ONLINE: Wed, Mar 25: " HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO?"

Dave Weimer will host "How do you Know What to Do?"

"Whatever your next move is, when this topic becomes important to you, it rightly
occupies center stage. No longer pushed to the side, it’s the subject at hand and
you find that your attention is on it, repeatedly. You worry the problem, like a sore
tooth.

A 9th-century Chinese master, Linji Yixuan, said:

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."
Purportedly, this Zen koan was intended to destroy conceptual clinging, urging you
to let go of external authorities, rigid dogmas, or idealized images of enlightenment
in order to discover your own inner wisdom.

Richard Rose said:

"You're on a desert with no railroad tracks. You will have to go on
intuitional hunches."
He spoke about where a person finds themselves in the “philosopher stage” of
man. He emphasized developing what he called intuition repeatedly. He borrowed
and modified Gurdjieff's Four Levels of Man model:
Level 1: instinctive. Living to live. Hedonistic.
Level 2: emotional. Transcended instinctive ways and fallen in love, or found
religion. Something is more important than the self.
Level 3: intellectual. Transcended emotionally-centered living. Wanting to work
things out, he/she finds a system to use (Albigen System, Fourth Way, scientific
method, I Ching, et al).
Level 4: philosophical. Transcended sole reliance on the intellect. Realizing the
snake eating its own tail self-limiting nature of the intellect, or of any intellectual
system, realizing that one’s cognition isn’t going to take he/she any further than the
realm it operates within, one drops one’s devotion to a single system and begins to
“look under every rock,” as Rose often said. Trying anything. Desperate. Open to
anything.

I think that, having learned the lessons from his own journey that the way forward is

fraught, Rose recognized the value of a person developing a sense of guidance
before they got to the philosopher stage where they “Killed the Buddha” and
abandoned all external roadmaps.

When you’re walking your own way, there are no other examples, other monkeys, to

copy. Of course, there are, but you must discover what you’re out to discover on
your own. You’ve got to develop your own sense of direction.
When you do your own thing, in actuality, not solely leaning on the examples of
others, you walk in rarified air.

WH Murray said:
“…the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence
moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never
otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the
decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have
dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream
you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Begin it now.”

Helen Keller said:
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
In her 1956 biography, Keller emphasized that embracing risk and stepping outside
of one's comfort zone is integral to living a meaningful life. She suggests that merely
seeking security is futile, and leads to stagnation.

What do you say?
In this Wednesday Zoom meeting, let’s compare notes and talk about how each of
us knows what to do."

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Dave has authored several books, one titled "A Handyman's Common Sense Guide to Spiritual Seeking":
This guide is my distilled wisdom. The advice, opinions, and truisms relate to a person seeking an ultimate personal answer to existence," so reads the introduction to David Weimer's "Common Sense Guide"—a compendium of his years of spiritual search. This Army veteran, surveyor, reporter, and jack-of-all-trades handyman offers an unwavering portrait of the determination and single-mindedness that led him to experience what he calls completion. Alternating between practical advice and heartfelt exhortations, Dave Weimer inspires readers to pursue their own understanding of existence.
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