We all have moments when we’re ripe for change. Our inner struggles and emotional pain may have reached a point where necessity requires it or, even when life is going well, we may feel a compelling urge to create something better. Sometimes, circumstances present opportunities for change that are so compelling, we can’t pass them up. For example, we may meet someone by accident ho, with ease and gentleness, shows us that there is a better way to live, then reveals how to do it. Part fact and part fiction, Blooming is a story of such a time, when, in my early forties, fate led me to an old man, a gardener, who became my teacher and friend. In the short time of three months, he taught me about the sources of my personal suffering and how to cultivate change in myself to eventually bloom as a person. He told me, “We were born to bloom”.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Meeting the Gardener
Chapter 2: “If I say I am enlightened, how will you know I am telling truth?”
Chapter 3: “Who and what owns you?”
Chapter 4: “What follows you everywhere and is also inside you?
Chapter 5: “How often do your fears come true?”
Chapter 6: “Is your life proving ground or playground?”
Chapter 7: “Do you live within Wheel of Harmony?”
Chapter 8: “How tightly do you grip life?”
Chapter 9: “What can make you supremely happy and also terribly sad?”
Chapter 10: “How can you make mind into friend who helps you?”
Chapter 11: “How do you want others to see you?”
Chapter 12: “How do you cultivate Woo Power?”
Chapter 13: “Are you singing solo or as part of choir?”
Chapter 14: “What do you resist and cannot change?”
Chapter 15: “How do you make problems bigger?”
Chapter 16: “How do you suffer from stories you make up?
Chapter 17: “Where do you focus your mind?”
Chapter 18: “How warm is your heart?”
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