Finding Meaning
924 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis podcast is about finding true meaning in life.
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A bit down the rabbit hole
April 20, 2024 11:41 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBAnd this episode we're going to talk about the meaning of being a part of the universe. Expanding the idea of finding meaning to larger understandings
Seeking transactions
April 19, 2024 11:46 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBWe live in a transactional world. We trade salvation for belief and belief for salvation. We trade ethics for power and power for ethics. Take a listen.
Simple markers of growth
April 18, 2024 10:11 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBThere are some ways in which we can tell that we are growing into our authenticity. There are some markers that we can see that allow us to understand. We are uncovering who we truly are.
Pleasure
April 17, 2024 10:52 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBJust as being kind, being loving, being generous is a part of our authenticity, too, is being a person who seeks and finds pleasure in healthy ways
Belief, the golden calf part two
April 16, 2024 10:25 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBThis is a further exploration of how we truncate our spiritual growth through systems of belief
Golden calf of belief!
April 15, 2024 10:48 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBWe are taught that what we believe, is actually what is real. When in fact, it is our experience of love, kindness and forgiveness that are the real.
How do we get there?
April 14, 2024 13:43 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBHow does one find their authenticity? By what mechanism is there to find ourselves? What has to happen for us to find our authenticity? What do we do when we start to find it?
We'd love to change the world
April 12, 2024 10:08 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBWe can effect real change in the world. But, only if we find our real and authentic self.
Predictable patterns
April 11, 2024 10:27 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBIn the false reality, we can see predictable patterns of behavior learned overtime, that are destructive.
Not about the easy
April 10, 2024 10:27 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBWe are programmed by this world to seek the path of least resistance. We are programmed to seek the easy. Unfortunately, that is not the way this works.
The path less traveled
April 09, 2024 10:52 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBThe concepts of authentic spirituality are easy to grasp. Living authentic spirituality is difficult. Take a listen.
We are ok!
April 08, 2024 10:28 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBOnce we understand that much, if not all of our anxiety is caused by the toxicity of the false reality, we can begin to find some inner peace take a listen, Thanks.
Buying the concepts
April 07, 2024 12:41 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBWe buy into what other people think about us. We buy into what other people think about the world. We spend most of our life buying other peoples concepts. Take a listen. Thanks.
I am, you are!
April 05, 2024 10:38 - 19 minutes - 18 MBHere is my attempt to unpack the entirety of finding meaning in 18 minutes. Enjoy.
Understanding not judgment
April 04, 2024 10:30 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBApril 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.. In my spiritual journey, I learned from his writings in his speeches to seek understanding rather than judgment. Which is a very deep spiritual attribute. Take a list and thanks.
Not my monkey, not my circus
April 03, 2024 11:37 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBWhen we live out of a false sense of self, in a false reality. We become often delusional about our importance. That's the ego telling us that everything is our monkey and everything is our circus. Take a list. Thanks.
The great disconnect
April 02, 2024 10:36 - 18 minutes - 17.6 MBWe live in the world where people say that they believe one thing and their actions do not line up with that belief. Take a listen to this difficult subject.
Being our own spin, Dr
April 01, 2024 10:57 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe false reality is incredibly easy to manipulate. Most of us do it every day. Take a listen. Thanks!
Never forget this
March 31, 2024 11:52 - 14 minutes - 13 MBNever forget, my friends, no, two people in the world see reality the same way.
Easter what??
March 30, 2024 12:15 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBToday I look at the metaphor behind the story of Easter! Finding meaning is not not religiously affiliated nor will it ever be. But there are metaphors in the stories that we can draw from. Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, there's a deep truth, if we look.
Love, kindness and awareness.
March 29, 2024 11:51 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBAs we look at how we process reality, we have to talk about the mechanisms that we have to put in place to help us recover, who we truly are. Three aspects of the mechanisms that we need to use are love, kindness, and awareness. Those three things are linked to how we produce, and how we discover our true self.
Oh, those conspiracies
March 28, 2024 13:25 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBIn this episode, we look at the conspiratorial way in which our brains perceive reality
Part three of, God and barriers
March 27, 2024 11:21 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBToday is the end of our three part series on the things that keep us from ourselves. Beginning with our concepts of God, going through how we feel about ourselves. Take a listen thanks.
Part two of, God and barriers
March 26, 2024 10:56 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBThis is the second part of a three-part series on God and the barriers we construct through the concepts of God.
Part one God and barriers
March 25, 2024 10:48 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBThis is part one of a three-part podcast on ideas of how we understand the superior being, and the barriers we put in place to our authenticity
Fear and ignorance/love and kindness
March 23, 2024 12:53 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThe false reality that we create and continue to create is a reality made out of fear and ignorance. The antidote, the cure, for the false reality is indeed love and kindness.
Finding Meaning
March 22, 2024 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBToday we celebrate the 15,000 listen of our three-year-old podcast Finding Meaning. Today I un-pack how I came to understand the theory of Finding Meaning, and an explanation of what it means to find meaning.
Not about fixing
March 20, 2024 10:39 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBOne of the great mistakes we make because we're not self-aware is, we believe that we can fix things through our spirituality. That is not the way spirituality works. Authentic spirituality is about growth and that's a very individual thing. Thanks guys take a listen.
Your truest self is your spiritual self
March 19, 2024 10:30 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWe spend a lot of time, thinking that spirituality is somehow chasing down ideas about who God may or may not be or which religions, right. Or, taking pieces of each religion and constructing our own. When, in fact, self discovery, and the expression of your truest self is what spirituality is.
The playbooks
March 18, 2024 10:25 - 15 minutes - 14.7 MBWhen we come into this world, we are handed a playbook. It's got all the prescribed plays in it that people tell us we need in life. From religion, to politics, to how to live as a family, to how to think as a human. The problem is, these playbooks are wrong. When we begin to discover our authentic self, we begin to discover the true playbook of love.
Love, kindness, and awareness
March 15, 2024 11:11 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBLove, kindness and awareness, the three essential aspects of finding authentic self
Identifying the identifier
March 14, 2024 14:19 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBPeople are seeking identity. That is another way of saying people are trying to find meaning. Take a listen. Thanks.
Admitting our mistakes
March 13, 2024 11:18 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBSelf reflection is a vital part of authentic spirituality. Self-awareness is a vital part of authentic spirituality. It takes both of those things to be able to see where we have gone wrong. Take a lesson. Thanks.
From the ocean
March 11, 2024 13:49 - 6 minutes - 6.18 MBHere is a short podcast from the ocean where we are on vacation. It is about being connected to all things.
Jesus???
March 07, 2024 11:46 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBI want to talk today about who Jesus is, and what faith is ultimately through the lands of finding meaning. Thanks for listening.
The barriers to meaning
March 06, 2024 11:25 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBToday we look at the things that impede us from finding meaning
Real peace
March 05, 2024 11:57 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBPeace in our life is not the absence of issues. Rather, it is a self understanding, and a gratitude that allows us to put the issues of life in a different perspective.
The better angels of our nature.
March 04, 2024 10:46 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBDo you feel as though there's something off in our world? I do! From our politics, to our lack of awareness. From our self-centeredness to our closed mindedness. I believe that there's a transformation on the horizon for all of us.
Our expectations
March 03, 2024 13:51 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBWe live out of disappointment, we live out of unmet expectations. Some expectations are reasonable some are not. When we talk about disappointment, because our reasonable expectations are not met, we are talking about the matrix, the false reality, and Maya illusion.
It's within you!
March 02, 2024 12:59 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBWe spend lifetimes searching externally. Through religious figures, cult, leaders, politicians, religious, icons, religious concepts, etc. etc., etc. When the truth is only found within you.
The simplicity of it
March 01, 2024 11:37 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBTruly, and authentic spiritual life has within it a simplicity that we often forget. Take a listen. Thanks.
The struggle is real
February 29, 2024 11:32 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MBIn spirituality, we hear all kinds of metaphors, metaphors about rebirth, metaphors about shedding old skin. The reason we hear those metaphors is because who we are is a struggle. However, it is the good struggle.
Inhabiting
February 28, 2024 12:06 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBWhen we are younger, we are totally can be anything followed very quickly with a list of things we should be. Doctor, lawyer, etc. etc. Really the goal of finding meaning in life is to be authentically who we are regardless of what that means in the world.
Three sides to every story
February 27, 2024 11:09 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBIn the false reality, we believe that there is your truth, my truth, and the truth. Ultimately, there is only one truth.
Re-learning
February 26, 2024 11:09 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBSpirituality is not about what group or religion, you may belong to! It's not about having the proper belief system!in Finding Meaning. Spirituality is a re-learning who we are.
The false identifiers
February 25, 2024 13:47 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBWe live in a world that wants to tell us who we are. It gives us an identity through family through culture. And it keeps us from living our true self, which is only found in love.
Getting a clue
February 23, 2024 11:44 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBWe live in a world that is clueless, in essence, not self-aware. We work on our own self-awareness, not through belief, but through behavior. Behaviors like kindness they'd give us a clue.
Another look
February 22, 2024 11:51 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBToday we talked about the PPP again. However, we look at it from the reverse angle. Take a listen. Thanks.
A blinding flash of the obvious!
February 21, 2024 11:59 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBA blinding flash of the obvious is when we see reality for what it really is. That is, a falsely constructed understanding of being human.
The inner dialogue
February 20, 2024 11:57 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBWe always have an inner dialogue going on. The voice of authenticity and the voice of our ego. One of the things that helps us to turn, which is, which is self-love.