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I thought it apt that my first blog entry at the Life Formula (LF) website/headquarters be to speak a little about how LF came about. Like, who am I anyway to propose a formula for life? And how the hey can there be just one formula for life?? To the latter question, there's not just one. But there is one just for you, but it will change and evolve as you do so its not a static thing. But more about that in a minute. Read more »

I've just come back from a month in the States at Gabriel Cousens Tree of Life - Raw Food - Rejuvenation Centre and a Mondo Zen Teacher Training Retreat with Jun Po Roshi. I planned for a month of contrast and I certainly got it. In Arizona at the "Tree" I roamed around a mountainous desert, ate raw food, sat wearing white with eyes closed and palms turned up in chin mudra. At the Wild Goose Zendo in Massachusetts I abided by a lake in the woods, ate cooked food, sat wearing black with eyes open and chin mudra palms turned down. Read more »

Why do we have it stuck in our heads that unless we are experiencing pain, suffering and critical conditions then there is no need to motivate ourselves toward change or to improve or evolve or ways of being? Read more »

I’m loving this quote right now…. and I’m sure its not just men that he’s referring to…. the Dali Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” Read more »

Is it possible for you to purely listen?

To just listen?
To listen without judgement or opinion, expectation or hope? Is it possible to just purely listen?

So if I listen as deeply as I can... beneath the judgement and opinion, beneath the expectation and hope... all that drops away and there is just pure receptive listening. So now there is just listening.

Then I become the listening, and that drops away into pure timelessness... timelessness that was never born and will never die or enter into the stream of time. It just is.

Pure empty I Am-ness.... Clear Deep Heart/Mind. Read more »

The Formula to Life is in evolving and integrating your mind, body, heart and soul. In order to do this we have to work up the Chakras. This means we want to first be able to provide ourselves and our families with food and shelter. Without that one very basic element taken care of we are unable to asecend up the levels. We can't be engaging in evolution and growth at the higher levels unless we take care of the lower levels. Once we have taken care of the basics then we are free to evolve beyond them. Read more »