In my experience, the only way to continuously grow our inner values is to see the inner values growing and expressing in the lives of ourselves and of others. When looking at the extremist in anything, you can position yourself where you feel the extremist is not able to see anything inwardly. You can become an extremist when you feel no one can see inwardly except you.
Read MoreCompassion begins to yield understanding of others when we realize we are all practicing being in the human experience and that we have freedoms, restrictions, abilities, limitations, and various forms of reasoning based on our cultures, our dwells, and our interpretations of humanity’s reason for being and our reason for being.
Read MoreI understand how it can be difficult to practice in the moment. I have been teaching ideas like this for many years and over the years I have worked with clients and students who have presented countless variations in their understandings and applications. I have seen what works well and where students can have difficulty.
Read MoreThe best practice is to look for life to be a way of practicing what you want to be more about - in everything you do.
Read MoreGIVING AND ITS PRINCIPLES - Scott Walter, Sensei
Most people who tithe are giving out of duty or kindness. But they are not realizing an improved connection to source each time they give. The same thing happens to most musicians — when they play and have a moment of connection, they don’t know how to build it into a further one, one in which it just keeps getting better and better. It is the master musician who knows how to do that, and it is the master in life who knows how to do that. Mastering life should be certainly about doing that, otherwise we’re not even in tune with our reason for being. How can we master something, including our reason for being, if we are not even in tune with it? It is almost unbelievably embarrassing.
Read MoreMOVING THROUGH THE VALUES OF THE MOMENT - Scott Walter, Sensei
We can begin to practice in any moment we choose to better understand our reasons and reasoning through these principles. When we focus our practice to become balanced between Appreciation and Gratitude, we have an opportunity to Respect the current Value of our reason and reasoning; we can position ourselves in our givings to recognize both the values of the matter and the spiritual values relating to our reason. Now, as I have pointed out before, both Appreciation and Gratitude have values and are necessary; the problem with these values is when we get stuck in them. Then we need a way to move to a more or less valuable version of our reasoning. Which way we choose to go depends on the situation, but typically, people are so off balance in their ability to recognize where they are in the changing values in a reason or reasoning, they tend to lose sight of their reasons and give in to a lower reason or value in matter, or they may be unable to effect their reasons in matter at all, getting frustrated and having no way to bridge the gap.
Read MoreTHE ART OF GIVING - Scott Walter, Sensei
The idea of The Art of Giving Series and the Principles that I developed and teach in this series is to offer an understanding in how we can better serve the Divine, ourselves and our worlds through the ways in which we give.
It is important to consider that there are many ways to define what is better, so I chose to offer a way that would include the increasing of any form of value. Now consider, if you will, that having a way to grow any particular value, in any moment to some degree, would be a worthy study and practice.
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