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Secret List
Posted on Jun 29th, 2008
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The First Secret
Have a Mind That Is Open to Everything and Attached to Nothing
The Second Secret
Don't Die with Your Music Still in You
Have a Mind That Is Open to Everything and Attached to Nothing
The Second Secret
Don't Die with Your Music Still in You
The Third Secret
You Can't Give Away What You Don't Have
The Fourth Secret
Embrace Silence
The Fifth Secret
Give Up Your Personal History
The Sixth Secret
You Can't Solve a Problem with the Same Mind That Created It
The Seventh Secret
There Are No Justified Resentments
The Eighth Secret
Treat Yourself As If You Already Are What You'd Like to Be
The Ninth Secret
Treasure Your Divinity
The Tenth Secret
Wisdom Is Avoiding All Thoughts That Weaken You
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great secret list…I like dont die with your music still in you. My secret is I am that which wakes me up in the morning, strech the body and greet eveyone and thing in the day as me…I am the day.
thanks for posting these great pointers.
Indeed, your word is your world, Michael. My family circles me with love in all that I do and am. Blessings to us as we create the new world.
I like that… word is world…and before word there is…..(indescribable……
I love all of the secrets Heemes,
thank you..
I have listened to Dr Wayne Dyers audio on the secrets and found his thoughts and words inspiring and insightful on being already what you want to be…
Wow, it seems my lover was channelling Dr Dyer, or maybe they drew from the same source. Not sure. At any rate, I'm glad you know of these, ange!
avoiding all thoughts that weaken you… i'm not sure avoiding thoughts is necessarily the way it's how we deal with our thoughts. what do you think?
Nice job on this series….they're all quite good!
Could you tell us a little more about the last one?
Nicole and MorningStar,
The final secret is what I think of as the trump card secret. It also is a recursive secret, meaning it influences itself. If anything in life weakens you, and I don't mean challenges you, that's another thing entirely, the secret is to avoid it, unempower it in your life, dismiss it as unreal. My thoughts in my own life are the most common source of weakness; nothing else is quite as ubiquitous.
I see…weakening vs. challenging (which is better to keep around to learn from, even if just temporarily). Makes sense. I like the idea of “unempowering” the weakening thoughts.
Thx. for the explanation.
PS–Excellent use of the semicolon in that last sentence. Not too many people can pull that off. :) Seriously.
MS, your postscript made me smile.
You are adorable just like me.
it's true, Lisa! I'm always pleasantly surprised when I see people masterfully using grammatical tools, especially in fora :) (was also pleasantly surprised to see this plural in a recent discussion here on Gaia) like these.
I appreciate the explanation. Good distinction. However a question still remains for me. Is it real or not, this weakening thought? If it is indeed illusion, by all means, dismiss it. But if reality, and has a weakening effect?
Let's bring the conversation out of the hypothetical. Is there something we could discuss here in the open that is on your mind?
Individuals with ALS may serve as an example. Do you think less of Dr. Hawking because of his condition? I doubt he needs our sympathy for his so-called weakness has been transcended by a greater power, his mind. Does that illuminate my point?
that's a physical condition. I'm trying to think of a good example. ok, let's try this - you are feeling pulled away from what you know is right by a temptation in your mind. Do you simply dismiss it, only to have it return again and again because of the forces within you that drive it that you are not dealing with? Or do you examine why you are feeling tempted. Do you go to the root? Do you see what I'm wondering about, in terms of process? What is most effective?
In general, in meditation, it is not recommended to try to dismiss or push thoughts away. Rather we are asked to observe their coming and going without attachment. I like that.
Based on your example, I'd suggest following your heart to do what you know is right, learning by examination and getting to the root, all of it. This is not an either/or, perhaps it is a both/and.
Seems like you may be, in general, during meditation, dismissing or pushing away the thought of dismissing or pushing away thoughts, true?
How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go, Alice?
not dismissing or pushing away the thought, just asking :)
i'll go as far as i need to go to get where i need to get
hugs!
Ok, me too. I am also answering the best way I know how.
And I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date, no time to say hello, good-bye, I'm late!
hugs back!
Nicole–Hi. I think you're asking some good questions there. So there are two sides to this–“what is right” and a “temptation”? I would totally dig into this and not try to ignore it because in the case of a temptation, it will only get stronger.
Perhaps examine the thing “that is right” and see what's missing from it that the temptation includes. Imagine you're going to eat a fruit salad–it's healthy, what you need, etc. It's right. But you're tempted by that hunk of chocolate in the fridge. Not necessarily healthy (unless it's 85% cacao), but appealing/compelling. If you're truly craving the chocolate, then perhaps the fruit salad is a bit boring. Maybe you can compromise and have both by putting a small piece of the chocolate into the fruit salad?
On that note, I should go have breakfast…obviously, I'm hungry! :)
obviously! :) thanks, good thoughts. enjoy breakfast!
I am eating chocolate co co pufs with blueberries for breakfast :) this way i am healthy and enjoying life! :) we dont control our thoughts, or anything for that matter. each thought appears and moves, us and everything. When I walk I dont think left right left right it just happens just as i type these words. take a moment close your eyes and think up your next thought?…..hmmmmm get anything. We are all the wonderful dance of the universe expressing itself in illusions of :
thinking we are thinking
knowing we dont think
knowing we are IT
Being It, pretending not to be IT
All great dances… all Oneness acting in this play.
oooops ok back to breakfast…. (space with taste)
When I was a child, Michael, my thoughts were different than now. I don't play with Hot Wheels or think Mary Jane Mehlberg likes me. Your take seems more nihilistic than I am comfortable with. Isn't the dance a thought?
So beautiful so wise…this is how I try to live my life every day dear and I would say Im doing quite well because of it. Big hugs wise one…bows from the Jung One
great Jung Girl…enjoy living life… it takes no effort…no trying.. no thoughts to know you are Life.
and…yes the dance is a thought and the thoughts are a dance…. all One expressing. Its always been that way even as a child and here now…. there has never been any change…we are still the same One as when we were children…sit by any beach and tell me you are a different knowing sitting there now then you were as a child. You are the same knowing all the time.
a knowing of Love :)
You both appeal to my mystical nature, yet the rational logic professor won't let it happen.
Ah, yet another dance.
Love to you as well!
I praise the rational logic professor for being here….who otherwise would name all of these unbounded mystical places we are without names…. to re-descover again…
thanks !!!!:)
This list is a great path leading to understanding and appreciating oneself. Thank you for posting this.