1. Among many native traditions, it is said life is simple
if you:
2. To begin the process of personal growth, engage your
self-observer and:
3. Maintaining a viewpoint of accountability. Accountability is the
willingness to maintain the point of view—whether or not it is yet your
experience—that you are a part, cause, agent or source of your experience
and everything around you.
4. Living courageously is taking action in the presence of fear. Making a
growth choice rather than a fear choice.
5. Personal growth requires the surrender and transcendence of addictions,
laziness and reactive behavior. This means facing your emotions rather
than avoiding them.
6. Personal growth requires the surrender of denial, a commitment to
telling the truth about reality, the truth about where I am and what I am
doing in my life right now.
7. Personal growth requires the willingness to defer immediate
gratification.
8. The true-self is revealed in the stopping of the mind. When you face
your emotions they become allies, dive into them and there is dissolution,
and beneath infinite silence. Silence mirrors back the neurotic condition
of the false-self created by fixation in the attachment to form. The gift
of silence is that it reveals who you are not. Silence reveals the veiling
of pure consciousness through the actions of ego identification.
9. Self-realization requires "mastering" the
observer state of consciousness. This is a "focused" state where
one identifies with the "silent-inner-true-self," the divine,
rather than the stories of the ego and rational mind. From this silent
state there is no rational action required "you" are the
observer, what is observed and the process of observation. The
silent-observer simply views inner and outer sensations, judgments,
thoughts, breath and behavior without ascribing meaning to what is seen.
The silent-self-observer is like the film in a camera. It "objectively"
records what is seen without comment. It becomes
apparent that no matter what is seen in the world, it is first projected
onto the outer landscape from within. You have a thought. Your mind projects
the thought onto the outer world. You then experience a
"perception" of this thought projection. This is how thoughts
create reality and become self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-observation
allows you to face what is seen and penetrate the projection. As if by magic
the act of observation results in dissolution of the projection. Ones true
nature is seen to be independent from ones thoughts. Our true nature, source
and power is in the silence.
10. The process of "Personal Growth" requires the participation
and support of others of like mind, the cultivation of honest and sincere
relationships and community.
