Comments on: The Four Agreements http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/ Embracing the Journey Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:29:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: What People Think of Me is None of my Business http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-17202 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:01:56 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-17202 [...] Two weeks ago I got an email from a familiar acquaintance. Since the Subject read: “Lottery Tickets” I thought it was some forwarded joke because he is a “forwarder”. For three days I ignored it; Didn’t open it. Then I saw him one night but was unable to speak with him. Feeling badly about that, I came home, opened his email with the intention of quickly hitting the reply button to tell him it was good to see him. [...] […] Two weeks ago I got an email from a familiar acquaintance. Since the Subject read: “Lottery Tickets” I thought it was some forwarded joke because he is a “forwarder”. For three days I ignored it; Didn’t open it. Then I saw him one night but was unable to speak with him. Feeling badly about that, I came home, opened his email with the intention of quickly hitting the reply button to tell him it was good to see him. […]

]]> by: Taking Care of Ourselves - Physically, Emotionally, and Mentally http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-15541 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:29:11 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-15541 [...] I talk about concepts like “mitote” and “re-evaluating my former agreements” and it’s because of The Four Agreements. There are other books - and even some more spiritually adept - but this is the book that I read after I became involved with alcoholic recovery. There is probably no need to buy the book if you follow my articles, because since the concepts became seeded and eventually took root in me, there is nothing I can discuss or be a part of that will not have some of the concepts of this book coming out. [...] […] I talk about concepts like “mitote” and “re-evaluating my former agreements” and it’s because of The Four Agreements. There are other books - and even some more spiritually adept - but this is the book that I read after I became involved with alcoholic recovery. There is probably no need to buy the book if you follow my articles, because since the concepts became seeded and eventually took root in me, there is nothing I can discuss or be a part of that will not have some of the concepts of this book coming out. […]

]]> by: The Law of Attraction Introduction http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-10556 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:52:41 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-10556 [...] For more on gossip, see the First Agreement or read the section on Gossip. [...] […] For more on gossip, see the First Agreement or read the section on Gossip. […]

]]> by: samsara http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-1993 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:50:39 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-1993 Peace to you! Thank you for your thoughts and words. How refreshing and insightful. So full of energy. :-) Peace to you! Thank you for your thoughts and words. How refreshing and insightful. So full of energy.

:-)

]]> by: Antonio http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-1149 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:26:32 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-1149 Ah! the toltec path! What a grand journey it is!!! Everyday a challenge, a fight, a decoding of ones social conditioning aspect, an harmonizitation of ones health dualism, an unbending intent for fighting the internall dialogue, a learning done by the second for the ending of the 4 enemies...power, sobriety(levels of arrogance), old age, and the last the most interesting of all, the one shared by all, at all times:), FEAR! The path is one that means this, FIGHTING, IF someone has any fanct fancy-pancy ideas of walking the path like walking down the road...hehehhe, than they will be hit by a very BIG BUS! Seriously my friends, the bus is something called....mud shadow?... Castanedas flyer? ...Welll, lets just say that it is like gravity, it is there but one can not see it...per say:)Savy?. If it is a shadow, a fart, an inorganic parasite, or an organic parasite( ahummm...simillar to the ones i have from time to time, the pinworms...bothersome litle beings. Especially the females that slilther to ones rectum to deposit their eggs!!!! And than secrete a substance that makes one rectum itch!!!!bloody hell!AH!!!! The reality that we are a universe in it self, organically, is one most interesting, no? Regardless, one is better taking albendazol...too much itching:) The itching is the intent of the being of wanting to spread the eggs. Inteligence has nothing to do with brain cells, but with....organical intent:)....Still, they are not a symbiotivc being:) Last time i unerased their intent, intenting on my own intestines...this time ill use albedazol and, intent again:)..but, with a near 6 feet of tubing, sure is hard:)hahahahahahahahaha!!!!)...matters litle, the point is, they exist and they fight....in other words your energy and intent are being challenged. One calls them, SHarp shooters of the Universe...And that they are...THeun Mares wise words... Believe me, walking the warriors path, i have had to take to fighting for my mental health(please, hehehe dont comment on that, ok?), the said internall dialogue aspect, wich is the one responsible for allowing the stupiditys of others to take root in our being, the taking it personally aspect, a very very wise one. In thruth it is the general dialogue that allows for us to view the world either like a banana, or like an aple(discusting New York), payhap a condom here and there...strange madness we have...an amasing stupidity...Well, must be a very strong taint in America...ahum...Bush was elected, what...2 years ago..3? hell, dont even want to remenber....too mucch pain:( ...And besides it being the internall anchor of reality, a most bodersome program i assure you, and worse than windows 95!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT FORGET, the ss(sharp shooters) We have this reality, not wanting to lay waste to the aprentices baby steps, we have the powfull sharpshooter. YOU! YES YOU! Will be fighting for every scrap of your life!!! to be a chicken or not!!! The challenge will come to test your worth, spirit will knock to test the worth of all, the universe is predatorial....so, be wary and dont forget to shift the focus ok:) TENSE YER MUSCLES AND SCREAM THE CREAM OF THE SAMURAI!!!! like the one in Tom crusies The Last Samurai. Buy the sound track... the 9 track. Did wonders to me. VIBRATION is the key:) My last fight was one that was strong...and me, stupid has hell! regardless, the few few few few, abilitys i had, i fought with what i had, and have...i won. took one year, more or less. My being was invaded, literally, by an inorganic presence, or, ahumm, mallware that was inside a woman, i had sex with(ex-gierlfriend)....we are gates my friend. I think she got this from this "old" (infested presence...shitty inorganic parasites:) house she and her father lived at. In Itally. But, the challenge was one that i loved too much...and still do. ONe must fight in order to increrase what we do not use when we do not fight, hmmm? peace my friends:) and love...althoug, me and my wife are angry at eachother, now, at the times of these words......well...lets see what our dreamers speak....:(...perhaps it is for the best....i miss the mountains...i am an "indian"...i am, a man of nature. I camped for one year in a forest(worked in england,. factory job). Loved it. Nature is like air, all need to breathe its beauty. Rather frustrated now that i managed to be in university...pointless intectualism masturbations....romance with knowledge indeed...sigh!.....well...hmmmmm....peace to you :) Ah! the toltec path! What a grand journey it is!!! Everyday a challenge, a fight, a decoding of ones social conditioning aspect, an harmonizitation of ones health dualism, an unbending intent for fighting the internall dialogue, a learning done by the second for the ending of the 4 enemies…power, sobriety(levels of arrogance), old age, and the last the most interesting of all, the one shared by all, at all times:), FEAR!
The path is one that means this, FIGHTING, IF someone has any fanct fancy-pancy ideas of walking the path like walking down the road…hehehhe, than they will be hit by a very BIG BUS!

Seriously my friends, the bus is something called….mud shadow?… Castanedas flyer? …Welll, lets just say that it is like gravity, it is there but one can not see it…per say:)Savy?. If it is a shadow, a fart, an inorganic parasite, or an organic parasite( ahummm…simillar to the ones i have from time to time, the pinworms…bothersome litle beings. Especially the females that slilther to ones rectum to deposit their eggs!!!! And than secrete a substance that makes one rectum itch!!!!bloody hell!AH!!!! The reality that we are a universe in it self, organically, is one most interesting, no? Regardless, one is better taking albendazol…too much itching:) The itching is the intent of the being of wanting to spread the eggs. Inteligence has nothing to do with brain cells, but with….organical intent:)….Still, they are not a symbiotivc being:) Last time i unerased their intent, intenting on my own intestines…this time ill use albedazol and, intent again:)..but, with a near 6 feet of tubing, sure is hard:)hahahahahahahahaha!!!!)…matters litle, the point is, they exist and they fight….in other words your energy and intent are being challenged. One calls them, SHarp shooters of the Universe…And that they are…THeun Mares wise words…
Believe me, walking the warriors path, i have had to take to fighting for my mental health(please, hehehe dont comment on that, ok?), the said internall dialogue aspect, wich is the one responsible for allowing the stupiditys of others to take root in our being, the taking it personally aspect, a very very wise one. In thruth it is the general dialogue that allows for us to view the world either like a banana, or like an aple(discusting New York), payhap a condom here and there…strange madness we have…an amasing stupidity…Well, must be a very strong taint in America…ahum…Bush was elected, what…2 years ago..3? hell, dont even want to remenber….too mucch pain:( …And besides it being the internall anchor of reality, a most bodersome program i assure you, and worse than windows 95!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT FORGET, the ss(sharp shooters)
We have this reality, not wanting to lay waste to the aprentices baby steps, we have the powfull sharpshooter. YOU! YES YOU! Will be fighting for every scrap of your life!!! to be a chicken or not!!! The challenge will come to test your worth, spirit will knock to test the worth of all, the universe is predatorial….so, be wary and dont forget to shift the focus ok:) TENSE YER MUSCLES AND SCREAM THE CREAM OF THE SAMURAI!!!! like the one in Tom crusies The Last Samurai. Buy the sound track… the 9 track. Did wonders to me. VIBRATION is the key:)
My last fight was one that was strong…and me, stupid has hell! regardless, the few few few few, abilitys i had, i fought with what i had, and have…i won. took one year, more or less. My being was invaded, literally, by an inorganic presence, or, ahumm, mallware that was inside a woman, i had sex with(ex-gierlfriend)….we are gates my friend. I think she got this from this “old” (infested presence…shitty inorganic parasites:) house she and her father lived at. In Itally. But, the challenge was one that i loved too much…and still do. ONe must fight in order to increrase what we do not use when we do not fight, hmmm?

peace my friends:)

and love…althoug, me and my wife are angry at eachother, now, at the times of these words……well…lets see what our dreamers speak….:(…perhaps it is for the best….i miss the mountains…i am an “indian”…i am, a man of nature. I camped for one year in a forest(worked in england,. factory job). Loved it. Nature is like air, all need to breathe its beauty. Rather frustrated now that i managed to be in university…pointless intectualism masturbations….romance with knowledge indeed…sigh!…..well…hmmmmm….peace to you :)

]]> by: Words Can Harm. Words Can Heal. [Part 2] http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-852 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:45:21 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-852 [...] Four Agreements Refresher Read up on it here: http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/ [...] […] Four Agreements Refresher Read up on it here: http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/ […]

]]> by: Words Can Harm. Words Can Heal. [Epilogue] http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-736 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:37:23 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-736 [...] This series was inspired in large part by The Four Agreements and if you guys know me at all - you know how excitedly mad I am about The Four Agreements and how the book/the agreements has/ have changed my life. How it came to be I learned how to implement these fixes for communication woes has been a combination of Codependent Recovery as well as my own alcohol cessation. Had none of these things happened, The Four Agreements would have not been in my top 100 priorities much less the study of impeccable speech. [...] […] This series was inspired in large part by The Four Agreements and if you guys know me at all - you know how excitedly mad I am about The Four Agreements and how the book/the agreements has/ have changed my life. How it came to be I learned how to implement these fixes for communication woes has been a combination of Codependent Recovery as well as my own alcohol cessation. Had none of these things happened, The Four Agreements would have not been in my top 100 priorities much less the study of impeccable speech. […]

]]> by: Words Can Harm. Words Can Heal. [Part 6] http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-200 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:32:08 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-200 [...] What if blame would have been used instead? In a similar scenario where blame would be used instead of  the above expression of “How I felt when” here is what would it more closely could have resembled: “What do you mean ‘what’s wrong?’ No wonder you have no friends if you typically respond to their problems by popping them the bird!” With this one statement this person has shamed me - by either telling a truth that I haven’t many friends, or a fabrication that I haven’t many friends, blamed me - by implicitly stating that it’s my fault I haven’t many friends if it is a truth and has perhaps just blamed me for any relationship she and I may lose. That’s a tough pill for me to digest, especially when I was just trying to share something. But then in thinking better of it, because she seemed to need more from me than I needed of her in that moment, it came across as something it wasn’t. At this point, if I tried to *explain* my truth she is so worked up she may respond with “Nice justification!” At this point I would feel completely helpless and have anger of my own spawned from her invalid assumptions. “First of all, I have plenty friends. Second of all, if it seems I don’t have many it’s because I…[fill in the blank]. Third of all, with your stupid assumptions no wonder you have none!” Does this sound familiar? Remember Agreements #1 [”Be Impeccable” - speak only in the direction of truth and love] and #3 [”Don’t Make Assumptions” - find the courage to ask questions and communicate what you really want] . [...] […] What if blame would have been used instead? In a similar scenario where blame would be used instead of  the above expression of “How I felt when” here is what would it more closely could have resembled: “What do you mean ‘what’s wrong?’ No wonder you have no friends if you typically respond to their problems by popping them the bird!” With this one statement this person has shamed me - by either telling a truth that I haven’t many friends, or a fabrication that I haven’t many friends, blamed me - by implicitly stating that it’s my fault I haven’t many friends if it is a truth and has perhaps just blamed me for any relationship she and I may lose. That’s a tough pill for me to digest, especially when I was just trying to share something. But then in thinking better of it, because she seemed to need more from me than I needed of her in that moment, it came across as something it wasn’t. At this point, if I tried to *explain* my truth she is so worked up she may respond with “Nice justification!” At this point I would feel completely helpless and have anger of my own spawned from her invalid assumptions. “First of all, I have plenty friends. Second of all, if it seems I don’t have many it’s because I…[fill in the blank]. Third of all, with your stupid assumptions no wonder you have none!” Does this sound familiar? Remember Agreements #1 [”Be Impeccable” - speak only in the direction of truth and love] and #3 [”Don’t Make Assumptions” - find the courage to ask questions and communicate what you really want] . […]

]]> by: Living Within Samsara http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-65 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:14:04 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-65 [...] I am a Highly Sensitive Person. As a result of knowing this to be an integral make-up of who I am, I have now designated a category all to its own making as I imagine I shall have many things to say on this matter of HSP. 15 May 2006 The Four Agreements Posted in Dharma, Recovery, Karma, Spiritual Growth by samsara at 12:15 pm | 5 Comments » [...] […] I am a Highly Sensitive Person. As a result of knowing this to be an integral make-up of who I am, I have now designated a category all to its own making as I imagine I shall have many things to say on this matter of HSP. 15 May 2006 The Four Agreements Posted in Dharma, Recovery, Karma, Spiritual Growth by samsara at 12:15 pm | 5 Comments » […]

]]> by: samsara http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-56 Wed, 31 May 2006 12:36:18 +0000 http://samsara.ihostyou.com/the-four-agreements/#comment-56 Chris - Begin where you are! :-) Not even God could expect you to begin where you're not. Like you, I spent the better part of my life escaping into my own shell unable to express or use my voice. Even today I realize I need to have courage a great deal of time in asking for clear instruction or for clear understanding. I have come to understand that many problems within my relationships come from misunderstandings and my own assumptions. Asking for clarification is a small but important step for me. So. Begin where you are. If babies waited until they could walk to begin walking they may never fall down right? Use that and extend it to our life today...there's our first valuable "God Lesson." We're supposed to be clumsy as we try it new. But then in the practice we gain closer to the realization of the ideal...STILL never fully making it [I still trip for example] but knowing that my ideal I keep growing closer to, is why I continue. You can too! Thanks for your comment! Chris - Begin where you are! :-) Not even God could expect you to begin where you’re not. Like you, I spent the better part of my life escaping into my own shell unable to express or use my voice.

Even today I realize I need to have courage a great deal of time in asking for clear instruction or for clear understanding. I have come to understand that many problems within my relationships come from misunderstandings and my own assumptions. Asking for clarification is a small but important step for me.

So. Begin where you are. If babies waited until they could walk to begin walking they may never fall down right? Use that and extend it to our life today…there’s our first valuable “God Lesson.” We’re supposed to be clumsy as we try it new. But then in the practice we gain closer to the realization of the ideal…STILL never fully making it [I still trip for example] but knowing that my ideal I keep growing closer to, is why I continue.

You can too! Thanks for your comment!

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