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I liberate myself not by KNOWLEDGE, but by SEEING. . I liberate myself not by INTELLECTION, but by SITTING. . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad #losangeles (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq0iKQ6Blhv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sga70imz97nd

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Zen. (at Los Angeles County, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq0hBpEBknj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1umr8ppqrxkxm

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I empty myself of UNREALITY, which exists as chatter in the mind. The mental noise drops away; there is nothing to hesitate me from spontaneous action. . From this emptiness, this STILLNESS, my body flies freely through spacetime, playing with gravity and energy along the way. . There is no effort on my part. I simply witness my physical vessel — my avatar — dance in all activities of living. . So long as I stay here where the mind sits, the entire journey UNFOLDS ITSELF. . It’s the Grand Drama I never want to miss even a blink. 👁🥀 (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqxzB0Bhj8Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i6zijptb4u0g

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Limitations are arbitrary. Sometimes necessary. Many times silly. . Growth and balance is had in FEELING out when to use a limitation as a catalyst for balance, or to transcend a limitation for growth. . There is no objective absolute. There is only the path unique to you. The middle way. #zen . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad #nevada #hiking #outdoors https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqu7b1dhNcM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h0chf0sudg86

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Left foot; one meditation. Right foot; one meditation. Left foot; another meditation. Right foot, another meditation... on and on and on. . Meditation has no absolute form. It can look like anything because it is an activity of your ATTENTION, and not so much what postures or mantras or systems you are doing. . Postures/mantras/systems/etc are all fingers POINTING at the Moon, but they are not the Moon itself. If you see the Moon already — meaning, if you already found an activity that allows your mind to sit — there is no need for the pointers. You are already there. . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad #newmexico #hiking #outdoors (at Torrance County, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqs2cwdB574/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=byzh60oijyy8

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Sunlight is constant. Clouds are fleeting. . Awareness is constant. Illusion is fleeting. . Observe that which is firm, unmoving — constant. THERE, you are. 👁 . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad #grandcanyon #arizona https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqWTH4hNLb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jc8brqkv3eiz

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Thoughts arise naturally on its own accord, no differently from the breath. Allow it. At that moment, it’s there to show you something. Pay attention as it happens. Then allow it to dissipate on naturally. . Process it, but don’t dwell. Don’t hang onto something that is fleeting, like a thought. Dwelling on a thought is REPETITION of a thought BEYOND its expiration date. It is no longer fresh, thus no longer relevant to the current experience at hand. At this point you’re force-feeding an experience, as opposed to going with the flow, going the path of least resistance. This is where you stutter and suffer. . FEEL, FEEL, FEEL when you are TOO ATTACHED to a thought. It is something to be processed, but also ultimately to be SURRENDERED. . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqOm-2hx8J/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2ltqins8gqev

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Your daily tasks are your meditation. #zen . . . // Drove in to the LA area yesterday. Will spend the next few days processing the arrival to California, as well as contextualizing the 2000 mile journey I just did over the past two weeks. . Today is Sunday. Can’t think of a better way to spend church than to help my brother/sister, @heckder and @gingersalas, build a personal Garden of Eden on their small farm. . Their land has great potential for not only creating herbs, crops, and fruits, but also in providing a possible meditation/yoga space in a unique setting tucked away in a valley less than an hour from the hustle and bustle of LA proper. . Stoked to participate in its unfolding. 🙏 . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Sleepy Valley) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqnykHyhOBV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mlgceiugxccz

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Flying through God’s country with Godspeed, doing God’s work. . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Shoshone, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqlAVOsh1G8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9nycgyg3kkr1

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Van clean, mind clean. . Now we sit. . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Pahrump, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqidCd5hXmM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9ivyckilvmb4

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Chillin’ in Pahrump, Nevada . No need to make any miles today. Using this opportunity to overhaul/reconfigure the van system. I started out with what I THOUGHT would work, but after almost 2000 miles I see what I ACTUALLY need. . And I would not have figured it out UNTIL AFTER 2000 miles. #yang . Besides that, I’m relaxing and soaking up the scene. #yin . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Pahrump, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqiIMy3hxfC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tcx2etcmpqvd

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RECAP, THANKSGIVING DAY : Wake up 0800ish. Arise out of van. It’s parked at Desert viewpoint, just inside the eastern entrance of Grand Canyon National Park. Cloudy outside. Frigid wind. Air is thin and crisp due to elevation (5000 ft? 6000? 7000?); breathing takes effort. Hygiene: wash face, brush teeth, apply coconut oil, apply Burt’s Bees lip balm. Make coffee. Explore other South Rim viewpoints; drink coffee. Drive, hike, photos/videos, freeze my ass off, drive, hike, photos/videos, freeze my ass off, drive, hike, photos/videos, freeze my ass off; HAVING A BLAST! . Time is 1400ish (2pm), need breakfast and desire to get back on the road. Descend from the Grand Canyon; one hour drive south, to I-40 West, to continue onto Nevada. Eat lunch at Mexican joint in downtown Williams, AZ along historic Route 66. Drive additional fours hours — 271 miles — through mountains and high desert, descending/ascending thousands of feet of elevation, to lower desert in Nevada. Much warmer in Nevada; I’m elated. Arrive at Marine buddy’s house (@jessedoyle85). We drink beer, we smoke recreational herb. Shoot the shit, discuss the beauty of existence. Have first shower in a week; it’s heavenly hot. Snuggle up indoors with a smile on my face. . A productive day, a solid meditation in itself. Body is EXHAUSTED from effort; mind has made no effort at all — yoga. A blessed day. . Day before Thanksgiving? Another adventure to tell. . . . // The van — my faithful steed — is the real MVP. Hundreds and hundreds of miles of adventuring across the Midwest and Southwest. The van did not even sneeze once nor skip a beat. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 🙏 . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Grand Canyon National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqh4bhtB0Iq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1or270pvicdr6

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I look up to the heavens. . THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 🙏 . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Winslow, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqg6eAIh5X_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tprhjm9r70af

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The drive is the destination. . Enjoy it along the way, for when you finally stop, a new destination will arise. . Destinations are ever-receding points in which one never reaches, because desire itself is ever-receding. Desire will always be that-which-isn’t, what you don’t have. . Content with now, with what-is, one sees that the destination is the very scene we’re already driving through. 🙏 . . . #dirtroad . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Torrance, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqc3DKgBDPw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13ql1n2u6dac3

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The drive is the destination. . Enjoy it along the way, for when you finally stop, a new destination will arise. . Destinations are ever-receding points in which one never reaches, because desire itself is ever-receding. Desire will always be that-which-isn’t, what you don’t have. . Content with now, with what-is, one sees that the destination is the very scene we’re already driving through. 🙏 . . . #dirtroad . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Torrance, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqc2FTOhBTR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j7wpj0dr4hkd

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While before you would regularly walk into a room forgetting what you needed to do. You would read an entire page of a book without remembering anything you read. You would constantly misplace your keys. You would give your friend a blank stare because you weren’t listening to the question they’ve just asked you. . These are symptoms of being lost in thought. Symptoms of NOT paying attention — not being mindful — to reality as it actually unfolds right in front of you now. . Meditation practice, then, is simply returning your attention to whatever it is you are doing in THIS moment. . You want to awaken? You need to be LUCID right now! If you wait until you sit in posture or do yoga or do whatever fancy ritual you have, you’ve missed it all together. . Meditatjon, your awakening, can only be done at this very breath. There is no other time it can happen. 🙏 . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad (at Bluewater, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqa6JOghBys/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ql3is54eu706

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SILENCE is beyond words. So it’s best not to introduce then into the mix in the first place. . The very act of speaking/question disturbs the STILLNESS. . The very act of seeking is the OBSTACLE. . . . Sit, and it will come. That is all. 🙏 . . . . . #meditation #mindfulness #mentalhealth #warrior #art #design #zen #flow #yoga #consciousness #love #mythos #herosjourney #god #usmc #veteran #vanlife #travel #digitalnomad #shotoniphone (at Torrance, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaTFX4Bn2p/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19kbi1l1c54n3