Comments on: A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

By: Reiki Tutor

Reiki Tutor — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:25:06 +0000

Could you recommend any specific resources, books, or other blogs on this topic?

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:53:54 +0000

Hi David,

We came across the great art image on this article and found it would be perfect as cover art for the study guide we just created for a series of lessons we are starting this Sunday based upon A New Earth. We’re wondering if it’s your image, and we could have your permisssion to print it on our study guide. (not for sale) If it’s not your art work can you tell us whose so we can request permission from them.
Thanks very much…and btw you’re a good writer!
Larry
Rev. Larry Schellink
Unity Center of Davis
Davis, CA

By: mama llama

mama llama — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:37:28 +0000

TE and Tonya made mention of the Course in Miracles and, although I cannot attest to Tolle aside from what all have said above, I can also see definite similarities. I did not know that TCIM was his inspiration.

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In my years living in (rural mountainous) Japan (NOT Tokyo) I was struck by the hard work ethic of everyone, from the Town’s mayor (who happened to be the brother of the Prime Minister) to first grade children. Yet what struck me more was the intensity with which the Japanese lived their lives outside of the office/workplace/school. Whether it be party after party followed by karaoke followed by more party on a Thursday night, tending the family rice paddy, intense games of baseball or Mah-Jong or preparation for the next Town Festival, the Japanese taught me so much about living life in the present–it is necessary to complete one’s responsibilities but it is also necessary to remind ourselves that we are still alive and not mere rats on a wheel.

The Japanese have a saying that is deeply rooted in their Bushido Samurai code: Sho ga nai. It can’t be helped. As a relatively uptight Westerner, I was met with that response with many questions and frustrations I could not immediately reconcile. “Sho ga nai” is what I would be told.

Just let it go. Relax. Live the moment, because fighting the moment will not make Life any easier.

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Hard to keep that up. No longer teaching at the Uni and working out of my home has definitely made living in the present and embracing our momentary dynamics much easier, and my relationship with my children and my friends is now much less stressed with no more pressures, time limitations, etc. from Above.

It is up to us to carve this into our lives, isn’t it? My double-mantra of Joseph Campbell’s “Follow your bliss” and Jonathan Swift’s “May you live all the days of your life” help remind me to stay on track, but just as justrun says above, mastery is a different issue altogether.

Nice food for thought. Be well, Daddy-o!

By: justrun

justrun — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:14:12 +0000

Stop minding so much is excellent advice. Not that I have mastered it, in fact I mind today a LOT, but nonetheless.

By: dadshouse

dadshouse — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:09:17 +0000

Lance – agree you have to be in the mood to read Tolle. But he has good stuff. Seems the Power of Now and New Earth concepts would work great on the pick-up/social scene – put aside fears and just go with the flow of the moment.

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:24:46 +0000

I read Power of Now last year and it was mindblowing…I mean, I was moved by it. You have to be sorta in the mood to digest it, but he’s got some amazing ideas in there. What I got out of it is to thoroughly live in the present and enjoy your every day experience as much as possible, and not stress about the past.

By: dadshouse

dadshouse — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:37:51 +0000

I think acceptance is indeed key. That doesn’t mean you have to be happy with your circumstances. It means you allow life as it comes to you to flow freely through you. Spiritual non-resistence. When you fight that flow and try to control it, you get stressed, your body breaks down.

Carolyn Myss has a great book on that topic: Anatomy of the Spirit. And if you’re ever blocked and need healing, there’s reiki (a technique used by nurses in places like Stanford’s neo-natal unit. I’m a reiki master, so I know a bit about this)

I think it’s still fine to want things, but you can’t control outcomes. You set goals that are aligned with your inner purpose, you feel energetic and enthused, and that’s when the universal spirit joins forces with you, or actually takes over and flows through you to manifest things in the world.

If anyone wants some of the Kool-Aid I’m drinking, let me know…