Changing the direction of your life
Directing our energy wisely
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken.”
Samuel Johnson
“We are conditioned, and we can be reconditioned – even unconditioned.”
Vince Cullen
Episode 15 – The four resolves
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
Practice 16 – The resolve to prevent: skilful effort on the path
Proactive protection on the journey
Indeed I would define mental health as the capacity to be aware of the gap between stimulus and response, together with the capacity to use this gap constructively. Thus, mental health, in my judgement, is on the opposite side of the spectrum of conditioning and control.
Rollo May
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
Episode 16 – The resolve to prevent: using skilful effort on the path
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
“Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh
“Freedom is the individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one, to pause between stimulus and response and thus to throw his weight, however slight it may be, on the side of one particular response among several possible ones.”
Rollo May
“If you let go a little, you will have a little freedom. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of freedom. And if you let go completely, you will have complete freedom.”
Ajahn Chah (paraphrased)
Episode 17 – From Abstinence to Abandonment
An AI-generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
“Little by little, drop by drop, a water pot is filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
Dhammapada 122
“Resolve is not about forcing yourself to act, but creating conditions that naturally lead to action. Reorganise your inner and outer life so that your mind and circumstances support what you aspire to achieve.”
Stephen Batchelor
Episode 18 – The Resolve to Cultivate
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom
Anchoring our progress – embodying our new resolves
They do not lament over the past, they yearn not for what is to come,
Gotama (the Buddha)
they maintain themselves in the present, thus their complexion is serene.
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
James Clear
Episode 19 – The resolve to maintain: keeping our raft on course
An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom