... and the getting ready for a breakthrough article. Read them first or this article won"t make sense completely



Displacement of your commitment:
As I have written before, the "universe" or the aspect of you that conspires and is in kahutz with the Universe, will put up obstacles in your path, so instead of doing stuff that"s consistent with your commitment, you are now on a detour path: handling your obstacles.

Alex, a friend of mine, is dealing with his server and his websites being hacked... a moment after he made a commitment to growth. So he feels forced to deal with that, instead of following the path he set for himself.

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You don"t know what you don"t know and You don"t even know there is something to know

First off: knowledge is grossly overrated.

Why? Because knowledge without application, without skills is useless. It won"t make you money, it won"t make you slim, good company, or a better driver.

We all grew up with the kind of education that emphasizes knowing, and we are all worse off for it.

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Updated: So you want to feel special... how is it going for you?

So you want to feel special?

We are all special, if special means, as special as our thumbprint... But that is not special enough for you, is it?

You want to be SPECIAL... so you can be treated special... a special talent, outstanding, mind boggling, awesome, the best.

In this article I will shed light to an important phenomenon that we are all experiencing... the ITCH, that keeps us miserable, and the HORIZON that keeps us on track, sane, happy and always well.

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The capacity of seeing patterns...the threshold capacity

I am reading a book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. I am reading it because I want to be able to teach my students better, so they can leave behind the level of ordinary school learning, the pedestrian learning that always produces pedestrian result.

Amateurish performance, amateurish life. ((Your level of fulfillment is exponentially correlated to the amount of effort you invested. Easy: no fulfillment. Hard, lots of effort, hardship: lots of fulfillment.))

The DNA, the blueprint that heralds the evolution of humans, the inactive 160 spiritual capacities, don"t become needed, and therefore won"t turn on, or won"t stay on, in a pedestrian, amateurish life where one doesn"t go consistently beyond their limits, intellectually, spiritually.

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Healing... is that a negative word? Is that a sign of negativity?

Did you know that if you say: I need healing, what you are saying is that you are sick?

This includes inner healing, faith healing, etc...

And when you start from something wrong... like "I am sick", you are on your way to create a context that is misery every step of the way.

If I needed to define what negativity is, it"s that "what is is wrong, and it needs to be fixed."

Yesterday I was leading my Theta State training webinar, and I felt horrible. Partially, because I wasn"t feeling well myself. Partially because my students didn"t feel well. And yet partially because one of my students wrote to me, and I needed to feel their feelings stronger than they felt them... because I am an empath.

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Want to break out of living the life the selfish gene allows you to live?

How does mind serve the ego, and ego serves the selfish gene... Evolutionary view of team "you"

Tuesdays are my days to interface with people who are neither my readers, nor my clients.

Ordinary people. And although it is very frustrating to me, and maybe even them, I learn a lot from these unpleasant interactions.

Ever since I read The Selfish Gene, a book, and even more since I read the book "Why beautiful people have daughters" a look on life through evolutionary psychology, I am trying to match what I read with what I see, hear, and feel.

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Republished: No One Is A Prophet In Their Own Land, Passover And Easter: What Is This All About?

Passover and Easter around, you"ll spend time with family. You"ll see examples of "No One Is A Prophet In Their Own Land."

You"ll be on both sides... by the way. But if you are one of my students, you will feel that you have something to teach your family: and no one will be interested. Get prepared!

In fact they will try to discourage you from continuing to pursue what you pursue when you spend time with me or my writing.

I"ve been teaching the Original Design for five years.

None of the original participants, that were my friends, are around, except one... barely.

I have been going through hell trying to get why that is, and what it is that I need to see.

It is true that no one is a prophet in their own land.
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Does having more capacities turned on raise your vibration too?

Superiority... The word comes up a lot in my coaching. Mostly in the context of your soul correction.

But in reality, some things are superior to other things... because all exists on many scales.

On the DNA capacities "scale" someone with 30 capacities is superior to someone who has 29, 20, 10, 7.

I haven"t found anyone with less than seven capacities, though I am sure there are.

So superior is not the issue. Acting superior is the issue.

It attacks people"s egos, the part of a human that makes sure the person survives. And as in any competition, it can get ugly. ((Ugly really appeals to the lowest common denominator. They are attracted to the low vibration, low capacity, brawn person... that is the problem in democracy: people who are low vibration, self-serving are elected by the low vibration, self-serving crowds. The same people who were so vocal answering my email with their imminent wisdom knowing what capacities mean, and such.))

People tend to cultivate the capacities that they consider an unfair advantage in the competition for survival.



In politics, it is mostly lying convincingly, trashing the other, promising, and such. In many areas that is physical strength.

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High vibration, high achiever people err on the side of judging you more capable than you are.

Teachers, and coaches, who themselves are high vibration and high achievers, I know a few, see you better than you are, and tell you that with a little, or a lot of coaching you can achieve the life you want.

But, unfortunately, we desire things we are not equipped to achieve, or are not willing to move towards.

Why is this?

Because it takes active, working capacities to do things. DNA capacities... capacities that you cannot learn... Capacities are not like knowledge. Capacities are not like skills. Capacities are either open or not open. If they aren"t open, they need to be opened, either by being in a do or die situation, where unless you use a capacity you don"t have, or you die... or by me... at this point I don"t know anyone else who can open a capacity.

There are 160 capacities in the human DNA, and most of them are dormant, inactive, not available to you.

Moreover, you don"t even know they are missing.

Remember the missing item exercises? Where we are trying to activate a capacity that is missing, by lying authentically?

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Lack of opportunities... giving opportunities... all myth... Dark Side suggestion

Most people that complain about lack of opportunities would fumble the ball if they got it... Fumble means: drop the ball.

The illusion is that what is missing is an opportunity, the funding, the money to start something... is an illusion, and it is a very harmful illusion. It makes you look at blame... not yourself.

Similar to this: support is missing. If your parents, spouse, the society supported you... blah blah blah.

It"s all illusion... as in a lie. Bull crap.

There was an incident in my life that I go back to often.

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Is responsibility a capacity? A case study

Message to my friend: please don"t be offended. This was too good a story, too educational, to pass by. I didn"t mean to offend you, or invalidate your effort.

Is responsibility a capacity? If it isn"t, it should be... but it isn"t.

Responsibility, the behavior, has lots of other capacities that need to be lit up for it to work.

I am observing an unfolding dramatic story: a storm in a teacup.

I don"t have a car. I have a woman, who has become a friend eventually, drive me on Tuesdays to do my errands, chiropractor, grocery shopping.

She has family in California, and will spend Thanksgiving with them. Next Tuesday she won"t be around.

I need to find another way to get fresh cream for my tea...

She decides that she can help.

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