The RAFT to Freedom

Category: Recognise

Posts covering the Recognise stage of the RAFT to Freedom journey

  • 16 – Guarding your raft from known hazards

    16 – Guarding your raft from known hazards

    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

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  • 17 – From Abstinence to Abandonment

    17 – From Abstinence to Abandonment

    Practice 17 – The resolve to abandon: skillfully letting go

    Patching the leaks and bailing the water

    “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

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  • 18 – Gathering skillful materials and strenthening our raft

    18 – Gathering skillful materials and strenthening our raft

    Practice 18 – The Resolve to Cultivate Helpful States 

    “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

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  • 19 – Holding the helm

    19 – Holding the helm

    Practice 19 – The resolve to maintain: keeping our raft on course

    Anchoring our progress – embodying our new resolves

    They do not lament over the past, they yearn not for what is to come,
    they maintain themselves in the present, thus their complexion is serene.

    Gotama (the Buddha)

    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

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  • 20 – Accessing our inner potential

    20 – Accessing our inner potential

    Practice 20 – Overview of the Four Creative Powers: Four skills for a purposeful life

    ‘Just as the river Ganges slants, slopes, and inclines towards the east, so too a person who develops and cultivates the four spiritual powers slants, slopes, and inclines towards freedom.’

    Gotama (The Buddha)

    ‘Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.’

    Robert Collier

    Episode 20 – Overview of the Four Creative Powers

    An AI generated ‘deep dive’ into this aspect of the RAFT to Freedom

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