What’s In Your Tri-Pod ? By Jim Kennedy

 

 

 

 

 

A tripod provides a stable, secure base for holding physical objects.

Like its material counterpart, a spiritual tripod can also provide a source of stability and focus. Develop and use your own spiritual tripod to enhance your life.

 

It works like this: upon reflection, choose three important ‘realizations’ from your life to be the secure legs of your spiritual tripod. Once you have chosen the three legs, practice activating the spiritual tripod, which is done by focusing on the three realizations – all at the same time.

 

By way of example, here what’s in my spiritual tri-pod:

 

 

1) The realization of gratitude – regardless of what you are feeling / experiencing in the moment (from great pain, hurt, anxiety – all the way to profound joy and pleasure) – be grateful for whatever you are experiencing

 

 

 

PLUS

 

 

 

2) The realization that ‘it changes’ – your experience will never remain the same

 

 

PLUS

 

 

 

 

 

3) The realization that this moment is ALL that we have – it is the ONLY thing we can ever have.

 

 

Activating these three realizations brings you to your center, and helps you to focus and remain in the moment.

 

This is one helpful tripod, but there are many to be developed and appreciated. Go inside and find your own!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

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Socks – Jim Kennedy

 

Socks

 

Socks

 

Often warm and fuzzy

enfolding grateful toes

Now embraced by shoes

 

Secure

 

Ready for the night walk

 

 

 

Jim is a very dear friend of mine who lives in San Francisco. He told me that this poem came to him after he read my Which pair of socks. We took a picture for his socks last weekend when he visited me so we can finally post this poem here.

 

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“Broken Words, perfect feelings” – The light in this chaotic world

 

I stop,

therefore I have

my awareness,

 

I experience,

therefore I see

my existence,

 

I tell you,

therefore you and I become

“us”

 

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iPodless me & San Francisco

 

The iPod is a great hit of the modern world. I am sitting here with my beat-up MP3 player; and still don’t feel like getting one. Looking at my MP3 player on the desk, I can’t help smiling at him (I think it is a boy) with appreciation.

My ‘boy’ has never been “cool” enough whenever an iPod was around. But it is just so “right” to me. Let me put it this way, not everybody prefers a supermodel. No matter how wonderful or sexy they look, they often are just not my people.

I got this player on the internet several years ago. It was on sale and fitted all my needs: It was quite light, had expandable memory and voice recording function. I could use one rechargeable AAA that would last 10 hours. What was so great about it which I did not realize then was its precious company.

I had lived in San Francisco for around 7 years. San Francisco was a very rough city for a foreigner like me, regardless of its beautiful look, incredible cultural depth, and amazing consciousness movement. On the way to where I worked and studied, I had great opportunities to encounter San Francisco’s rough energy: property, anger, violence, and craziness. I did not shut myself down when I experienced suffering. That was the way I chose to learn to be a human. I considered this to be one kind of spiritual practice for me. (Please don’t try to do this on your own. It is very important that you can protect yourself by shutting yourself down when you encounter something unsafe) Fortunately, it worked well for me. That experience made me the therapist that I wanted to be. It really assisted me to be able to see my clients’ sufferings more clearly without judgment.

This particular spiritual practice lasted for a few years. What accompanied me on this journey was this MP3 player and Michelle’s music, an album that I had waited for 7 years to hear.

 

Each day,

Michelle’s music met the suffering of the city in a very strange way.

Experiencing the chaos,

I was watching her dreamy music vibrated with

the tears

of San Francisco.

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What is the Life in our modern world?

The life that we know was formed through the lens of current world structure. We have learned to see our reality under the constitution of our society and culture and have already got used to perceiving things and conditions via these institutions. We hardly would re-look and re-think of our reality unless a crisis occurs in our lives. For example, Jack would probably never need to think about how he can live entirely differently until the day he encountered a near-death experience. He did not need to fight the constitution of the whole world until he finally realized how much he wished that he could have a different way of living. Doesn’t this story sound very familiar? It is how most of us live our lives. The more security that we try to grasp, the more anxious we are; the more pleasure that we chase, the more frustrated we are. Living in the world that is operated by the current world structure, many of us are unconsciously losing our inner freedom everyday.

　

The constitution of our world serves us in various ways. We actually gain many benefits and feel convenient under its operation. However, the way it operates is also quite problematic and thus generates our sufferings, both physically and mentally. In order to live in this complicated world with inner peace and harmony, we need to take on a challenging journey that will facilitate the development of our whole-being. Learning to own balance in our body, mind, and spirit, we will begin to taste the pure joy of life.

 

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Is this really my life?

Get up in the morning and go to work,

have some small talk and earn more money,

watch TV and think about how to look for love,

　

feel happy, feel unhappy,

feel happy, feel unhappy….

It seems like unhappiness always wins.

Is life supposed to be this way?

　

What is Life anyway?

 

 

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“Go There” – Part II

Here comes the second one(Click the picture). Please don’t hesitate to contact me through email if you run into any problem on internet. I will send you this file directly. Thanks.

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“Go There” Part I

What is life about? Here is a little story for you to chew on (I really love how I learned to “chew” on my experience from my mentor Lu). I hope these little stories that I created will lead you to feel something important for your life. Here comes the first one(Click the picture). Please don’t hesitate to contact me through email if you run into any problem on internet. I will send you this file directly. Thanks.

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