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Author: [[Vishen Lakhiani]] Full Title: The Buddha and the Badass Category: #books Most people are living their lives doing work they don’t love, to earn money to afford to live lives they don’t love. Far worse, they lie to themselves about it. They pretend they semi-enjoy what they do to earn a paycheck. An alien species watching planet Earth would think, What is wrong with these creatures? Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. —Terence McKenna The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. The Soul’s Experience on Earth Is Not Meant for Hard Work and Toil. It’s Meant for Freedom, Ease, and Expansion. Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality. In short, reality doesn’t really exist. We make it all up. All the time. And you can bend reality. You can shift it and mold it and play with it. It’s quite fun. When you get it right, work and life all become one. A masterful act of living perpetually in play as you seem to have superhuman abilities to juggle it all.
- CONSCIOUSNESS ENGINEERING Consciousness engineering is a framework for expanding your level of awareness on any subject. It suggests that if we want to grow in a field we pay attention to two things: Our Models of Reality. A model of reality (MOR) is a belief. And your beliefs become your reality. If you believe that hard work is necessary for success, it will be. For you. Someone else could have a totally different belief. Our Systems for Living. A system for living (SFL) is a process. It’s your optimized set of procedures for getting something done. For example, a particular routine for the gym. Applied to work, a system might be a way for aligning your goals with your team. Or for multitasking. Or for bringing on superhuman levels of focus and flow. BECOMING MAGNETIC GO INWARD TO ATTRACT OUTWARD
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The Buddha and the Badass by Vishen Lakhiani presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.
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