Lifestyle Advice
From the Wise


Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

Valley Spirit Hatha Yoga


January 5, 2006

 

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Seven Perennial Spiritual Practices:

1.  Transform your motivation: reduce craving and find your soul's desire.
2.  Cultivate emotional wisdom: heal your heart and learn to love. 
3.  Live ethically: feel good by doing good. 
4.  Concentrate and calm your mind. 
5.  Awaken your spiritual vision: see clearly and recognize the sacred in all things. 
6.  Cultivate spiritual intelligence: develop wisdom and understand life. 
7.  Express spirit in action: embrace generosity and the joy of service. 

Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind. 
By Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.  New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1999. 
Index, bibliography, source notes, 306 pages.  ISBN: 0471392162. 

 

 

Thirteen Gateways to Personal Growth

1.  Preparation: Stairway to the Soul 
2.  Discover Your Worth: Opening to Life 
3.  Reclaim You Will: The Power to Change 
4.  Energize Your Body: A Foundation for Life 
5.  Manage Your Money: Sufficiency and Spiritual Practice 
6.  Tame Your Mind: Inner Peace and Simple Reality 
7.  Trust Your Intuition: Accessing Inner Guidance 
8.  Accept Your Emotions: The Center of the Cyclone 
9.  Face Your Fears: Living as Peaceful Warriors 
10.  Illuminate Your Shadow: Cultivating Compassion and Authenticity 
11.  Embrace Your Sexuality: Celebrating Life 
12.  Awaken Your Heart: The Healing Power of Love 
13.  Serve Your World: Completing the Circle of Life

Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth. 
By Dan Millman. 
New York, Time Warner, 1999.  350 pages.  ISBN: 0446674974.

 

 

 

The Six Principles of Enlightened Living
The Six Perfections (Paramitas):

1.  Generosity, charity, kind-hearted giving, altruism, unattached generosity, boundless
openness, unconditional love (Dana Paramita). 
2. Virtue, ethics, morality, self-discipline, not harming, impeccability (Sila Paramita).
3.  Patience, tolerance, forbearance, acceptance, endurance (Shanti Paramita).
4.  Energy, diligence, courage, enthusiasm, joyfulness, effort (Virya Paramita).
5.  Meditation, absorption, concentration, presence of mind, contemplation (Dhyana Paramita).
6.  Wisdom, transcendental wisdom, mystical insight, enlightenment (Prajna Paramita).  

Dzogchen Buddhism, Dharma Talk: The Six Principles of Enlightened Living
 

 

 

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