Golf for Enlightenment 2

Deepak helps clear things up. Here's another list of things to help towards the path to impeccability which can be followed today and always :

- Be willing to redefine yourself every day

- Watch yourself falling into old habits and beliefs, then stop as soon as you catch yourself

- Accept total responsibility for every response and feeling you have. Do not cast them out onto anything or anyone external to you.

- Take the world to be a true mirror of who you are at this very instant.

- Receive whatever is trying to come in. Messages are everywhere. Your next step doesn't have to be thought out. It will simply appear before you at the right time.

- Don't act when you are in doubt. Don't make decisions when you are uncertain. Practice patience until you know for sure.

- Assume that God has His total attention on you.


These are not techniques but states of mind, and if you write them down and look at them regularly, they can become as ingrained in you as any habit - for impeccability is first a habit, then an instinct, and finally a spontaneous way of living in the world that needs no reminder because the path opens up as freely as tomorrow's dawn.

Camera 101

While Géraldine, Samantha and I are going at it playing music, my Dad instructs my Great Aunt Margaret how to make a video on camera.

Éric and Géraldine have been a great influence to me throughout the years. In many ways I still look up to them, kindof as an example of what I would like to do now. There is nothing wrong with whatever way we choose, but sometimes we get a little tired or sick of doing the same things over and over. When this restlessness happens, it's important to pay close attention at what your body or your whatever is telling you. Then, if possible, allow things to happen, don't get in your own way. I always look forward to spending time with Éric and Géraldine and their family when they come to the island to visit.

Pop quiz

Did you know there are roughly 6 Billion people in the world ?

Did you know there are roughly 1 Billion people in the world that are always hungry ?

Did you know we now make enough food for 12 Billion people ?

Live like this

1) Give your greatest attention to the present

2) Allow things to happen naturally

3) Go outside often

4) Eat well

5) Be as transparent as a window

6) Exercise every day

7) Everyone is One

8) Everything is a miracle

9) Give in whatever way you can

Reffing hockey - part 2

You know, after cooling down a little from this incident and recapturing my thoughts, I see that I've put too much energy in dissecting this occurance. I cannot give this too much attention with my constant negative judgment of the man's behavior. That will never solve the problem. Rather, I must recognize more easily that the problem lies within that person's very being and it's only a misperception of reality he's portraying. Again, it's the ego problem, forgetting that we are so much more than flesh and power. If I easily see this during the very toughest of times, I will naturally "resist no evil" and accept the current situation ... but then forget it immediately and not giving it more attention than it deserves. My needing to prove that I was right was my own ego feeling the need to be seen and heard properly. I wasn't any better in that situation. So what is the solution ? I think the best solution was to accept, not resist, and not say a word or think a thought more of it.

Reffing hockey - part 1

The sport I've been playing since the age of 5 is quickly becoming one of the most dishonorable games in my books. I'm assuming its always been this way, but I am only coming to a better realization of the fallacy, the stupideness, the idiocy, barbaric and the primitive behaviors many humans still exhibit while participating in sports. Naturally, there is a deeper confusion or conflict which causes us to engage in such ridiculous battles on the ice. However, the true battles lies in the ego.

I was the referee of a semi-final Peewee A game, ages 11-12, and it was what I thought a great game. One team was favored to win, yet they were down 2-0 early. The favorites slowly clawed their way back to winning the game 4-2. Now, I've learnt to be very objective and I honestly believe I know when things go a little rough during games as an official. It's difficult to see every single act out there and sometimes you know you either made a weak call, or missed a big call. But it usually evens out in the end and the better team will more often than not, win the game. Anyhow, after this particular Peewee game was done, I said to myself I had done a clean game and felt relatively invincible to all (which is the objective of the refs). Then, before the teams shook hands the head coach of the losing team was looking at me for a bit, and after shaking hands and saying "good game", "good luck in the finals", "good job", "well played" ... and whatever else he might have said to a younger person, he came to me and proceeded to tell me this :

"I've been coaching for a few years now and I've never said anything to any ref. But this was the worst officiating I've ever seen."

Let me just leave it at that for now. I'll formulate more later.

Safety

Not safety as in when you save yourself from getting hit after farting.

Safety as in the everlonging construction of a net that will hopefully shield us from outer walls, or things that could possibly hurt us. Where is living if all your energy is to fabricate this illusionary web to secure ... to secure what, or who exactly ? What do I want to secure when I do this ? Do I want to secure myself ? And if this wall is breached, then what happens ? Does the inner dissolve ? And if it did dissolve into nothing, would this be a horrendous thing ? Do we believe we are headed to a horrendus end ? Who talks about the end ? There is a continuity of something. When the Earth blows up there will still be something there, or here, or everywhere, or nowhere.

To ignore interesting questions, being open and honest is interesting in itself. I think it's important to die to everything every day, then you can begin freshly the next morning. In a full openness of spirit, you would simply be wouldn't you ? Be and happy. Keep it simple. Examine the confusion carefully, don't ignore and don't give suggestions of right or wrong. Just examine it. Just do it.