Die empty

This is a post by my spiritual mentor, a former IT executive and currently a monk ordained by the order of monks of the tradition of Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, in Facebook.

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“To possess a heart full of love, and then to live a life selfless, free and cheerful, is the goal of all lives.”

— Swami Ramdas

Aum. Indeed! It’s helpful to see this in print, yes? We all deal with this feeling of incompletion, and our dear mind comes up with so many ideas about how to fill our “hole in the heart”. As it turns out, though, there is actually not a hole at all. We are whole and complete, already in the Kingdom, and yet there are such strong ideas and feelings that this is not so. This – if we can visualize ourselves wearing this – puts an end to the longing. It is actually what we want. It is not easy, life is not easy, but this one sentence is as good an explanation of what we are looking for as any that we’ve seen.

Blessings. Jai Ma, Jai Gurudev, May all beings be Happy and Free.

🙏🕉️❤️

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I find that it is important to cultivate a mindset of plenty in our own capacity. The world is always rating us and we need to be objective in viewing those ratings as having lessons but not use it to label ourselves.

This meditation allows us to build the space in our mind to grow our potential.

The book Die empty by Todd Henry complements this mindset of a judgement free appreciation of ourselves by us to then consider how do we actualize our potential or self actualize, borrowing the term from Abraham Maslow. Todd Henry translates the Agile framework that is used very successfully in business, into our own life. In fact, Dr. Deming himself did likewise but his work in that area of how to apply the PDCA cycle in our own life may not have gained appreciation but his core principle of what I consider, a benevolent incremental and iterative cycle of a consciously designed process is embedded and can be discerned in many self help methodologies.

Die Empty Summary – Four Minute Books