Joseph Campbell Meditation No. 1

“People say what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life . . . I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” - Joseph Campbell

Embrace the Wisdom Without and Within.

Living is merely keeping yourself alive. It really isn’t anything more complex or complicated than that. Avoid dying.

For some people that is a struggle but for most of us that’s not even a thought. We don’t even consider death as a possibility. So, then we start looking beyond needs and move into wants.

Wanting wealth. Wanting security. Wanting love.Wanting fulfillment. Wanting joy. Wanting abundance.

And we get really confused on our wants. We sometimes want to be given these things. We consider that if other folks have those things they should just give them to us. Or we seek to associate with people that have those things to figure out their secrets. Hoping that this will make it easier for us to get those things.

But the secret to getting what we want resides inside ourselves. Fulfillment, resonance, rapture, all reside inside you. You can be alive, truly alive.

And you don’t need a book, a drink, a pill, a mentor, a program. You just need to think it and then you can achieve it. Get what you want out of your life? Courage is choosing to change.

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Liu-chi Meditation No. 1

“If you meet the buddha, kill the buddha.” - Liu-chi

Embrace the Wisdom Without and Within.

A buddha can represent a teacher or a teaching. When you think beyond the literal meaning that definitely violates the NAP, you start to understand what Liu-chi was laying down.

Buddhas are there in your life to give you knowledge, focus your journey, or teach you a way of living. But, once you learn what the buddha knows, you can move on.

A teaching is an external influence. A teaching is someone else’s view on the world. A teaching is not you.

All modes of thought are either useful or not. So meeting the buddha is fine. Being friendly with the buddha is your choice. But you are not the buddha. You are you.

So you can pretend to be the buddha or you can be you?

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