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No Water No Fish…

It’s Friday, Yeah!!

I had a focused day yesterday teaching Scientific Shoulder. My students where great and asked lots of questions.

I managed to get over to the spa to take a nice steam before dinner, which rejuvenated me.

Today, I got a quick tai-chi session in before I began teaching.

NO WATER

NO FISH

Sutra 2 Expansion: Here, we have two sutra’s in one.

“NO WATER” means no life as we know it. All sentient beings in the Earth-plane need water to “live”.

Throughout recorded history, water has been referred to as “Holy” because water brings life; Holy water is often used to purify shrines and people in religious ceremonies as a symbol of purification.

Without water, rocks would not transform into soil and nothing would grow; life as we know it to be as humans could not exist, for without water to transform rock to soil, there could be no food.

Without water, there could be no atmosphere in which to breathe.

Water is to all life as blood is to all living creatures in nature. What can live with out blood or it’s very essence?

Without water, what would carry the waste away – what would clean nature? Can you imagine how your life would change if you had no way to clean yourself or your environment?

Metaphysically, water is as Unconditional Love.

Lao Tzu tells us that, “Water always seeks the lowest level; it serves the highest, yet, as the saint or sage, serves the lowest”; how would your life be different if water suddenly decided to change direction, serving and seeking only the highest?

It is the very nature of water to penetrate rock – to penetrate even the lowest places, such as your sewer system; there, water serves as the key transformative agent, bringing movement, change, and therefore, “life” to all ‘things’.

We must remember that life is movement and without water, the movement that creates life as we know it could not exist – therefore – we could not exist as we do now.

Regardless of how challenging your life would be, dare to envision how menial your challenges would be without water!

Other metaphysical meanings associated with water include:

o Weakness; giving into the hard – in service to…Kabir expresses that God or your soul are as the master who bows in service to you, awaiting the day you wake up to the truth of yourself.

o Unexpressed possibilities of the mind; water represents the sea of thought.

o The subconscious mind – Intuition.

o Doubt; man is said to be lost at sea when he can’t effectively use his mind or imagination; his water faculty. Without fish, one must learn to use their imagination to survive – to find food.

o Negativeness of thought and of polarity.

o A low physical condition relates to ineffective use of the water principle.

o Baptism; washing away negativity and committing one’s self to openness.

o Restoration of flow so that one can think and function optimally again.

o Water is the source of all the humors of the body, including blood, urine, vitreous humor (eye fluid), cerebral spinal fluid, axoplasmic fluid (nerve flow), marrow, lymphatic fluid, digestive juices, inner-ear fluid and saliva.

o Life-giver.

“NO FISH” has many meanings.

The first and most obvious is that if there is “no fish”, there is essentially “no food”. Certainly, the challenges become obvious!

“No Fish” in this sutra comes after “no water”, therefore, “no fish” is a co-dependent statement; without water, there can’t be any fish.

In metaphysics, the fish is a symbol representing:

o Fecundity – a phallic emblem – the great possibility for increase

o Christ or the “Christ Principle”

o Deities such as Isis and Vishnu

o Ideas: the mental aspects of eating

TAO-TE-zen Practice

In the future, children will be telling stories of a time when their ancestors, with their infinite creative energy, developed amazing technologies for making everything in life “easier.”

They made their own birds that could fly and carry people; they made giant tractors to till the soil and chemicals to kill the weeds; they dammed the rivers to run massive power generators to light entire cities; they sucked all the oil out of the earth to power and lubricate their myriad of machines.

They even made food that did not grow or need to be prepared.

In just a few hundred years, they had forgotten why and how their forefathers worshiped Nature. The skies became dirty, the waters so poisoned with chemicals that Nature’s ocean life began to die.

Their massive fishing ships and factory farms threw Nature out of balance and they began to worship money and machines above and before the beings that gave them life.

Soon, they began to run out of water, and most of the fish had been eaten or died. Disease was rampant among them.

Zen is the practice of living simply, in worship of what creates life.

In balance with nature.

That is TAO-TE-zen.

May your weekend provide you many experiences to participate in nature.

Love and chi,

Paul Chek

Vegas and Tao

Happy Thursday to you!

Yesterday was extremely busy with coaching calls and my Flatten Your Abs Webinar.

I managed to get into the gym for a quick lunging workout, which felt great!

Penny and I managed to make Las Vegas in 4.5 hours, got ourselves setteled and to bed by 9:30pm.

This morning I found a small crack between two buildings in the concrete jungle here to do my tai-chi in the morning sun. I love my tai chi practice! Especially when I’m on the road it helps me to discharge all the electo-magnetic buildup and resource lovely chi!

I’ll be teaching my Scientific Shoulder workshop today at ECA-BALANCE.

Today, I want to loop back to one of my Tao-TE-zen Sutra’s: #1.

The mandala art is by my good friend Gunnila Blumberg our CHEK Swedish International Affiliate.

TAO-TE-zen Sutra 1:

ONE
IS
ALL THERE
IS

TAO-TE-zen Practice:

Our Natives, living in the wild, developed intimate relationships with Mother Earth.

They were also very conscious of the moon, the sun, and the stars, for they came to realize that these larger “bodies” regulated the seasons.

They knew, with ever fiber of their being, that they could not live without water, earth, sun, air – and all these realities changed with the seasons.

When our Natives had challenges they could not solve, they looked to other “beings” who gave them knowledge they could not find on their own accord.

They worshiped trees, fire, the lingam and yoni; the moon, the planets and the stars were respected as “gods” and nature spirits were “deified”, for they were the bringers of life – life we could not create ourselves.

Today, scientists peer into nature through electron microscopes, atom colliders, and mathematical formulae only to find that inside, it is All connected!

When looking through telescopes, they find that nature expands to match their conscious inquiry.

The result…we now have reaffirmation that no matter which way you go – smaller – or BIGGER – we are ALL ONE – ONE IS ALL THERE IS.

Practice seeing “wholeness” in and around you. Treat nature as “thy self” and you will never feel alone again.

To gain a natural sense of the Oneness of Nature, please take a few minutes to watch this amazing video clip that was forwarded to me by Chek Practitioner, Corey Jung.

It’s amazing and truly beautiful.

It made my day!

Gorillas and Man

May you be inspired to develop your relationship with Nature!

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

NEW AGE…NEW OPPORTUNITIES!

Happy Wednesday to You!

I had a very productive day yesterday.

I was happy to finish filming my Monthly Message and Q&A with Paul segments for www.chekconnect.com.

I had a great coaching session with a client as well.

I got into the gym for a nice lunge session with some wood copping movements on the cable and some lower body rotation training for my core on the Swiss ball.

After my evening tai-chi session, I rebuilt some of my little decorative stacks that the wind had blown over on my newest rock creation.

It’s quite fun working with stones in the dark because you have to rely much more on your inner-guidance and instincts in absence of vision. Great training!

I’m constantly amazed at the limitations that emerge in me when over-reliant on the physical senses relative to the spiritual senses.

Any form of inner-development is a useful practice in my opinion.

THE CONFIDENCE GAME

My son (Paul Chek Jr.) has begun his own blog site.

His first blog post is a beautiful expression of his experiences with a lady who came to him for help as a Chek Practitioner due to problems with her cervical spine.

Her name is Bola, and he developed a deep and mutually respectful friendship with her that lasted many years.

Bola died of cancer recently and my son was with her, supporting her any way he could through the long and challenging process.

The experience moved him deeply and he shares many pearls of wisdom gained from the experience on his new blog.

There is some deep and beautiful wisdom all can benefit from in his blog. I’m really excited to see him sharing more of his knowledge and inner-world through his blog.

I hope you take a moment to give it a read. I really enjoyed it and it carries his unique personality. He’s a deep thinker, as you will see!

For a great read, go to: www.theconfidencegame.com

NEW AGE…NEW OPPORTUNITIES!

I don’t know about you, but with all the negative energy around 2012, I found that I had to confide in my soul to get answers I could trust.

The environment is so powerful an influence that if you get enough people moving in one direction, the tide of such energies can become powerful enough to make one begin questioning their own sense of truth.

Though I found much of the information to be scary, mysterious, and gray, it gave me the impetus to check in with my soul and find solace there.

I distinctly remember waking up around 2:00 AM the morning of 1-1-12 with a palpable sense of lightness.

I felt the energy shifting toward an energy of levity; one that supports letting go of old habits and ideas. It was lovely and reassuring.

When I did my annual mandala for 2012, my ego-mind was wondering, “do I really want to see what’s coming, or do I want to play dead and take it as it comes?

I’m used to listening to the dialogue of the ego.

Over the many years of working to develop my relationship with my soul, I’ve learned that the ego is very fragile and loves co-dependency; it loves to jump on the bandwagon of social construct.

The myriad of times I’ve asked my soul, “Is it true what my ego is telling me?” and got a definite answer “NO!”, has taught me not to pay too much attention to that scarecrow; too much of it is built of the past when I didn’t understand enough about life to see through the pains.

Well, with bravery, I sat down and let my soul guide my hands as I let my 2012 mandala flow out of me, unobstructed by my ego-mind’s influences.

After seeing what my soul offered me as a map for my year, I felt blessed and reassured.

I feet that regardless of what challenges I, We, or All go through, the outcome will be one of beauty and social awareness and healing.

Philosopher/Sage Paul Brunton has some beautiful insights in this regard, which he shares in his book titled, Human Experience – The Arts in Culture, Vol. 9, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton (p.213):

 

 

… “Just as the nineteenth century was the era of scientific enlightenment, so our own is the century of universal enlightenment. This is taking three forms.

First, general education, intellectual knowledge and scientific discovery will continue to spread throughout the whole world and will not reside mainly in the West.

Second, they will become available to all classes and not be confined mostly to the middle and upper classes. Third, religion, mysticism, and metaphysics will reveal their realities and shed their superstitions, will be made more rational and thus will no longer be regarded as being displaced by science but rather as being necessary to complete it.

Furthermore, the philosophy of truth, which is the highest kind of enlightenment possible to mankind, will become as easily accessible as it was remotely hidden in former centuries.

Because we are at a cyclic turning-point, this is the century when truth will be let loose on the world. Not only ultimate truth which philosophy reveals for the few but also political, economic, social, religious, and scientific truth for the many.

The falsehoods which dominate human society, the illusions which individuals and groups hug so fondly, and their lies under which society lives are being—and, we venture to predict, will be still more—shown up for what they are.”…(paragraph 225)

“If we are to restore contentment to our hearts, we must restore balance to our strivings.”

START WHERE YOU ARE!

As Paul Brunton beautifully highlighted, we are all now very hip to the corruption of governments, big business, religion, school systems, military pursuits, science, medicine, biotechnology, commercial farming, and the rest…

Many become paralyzed just watching the news each night, just as many become numb, and all too many use the state of the world as they perceive it as an excuse to indulge in drugs and habits of instant gratification without realizing that much of this behavior is a stress response.

The wise are hip to the fact that much of this behavior is highly profitable (at large) to the same organizations responsible for the stressors we are discussing.

Therefore, the wise activist makes their first move toward social reform through their own commitment to change by improving self-management.

While the ignorant, deluded and defeated repeat the same behaviors in their own life that they criticize at the corporate or governmental level, they feed the dinosaur of over-consumption and social delusion.

Only when we take responsibility for loving and nurturing ourselves in such a way that we produce well-being will we ever have the energy or mental clarity to constructively contribute to social change.
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We must remember that just as a family is made of a collection of individuals, and a tribe a collection of inter-woven families, and a society a collection of interwoven tribes, and a culture a collection of interwoven societies, humanity itself is a construct of which the basic atoms of creation are the individuals themselves.

Just as the human body is composed of approximately 100 trillion cells, humanity is a being composed of about 7 billion individuals.

Each step we take as individuals to be more aware of what love and nurture is makes us more aware of what love and nurture is to all the living beings for whom our very lives depend upon.

One who loves and cares for themselves authentically, naturally feels the importance for caring for trees, wildlife, water, farmers, school teachers, children, and other human beings.

Each act that externalizes our love requires an act of will on our part. When any act to love draws from the resources of a diminished body-mind, it is actually an act of self-destruction, and therefore, part of the problem.

If everyone in any family, town or city were, on any given day, coordinate their efforts in any one direction, be it saving water, feeding the poor, cleaning up the town, etc., people witnessing would be shocked at what can be done in a short period of time.

It is not a grand leap of logic to see that if the very same people got together for any one such pursuit, but they were all sick and tired and addicted, the same project would inevitably take far longer to complete and may not get completed at all!

As I often tell my students, “Don’t worry about the world. Get yourself sorted out and the world will match your beauty every step of the way!”

I’ve created our 2012 Dream Big Contest so that you have an opportunity to share your BIG DREAM with us through www.PPSsuccess.com. There is only five more days before the contest ends so I encourage you to make your submissions.

I’ve already know that several of you have submitted your Big Dreams and I am really excited to review all the submissions. We will be announcing the winner in February.

When we focus our energy to fuel our Dreams, miracles can happen!

Well I’m off to Los Vegas this afternoon with Penny to present at ECA BALANCE. If you are there, I look forward to connecting with you.

Enjoy your day!

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

EGO – THE GREATEST GIFT IN THE UNIVERSE!

Happy Tuesday to You!

I had a great day yesterday. It was lovely to get back to some heavy deadlifting, rowing and reptilian crawling in the gym after a fun weekend in the rock garden.

I was busy with coaching, meetings and preparing my next edition of Q&A with Paul and the Monthly Message for www.chekconnect.com.

If you are unaware of my Q&A with Paul subscription, I answer a variety of questions concerning challenges people face on a wide variety of topics each month for our members. I film them and subscribers can benefit from all my answers.

This is particularly helpful for those in any aspect of healthcare or the exercise profession because it allows them to have a holistic perspective for addressing common challenges to health and well-being. You can subscribe at www.chekconnect.com if that interests you.

My Monthly Message is a free offering and there are many other free video clips there if you are interested.

I’m working diligently to get all the pending items completed before heading off tomorrow to Las Vegas to teach a series of classes at the new ECA Las Vegas Balance Conference.

Maybe I’ll see some of you there!

EGO – THE GREATEST GIFT IN THE UNIVERSE!

As many of you are probably aware, there is a long-standing disdain for the ego in many, if not most religious, and even spiritual circles.

This saddens me because it is the source of much confusion for people. The ego is, in my opinion, the greatest gift in the universe.

In his book, The Ego – From Birth to Rebirth, Vol. 6, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton (p.122, paragraph 465), Paul Brunton states:

“Remove the concept of the ego from a man and you remove the solid ground from beneath his feet. A yawning abyss seems to open up under him.

It gives the greatest fright of his life, accompanied by feelings of utter isolation and dreadful insecurity. He will then clamor urgently for the return of his beloved ego and return to safety once more—unless his determination to attain truth is so strong and so exigent that he can endure the ordeal, survive the test, and hold on until lthe Overself’s light irradiates the abyss.”

This truth could not be stated more accurately and clearly than Paul Brunton has stated it.

His observations are dead accurate according to my own personal experiences. This begs the question…

If the religious and spiritual teachers the promote ego-death actually understand what the ego is and how it functions, why would they want to [Remove the concept of the ego from a man and you remove the solid ground from beneath his feet? (knowing that) A yawning abyss seems to open up under him. (and that) It gives the greatest fright of his life, accompanied by feelings of utter isolation and dreadful insecurity.”]?

In my personal opinion, (based on extensive explorations of what the ego is and how it functions), encouraging people to shed the ego is the direct result of worshiping words on paper above and beyond any authentic experience of what the ego is, or what it actually means to exist without it.

An excellent example of this very issue was vibrantly displayed during Oprah’s recent interview with Joel Osteen on her new show titled Oprah’s Next Chapter, which aired on 1/08/2012.

From Houston, Texas, Pastor Joel Osteen is considered one of America’s most influential spiritual leaders. After attending Pastor Osteen’s Sunday service at Lakewood, the largest church in America, Oprah visits the Osteen home to talk faith, marriage, power and ego.

While interviewing him, she asked about his congregation. She asked if there were gay people in his flock, and did he welcome them openly. He said “yes”.

Later in the interview, she popped a very telling question… “Do you think it’s a sin to be gay?” Just as I suspected, he said “yes”. “According to scripture it is a sin to be gay.”

In paraphrase, Osteen said that he refers to “scripture for guidance on such matters”…

So, here you have a perfect example of what I mean by deifying words on paper above and beyond authentic experience.

Without your ego, there is no-thing to know, do or relate to. All IS. There isn’t even a concept of God. This is the nature of Unconditional Love.

(Note: BTW, I’m really impressed with Oprah’s “Next Chapter” series! Oprah is a genuine gift to humanity)

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So, we have a paradoxical situation that emerges in such religious circles.

We are encouraged to rid ourselves of the ego, which ultimately leads to the experience of Unconditional Love, yet, such “scripture” puts a myriad of conditions on love.

Why does loving any other in a way that nourishes you and they (without harming others) have to be a sin if indeed, the Bible is the word of God?

This essentially means that God sins against God; such a God can only be very confused, and such confusion naturally leads to people living in a state of confused wonder and worship…

In my drawing above, you can see my artistic rendition of St. Francis of Assisi’s reply to seekers questions as to what God is. He said, “What you are looking for…is what’s looking.”

The red ‘U’ in my drawing represents the Universe; the black below represents The Absolute (GOD), which is experienced only in a state of egoless-ness, and as such, can’t possibly be accurately defined by an ego (therefore, there can’t be such thing as scripture that is the direct word of God, for it is an ego that holds the pen!)

Without the ego-construct, there can be no “I and Thou” relationship; there is no subject-object consciousness. Without the ego, one can’t possibly be “conscious of” any person, place or thing.

Could you possibly know of, or have the experience of loving in absence of your ego, your very sense of self? What would you love?

As I see it, the ego is the greatest gift there ever cold be! It is because I have an ego that I can appreciate all the beauty of the universe—the stars, the sky, our amazing planet, all that is Mother Nature, and each other.

In my drawing, the female represents “yin” and the male “yang”. With the gift of the ego, we are at once given awareness of “self”, and of each other.

Because the ego (which also means individual mind) operates on the principle of exclusion (If I am me, I am not you; black is black because it is not white…), as a point of consciousness, it naturally casts a shadow; “gay people are sinners…”

Getting rid of the ego is equal to getting rid of one’s capacity to perceive and experience love.

Without love, what can we aspire to? Without love, what do we truly have to live for?

Without love, what holds our life together when the ego perceives its experiences to be otherwise?

Our love of the sun keeps us warm inside on a cold and rainy day; we know that no one state can last forever and that the rain brings the sun.

If we were all to focus on healing our egos, the world would be a very different place, don’t you think?

As I clearly define in PPS Success Mastery Lesson 2. Self Mastery, the ego is essentially an “idea construct”.

Healing our ego is equal to developing both an open mind, and a level of holistic awareness that all we like, or don’t like emerge from the same source; the word “Universe” literally means One Verse, one song.

If God is Love, it makes no sense that God would create a class of people with authentic same-sex affinity, only to have them be forever starved for love.

Instead, the Universe operates on the principle of harmony. In that harmony, like attracts like and opposites attract.

Each of us enjoys being with people we like, but we often learn the most from those that are relatively opposite in their viewpoints.

Once we are guided by wise, loving teachers with authentic progress in the healing of their own ego, we are given clues by them as to how to see the world as it actually is. Once we have such experiences, we can at once see where we lacked consciousness under the influences of the ego’s shadow.

My personal experience goes against the grain of conventional religious teachings at large in that I have come to see that first and foremost, we must learn to love and care for ourselves.

Of the most important of Biblical, religious teachings is to love thy neighbor as thy self.

But can we really love anyone else more effectively or more authentically than we can love ourselves; can you tie my shoe better than you can tie your own?

When we are guided by wise parents and elders to healthy self-love, that love naturally overflows into our relationships with other persons, places and things. Our love is the basis of how we see and experience the world.

Naturally, when we consider that love is an act of inclusion, our growth and development through the ‘I’ and ‘WE’ stages of ego-healing or development leads to healthy love of ‘ALL’.

When we reach that state, we are very likely to have deep and profound experiences of Oneness with all life.

It is also natural to look back on your life and laugh when considering how much we have grown in both our viewpoints and our ability to love and accept the perfection that creates the Universe.

Then, when interviewed by Oprah, if I were asked, “Do you think being gay is a sin?”, I can authentically respond, “Oprah, the scriptures, if read literally, suggest that it is. Yet, from my own experiences, I’ve come to realize that the only real sin is not loving when we truly know what Love is. From the perspective of Love, there is no sin, only experiences and it is up to God to determine what is and isn’t a sin.”

To take this from a different angle, I was watching an interview on Spiritual Cinema Circle where the interviewer was talking about Matt Damon’s first experience working under Clint Eastwood as a director.

He said that Matt Damon had been working on set for a month or more and had received no input from Clint Eastwood and was wondering if he had any feedback…if he’d like him to play the role differently than he was.

Matt Damon approached Clint and said (in paraphrase), “Is there anything you’d like me to do differently? I’m feeling a little unsure because you haven’t said anything to me through the entire shoot this far.

Clint Eastwood replied, “I cast you son!”

You see, Clint “cast” Matt Damon because he knew he was perfect for the role and therefore, there was nothing to fix.

Well, if there is a God, then God cast us all!

Enjoy your ego. When you feel a lack of love in your life, it certainly isn’t because love is lacking in the world.

It is merely a growth impulse, an invitation to perceive differently, to perceive more.

When the ego reaches the point where it truly understands what the word “GOD” means, it also knows at once that what you are looking for, is what’s looking!

Enjoy the view!

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

LIFE-FORCE and HEALING…

Namaste!

I hope you all had a splendid weekend…I sure did!

Today, I’d like to share a few insights from my own life experience as to the nature of life-force and healing.

As many of you who follow my blog, or attend my advanced training programs know, my life has not been without challenges.

I was a very active child and found sports an effective outlet for pent-up energy. My emotional-mental pain was such that it wound me like a cobra constantly ready to strike.

The result was a level of aggression that both aided my success in athletics, and,…resulted in a number of serious injuries.

There have been many times I laid in bed covered in blood, bruises, with broken bones, serious head injury and wondered if I’d ever race or compete again.

Each time, I kept my mind focused on whatever my current dream was. The levity of my dreams always seemed to overpower the gravity of my situation.

Though it is easy to feel doomed in times of pain and/or disability (be it physical, emotional, mental, or all combined), if we reflect back on the many times most of us have healed from illness or injury in our lives, most of us have ample evidence of the power to heal within ourselves.

We can, and do do it again, and again, and again if necessary.

PRACTICE DRAWING AND EXPRESSING YOURSELF

As I’ve explained and shared in previous posts, I see “Love” as a code that explains the creative process by which the entire Universe is exemplified as follows:

L = Life; life expresses the “desire to live”; without the desire to live, one ceases to truly live life and if the desire to live dwindles sufficiently, one may take their own life. “L” then, stands for Desire. Desire is the equal of yin, the female force of creation.

O = ZERO (0), PURE POTENTIAL or UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (UCL), which is the source of All that IS. ZERO is beyond any concept of “God”, for the simple reason that for most people, God is but an idea, not a tangible reality of their own experience.

You can tell when someone has reached past the idea of God and had the experience of God because they have stopped “looking for God”. They see God in ALL.

Ve = Volt electron or “Will” (yang), corresponding to the electromotive force of the universe.

A simple way I teach my students about how love works is to think of a jet engine; the harder it sucks (Desire), the harder it blows (and moves you forward), exemplifying (yang) Will.

The world is abundant with people to give us living evidence that where the desire to heal and grow is strong, people can overcome almost every conceivable challenge in their life.

This is well born out in David Scharps new documentary film The Cure Is U. You can see the trailer below:

In my diagram below, which I call The Will Mill, exemplifies the creative process.

We all inherently have a flood of thoughts and the desires that emerge from them. But we don’t act on them all.

When we create sufficient reason (justification) within our own mind-set to act on any desire, we will such desires.

The coupling of desire and will (regardless of whether or not our reasoning is authentic, accurate, or even conscious), produces both the results we get and the reality we experience.

Here you can see my artistic depiction of the L0Ve process at work in a human being.

Each of the energy vortexes represents a chakra. A chakra is an energy vortex in which the unique energies of UCL are conditioned by mind and emotion, resulting in the potentiation of thought as desire, will and tangible affects.

In my book, How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!, you can find charts expressing the main theme of each of the chakras (there called zones) and the physical regions of the body each theme generally plays itself out within on page 100 and 101.

Though it is very common in Western culture (largely due to the influences of modern medicine) to medicate symptoms as though they were the cause, we all have ample evidence that this is a very flawed model.

Because the cells of our body carry out the impetus of our individual ego-minds unconditionally, the state of our body is a very good indicator of the (conscious or unconscious) state of our mind.

The body literally mirrors our dominant thoughts, allowing us to feel and experience them.

For example, we quite often see that when someone takes a so-called “medicine” given by a doctor for a specific ailment, though the pain may not be experienced, the overall state of mind and body generally do not change.

Medicine in general does not change the nature of a person’s mind-set; it only (chemically) manipulates one’s perception of the reality they continue to create.

The state of one’s life and experiences (for better or for worse) exemplify their reality.

To change our reality, we naturally have to change our thoughts and the actions emergent from them.

This is much easier to talk about than to actually do because the majority of our self-expression is the product of our mental-emotional conditioning; I go into this issue in great detail in PPS Success Mastery Lesson 2. Self Management.

Our culture is heavily conditioned to follow orders, particularly when the orders come from (perceived) authority figures (such as doctors), and not think for themselves.

The result is that we act out our programming over and over again, all the while hoping for different results than we’ve gotten in the past.

To this, Einstein said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.”

The other day I gave Jade Johnson, world-class long jump olympic hopeful an assignment. Here you can see Jade Johnson’s one-line drawing for the day of 1-20-12.

She asked me to help her prepare for the 2012 Olympics in London, England, her hometown (you can learn much more about her exciting and challenging journey to her third Olympics by following her blog at www.jadedragonreturns.com).

Jade’s childhood, like mine (and many of yours), came with many challenges…or shall we say, opportunities for growth.

I gave Jade the one-line drawing exercise as a means of helping her see how much activity there is in her mind.

When we are limited to expressing ourselves with one line, we are given the opportunity to become present with our creative impulse before putting pen to paper.

Most people I give this zen exercise to find it very challenging in the beginning, largely because of their judgment over “how it looks”.

Over time, the exercise offers you an opportunity to become present with the thought-form of your creation in the desire stage.

This allows you to gain clarity before entering the will-stage of expression.

This is a simple practice that improves mental-emotional self-management.

I typically give this exercise to “monkey minded” people as a means of starting their day so they can consciously participate in what they intend to create on any given day.

By drawing your day with one line, you have a chance to become fully present with what you are about to create, and, you get to take responsibility for your creation; if it seems ugly, then what a great motivator to slow down and become more present throughout the day and be more present when creating your day tomorrow!

This my friends, is exactly how healing actually takes place in anyone’s life.

In The Cure Is U documentary, Bruce Lipton, a famous cell biologist and expert in epigenetics (the study of how environment influences genes) makes it very clear as to the influence of our external and internal environments as influences our genes respond to, but do NOT create at large.

Here you can see my meditation garden. I began creating it from just an empty dirt yard in which grass wouldn’t ever grow.

I ordered a couple truck loads of mixed rock form a local landscaping yard and had them delivered and simply began playing.

I created a place where I could go outside and express my creativity, while learning to practice the fine art of detachment from outcomes.

This little spot is where I take responsibility for creating an environment that encourages my genes to respond in kind; by creating natural beauty and a willingness to learn to accept change as a fact of life.

This weekend, I decided to build a round tower and incorporate the wood element with the earth element.

My vision was to create something akin to an upside-down chandelier. I worked for several days in the evenings on my first attempt at this project.

I was so excited to get home and finish it last Wednesday, yet as I pulled into my driveway, I was greeted by a pile of rocks instead of the neat little creation I’d left that morning.

Naturally, I had a moment where my heart sank.

But, I’ve had this experience many times in my zen rock garden and simply realized that Spirit was giving me an opportunity to make something even more beautiful.

That’s when I decided to add the wood element on the next go.

Here you can see me standing next to the finished project, which took me two days to complete. I put eucalyptus wood from my firewood pile in a spiral.

Each successive piece of wood climbs up a level and rotates in a clockwise direction, reaching the peak position just by my left hand.

I had tremendous fun creating this project and it’s always fun to see the effects such creations have on my neighbors.

They love to come talk about the different projects, take photos, and several have started their own little projects too!

Some of the locals have told me that their children love coming by my house to see what’s new in the garden.

It gives me great joy to know that children are captivated, for they are less conditioned than adults and more likely to act on their inspirations.

In Paul Brunton’s book, Healing of the Self – Using The Forces Of Life, The Negatives – Understanding The Powers Of Darkness (p. 22), he states:

“The role of physical treatments of any kind is to supply favorable conditions for the action of the universal life-force which does the real healing work, just as food, water, and air supply the materials to this same force for the repair of tissue and the regeneration of cells.”

This comment from a very wise man is worthy of note: It is up to us as individuals to create an environment favorable for the action of the universal life-force to work within our body-mind and our outer environment.

The world is rife with people that continue to eat expensive vitamins, other supplements, and even high quality food, yet continually experience negative body-mind symptoms.

In my experience, this largely results from the mind-set that the foods, supplements, vitamins or drugs “will cure you”.

We must all eventually accept the reality and responsibility for the creative powers of our individual minds.

You can give an ignorant person the best building materials in the world, yet, without adequate mental conditioning (training as a builder), they will typically create a disaster and waste a lot of good materials.

Each day is an opportunity to witness your creations and co-creations with others.

Each day is an opportunity to practice the fine art of detachment from judgment, while at once remaining aware that your choices produce outcomes.

If the stack falls over, practice detachment; but cultivate greater awareness as to where the inherent weakness in your creation lies so you don’t simply experience Groundhog day.

Enjoy your day!

…I’m off to the gym to make some anabolic hormones…

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

 

THE CURE IS U!

Blessed Thursday and a Joyous Weekend to You!

I had a beautiful, productive day of interviews, coaching and a client book editing project yesterday.

I began my day with a tai-chi sun meditation; that always fills me with healing chi that helps me better manage myself throughout the day.

After I got my blog written, I headed to the gym for a lovely workout of heavy lunging and 2 ball forward ball rolls.

After work, I went home and instead of doing tai-chi as the sun set, I continued working on my new rock project and stayed with it until I couldn’t see due to darkness.

I then went inside, built a beautiful fire in the fireplace, and got to work on my most recent art project.

Later, when Penny came home, I celebrated her arrival by giving her a few big kisses and a long hug.

Later in the evening, I enjoyed a superb Vidya made dinner!

I headed to bed at 9:30pm and enjoyed a series of lucid dreams; I was visiting all my friends in dream-world…I love it there!

Today, I got up nice and early this morning and came to work to an ice-box of an office; it’s been just above freezing here the past several mornings and the heater in my office isn’t strong enough to keep the office warm.

I think it’s kind of fun because it gives me reason to wear my mother’s beautifully hand knitted sweater and my amazing scarf my buddy Csaba Lucas gave to me; the scarf was hand made by a Hungarian woman and it’s amazingly beautiful and functional. Thanks again Csaba!

NOW, A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! THE CURE IS…U

Last spring, Producer David Scharps and his film crew came to my house to film me for his documentary movie about how we all have the power to heal and create the life we truly want.

 

David is a very loving, passionate man who reached a point in his life where he felt inspired to truly give something beautiful to humanity.

 

He decided to interview highly respected and recognized experts from many fields of expertise related to health and wellness.

 

I was blessed to be one of the people he chose for the film.

As you can imagine, I’ve been part of a number of films over the years.

I don’t typically get very excited because often times, people come to film me in hopes that my words will support their agenda.

Because I have a no BS, tell it like it is as I know it to be policy as a core value, when I inform people of such things as the dangers of eating a vegan, vegetarian, or raw food diet, editors often surgically extract anything I say that doesn’t fit their chosen dogma…

David was not only congruent with the message I shared, he did an OUTSTANDING job of interviewing and filming many of the most well-respected, accomplished researchers, spiritual teachers, scientists, doctors and produced an awe inspiring program for You!

This program gives you a variety of up-to-date information on nutrition, genetics, how the mind works to create your reality, new research on the heart-brain connection, and deep spiritual truths.

The program includes a lot of excellent information from Bruce Lipton, a true pioneer in the field of epigenetics.

He explains how much of the modern medical hype about genes being responsible for what ails you is actually based on a faulty, incomplete model of how the genome actually works!

Bruce Lipton is world-recognized and respected for his pioneering work in epigenetics and his information is riveting. His message will truly empower and inform you.

Dr. Bernie Siegel does an outstanding job of sharing his experience with how our thoughts influence our reality.

His wisdom and presence are that of both a wise Medicine Man and Chief. You can palpably feel his genuine message and presence, and it is truly beautiful to witness and be present with.

There are other excellent experts that you’ll hear from in the film, such as Marianne Williamson, Greg Braden, Tony Horton, and others.

David includes very inspiring, rarely ever seen video footage of one of my personal heroes, Napoleon Hill, author of the world famous book Think and Grow Rich.

 

 

I’ve studied Dr. Hill’s work extensively throughout my professional life. In fact, I recently finished a review of one of his audio lecture series.

Even though I’ve studied him for hundreds of hours, I still came away with pages of notes on how I could create my dreams and run my businesses more effectively.

If you’ve never seen Dr. Hill on video, the DVD is worth it to see and feel the presence of this truly amazing human and spiritual being.

All the participants in the film are excellent, making beautiful, thoughtful and honest contributions.

I share a few key points in the program, but my major contribution is available to you in the introductory package outlined below.

I offered David my multimedia eBook, The Last 4 Doctors You’ll Ever Need – How To Get Healthy Now!

We just recently revised and updated my multimedia e-Book, which is designed to run beautifully on Acrobat reader, which allows seamless interaction with the videos, audios and slides, and it can be read as a PDF on most any computer and book reader.

Additionally, David asked me if there was anything else I’d like to offer for the program, so I suggested he film me sharing my Ten Essential Tips For Optimal Nutrition.

David and his videographer Chris came to my office and we created a very clean, easy to follow program that allows anyone, even children to learn what factors must be incorporated into a person’s food choices if health and well-being are to be a reality in your life.

This is not an academic, “heady” nutrition lecture. It is down ‘n’ dirty, “dirt-facts” nutrition tips that you can apply immediately.

This film is very important to me because we are surrounded by unhealthy, out of shape, overweight nutrition experts worldwide and I wanted to share the essentials that the experts seem so willing to overlook!

The program is about 50:00 long and is easy to watch, unless you don’t like looking at a healthy, fit bald man, and is ONLY being offered through the purchase of the film presently.

Additionally, the cinematography in the film is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

The Cure Is U is world class in presentation quality with beautiful visuals that make the learning experience rich and juicy!

There are real, live cases of people who’ve recovered from life threatening diseases and their stories brought tears to my eyes.

I am inspired with the power of the human soul to overcome obstacles in life and turn them into gems of healing and wisdom that all can be motivated and inspired by.

I’m very excited to be able to announce the release of this beautiful program and can’t encourage you enough to get it and feel the amazing power of healing available to all of us through the effective use of our hearts and minds.

I look forward to your feedback!

You can order this amazing program by clicking this link: www.cureisu.com

I have left a comprehensive product description below for those of you that would like to learn more about this amazing offer.

Have a beautiful weekend!

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

PS: I’ll be leaving this blog up until Monday because it’s important to me that as many of you as possible read this message and take advantage of the amazing opportunity for healing and self-growth I share with The Cure Is U DVD and special program package (see below).

There are two options when purchasing the film:

Option 1: The Transformational Package: $29.95

• The Cure is U film

Learn how your thoughts either create your wellness or disease. Become empowered to change the way you think and see the world to regain control of your health and wellbeing.

• The Cure is U rewired and Inspired Workbook:

In this detailed workbook you will determine what beliefs are holding you back, assist you in rewriting your limiting beliefs, and create your own personal powerful affirmations for living vibrantly.

Use this workbook as your daily guide to rewire your mind to “expect instead of doubt.” This workbook will remove your limiting thoughts and replace them with thoughts of expansion and winning and help you to create your own personal document for living an empowered life.

• The ten most powerful Affirmations for Life Transformation

Listen to ten of the most powerful life changing affirmations to support you in achieving anything. Created by The Cure is U team and recorded by a powerful influential voice, these affirmations will enable you to achieve whatever you decide is important to you.

• My The Last Four Doctors You Will Ever Need – How To Get Healthy Now! my multimedia eBook

The Last 4 Doctors you’ll Ever Need is an eBook about hope. It’s an honest, down-to-earth exploration of your current physical and emotional state, with real, workable action plans designed to vastly improve your overall health and well-being.

Learn to explore, understand, and create core values for yourself through my unique 4-Doctor (Dr. Quiet, Dr. Diet, Dr. Movement and Dr. Happiness) living philosophy.

My highly practical, well illustrated, multimedia eBook is complete with video demonstrations of simple healing exercises, audio explanations, and workbook space – and it is a fun and easy way to learn about yourself and how you can create and live your dreams!

Learn to finally take control of your own health and become unified with the last 4 Doctors you’ll ever need!

• My Ten Principles of Nutrition Video:

In this DVD, you will learn the foundational principles of nutrition provided in 10 easy steps.

The principles will assist you in avoiding the common traps that create the environment for body shape challenges, fatigue, a weakened immune system and disease.

These are critical steps in achieving total wellness through nutrition. This program is highly practical and can even be understood and applied by children!

• Visual Affirmative Transformation Journeys

These Visual Affirmative journeys by renowned outdoor cinematographer, David Fortney and the Cure is u team will turbo change your life. Three visual transformative short films on Love, Empowerment and Forgiveness will forever change the way you experience life. Each short film will take you on a journey of self-discovery while instilling some the most profound wellness concepts that will reprogram the way you experience life. These films will assist you in living a life of happiness, joy, love and empower you to achieve whatever it is you desire out of life.

Option #2: The Cure is…. DVD and Three Life changing visual thought journeys: $19.95

In the DVD you’ll discover:

How do your thoughts and unresolved emotions affect your health?

Can they literally create disease, even cancer?

Do we hold the key to our health and well-being?

Doctors, scientists, researchers and health experts are now recognizing that our thinking may be one of the most significant aspects to our overall wellbeing. We now know that our body releases chemicals that either support our health or healing or can destroy it, all based upon what we think and feel.

Experts are examining how our thoughts communicate with from our heart to our brain which then releases chemicals that either keeps us in health or breaks down our immune system and allows for disease. This profound finding has brought forth a new relationship — that how we feel, our emotions, may be the most overlooked aspect to our health.

You will learn:

• How your thoughts either release healing body chemistry that support your growth or literally release harmful chemicals that create the environment for and create disease
• What role unresolved emotions such as unresolved hurt and anger play in our health
• The powerful role of forgiveness in curing disease
• How our perceptions determine everything including how we feel
• How our beliefs create our perceptions and can be changed in an instant
• What powerful tools that can change the way you think immediately
• How cancer is being cured by resolving long term harmful emotions such as resentment
• The power of nutrition in curing disease
• How exercise maybe one of the most powerful forces in assisting the healing process
• How people are overcoming death sentences as prescribed by doctors and living years later to tell about it.

To buy, either of these packages please go to the website: www.TheCureIs.com

IS YOUR SOUL ADDICTED TO MATTER?

A Beautiful Wednesday to You!

I hope you are having a nourishing day.

My day was productive yesterday.

I began my day with some tai-chi.

I had a great pushing session in the gym and coupled four sets of Swiss Ball-Olympic bar bench press with four sets of single arm cable push from a moderately high angle, and four sets of Swiss ball Push-Jacks in circuit format.

The gym was cold when I started, and warm when I finished!

After my day at work ended, I went home and instead of doing tai-chi, I began reconstructing my round tower stone project.

After some winds and rain, my little project proved too unstable for Mother Nature’s activities.

I was so excited to finish the project and when I pulled into my driveway, I saw a large pile of stones instead of my beautiful little stone tower…

I love being “in training” with the stone Buddhas. They teach me detachment, and a lot about “relationships”.

So, my evening meditation was removing the pile and starting over.

I’ve got a really cool stone mandala on the ground now and will enjoy watching it “climb vertically” over the next few days.

ORGANIC FITNESS!

Greg and Kerry Gleeson are CHEK and HLC Practitioners living and practicing in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia.

They recently opened a beautiful little gym and coaching center where they are living their dream and helping others live theirs.

Here’s a little about how they share their love:

This is a young pro cyclist, Lachlan Morton & he loves training with Greg when he returns home to Australia for 3 months each year and the food/drinks we prepare for him.

Trish, a senior lady who loves coming to Greg’s fun circuit “Heartmoves” classes, especially for the stations that involve a little massage.

Greg and Kerry are always inspired by their clients and they try look after them as best they can so that’s where their different talents come into play.

Greg is a skilled teacher/coach and he definitely has an affinity with the water (so he’s attracted some great surfing clients).

This year their goal is to put Greg’s past career as a butcher into practice again, processing grass-fed & organic meats to sell here as another offering to community members.

Kerry’s role as an HLC Coach supports Greg by getting to the root causes & resolving his client’s issues.

Kerry, who is a world class spiritual/healing artist, uses Energy Medicine if they’re clients are open to that.

Kerry is a naturally gifted healer and can create individualized healing art for people. Her art is incredible, to say the least!

I’ll be featuring a piece she created for me in an upcoming blog. (Kerry will be joining us for our AU Tour Art Show, which you can find out more from Place of Chi).

Kerry is also working to achieve her Forensic Healing Diploma in April this year.

Kerry said in her message to me: “Paul, we even have some high school students who want to be better at their chosen sports e.g. Ben, 15, loves your HTEMBH book so much he takes it to read in English instead of a novel-that would be a cool photo to be sprung with that inside one’s desk!”

I love hearing about young people having an interest in my work. This gives me hope for the future generation.

If any of you are in their area, I’m sure you’d be impressed with Greg and Kerry’s work. If you would like to contact either of them, or look at their web site and see a little of Kerry’s art work, feel free to contact them: Greg & Kerry Gleeson: Port Macquarie NSW 2444 0412 383 136 (m) www.gg-chek.com.au

Thanks for sharing your love with others so beautifully Greg and Kerry!

IS YOUR SOUL ADDICTED TO MATTER?

The Greek metaphysician/philosopher Plotinus warned that the soul’s tendency is to become addicted to matter.

Today, we see evidence of this all around us.

Philosopher/sage Paul Brunton writes in, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Vol. 3, Practices for the Quest – Relax and Retreat (p. 22, paragraph 164):

“We regularly give our thought and strength to negotiating and overcoming the obstacles of earning a livelihood, but we become fantastically defeatist when confronted by the obstacles of deepening spiritual life.”

I can confirm this from 28 years of clinical experience coaching people through a wide variety of body-mind-spirit challenges.

I’ve literally watched so-called “successful people” expend their life-force in the pursuit of money and material gains at the expense of their own health and well-being.

I’ve had to counsel numerous husbands and wives and their children over the deep pain created when mom and/or dad are so overly-focused on “achieving” that their family relations fall apart; most of their children are on drugs for depression, anxiety, ADD, ADHD, bipolar disorder and the likes…

I know this experience from my own life pursuits.

Even though I was raised by a very spiritually grounded mother, and had excellent training from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and his monks in my youth, there have been several periods of my life where I too got lost in the pursuit of the American dream…

I grew up in a home where the tension between my parents over issues of money overflowed into a variety of painful experiences for me and my brothers and sisters.

I remember like it was yesterday, the insecurities I had as a kid in junior high school; I came to school in worn blue jeans with cow shit stains on them, a flannel shirt, and worn out, outdated shoes on my feet.

Even then, the kids often looked at me like I was some sort of ditch diver and made off-colored comments.

All the while, most everyone was up-to-date with the coolest Nikes and fashions on the market.

Sadly, at the time, my experiences cultivated resent toward my parents. I felt isolated and alone because I couldn’t seem to “fit in”.

My saving grace was my physical strength, training as a boxer, and indomitable will power.

Once the nay-sayers confronted me on the wrestling mat, in a rope climbing contest, or any such physical/mental challenge, they suddenly didn’t see my clothing any more.

These sorts of experiences created an association in my mind: if I’m stronger, faster and better at achieving than others, my surface appearance and other apparent faults will be overlooked and I will be valued and respected.

This chain of experiences and the challenges in my family over money led me to developing a form of personal mantra; I will work as hard as I have to work to achieve financial independence.

All I wanted at that time in my life was to have the financial freedom to dress how I wanted to, drive what I wanted to, and live where and how I wanted to.

As my life path would have it, I became a father just after turning eighteen, and my son was born to a father who’s inner-desire was to work as hard as he could to protect him from the pains I’d endured.

So, what did I do?

I did exactly what most of my clients do… I worked ceaselessly to create financial safety and security for my wife and son.

So ceaselessly in fact, they got to see me for breakfast, sometimes for dinner, and they got to watch me read and study ceaselessly when I was home.

I had coupled two useful, but dangerous ideas together:

1. If I work hard I can become financially independent.

2. If I work hard I can make someone useful of myself and help others.

These ideas are useful because they are, for the most part, harmonious with the reality of being in our culture.

They are also in harmony with the religious ideals of our culture, which is predominantly Christian in its mythos and logos.

These ideas are dangerous because:

1. If you work so hard to achieve financial independence that you create isolation and independence among your family, all you have are individuals living in the same house spending money to medicate their needs for authentic love, affection and connection.

So, you get a nice house, a nice car, up-to-date clothing, cool shoes, and constant relationship struggles that you can buy or medicate your way out of!

2. We can give ourselves and our efforts away as a gift to others, yet, if we cultivate our sense of value such that we loose site of our own authentic needs for self-love and inner-exploration, we inevitably come to an impossibility wall (I expand on the concept of the impossibility wall in PPS Lesson 2. Self Mastery).

The impossibility wall is created of the idea that “if I’m not making myself useful to others, I’m not useful.”

This conundrum is such that we end up in a trap where we only feel useful and valued based on feedback of appreciation from others.

In that vein of existence, we always need someone else’s approval to feel valued as a person.

This kind of existence can develop into a gestalt (mind-set) that pits us against ourselves. We learn… sooner or later… that no matter how hard you try, you simply can’t please everyone.

If we go too long before we realize this, we actually forget how to love and care for ourselves first.

In my experience, this paradox often results in:

A. Telling yourself you don’t have time to eat because you’ve got to get to work…you have so much to do!

B. Not exercising because…you have too much to do.

C. Taking drugs to medicate the symptoms of excessive outputting because you don’t have time to learn how to address the underlying causes.

Convincing yourself that you are being invaded by “germs, viruses or invasive organisms” plays right into the mindset of avoiding your responsibility for running yourself down to the point of illness and injury.

D. Telling yourself you don’t have time for a vacation.

E. Telling yourself that you don’t have time to be present with your loved ones; and often convincing yourself that you are loving your children by giving them money and objects, or hiring them a nanny instead of giving them what they really want, which is to “be” with you.

F. Over-identifying yourself as what you do instead of who you actually are as a person.

These are all symptoms of a soul that is addicted to material success. Other indicators are:

1. Feeling naked without your make-up on.

2. Being embarrassed to be seen with others that don’t meet your socio-economic standard or persona.

3. Being unwilling to ride in unattractive vehicles.

4. Letting how much money you have in the bank be the primary measure of how safe you feel.

5. Thinking that as long as you have money, you can consume to your hearts content without ever thinking twice about the social and environmental impact of such a lifestyle or mindset.

6. Over-emphasis on creating physical beauty at the expense of taking time to cultivate inner-beauty, wisdom, and self-sufficiency.

7. Identifying yourself with religions that flaunt their wealth by building “monuments to God” as exotic, very expensive churches and temples.

In believing that your prayers can only be heard and answered if you are affiliated with such organizations, “chosen saviors”, or giving (to get).

All such pursuits lead to sectarianism, which is essentially religious and spiritual segregation and fuels “class and rank” elitism.

It has taken me a long time, and a lot of pain to fully embrace my spiritual life.

I’ve had to go through the pain of rejection by those that I was giving my all to, only to find that often, it just wasn’t enough.

I’ve had to witness the pain in my son, who lost his father to a world of being special for other people, instead of being special for him and his beautiful mother.

I suffered through great pains trying to understand how God (of religion) can be so down right mean, rebellious, judgmental and threatening.

My pain was useful because it gave me the motive to look deeper, and deeper, until I resorted to my training by the monks and…did what they told me to do and “look inward”.

I can’t say I’m fully healed of these challenges yet.

I still battle inside with helping myself, healing, and truly meeting my own personal and spiritual needs, while at the same time, trying to be useful and supportive of society.

I feel torn many days.

I feel like I’ve seen the show with all the flashing lights and mirages.

I feel that people need their pain and most of them aren’t any more ready to hear me as a coach and a therapist as I was ready to listen to the monks who I now know were telling me the highest of truths.

But I know that the seeds the monks left in me have become sprouts of self-realization and the lover inside me keeps whispering in my ear when I think of leaving civilization to play their religious, materialistic games (that have plagued man for thousands of years now) so I can find quiet and disengage from the show.

My spiritual path has led me to the realization that “those people are me”…If they are sick, then I too am sick.

I find it hard to be at peace inside while knowing that so many lack sound guidance.

I’ve really come to a beautiful point in my life.

I’ve come to experience, by choice, how beautiful my life is when I balance my activities between creating authentic love and joy for myself, for meeting my needs, and using that nourishment as fuel to help others do the same.

I’ve witnessed the addiction of the soul to matter and in that process, I’ve come to learn what truly maters!

My dream is that you don’t have to get sick, get a disease, go through a divorce, a bankruptcy, or end up with angry, confused, sad, drugged children before you take time to evaluate what ultimately makes life meaningful, worth living.

For those of you willing to take a gentle look inward and learn to cultivate values that serve to nurture your need for inner-balance and spiritual freedom, I created an easy to read, listen and view, multimedia e-Book titled, The Last 4 Doctors You’ll Ever Need – How To Get Healthy Now! and a series of audio companion recordings to expand on the book to help people create and live a balanced rewarding life.

My audio companion titled, Dr. Quiet shares seven methods to help those with busy minds learn how to meditate more easily.

I hope all of you reading my blog today take away a new perspective of what you may be addicted to and what’s driving your behavior.

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

“MIND” ~ BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

Happy Tuesday to You!

I’m still buzzing with joy and anabolic hormones from my deadlifting session yesterday.

A while back, I got distracted when a visitor came to see me while doing heavy (1-2 RM) deadlifts about a month ago and didn’t realize how many minutes had gone by talking to her and her son while on my rest period.

My next set was a max rep set and unfortunately, I strained my thoracolumbar fascia.

That’s been a month project to heal and now I’m almost back up to where I was.

My body loves heavy lifting and I’ve found it to be extremely effective for maintaining youthfulness.

It is as though my body doesn’t believe it’s 50 when I lift like I’m 30, so I am happy to keep it thinking “30” instead of “50”.

So, now that I’m pumping some bigger iron, I’m feeling all the joy that comes with it.

I can’t help but think of all the men my age who’s bodies are sagging and sex drive following suit, while knowing how much medicine there is in simple activities such as lifting weights and rocks!

Speaking of “lifting rocks”…I’ve been blessed to see, and learn of the many people who’ve been inspired by my blogs to go start lifting stones and creating beauty with them in nature, they yards, their work places, and even in their homes.

I was first amazed to see my neighbors catch the bug and start putting up stacks. Then I started seeing them appear in the hills behind my home when I was out hiking.

The other day, I was doing an interview with Cory Harding, a CHEK Practitioner living in Australia about bodybuilding and protein consumption and prior to the interview, he sent me some photos of his rock stacks.

I was really impressed at the size of stones this guy is lifting. He was sharing all the joy he gets and how infectious it is for people when they see him creating stone art.

Below, you can see photo of Cory making and a friend “getting a natural androgen boost” moving a very large stone. Great job Cory!

Cory shared that people’s interest grew so strong that he began teaching classes so people could learn how to lift stones safely and create for themselves. If any of you are interested in learning about Cory’s classes, (he’s near Sydney), you can contact him at: cory.harding@hotmail.com

“MIND” ~ BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

In my experience as a human being with a deep desire for understanding, I’ve pursued inner-truth for my whole life.

This practice began when sitting in Sunday school hearing all the terrible things about what God would do to you if you didn’t follow His commandments, and the like…

I have palpable memories of how disconcerting it was to know that God was even more demanding and scary than my parents could be on their worst days.

It wasn’t long before I found myself in the fields on our farm having long, and often heated conversations with God over my frustrations with adults, and his dictates.

As my life progressed, I experienced many very difficult and scary situations.

They ranged from being pressured by my father to get a job done that seemed impossible to complete with the constraints given, to overcoming serious injuries from racing motto-cross, to becoming a father just a few weeks after turning eighteen, to being very challenged to meet the academic and intellectual challenges of being in electronics school in the army…

Each step of the way, as I worked through the challenges, my confidence that I could find solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems grew; I began to realize I had a powerful mind that worked to find solutions when others, including adults, were immobilized by fear and pain.

Over time, I began to become aware of the joy that emerged from me when I realized I had survived, or navigated my way to working solutions to challenges.

When I first began using mandalas to heal myself, I went through an exercise given to me by a famous shaman named Rowena Kryder.

In that exercise (which I’ve incorporated into PPS Success Mastery Lesson 1. How To Find and Live Your Legacy), we were to draw all the painful points of our life experience, and all the high-points as well and plot them on a timeline from the first experiences to the most recent.

Once I did this exercise, it became very clear to me that many of the times and challenges in my life that I found most painful, and had remembered them as such, were actually essential turning points or points of redirection in my life that had ultimately led me to where I was at that moment.

I realized that I was whole, capable, and aside from choosing to hold onto my pain, there were no significant restrictions placed upon me from such experiences.

I could still breath, play, create, make love, and help others. From that retrospective view, I realized that the biggest influence on my sense of safety and security, as well as my sense of well-being at each point in my life-journey, was my state of mind.

I know this to be true because now at 50 years of age, I’m able to let go of pain quite quickly and look for the blessing hidden within it; I’ve learned that that is part of God’s sense of humor.

I’ve learned that by using my mind with the trust that if God is real, then there must be beauty in every situation and that it is my opportunity to look for it and grow from the experience.

And each time I do, I feel less threatened by any adversity and more aware that I can find the juice when feeling squeezed by life events.

Speaking of the nature of mind, Hazrat Inayat Khan gives this description in his beautiful book, The Soul’s Journey (p113-114):

“…For the mind is the medium between heaven and earth.”

 

 

Man experiences heaven when conscious of his soul; he experiences the earth when conscious of the body.

Man experiences that plane which is between heaven and earth when he is conscious of his mind. Man shows by his stupidity the mineral kingdom which is in him, thick and hard.

Man shows the vegetable kingdom in him by his pliability, by his inventive and creative faculties which bring forth the flowers and the fruits of his life from his actions, thoughts and deeds.

Man shows the traces of the animal kingdom in him in his passion, emotion, attachment, in his willingness for service and usefulness.

And if one were to say what represents the human in him, the answer is all things, all attributes of the earth and heaven: the stillness, hardness and stre ngth of the stone; the fighting nature and tendency to attachment from the animal; the fruitfulness and usefulness of the vegetable kingdom; the inventive and artistic, poetical and musical genius of the world of jinns; the beauty and illumination, love calm and peace of the angelic planes—all these things put together make man.

It is therefore that the human soul consists of all and thus culminates in the purpose for which the whole creation has taken place.

(Note from Paul: Khan describes the jinn on p.57 as such… The realm of the jinn is the place of the mind, and this plane may be called the spiritual plane, for it is mind and soul which make spirit. The jinn is an entity with mind but not such a mind as that of man, but a mind more pure, more clear, which is illuminated by the light of intelligence. The mind of the jinn is deeper in perception and conception because it is empty.)

Having studied the teachings of many great masters that speak in these terms, I’m very familiar with this type of language or mode of expression.

What’s more important than weather your ego-mind construct or social conditioning can grasp the deeper meanings here is whether you are willing to explore such teachings and gain your own experiences and understanding of them.

I have spent much time experimenting with my diet and keeping careful notes (even log books at times) to see exactly how more or less intake of minerals, plant foods, animal foods, mental exercises and spiritual exercises did, or didn’t affect my overall state-of-being.

All I can share briefly is that when put to the test, I’ve found what Khan, Yogananda, Steiner, and many others at that level have said to be true.

Most people read this kind of communication and immediately dismiss it as unscientific babble; yet not surprisingly, the majority of the people seeking my help for a healing challenge or crisis-of-self are trapped in this very mind-set.

How wonderful it is when they wake up to the realization that love, the most essential of all nutrients and experiences evades sciences instruments of objectivity, and that God’s tendency is to write poetry above and beyond prose!

 

It is a normal practice for me (particularly on my days off from work) to begin my day with art as meditation.

I love to let my soul guide me so I can learn to experience life without trying to direct it all myself. I go into my off days with a general sense of emptiness and willingness to explore.

I often draw a circle, and then go into meditation so my inner-vision becomes unobstructed by my thinking ego-mind.

I then allow whatever vision my soul gives me to be my template, which I then do my best to draw.

My drawing then becomes the symbolic message from my soul, showing me how to unfold naturally for the day.

This day, I was instructed to draw the brick circle around my huge Fichus tree in my front yard.

I was then instructed to create a backdrop of earth, plant, tree and sky out of OM symbols, using different colors to represent each element or life-form.

I then saw myself laying on the ground with my head facing the stone circle.

My soul had me draw an empty heart in my chest, which symbolized letting go of all thoughts or desires related to “what I think I should be doing, or what I think the world should or shouldn’t be like”.

The black area around me was my soul’s invitation to sleep awake.

I’ve done meditations like this in my yard too many times to count.

Each of them allows me to experience a new way of perceiving reality, including how I fit into reality as part of a Kosmic tapestry of perpetual unfolding.

The secrets to getting the most of a mediation of this type are:

1. You must agree to let the world carry its own weight for the period of your meditation.

As long as you convince yourself that you are “needed” and must do this or that, you stay in ego-mind reality and can’t escape its confines.

2. It helps to do some form of exercise before hand and have a cleanly showered body with comfortable all-natural fiber clothing.

3. Drinking some relaxing tea, such as the Yogi brands “Calming”, “Meditation”, or “Bedtime” tea for half an hour or more before the meditation and during it as needed really helps.

If you have other favorite teas or herbs that work well for you, then I suggest choosing the ones that work best for your individual needs. These are just some of the ones that work for me.

You can also use a variety of flower essences and essential oils as an aid to meditative relaxation.

If you chew a couple teaspoons of raw sweet fennel seeds very thoroughly, I find that deeply relaxing, and an aid to feeling subtle energies.

4. I lay only on natural fiber mats with natural fiber blankets to avoid disruption of my energy field.

5. I find a warm spot in the sun if possible, and then I allow myself to drift off into a dream-state. I do my very best to stay conscious of what’s occurring in my mind as my mind relaxes.

The deeper I got into sleep without falling asleep, the more profound the experiences are.

What commonly occurs is that I progressively merge with my yard, the trees, then the animal life, then the sky, then the planet, then the sun, and progressively, I become totally at One with the Universe.

What happens there is too much to describe here, and I’d much rather you find out for yourself! Needless to say, with each such experience, I feel more grateful for my ego.

I feel so blessed to be able to have reached a state in my life where I don’t let surface experiences and appearances detract from my ability to see and participate in the beauty of life.

I’ve come to see and experience that no matter how screwed up the world looks at any time in my life, if I take responsibility for my own happiness, the world is colored first and foremost in that joy.

Then, I don’t see a world all-screwed-up. Instead, I see a world in which God is dreaming each and all into existence.

In that dream, we are all being given exactly what we asked for!

Through those experiences, I’ve learned that our perceptions equal our reality.

Those that we see in pain are often there to cultivate the backdrop needed to contain the joy that would otherwise be invisible to them in their lives; without the pains in my life, I could not be nearly as useful to the people in my life, be they family, friends, students or otherwise.

Indeed, without my pains from my past, I would be less wise.

As I explore, learn and grow, I come to realize that between heaven and hell is an ego-mind, who’s function is the freedom of choice.

Once we learn what love is, we at-once learn that we don’t need pain to frame it any longer.

We become motivated to seek and explore what we want, and learn not to focus our mind on what we don’t want.

Eventually, we all get there. And once we are there, if pain arrives, at least we know that it’s just an “unwrapping job” to get to Spirit’s little surprises tucked inside!

If you apply some of my techniques, I hope that you too gain a deep understanding and appreciation for your own soul’s journey and the many gifts waiting to unwrap.

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

MESSAGE FROM THE MOUNTAIN GURU

GOOD (Mon) Day to You!

I hope your weekend was splendid!

I took the day off Friday and celebrated the completion of my recent film project.

It took me almost a month to get through all the technical difficulties and schedule conflicts but I’m very pleased with the outcome in the end.

As I mentioned in a previous blog, this project included a new on-line course on how to heal from fungus and parasite infections.

We are working diligently to get the program edited and up for your personal study. Please be warned, it will most likely be ready in a few months, so please be patient with our next phase in this project.

This is a reminder that if you want to be notified of the program release, you need to be registered with the CHEK Institute, which you can do by going to www.chekinstitute.com

Friday was a day I had all sorts of plans to draw and stack rocks; I’m working on a new rock formation in my front yard and have been excited to finish it.

By the time I finished my piece of art for the day, my only urge was to lay on the grass under my huge fichus tree and dream. I did that until the sun went down and then relaxed with Penny and Vidya when they came home.

For me, that turned out to be a perfect day. Saturday, I went to Encinitas to see Wess Boyce for my usual bone scratching session and a long steam.

I was in the steam long enough that I felt as though I’d just done an American Indian sweat lodge.

Again, I had lots of plans to work on my rock project but found myself only piddling with it. I spent much of my day reading, drawing and relaxing. We went to see the new movie titled “Contraband”, which was pretty good entertainment and a great excuse to eat two bowls of organic popcorn with the ladies (it takes two bowls of organic popcorn to fuel the foot-rubbing machinery in me) ☺.

Yesterday, I did some more reading, and Vidya and I each created a piece of art together while Penny ran errands. I didn’t finish my art for the day until about 4:00 PM; the day just flew by…

I got out the door and continued on my rock project. I’m creating a mini version of an Irish round tower.

My boyish urge is to rush so I can see it finished, but when I do, I tend to become less present with the stones and make mistakes that end up costing me time later.

A couple days ago, I had a section of the circular wall collapse. Two of the stones fell into the center of the tower and it was all I could do to get them out without either falling into it, or collapsing the whole formation.

With that in mind, I just took my time and worked until I couldn’t see any more. The tower is now at about my eye level, which makes stacking much trickier because I can’t see the whole footprint where the rocks go and can end up “thinking” the rocks are stable…

I will continue tonight.

All-in-All, I had an excellent weekend. I found that it takes me two days to unwind from all the activities of the week and that by Sunday, I’m really getting good at resting.

I’m constantly amazed at how healing rest is.

I’m convinced that if people took the time to sleep properly and rest when dong relatively meaningless (often habitual) activities, the amount of money they would save on drugs and doctors would certainly go a long way toward an excellent vacation somewhere they love to be.

That said, I’ve learned over the years that you can’t teach an old dog a new trick until it’s in enough pain to be willing to try something new…

MESSAGE FROM THE MOUNTAIN GURU

I drew this picture I titled “Mountain Guru” for a friend of mine; he doesn’t know it yet but he will soon.

I drew it for him because he is one of my students who has done an excellent job of actually not only “listening to” the essence of my message as a teacher, but does a great job of “living it”.

While I was taking photos of the drawing, I thought it would be a great blog post to share the essential teachings of the mountain guru’s from cultures all over the world.

Let’s see what the Mountain Guru has to say:

First, the Mountain Guru is depicted as a mask, which he is behind, yet as you can see, his nose is in and through the mask.

This symbolized that we are all in two realities at once. We are in the world of the relative, the world of this and that, he said…she said, woulda, coulda, didn’t, shouldn’t, etc.

The relative world is the world in which choice exists between the past and the future. The relative world is the world of experiencing life.

This is the world we all live in and in modern shamanism, this world is sometimes referred to by authors like Arnold Mindell as the consensus reality.

This world is symbolized beautifully in the tai-chi symbol. It is also symbolized by the Mountain Guru’s mask as the OM symbol.

The OM symbol is a Sanskrit symbol which stands for the Primordial Sound that creates all existence.

The other world we all live in, (though unconsciously for most) is the world of Undivided Wholeness. This is the realm of the Universal Dream, where Unity is the reality.

It is Unity that underlies the relative world of consensus reality.

Our experiences in the world of Unity are often so mystical and mysterious, dreamlike, that we have a hard time sharing our experiences with others.

After all, how do you describe experiences of total Unity with the Kosmos (unlike “cosmos”, “Kosmos” includes the material, biological, intellectual and the Divine realms) with language, which is divisional by its very construct?

The world of Unity then, is a non-consensus reality because whatever you experience there and share is unlikely to be accepted as real by the consensus (of people).

The nooesphere is the realm of mind, which acts as a bridge between the two worlds. Without mind, which is the product of OM, we couldn’t interpret our experiences as this, or that.

All would be Unity and there would be no thought, or awareness of it.

The nooesphere then includes the concrete realm of thoughts about “people, places and things”, as well as the abstract realm.

In the abstract or “dreamland” realm, we can dive into the infinite, experience the greater truth of Unity, and then carry the fish we catch there to the dinner table of relativity where we can more effectively digest our catch.

This sort of “fishing trip” gives us the ability to seek guidance and conformation from Unity so that we can follow the way in relativity.

In essence, the Mountain Guru is telling you, “Those that don’t dream, don’t see, and those that don’t see, are often afraid to witness their dreams.”

The Mountain Guru is looking through the mask of relativity from the realm of the “I AM.”

You may notice the slight difference in his eyes, which is to indicate that one eye see’s the whole while the other sees the parts.

His message here is not to fall into the trap of believing what you see with your physical eyes without confirming it through your own presence and experiences in Unity.

He warns that those that don’t go within, go without. Only when we are wise enough to develop a relationship with the Great Spirit within can we ever develop authentic trust and understanding.

Until then, we have no reference point for what the purpose of life is, for what peace is, for what bliss is, and can only depend on the opinions of others (usually equally trapped with half-vision) for confirmation.

This is to be stuck in the consensus reality.

He has three points on the crown of his headdress, which represent his mastery of body, mind and spirit. They are created of red, black and silver.

The red represents his mastery, which gives him authentic safety and security in the relative world of “life”, as well as in the world of Unity; we must be capable of dying to the relative to get to Unity fully.

The silver represents his capacity to be clear of mind so he can guide people in either direction; to and from Unity.

The black represents that he is a master of transition and that change is the only constant in the universe.

His message is that to reach our potential as human beings, we must master our body, our mind and become one with Unity so that we know what we are part of and what our life is expressing.

He has a series of squares on his forehead. The square is yin in sacred geometry and it is the counterbalance of the sphere (yang) represented by the sun behind him.

The squares represent the elements, which are earth, water, fire, air and aether (space).

This symbol on the Mountain Guru’s forehead is his statement that without understanding the nature of each element, and how they work together in life, we will always create problems for ourselves out of ignorance.

It is the job of parents and tribal leaders to teach this to you as a child and in adolescence so that you can more effectively contribute to life in a balanced way.

His nose sticks through the mask, which represents that the five senses are just holes in the fabric of reality.

His message is that as long as you depend only on your physical senses, you will always be missing much more than you are gaining because the amount of the world and the universe that exists outside the narrow range of human sensory systems is indeterminately more vast than the world of the senses.

The outward path of the senses only takes you into contact with, and the experience of more “stuff”, but will never ultimately fill the void within each human being.

Only when you love and respect yourself enough to go inward and love yourself enough to be present as to what and who you really are can you ever be comfortable, secure, and at peace when it looks like the world is falling apart in chaos all around you.

His right ear is bigger than his left ear because the right ear is connected to the left brain and it is the ear that lives in the consensus reality.

Here, we must be much more careful about hearing what is being said vs. hearing what we want to hear.

The left ear being connected to the right brain or the brain of wholeness doesn’t depend on physical vibration for input. It is listening to the voice of silence, which is ever-present.

Silence is the source of OM.

His mouth is contained in the blue rectangle to depict the need to be impeccable with our words.

The blue represents water, rhythm and flow and his message is to practice saying only what is true to you; if you speak for others, you may misrepresent them and then you are likely to experience disrupted rhythms when you experience the chaos of confusion and conflict all around you.

Thus, when we speak to others, it’s always good to begin our expressions with, “I’m wanting, I’m feeling, or I’m needing” instead of “he said, she said, you woulda, shoulda, coulda or didn’t…”

When we are insecure in our views, we often use loose terms such as “they said you didn’t…”, or “We are all against you”, yet in truth, the “they or the we” are usually limited to one or two people and a lot of imaginary characters who are typically equally needy and ill informed…

Though you can’t really see it well in the image, his little goatee is made of gold, which represents that wisdom grows from his being.

Even the bodies of the enlightened seem to go beyond the physical laws of consensual reality.

This is evidenced by the fact that on numerous occasions, when enlightened saints and sages die, their bodies often do not rot for extended periods of time.

For example, I have been told that when Yogananda’s casket was opened weeks after his death, there was no sign of degeneration at all, and the room was permeated with the smell of roses.

There have been many similar observations throughout the history of the mystics.

His headdress is made of plants. This exemplifies that we all depend on the live of other living beings to sustain our own. His message is that if you take more than you return from Mother Nature, you create a reality that you are unlikely to survive; she can take all you can dish out without dying, but you may not be able to endure the counterbalancing act She institutes out of honor for all life on earth and fairness to other life-forms!

Finally, his neck and face are quite thin. This exemplifies his commitment to only taking what he needs to live naturally, and in balance with Mother Nature.

When we consume more than we need, we are being disrespectful to other living beings that have just as much right to a peaceful, complete life as we do.

Because human life depends on what “appear” to be lower life-forms, out of our ignorance we can cut our noses off in spite of our face. He informs you that when you have no water, food or essential resources left because they have been disrespectfully squandered, a whole new level of reverence for what was under your feet will emerge!

In essence, his message is the same as the underlying message of all the world’s great mystical and religious teachings; “Do unto yourself as you would have others do unto you.”

Yet, if you abuse or treat yourself poorly, you will become trapped in a consensus reality and are likely to think that all your pains and problems are “someone else’s fault”.

With that kind of mindset, you are likely to only love others the way you love yourself. That in itself can become the downfall of humanity!

When we love ourselves enough to explore both worlds, the consensual and non-consensual, we become humble, loving and wise, for we know that what we are is the expression of the Divine, that which is truly WHOLE.

When we love ourselves to take responsibility for keeping our body-temple healthy and well tuned, we are naturally inspired to seek beyond the limitations of the body (which tired and sick people can’t effectively do).

We can be present with the stars at night and join their conversations.

We can be present with ourselves.

And when we are, we see the same stars, and hear the same conversations.

They are the happy chattering of Joy Dancing in, and as ONE.

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

THE DIVINE OREO

Happy Thursday to You!

I hope your day is unfolding beautifully.

I had a lovely day yesterday. I finished my film project and am excited to have my office back to its normal bright, open self again.

Having all the windows and my sky light covered with tarps to keep the lighting strictly controlled for the camera really impacted my energy levels. I felt like I was experiencing seasonal affective disorder.

Now that the light comes into the office, I feel so much more alive inside; sunlight is a healer!

It was worth it though. I am pleased with the outcome of the project and very excited to share it with you when it is ready.

I had a nice pushing workout yesterday. I got in some heavy bench-pressing on a monster Swiss ball that can take all the pressure I can deliver.

I coupled that with some Swiss ball Bruce Lee push-ups for several circuits and that did the trick for the day.

I missed my morning tai-chi session due to having to meet deadlines, but had a lovely evening session, and then more art time!

THE DIVINE OREO

Oreo cookies
Well known to be addictive…
you can’t eat just one…

Beyond the crust is empty -
the middle bursting like the sun

Our galactic home
is like an Oreo Cookie
floating freely in the black of an unknown place, and
our little world is tucked somewhere
in the middle of this cookie
that flies through empty space

If we consume all that’s in the middle
we have nothing left to see,
for if all were black, there could be
no you…no me.

If we had no black,
we could not know white;
there could be no “life” – no day without night.
Sure the world would be sweet and bright, but
could we truly enjoy life if all were white?

Could we have a beginning or an end
if there were nothing in the middle to suspend?

The past is black, for
it is gone.
The future is black until
you are there to turn it on.

It’s only in the middle that you can truly see
that there is a “you”, and a “me”, yet
without the black, could we truly be?

We need some white in everyone, for
it is the light in us that gets things done.
We need some black in everyone too, for
we all need a rest from the dance of the sun.

Your fortune cookie
lets you see
that diversity is a part of you,
of me.

In the middle
is The Way
There we are the center
of the cosmic play, where
the black of night always gives way
for a brand new day.

There is no part, separate
from the whole, and thinking such
takes its toll.

Hopefully now, you can see
why these black and white cookies are so addictive…
they set us free, for what is
Love without polarity?

So there’s your message for today.
In case you didn’t understand, I’m proposing
the middle way
because I love the night, and
I love the day.
I wouldn’t want my life to be any other way,
for this is the nature of our cosmic play.

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

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