Part 2 Non Boring Life

This is part two, I go even deeper into how to never be bored again or seem boring to others.
Most spiritual leaders or gurus and masters are a light to shine on others but they live a flat life. SO let me show you how to be spiritual and live fully.

Transcript

Yo yo yo yo yo yo.

Thanks for joining me again.

Hey,

This is Doug,

Your favorite mystic.

Your surfing mystic.

I am also known as the Wave Whisperer.

We'll get into that in a minute.

So this is a continuation of the podcast we made earlier about how to not be boring.

How to be spiritual and not be boring.

Okay,

So I can tell you all about how it is,

What it's like to be a surfer.

As a surfer,

The number one thing is you have to respect the ocean.

Number two is you respect your equipment.

Number three is you develop an inert sense of respect towards your elder surfers,

For the surfers who are better than you.

You learn your place in a lineup.

Okay?

I may be saying and going over the bounds that a lot of people talk about how you should behave in a lineup.

Now I know times are changing,

And maybe the days of a lineup may be in the past,

Who knows.

But it would be sad if we lose that because so much can be learned and so much respect can be attained and shared with other people.

Like I said,

Number three is you respect other people and you respect their abilities and they will respect yours.

Okay?

Because respect is earned.

And so as a surfer,

I can say,

You know,

The ocean and surfing has its laws.

And these laws are designed to keep everybody safe,

To keep order in the lineup,

And help everybody be able to spread the joy also.

A lot of people don't see that when you're an outsider.

Like I said,

When I lived in Virginia Beach,

For the first seven years,

I surfed First Street.

And First Street is a very heavy localized spot when I was growing up.

But it took me seven years just to make a couple friends out there.

But I was determined to earn my place in the lineup and to be able to ride a quality wave when it came through.

Because in the beginning,

Nobody's going to give you any waves.

I think what happens is a lot of times with the pros that come to visit,

If you're really,

Really good,

They'll give you one wave.

And if you ride it really well,

Then you become part of the lineup.

It doesn't mean you get first-pack at all the great waves.

No,

But you earn your spot in the lineup.

And your spot in the lineup can change from day to day.

One day you might be king of the hill,

And other days you may be the bottom of the hill,

And pecking your way up and trying to earn your ways as you go.

If we take those same rules as a surfer has to apply themselves to out in the water,

Then apply them to spirituality,

You'll find a lot of things in common.

And one of those things in common is that you have to show respect.

You have to respect what you're doing and make it a full-time commitment.

If you want to grow spiritually,

And you want to have more awareness,

The advantages to having more awareness and more consciousnesses means you're going to be deeper.

But you have to dive into those depths.

Those depths are not easily attained.

It takes time,

It takes practice,

It takes love of what you're doing too.

If you're doing it for duty's sake,

If you're setting a regime and setting set time every night to meditate or meditate three times a day or whatever you're doing,

Those things are okay as long as it's something you absolutely love doing.

If it becomes a joy,

If it becomes a benediction of what your life is,

Then it's good.

But duty is a four-letter word,

And it leads you down a wrong path.

So respect is number one.

Respect yourself and give yourself enough dignity to grow and develop.

The more you meditate,

The more you practice your awareness,

The more you practice being centered and conscious all the time,

Then your roots will grow deeper and deeper into the earth.

And that's what meditation is,

That time when you're facing the abyss,

Complete with no thoughts and just existing in that state of mind,

Facing the complete abyss.

And that growing in the darkness is kind of like a plant's roots growing deeper and deeper and deeper.

And the deeper the roots go,

Then the higher the branches are,

And the higher the branches reach towards heaven.

So like I said,

Growing is one of the most important things.

It'll do so many things before you.

You have to grow in the four bodies first,

The physical body,

The mental body,

The intellectual body,

And then the spiritual body.

These four bodies have to grow and develop while you're still in seed form.

You may not realize that you're in seed form right now,

But if you haven't seen the light,

Like when a plant breaks the soil for the first time and the light shines upon the leaves,

If you haven't experienced that yet,

Then you're still in seed form.

You may not know it,

But it's okay.

The way to break free from the seed form is to grow and to develop.

You'll be more interesting of a person the more depth you have.

People can rely on you better,

And people will respect you more when they see that depth.

And the depth is also reading as much as you can about spirituality and practicing yoga and doing asanas and kind of dedicating your life,

But not as a duty.

It has to be a full-time commitment,

Because if you're a surfer and you only surf once a month or something like that,

You're never going to get good at it.

I mean,

It'll take you forever,

And you'll always be called a kook,

And you don't want that.

You're called a kook.

I know that some spiritual people or some surfers look at spiritual people as being kooks,

But real spiritual people,

Real surfers,

I would say,

Are the opposite of being a kook,

Because it's this love.

And that's what separates a kook from someone who is adept and very deep in understanding,

Is that the love factor is there.

If you're doing something once a month,

If you're really not into it,

Then don't waste your time.

Why be spiritual if you're going to waste your time?

So if you want to be more of an exciting person,

Like I said,

These laws of surfing,

These laws that you learn with everything you do,

When you bring the awareness into it,

Then that's when you really start to grow,

And you really start to understand and be more of an essence.

There will be more about you than ever before.

Someone once asked me,

What is the scariest thing you've ever done?

And they knew I skydived.

They knew I surfed,

I snowboard and motorcycle ride and everything like that.

I would say the most dangerous thing I do out of all my lovely hobbies that I have,

The most dangerous I think is motorcycle riding.

Because you can control everything in your aspect,

In your field,

In your attention span,

And be 100% safe.

And then out of nowhere,

You can get clocked.

And that's it,

Game over.

Skydiving is a little safer,

I would say.

When you think that skydiving is safer than motorcycling,

What kind of world is that?

But technology has made it so that we can do exciting things.

And like I said in the other podcast,

The earlier podcast on this boring topic,

I'm trying not to be boring as I'm talking to you.

But I want you to love your life,

Be life affirmative.

A lot of Eastern thought or Eastern practices to be life negative,

Basically.

They say that desire is bad.

And you have to really dive into what that means,

What they are saying when they say desire is bad.

And to me,

And what I've learned over the years is that desiring more than what you have,

Desiring things that you're never going to be able to have.

I know that things look very alluring.

But that's the trickery of it.

That is the thing that they always put these things beyond where you'll actually ever be able to have.

It's a trap you fall into.

And I can even go as far as saying that those that believe that they're going to go to heaven after they die,

Mostly that's greed.

That's a subtle form of greed,

But it's still greed.

So when I say live a full life,

Live an adventuresome life,

Live totally.

And that is a Taoist,

Or Taoist,

You could say,

Concept is to live totally.

Live fully,

100% in the present moment.

No fears,

No greed,

No desires.

Do what you love,

But do it in the present moment.

That is what Buddha was trying to convey.

That's what Lao Tzu is trying to convey in Taoism.

These teachers had great insight,

But it's been misinterpreted and a lot of religions have been formed off of misinterpretations.

I want to discuss that for a few minutes before we quit this lesson and move on to another one.

But I studied Aikido.

Aikido is a very passive martial art that involves using somebody else's energy against them when they attack you.

And in higher Aikido forms,

Basically it's psychological.

You can learn how to avoid attacks from other people psychologically.

You can detect anger and aggression as it's coming towards you and then deflect it in other directions and never absorb it within yourself.

So the Aikido I studied,

I was kind of fortunate.

My very first teacher was a Japanese fellow named Satomi.

And Satomi,

I don't know if he's still alive or not,

But he would be quite old right now if he was.

But anyway,

Satomi was a really great artistic,

Artistically minded Aikidoist.

He was a great artist as well.

And his art,

He brought into his teaching.

And he got O'Sensei's hands down perfectly.

And O'Sensei was the founder of Aikido.

Morhei Ueshiba is the founder of Aikido.

And he had a small circle.

Ueshiba O'Sensei had a small circle of students that he wanted to take over Aikido after he passed away.

And Satomi was part of this circle.

But he was given instructions to go to America and set up shop in Florida and spread Aikido from Florida out.

But then he had other plans.

And he wanted to basically move up to Washington,

D.

C.

In the Baltimore area between the two.

And he wanted to set up a dojo there.

So he did.

And when he did,

It upset some people in Japan because he disobeyed O'Sensei's orders.

So anyway,

I'm getting off the subject a little bit,

But that's a little bit about Aikido history.

What I was getting at is this,

Is that Yamada,

Who was part of that circle in Japan,

Was told to go to New York.

And he did.

And he opened up the USAF United States Aikido Federation in New York.

And he helped flourish and trained quite a few New Yorkers and New Jerseyans and some great people that I actually got to meet.

And they had certain aspects of Ueshiba's that Satomi maybe didn't pay attention to as much.

And those are my two inspirations.

I've learned from one of Ueshiba's and one of Yamada Sensei's students.

And Yamada Sensei had T.

K.

Lee,

Who was one of my first schools I went to after Satomi.

But each one of these practitioners picked up a little bit of what O'Sensei was teaching.

They were there.

They watched fully with their eyes.

But each person has an individual mind,

Which comprehends things a little different than the other.

So I've read books and I saw in other books where these other students that Ueshiba trained,

Or their successors—time has passed a little bit and we're all getting a little bit older—but these successors,

Each one had a little bit of the puzzle.

Nobody really had the full spectrum of the puzzle to every piece of what Aikido is.

But if you stuck around long enough and you paid your dues,

Like Yamada did more than anybody,

And Yamada was just an amazing,

Outstanding talent.

So what happens is that through the lineage,

Things change and things adapt.

And what started off as Ueshiba's main teaching developed over the years.

People learned new things and applied new motion and new technique to evolve Aikido,

As you could say.

But when it comes to understanding spiritual truth—and Buddha had a lot to say 2,

500 years ago,

Bhojidarama,

A little more current,

Had a lot of nice cool things the Chinese got to take in because Bhojidarama was from India.

And anyway,

Each person,

If they're enlightened,

Then they can show you the way because they have eyes and they can see.

And if you have eyes and you can see,

Then you know the way.

You don't have to have a PhD in yoga.

You don't have to have a doctorate degree to understand everything.

You just need eyes.

And that is the whole focus of trying to help you grow spiritually,

To help you develop and be a really cool person to want to be around and hang around.

And people will pick up on your joy.

People will pick up on your happiness and your solitude and all the beauty that comes out of your being.

But like I said,

It's going to take time.

It'll take a lot of practice.

I mean,

That's just the nitty-gritty,

Dirty part of everything is that nothing happens without effort,

Without a little bit of endurance.

And anything that does come easy usually isn't worth very much.

The value is not that intense or that great.

So it's better to,

If you want to be spiritual and not be boring,

Then like I said,

Dive into life.

Dive into whatever you're doing totally 100% in the present moment and focus on being in that present moment.

And that will be the straw that broke the camel's back.

That'll be what pushes you over the ledge and into a whole new life.

Okay,

We've carried on quite a bit.

I've made this a long talk.

But I love and I enjoy talking about things that I know and that I can understand and relate and translate what I've learned into spiritual language so that we can all grow and develop and be outstanding,

Exciting individuals.

All right,

Take care everybody.

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Please give me a rating and share the love.

And I think the more ratings I get,

The more people will look at our work and get into what we're doing and become part of something really cool.

All right,

Take care everybody.

Bye.