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Potential : There is something of immense importance about truth; unless you find it, it never becomes truth to you. Truth is a subtle knowing that is felt in your potential.  It is not something that you find outside of yourself.  It is something that you are.  Yet one may not find it, may not experience it.  It is in your being like a seed.  It may flower or it may not.  You may be successful at becoming your potential, or you may not.  It all depends on you, what you will do with yourself.    The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential, your own intelligence and awareness - and to act accordingly.  Society teaches us to choose the convenient, the comfortable, the well-trodden path that has been walked by our forefathers and their forefathers all the way back to Adam and Eve.  Repeating to us to choose the well-trodden path because millions and millions of people cannot be wrong. They will try to create guilt in you. And once you create guilt in someone, you have almost murdered the human potential in him.  He can never be independent.  He will be dependent on a messiah, God, or some holy guru.   To know your own truth, your own potential, you will have to save yourself from so many well-intentioned people, do gooders, who are constantly advising you to be this or that. They do not mean harm, but harm is what happens. Just listen to your own heart.  That is your only teacher.  In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.   And unless you make a person feel guilty, you cannot enslave him psychologically.  It is impossible to imprison him to cling to some ideology, some belief system of right or wrong.    What is the definition of right?  It is that which is harmonious with existence.  And you cannot depend on readymade answers for this.   Simply do with what rings inside of your heart, something that you would like to do in spite of any consequences. Never worry about consequences. Put everything at stake. Live without any fear of heaven or hell.  Do not allow people to put values on you.  Values should grow with your awareness.   Each day will brings its own problems, its own challenges. Many of our problems are because we have never looked at them face-to-face.  And not looking at them is giving them energy.  Being afraid of them is giving them energy, always trying to avoid them is giving them energy - because you are accepting that they are real.  Other than our acceptance, they don't exist.  By facing our problems directly, most will simply disappear, because they were not real - they were most likely given to you from outside.   Life moves so fast!  It is dynamic, not static.  And so many things that are right for this moment will not be right for the next.  One cannot rely on any 'Golden Rules.'  The only Golden Rule is that there is no Golden Rule.  There cannot be.  Life is so vast, so immense, so mysterious, it cannot be reduced to any rule or maxim.  A truly authentic person does not live by rules or maxims.  He simply lives.    Simply keep doing what rings your bell, rings inside of your heart, something that you would like to do in spite of any consequences. Put everything at stake. Live without any fear of heaven or hell. Because what is not lived in you, will only burden your psychology.  All that could have been lived - all the love affairs, friendships, missed opportunities that have not flowered will only burden your consciousness. Take as many bites out of life as possible and chew it well and digest it.  Experience life in all possible ways - the good and bad, the bitter and sweet, the dark and the light - every season.  Don't be afraid of experience, because the more you experience, the more integrated you become.   And nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. So no need to compare - so much energy being wasted in competition and conflict. People are simply unique, incomparable.  You are you and the other is the other.  You have to contribute your potential to life, and the other has to contribute his.   And with such a short time to live, with such a small energy source, it is simply stupid to waste it in fighting, sadness, anger, hatred.  Use it in love, use it in some creative act,  in friendship, in meditation.  Do something with your energy that will take you higher.  And the higher you go, the more energy becomes available to you. At the highest point of consciousness, the highest potential, you know godliness. 
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When you are meeting a friend - Meet. : "When you are meeting a friend - meet. Who knows? You may not be meeting again.  Then you will repent. Then that unfulfilled past will haunt you, that you wanted to say something and you could not say it.  There are people who want to say to somebody, "I love you," and they are waiting for years and have not said it.  And the person one day may die, and then they will cry and weep and they will say, "I wanted to say to the person, 'I love you,' but I could not even say that."'...I love you all!
When you are meeting a friend - Meet.
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Living Just the Way You Are : What it means to be a master is to make no demands on yourself, no demands remain - neither for wealth, sex, or status; no asking remains.  It is when you can say "I accept myself as you have made me.  I accept myself as I am.  I accept myself completely."   In such a state the emperor is born within you.  Then even if you are a beggar you are an emperor.  As things are now, even if one is an emperor it is only in name; inside there's just a beggar.   Live just the way you are.  If bad then bad, if good then good.  Let the whole world know who you are.  Uncover yourself.  Say "This is how I am; this is my destiny.  This is how existence has made me.  If the world accepts, fine, if the world does not accept, fine."   No Buddha will ever happen again, no Mahavira, no Jesus, no Christ - nor another YOU!
Living Just the Way You Are
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Feeling a Transformative Year : Been enjoying the last week or so tending to home and children.  An energy been building up in my soul...!!!..   ...a burning energy.  Burning into my blood, my bones - What is this so-called sane world?  Power-hungry people, politicians, preachers.....seeking my own path.  Spending time with my energy, feeling the humor in the heart, the love.  Feeling nurished by the silence.   Training a lot.  Enjoying the body as the temple - practicing surrender to God, to the Beloved.    At first this week, I was thinking 'how will shall I come against this world? All those trying to manipulate?  A feeling of needing to escape!  And as I trained going deeper into my own soul, into the essential man, laugher began to rise, a feeling of love!  Laughter.  Why fight?  Trust, love!  One misses the peak by fighting!   I have handwriting project on my lap also right now!  Very excited to see it come about.  I hope to do some wonderful work with this!    A totally different vision is arising in my heart, my life.  Feeling a transformative year!   Always sending love to Gaia!...enjoy everyone here so much!
Feeling a Transformative Year
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Mommy and Son : It is getting cold here in Tahoe City.  It actually snowed yesterday!..So much happening here - all the children are in sports now with school and the two homeschoolers. Work has also increased to full-time - wow!I will be off-line for a few weeks as thing settle to a workable pace!Always I wish to say thank you for the wonderful interactions.  I enjoy so much.  And look forward to many more!I wish everyone a beautiful autumnal equinox!with love!Cheyenne
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Be Water, My Friend. : "Be water, my friend."...Bruce Le   This is also the whole method of tantra.  It means 'do not make an effort.'  If you make an effort, you come in.  It means that you allow things to happen, you don't make an effort.  It is not a doing, it is a happening.  Without making an effort...you float with it, remaining loose and natural.     What does it mean to be 'loose and natural'?  It means don't fight with yourself, be loose - be water.  Don't try to make a structure around yourself of character, of morality.  Don't discipline yourself too much; otherwise, your very discipline will become the bondage.  Remain loose, floating, move with the situation, respond to the situation.  Don't move with a character jacket around you, don't move with a fixed attitude.   Remain loose, like water, not fixed like ice.  Remain moving and flowing; wherever your nature leads you, go.  Don't resist, don't try to impose anything on you, your being.   The whole society teaches you to impose something on you - be good, be moral, be this and that. Tantra is absolutely beyond society, culture, civilization.  It says if you are too much cultured, you will lose all that is natural, you will be a 'fixed' thing.....not floating, not flowing.  So don't force a structure around you.  Live moment to moment, alive with alertness.    It is more difficult to be water, my friend (smile)...because you cannot be asleep.  If you have a fixed character, you can sleep.  It is already predetermined how you will behave.  You have the bible there next to the bed, you can ask the personal coach for what to do..this is not water.  This is looking for something fixed.  To be water means to respond to the situation.  Something is there and you are absolutely unprepared for it, you will have to be aware, you have to be water, flowing.  To avoid this responsibility, we build a 'character' around ourselves, we force a discipline on ourselves so the discipline takes care of you.  Life is not so simple...a character will not help you.  Life is a very complex phenomenon.  And I am not suggesting always tell the 'truth'. Sometimes a lie is needed, sometimes truth can be dangerous, so one has to be aware.  If you have a fixed mind you may think you must always tell the truth.  "I am a good man. I tell the truth."  Sometimes telling the truth is dangerous, stupid.  You must be able to flow.  You might be afraid that someone is going to call you a liar..so what?   Why be so bothered what people will say about you?   Live with full awareness, and your awareness will be your light.  Respond with full awareness.  Life goes on moving and changing, and every moment there is a new situation. Let your decisions come out of the situation itself, not predetermined.   Don't carry predetermined ideas of how you will respond..remain loose and aware and natural.  Be water, my friend.   Be loose.  Let this penetrate you deeply.  Be loose.  So in every situation you can flow, easily, like water, so if the water is poured into a glass, it takes the shape of the glass.  It doesn't resist, it doesn't say, 'this is not my form'..'this is not my way.'  If the water is poured into a jar, into a jug, it takes the shape of that.  It has no resistance, it is loose.   Don't be moral, be natural -  Because a moral man is never natural, cannot be. If he feels angry, sexual, upset, he cannot be natural because of his morality.  Even if he feels loving, he cannot because of morality.  A moral man always acts according to his morals. He is a pretender, a hypocrite, false.  He does not act according to his nature.  And if you act according to morals and not your nature, you will NEVER reach to a state of blissfulness.  Because a state of blissfulness is the highest peak of being natural.   It is difficult to be water, my friend, because you will have to live in a society full of hypocrites.  It is difficult because everywhere you will find a conflict with a hypocrite.  It is sometimes arduous..sometimes fun (smile)....and at times you feel completely alone.  But others, a few - that may become friends - they feel your authenticity. And if you become authentic, you will start flowering.  You don't even have to try to flower, it happens on its own accord.  And once you get the knack of it, more and more you become loose, natural...like water.   And once you are water, liberation is not very far away, as water flows towards the ocean..the vapors to the sky! Be water, my friend...be water. 
Be Water, My Friend.
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Exposing Our Deepest Feelings & Vulnerabilities Takes Great Trust : To be willing to expose our deepest feelings and vulnerability takes great trust. It takes great inner strength, and courage.  Courage to know that even if the other betrays you, you will remain open. It is beautiful to trust.  Beautiful...and difficult.  But if you look deeply into the difficulty, you will see it is not exactly that you do not trust.  If you watch you will find it is simply a lack of courage.  Then things can be different.  When you know it is fear - not distrust - then you can decide to have courage.  And remember always, it is natural to feel this fear.  It exists in everybody. So don't label yourself as a coward.  The fear of the unknown exists in everybody.  One simply has to go slowly and move beyond the known.  Having the courage to step forward...you can always come back (big smile!) (with a little knowledge and experience!)Everyone is in this catch 22...without trust we feel fear..which again fuels our distrust and lack of courage. So the first thing we must do to be able to trust is accept yourself.  Accept yourself fully.  If you can come to accept yourself fully, you will not be concerned about respect, you will not need to worry about saving your face.   You can be trusting, just as an innocent child.  And what does it mean to be trusting as an innocent child?  It means you are showing the highest kind of love - trust.  It is the purest love.  It is uncontaminated love - uncontaminated by any desire.But you can only do this if you are not thinking about consequences.  Do not bother about what will happen, just be willing to act according to your own being, to your own spontaneity.  You must have the courage to move beyond society and what they have told you what is 'right'.   But if you trust someone with a motive, it is not trust...you will become fearful again. You are using the person. If you think by trusting someone you will attain happiness, then you will not be able to trust. You are using them. They have become a means to an end.  That is not very respectful. Just live moment to moment...with no outcome in mind.   Then not the outcome, but the trust is the bliss...just the act of trusting gives one a feeling of blissfullness. With practice and experience, you will come to say anything and everything you feel, sincerely - with no concern of consequences.  Even if you feel the fear, the hesitation, all it takes is a little courage.  And you can also encourage the other person to be intimate.  Your openess will help the other person also to be open.What you will come to find out is that not only were you feeling fear, so was the other..not only are you concerned about your weakness, but the other too has weaknesses -you will begin to feel more trusting, less as strangers.And always remember that everything that is beautiful, precious is also only momentary.  We want to cling, hold on and make every precious moment permanent.  It simply cannot be.  Always know perfectly well that tomorrow cannot be promised.  What you know, what you share with someone is precious because it is momentary.  We become very frustrated when we try to cling.  And when we become frustrated, a distance grows between you, you begin fighting...and what was meant to be beautiful, to be moments of happiness just become one big long misery (laughing!).But if you can become unafraid of being intimate with someone, it can become a great transformation.  You begin to become not only unafraid of the other, but most importantly, you become unafraid of yourself.  You begin to drop everything that you once were ashamed of.  You realize your own beauty.  You realize life...! To become intimate and trust someone means that the doors of your heart are open.  It means that you welcome another to be a guest.  You are allowing each other to be innocent as children, no fear...just opening yourself to be seen, as you are. 
Exposing Our Deepest Feelings & Vulnerabilities Takes Great Trust
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All Autobiographies are Ego-Biographies : What we call an autobiography is not the story of the soul.  As long as you do not know what the soul is, whatever you write, whatever you say about yourself is an "ego-biography." When seeking self-knowledge there is no autobiography.  All autobiographies are ego-biographies.   When one realizes his soul, the person changes completely into something so formless that what we call the facts of his or her life, facts like birth, dates of particular happenings and events simply dissolve.  All these facts cease to have any meaning. The awakening of a soul is so cataclysmic that after it occurs, when one opens his eyes he finds that everything is lost.  Nothing is left.  No one to talk about what has happened.  After one awakens, an 'autobiography' seems to be like a dream version of oneself.  When awakened to speak of the self is like telling someone of a dream, a fantasy, a fairy tale.  "Once upon a time, this happened and that happened..."  These 'happenings' only happened to your ego.    Once awakened your autobiography does not survive.  The ego does not survive. Deeply speaking, your soul does not survive.  Everything will seem like a dream sequence.   You attain not a history to tell, but knowledge.  Knowledge of reality.  
All Autobiographies are Ego-Biographies
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Lovers fight - only lovers can fight : Lovers fight - only lovers can fight;they depend on fighting.And they know that nothing is wrong, because when they fightthey create a situation to move deeper into love.It is a rhythm.If you have been a lover, which is a rare thing,you know that just before making love,if you have been fighting and angryand trying to kill each other,and then you make love, then the orgasm has a high peaksuch as can never be attained ordinarily.Because when energies move farther away-hate means energy is moving farther away -there comes a pointwhen you have moved as far from each otheras you were before you fell in love.Just the same point has come again.You are two individuals, completely independent,all communication has dropped.You are again strangers, not knowing who the other is.This was the situation when you fell in love.If you don't escape, you will fall in love again - the whole romance, a new honeymoon.And if you cannot get the honeymoon again and again,love will become stale.It will be just a dead thing.You will have to carry it like a burden.
Lovers fight - only lovers can fight
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