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1. Relationships, Loving and Hating

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-09-18
   Do you love and hate? If you do, then you are very normal. If you just hated, or only loved, there would be consistency, but when you do both, the mind finds itself in conflict all the time, and...

2. Advice, People Ask Me, "Why Do You Meditate?"

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-09-12
   The mind is a curious thing. Oddly enough, it seeks security in such silly concepts as the past. But what if the mind learned not to do that? What if the mind trained itself not to seek security i...

3. Advice, Dying to Everything

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-09-08
   As long as there is hope, there will be despair. As long as there is experience, there will be death. Yet fervently we seek both. Human beings are strange creatures. What creatures of e...

4. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) - The Final Chapter (Part 6) A Promise To Keep

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-31
   One evening on the outskirts of the Kingdom of Ayatana, an old man in rags with one eye, leading a lame white horse, came upon an old beggar who lay dying by the side of the road. The old man ge...

5. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) - The Final Chapter (Part 5) A Promise To Keep

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-29
   Suddenly, I found myself in a mist, and through the mist, I dimly made out what appeared to be a cave. As I moved closer, my perfected insight revealed exactly what it was - the den of the Great...

6. Advice, A Challenge to the World; Shift Your Consciousness, While You Can

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-28
   First of all, why should you, as an individual, shift your consciousness? If you are a Hindu, you have been taught to worship Brahma, the creator of all reality, or Vishnu, the preserver of all of...

7. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) - The Final Chapter (Part 4) A Promise To Keep

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-27
   I resignedly went back to my training, somewhat relieved, but in my heart, I knew this whole episode with Weepasa was simply my mind trying to squirm out of the inevitable - the constant mindful...

8. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) - The Final Chapter (Part 3) A Promise To Keep

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-26
   "What now, my ‘king,'" he greeted me sarcastically, his face expressing his obvious exasperation. "I have been experiencing unusual wisdom, and wondered what I should do?" "The wisd...

9. Humor, The Article from Hell

   by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-25
   I began as a normal type article, pretty laid back and entertaining, but then, suddenly. I found myself in hell! Well, I can tell you, hell is no place for a nice article like me, and I certainl...

10. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) - The Final Chapter (Part 2) A Promise To Keep

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-24
    "Trying to change this ‘I thought' requires trying to change something very ingrained," cautioned Weepasa. "It involves the destruction of ‘ourselves' because this ‘I', this ‘Me' is mixe...

11. Advice, How Do You Escape?

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-23
    If we don't like our job, our house, or if we are generally unhappy about our position in life, we naturally try to change our circumstances. When we are uncomfortable with any situation, we ins...

12. Advice, Creating a Universe in Your Mind

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-23
    Scientists say that everything began in the emptiness of space when a pea-sized piece of intensely dense matter and energy exploded into what has become our universe. In the Zen Buddhist religio...

13. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) - The Final Chapter: A Promise To Keep (Part 1)

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-22
    "What is troubling my great king now," Weepasa inquired with a disinterested look on his face, as he carefully peeled a mango. "There are many things I have learned throughout my travels, ...

14. Spiritual, Get a Grip On Yourself!

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-20
    Okay, don't get a grip if you don't want to! You can wait until your life partner leaves you, your career goes down in flames, or your health goes south. But then it might be too late to get a ...

15. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) Chapter 14 - Seven Days (Part 3)

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-19
    When I entered Weepasa's room the next morning, he asked me to sit down and immediately began talking about insight, "Insight results from a concentrated mind that is aware of everything it come...

16. Art and Culture, The Key (A Fairytale) Chapter 14 - Seven Days (Part 2)

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-17
    Finally, I knew that I couldn't jump and reluctantly made my way back to the old man's room and stood there in front of everybody, pathetically defeated. Weepasa laughed heartily, "Well, you...

17. Self Improvement, The Most Discouraging Things in the World

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-16
    A glass half-empty is discouraging, but not as discouraging as how misled people can be when a glass half-full is perceived as brimming over the top. War is discouraging, too, especially wars that...

18. Art and Culture, The Key (A Fairytale) Chapter 14 - Seven Days (Part 1)

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-15
    Conqueror, my mystical horse, was not getting any younger. He had lived well beyond a normal lifespan and I wondered how many trips he could still make. Was that old, robed man, who brought an enc...

19. Sports, Martial Arts Training - Balancing Mind and Body

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-13
    A very special kind of training is critical in martial arts because martial arts is about life and death. In one split second, your life will be either spared or taken, and that outcome depends en...

20. EBooks, The Key (A Fairytale) Chapter 13 - When The Dust Blows Away? (Part 5)

    by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2008-08-12
    "Everybody knows that you are here," he said, putting up a good front. "Killing me will do you no good." Expressing no emotion, I calmly asked, "Why would I want to kill you?" "You kno...

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