Taking Responsibility for Ourselves
Taking Responsibility for Ourselves
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I’ve just returned from another 3 week trip to Kathmandu, Nepal, where I was fortunate enough to receive teachings from a Buddhist Rinpoche, my highest Teacher, His Holiness Ratna Vajra Sakya Trizin 42nd. There’s not many online forms that would allow for that many characters in the First and Last Name text entry fields. It was a great trip - not exciting, nor actually necessarily pleasurable, but super rewarding. How? To be immersed in the presence of such an incredibly (incomprehensibly) accomplished human being, opened me up to our limitless potential. It’s a feeling within, and requires integration. The integration comes from being able to make sense of the felt experience, with conscious awareness.
HOW HAPPY OR SATISFIED ARE YOU?
Some of us don’t even ask ourselves the question, until the answer is undeniably, ‘Fucked’. Let alone what it is to be satisfied, happy, etc. Let me ask another question. What’s your capacity and experience of sharing and connecting with empathy, compassion, love and kindness? From a position of not being attached to the outcome, or to want for something in return?
LAST QUESTION.
How are you taking steps to being more responsible unto yourself? What are these steps? Are they guided by a mentor, a guru, a wise elder that has walked the path before you that you are brought to tears of joy in their presence.
Do you consider yourself responsible enough to settle for nothing less than being everything you can be? Or at least taking strident action towards fulfilling that intention?
Are you intentionally generating; awe, beauty, love, peace, equanimity and the generosity from your heart to give everyday in every way, both to yourself and to others?
IF YOU HAVEN’T FOUND THAT YOU’VE HAD CLEAR ANSWERS…
To be guided by people that have been walking this path before you, by people that have done and are doing the work, allows us to broaden our mindset beyond the trappings of our habitual thoughts, and hence unfolding experience (called life). It’s simply called getting more conscious. I encourage you to explore it in every way that you know how - starting with asking the questions for others that can guide you, contemplating the knowledge, meditating, and allowing through your open heart life to become more than a series of dissatisfying self serving spent moments.