Why do Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger read books on physics, the ice ages, the shorelines of our planet?

There are many ways to deal with the Universe, with reality, and most of them are ineffective.

The Anna Karenina Principle applies here. That is what a principle is: it applies everywhere.

A principle is a pattern. Big pattern, small pattern, it is a pattern.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." By that, Tolstoy meant that for a marriage to be happy, it had to succeed in several key aspects. Failure on even one of these aspects, and the marriage is doomed . . . the Anna Karenina principle also applies to ecological risk assessments involving multiple stressors.

One of my students suggested that the linchpin capacity that humanity isn"t exercising is allowing. The 12-step programs say: Let go - Let god...

I have been pondering this ever since I got the email with the suggestion. At first I didn"t see the beauty of it, but it is growing on me.

Yeah, if you could let life be life, the Universe be the Universe, spring be spring, the weather be the weather, if you stopped fighting it, trying to fix it, tame it, control it, then you would be able to fall into a rhythm, a harmony, a flow.

Aikido, a form of martial art, uses this principle to live a spectacularly joyful life.

What blocks joy is efforting. Resisting. Pushing.

• All agenda is pushing.

• All tiredness comes from resistance.

I read the books Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger read.

And although I felt a sense of rightness... until this morning I didn"t see what one can learn from the richest men of our times, who have been able to sustain their riches for fifty years, maybe more.

There is something to be said about time tested success... it is probably not a fluke. It is worth examining, learning from.

How did I get to the insight?

One of the questions I have been pondering is why mouth-taping may effect your life... in addition to not snoring, in addition to sleeping better.

I started mouth taping on October 27 of last year. That is seven months... long enough experiment to see some result.

I can see three things that were unpredictable, or maybe even impossible before:

• 1. I have been measurably less jumpy, less reactive, less resistant to what is. Measured with muscle test: I used to be 20% on a 1-100 scale, and now I am 7% on that same scale.

That, compared to your 100% reactivity...

But I can tell you: my joy level, my ability to have fun, have doubled... and my relationship to being attacked (for example) is a lot more harmonious than it was. I go with the punches.

• 2. I am able to see patterns a lot faster than before... in fact, I am looking for patterns, where I used to look for fixing before.

• 3. I am starting to see my skeletal/muscular system becoming more on the side of life... less rigid. I look, act, and feel younger than my 70 years. About 20 years...

My calves still hurt when I walk, but that"s that. No other pains.

I watched a two-hour video ((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74F22bjBmqE
)) before I started. The person, the doctor, in the video has some theories... the truth value of the video is 10%. With what I am sharing here, it is raised to 60%... we have further penetrate the mysteries of Life... with this single insight:

Here is the insight: when you tape your mouth, you are suddenly in a position to connect to your higher self, to your brain, and potentially also to All-Knowledge, aka Source.

How?

The axis, the connecting line between your tongue and Source is reestablished when you tape your mouth. When you sleep with your mouth open, this connection is missing.

When your mouth is taped shut, the tongue is pressed against the roof of your mouth, changing your physiology, especially your brain waves.

Some of us would do better to have our mouths taped 24/7. Why? Because when your mouth is not taped... you are automatically in your mind... the mind is a physical location at a different angle... vertical instead of a slight backwards angle... My hunch is that the angle is the same as the Earth"s wobble... but that is just a hunch.

And now, answering the question in the title: the secret of making accurate decisions, the secret of being in sync, being in harmony with the universe, is to be able to see patterns inside patterns inside patterns, and use them like Aikido uses the opponent"s energy... flow with it.

In everything, winners see patterns, losers force their way.

Most of humanity act in the losers" way, the exceptions are rare. And they are billionaires.

And actively working over 90 years of age.

They can distinguish more patterns that nearly anyone on the Planet.

Distinguish has a lot to do with awareness, but distinguishing depends even more on being able to see what you see, not the way mind-dwelling people do: "everything is the same as everything else, except that not always".

The Anna Karenina Principle, if nothing else, put into use, starts to create distinctions but pointing out what isn"t inside the strait and narrow.

By the way, strait is not an alternative way to spell straight... Strait is a different word. Look it up...

Without being able to use your attention at will, none of these will make any difference, these are just words.

What makes it work is attention...

I will teach how to activate it and how to use it to finally turn you into a high functioning human, in the twin courses: Reading and Sleeping.

You don"t want to read? I got it... Did YOU?

The field: The invisible distinction that defines your consciousness

We look at life through the space we locate ourselves in.

When you go home for the holidays, you have a space inside which you interact with your mother. You have a space inside which you interact with your father, another space with your siblings.

Some people live their whole life out of one favorite space.

When you know what space you think you are in, and the other person makes no sense, that is because they relate to you inside a different space.

For example, Nancy lives inside Mother-child space. She is either the mother, or she is the child. When she is the child, I am either the mother (she loves that) or Not mother... she hates that. When she is the mother and I refuse to be the child, she throws a tantrum.

This is invisible for her. It"s the water she swims in.


When a coaching relationship doesn"t work, i.e. it is unpleasant, it is forced, it is ineffective, it is always because the two people are in a different space...

My intention is to operate, interact with a student inside the space of partnership. I have my job cut out for me... and I fail more often than not to move them to the space of partnership.

In the Landmark Partnership Course participants got a glimpse of partnership after a whole year of learning to recognize, learning to distinguish all the 16 different spaces that don"t allow for partnership.

Inside the space for Mother-Child partnership isn"t recognized. The mother and the child are NEVER in a partnership: their self interest is sharply different. In fact: partnership there is rejected. It is resented. Same in Father-child... or playmate-sibling, which is yet another space...

Becoming curious (and observant, aware) about the self-interest and the many forms of it is incredibly useful and makes seeing why these relationships lack harmony or growth potential.

You can practice recognizing the self interest (without making it right or making it wrong) any and every place in your life, even in books, or TV shows. Everywhere.

Self interest conflicts with another"s self-interest... because self-interest lives as an either I win or you win phenomenon. Validating self-interest, the other"s self interest, is one way you can take the sting out of relationships and bring them closer to partnership and workability. [note]More on validation: https://www.yourvibration.com/33924[/note]

I am not licensed to teach the Partnership Course, or any Landmark Course, so this is pretty much as much as I can "quote" from the course, without violating my non-compete agreement with the company.

But if you are astute enough what I have written so far is going to make you look. See what space you do your life, do your relationships from.

When things don"t work... you can safely assume that you are in the wrong quadrant, you are in the wrong room, you are in the wrong space.

Identifying where you are at, and where the other is takes practice, but is easy.

Then make the conversation move to another space takes a lot more. A whole lot more. It takes the art of communication.

I"ve recruited seven different people for the experimental communication training. The goal is to make life work, no matter how different they are. No matter what space they hang out most. No matter what they want to accomplish.

Moving people, moving the conversation to another space where there can be alignment, real communication, love, harmony, and ultimately partnership is what I intend to teach.

You, who are not in the course, you can do your work to identify what space you have your conversations in.

The Partnership Course, a fully Tree of Life phenomenon, gets to a deep knowledge through using collages, the non-verbal tactile, kinesthetic representation of a field. [note]There are four "ordinary" fields of relating, values and communication: 1. mother/child 2. father/child 3. playmate/sibling, 4. admirer/admired. (Here are a few collages of someone I don"t know on Flickr. Hover over the images to see which quadrant, which space, which field it shows. )

The fifth field, the field of partnership, cannot be jumped into. It can only be accessed when all the values of the four quadrants, the four ordinary fields, are transcended... i.e. seen but not operational. 1~2 out of a hundred is willing to do the work... We shall see how many in a tiny course I am leading. I am shooting for 50% or more[/note]

Ingenious.

Of course, most of the people in the course first had the thought and then made a collage to illustrate it. Meaning: they stayed on the Tree of Knowledge.

Getting of that tree is not easy... no matter what tool you use.

Most artists create "art" on the Tree of Knowledge too... even though art is not a Tree of Knowledge, word thing.

In this article I have given you a whiff of how to alter your life, on the Tree of Life. The trimtab method, where gentle and small changes turn around your oceanliner... and your life towards workability and towards growth and fulfillment.

As long as you live inside one of those quadrants, uneven quadrants, ordinary communication, workability and fulfillment will be there only for moments, and only as an accident.

When you become intimately familiar with how you and others live their lives inside those tightly defined spaces, you"ll have a choice to stay there, live a limited and predictable life, or to take charge, and direct all your communications to the open water, what we"ll call, maybe, partnership... maybe alignment with all of it...

Haven"t decided yet.

PS: I just realized why people like animals, pets more than people: animals, your choice of animals, allow you to dominate to your hearts content... people don"t...

Wanting to win is a survival game. Low vibration, low consciousness

If you play to win, you"ll always play a small game. Play to win in anything.


Win friends, and influence people.





Win an argument

Win a competition

Win at cards

Win a reward, a salary, a compliment

to look smart, respectable, well-thought-of, generous, holy, spiritual, humble... whatever will make you look, so you can live another day.


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You live in a world of your own design

You live in a world of your own design. And you create the world with your beingness.

We think that beingness is all good... But beingness is neutral. It doesn"t take sides. There is a beingness for everything, including greed, jealousy, and puniness... if that"s a word.

But whatever that beingess is, when you realize it, when you pinpoint it, you"ll immediately see that it actually created your current reality, and if you don"t do something about it... it will create the rest of your life that same...

But as a human you have access to creating any kind of beingness... you have difficulty in holding onto it. But yet, you can start. Any time, any day, any age. And increase your capacity to hold onto the beingness, honor it as yourself.

One of the beingnesses we are really familiar with is BEING judgmental. Or the flip side of it (they always go together, like the two sides of the coin!) BEING judged.

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When you are looking for and find things to be unhappy about... always angry...

I have a student who seems to be looking for reasons to be unhappy, angry, frustrated. And not surprisingly she finds something. Always.

She is working on her health and well-being, and part of that is to document every breakfast, lunch and dinner time what she eats, what she drinks, what she does, what she feels like, and whether she had a bowel movement or not. These are all indicators of her well-being and progress.

This morning I realized something: her diary says: bowel movement: small. She doesn"t say: bowel movement: yes (or no, whatever is the case.) No she says: small.

This realization lead me to look back and see that she wants to find something she can be unhappy about.

Now, this is actually very familiar to me. Bear with me, a lot of you have this, and if you can see it, you can do something about it.

I"ll share my story later, let me first distinguish the mechanism:

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Authenticity... your power belongs to you

Authenticity examined through movies...

When I watch TV series on Netflix or Amazon, I am working... wouldn"t you like to get a job like that? lol.

When I was in high school, I joined every group, every course, went to every seminar that spoke about movie making, the art.

When I had my high school final exams, I got lucky and I pulled question #40 on movie making... I so fascinated the three teachers that were the "jury" that I upset the exam schedule...

The trick (what I didn"t know} was that I watched the movies on all levels, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. I felt the feelings of the characters, while I saw them and while I heard them.

360 degree experience.

My experience is that I can go to the movies with anyone, and come out and find out that we saw two different movies... Very weird.

Anyway... One of the phenomenon I can see, hear and feel, that most people can"t, is authenticity.

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You live in a world of your own design

You live in a world of your own design. And you create the world with your beingness.

We think that beingness is all good... But beingness is neutral.

One of the beingnesses we are really familiar with is BEING judgmental. Or the flip side of it (they always go together, like the two sides of the coin!) BEING judged.

Both are beings.

Which is more frequent? They are the two sides of the same coin: judgment. Pretending that you have the right and the power over life and death...

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Updated: Can your teacher teach you what you want to learn?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."This post was triggered by me reading a few really good articles... Observing myself I was really clear, that although I enjoyed the articles, it never became knowledge, it stayed information.

Words don"t teach. Speaking only talks to the mind... Real teaching happens NOT when you get stuff with your mind... Transformation doesn"t happen in the mind: transformation happens by taking you out of your mind... All that talking keeps you in the mind. Alas...
Growing up I lived in the shadows of my famous father. He was some kind of genius in the area of economics...

As I was dyslexic, and the public opinion of me was that I was a moron and a failure, he took it on himself to tutor me in my schoolwork, so I can succeed.

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