The Oxen - affirmations for practice

‘Sometimes we are looking for the oxen, while we are already sitting on the oxen’

I love these affirmations for practice

·      ‘My true mind is my watching mind - instead of trying to understand everything, I will just try and understand myself’

·      ‘I already know the answers’ 

·      ‘No one else can fix me’

·      ‘Nothing I take will fix me’

·      ‘No advice i hear will fix me’   

·      ‘I fix myself through my practice’

·      ‘I already have the answers.  I know what to do’

·      ‘No additional external conditions need to change for me to be happy’

·      ‘I depend on nothing outside myself’ - no when i am free of that - no when i attain that - I will get there when I realize I am already there

·      ‘I have arrived’ – arrive in stillness

4 rules for enjoying life

Believe we don’t need any external conditions to be happy

1.   Forget about the past (looking back) 

2.   Don’t anticipate the future (looking forward)

3.   Be completely present

4.   Leave our mind alone