It is not so easy being a self-reliant and independent person. Try, work, struggle and try again. On and on, an endless cycle. Some people claim that work is fulfillment, and it is true that it can be just that. Whether that is something good for you, however, depends on your goals and perspective, depends on what you are looking to fill yourself with.

Another way of looking at this might be people some would label as irrational. They say their heads are filled with voices. But have you ever wondered where the voice you call your own comes from? How do you know whether the voice or voices you hear are yours?

When spiritual teachers talk about ‘emptying the mind,’ this can be a somewhat misleading expression. It suggests that there are no thoughts, nothing present. Emptying the mind is like taking a glass full of milk that has been left out on the table too long. The milk gets sour. So, we empty the glass and wash it out; this is emptying the mind of (s)our clutter. But it doesn’t stop there. We reach for a bottle of fresh milk, open the cap and let its’ cool liquid spill down our throat. This is the in-rush or through-put of living in the moment, allowing clear, clean thoughts to flow in and through us. We don’t think about drinking the milk; we just drink – and in the moment-by-moment drinking of it, we experience it – with little to no thought.

One way to get potable water is to desalinate it, while another way is to drink it straight from a fresh mountain spring. One way takes a great deal of effort to get from point A to point B; the other way is effortless – we simply drink it straight from the source.

We can’t drink an entire mountain stream. We sip some, some spills down our chin, and the rest flows downstream. Simply drink. Let thoughts flow in and out

It is not so easy being a self-reliant and independent person. So, stop thinking so much. Stop trying so hard. Open your mind and drink straight from the source.

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Sometimes people talk about living at a higher frequency. Here is an insight into this term.

“How do you conduct the Universal Flow? How do you improve your conductivity? The universe has a flow going to it. We and everything else in the universe are in it and a part of it. It’s all flowing, and if we want to conduct the universal flow even more, then we must learn to become more attuned to things on a universal level. If we are wanting to be more conductive, then we have to improve our conduct, relative to something, that allows the universe to flow through us better, or at a higher frequency.

“Higher frequency means more times per second, or more times per minute, or more times in our life. Some people don’t understand what frequency even means. If we increase our frequency it means something is happening more often. So when we conduct the universal flow, and we talk about wanting to increase our frequency, it means we need to conduct it more often.

“The more often you conduct it, the more you are able to do the things that can only be done when you’re applying yourself more continuously. The more continuously you can stay connected and conduct the universal flow, the more you can complete the task that was dependent on your connection to that particular point.”

Sensei. “Introduction to the Art of Giving”. Montvale: Great River Institute, 17 Feb 2000.

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