Tag: present
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happy new year!
Similar to Christmas, the new year is a rebirth, a new beginning, to start anew in synchronicity with the seasons of our earth. We can leave previous suffering behind and welcome new kinds of suffering, as well as new pleasures and experiences. In the eternal now, nothing is required to stay with us. We could…
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relax and conquer
My thinking sometimes is that people around me should be working on something. This leads me to think, what should I be working on that I don’t realize I should be working on? I’ve been trying to find that answer, aside from my best guesses of meditation, hard work, and physical training, self observation, prayer,…
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barrel
Hurricane Franklin, four feet @ thirteen seconds. One and a half times overhead and clean. Fast forward to my last wave.. looks a bit smaller on the takeoff compared to the other bombs that peaked in one spot. It was a long wall, tapering nicely and seeming stable, free of peaks. Dropped in and fired…
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OKness
To really be in the present, we should be OK with the way things are. Not with the way things are going, but with how they are right now. The moment we think about changing something or making some improvement, we’re living in the future. This is a fallacy of individuals focused more on the…
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soup time
We often spend our time thinking about future plans, hopes and fears; or past events, mishaps, and triumphs. Even when the day comes we had planned for, such as Easter day as I write this, we are still in the momentum of this state… we continue to plan, hope or fear for what might come…