Richard Moss

Is your mind truly yours, or does it belong to your past conditioning? Discover the power of claiming your own awareness.

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Transcript: In our world, we reward people for being able to think and have ideas, and we rarely reward them for being able to be aware of their thinking and their ideas. Nobody seems to really know where a thought comes from. And most of our thinking gets conditioned from the way we're raised, cultural influences, family influences, religious influences, and educational influences. The really important thing now is, is your mind yours, or does it belong to your conditioning? And so throughout time, the wise leaders, the sages, really made it important that we had a choice between being the victims of our thinking, or possessed by our thinking, or captured or collapsed into our thinking, and the resulting emotions our ideas and thoughts generate in us, and the ability to step back from our thoughts and claim our own mind.

Discover Richard Moss’s profound moment of awakening. A powerful story of stepping out of fear and into perfect peace.

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Transcript: And so after I left Lone Pine visiting Dr. Wolf, about five days later, I'm sitting in the backyard of a friend's house, and I hadn't been able to sleep. All I could do for those five days was basically go, now I'm in the past. You know, remembering how I was. Now I'm in the future fearing I'm, you know, never going to feel safe again. Now I'm just talking out loud to myself, witnessing my mind and my body, talking out loud to myself. And it's early in the morning and I'm sitting, not that early, but I mean, it's past, it's morning hours, morning light, and a butterfly, two butterflies are dancing in the air. And that's why the book's called The Black Butterfly. And one of them's dark, one of them's light. They land on a branch about five, six feet from me, and they mate. And I can see them spasmodically just... And then they fly apart, dance in the air, and the black one lands right here. And in that moment, I experienced... Perfect peace, oneness within and without. It's like I disappeared and became one with everything. And there was a kind of knowing, not a factual knowing, not an information knowing, a knowing of what reality is, what we are, what this is. And the rest of my life has been integrating that experience and several others afterwards.

Identity breeds conflict. True individuality is a profound relationship to sensation and feeling.

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And individuality is not identity. When people have identity, they behave individualistically. If you have a woman who's individualistic and her husband who's individualistic, they are always, always in conflict. And if you are a child growing up in that, you can't understand what it is because you haven't yet formed enough of identity to have lost your individuality, your essential individuality. Not just the individuality of a body that's one of a kind and never comes again. Even with identical twins, they're not completely identical. So when you're caught in identity, then you're individualistic. Then you're always fighting against other identity. There's always conflict. But when you're an individual, you are a relationship to sensation and feeling. That's the very essence of your being.

Here’s a distinction that could change your life: the ego judges and reacts to every feeling. The soul appreciates it. One creates struggle, the other creates space. Richard Moss teaches us how to live from the soul.

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Book Sample:
There is an enormous difference between how the self meets experience - how it judges and reacts to a feeling - and how the soul meets the same experience or feeling. The self’s relationship to any aspect of life is always strategic: it seeks to increase its pleasure, security, or power. In contrast, the soul does not see a feeling as a threat to itself. The soul appreciates any feeling for what it is, and in this nonreactive, nonstrategic relationship we learn to make room for our feelings instead of closing down or fleeing from them.

Most of our ideas about love are simply inherited. Discover how to drop past definitions and listen to what love actually means right now.

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Transcript:
Love has an intelligence. The heart resonates with that intelligence. We need to use language like I'm using because love is a big word, and there's so many levels of love. We need to have a sense that when we're using a word like that, we're beginning to create inside of ourselves, you're creating inside of yourself a relationship to love, not as your mother and father taught you, not as the Valentine cards have taught you, some beautiful stuff written on Valentine's cards, some beautiful things shared with you, brought to you through your mothers and your fathers, through your grandparents, through so many people. But it's listening in this moment. It's listening to what love might mean in this moment. And it's saying, What I want right now is what allows this relationship that I'm living with whoever, and especially myself, this relationship to have a deep, deep ground in stillness, this relationship to have a kind of fundamental security, a rightness of being.

We think faith means being fearless. Richard Moss offers a far more powerful definition: faith is the ability to hold fear while staying connected to the part of you that is greater than any fear. And it grows with practice

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Book sample: Faith is not a state of fearlessness, but rather an ability to hold fear with the power of our awareness and not lose touch with that in us which is more than whatever we are afraid of. Faith grows as the self-Self relationship deepens and as we learn to remain present in difficult situations that, at an earlier stage of life, we would have completely identified with.

How do you interrupt the constant noise of your mind? Discover a simple, sacred mantra to return to a still, spacious presence.

Transcript: And so what I want to introduce you to in this short video is how you yourself can periodically use a mantra to, in a sense, interrupt the thinking process that is maybe taking you over and be able to reset yourself back to a still mind, a clear mind, a spacious mind. So for me, the simplest, maybe the most important word or phrase that we could use in English, that we could call inclusive and sacred, if we're looking at life, if we're looking at ourselves, if we're looking at the blessing of just even having a body and the wonderment of our world, that simple phrase would be thank you. And so the mantra that I use and the mantra that I have shared with others is, thank you, thank you. I'm so grateful. Take a moment to just hear that in your own mind.

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Stop feeding me in conflict: In conflict, our awareness gets trapped in a cycle of "me, me, me." Learn how shifting your focus to the heart brings profound peace.

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Transcript: So when you're in conflict with someone, realize that your assemblage point is me, my what. Self-justification, self-importance, self-interest, self-involvement, all me, me, me. And I can tell you from my life experience, you can function in this world better as you lose interest in me. And the assemblage point of your awareness moves to your heart. And your heart awakens as love and sees and knows this is all love. It's a matter then of journeying deeper and deeper into peace and joy, even though all around us is the suffering created by people whose assemblage point is still me.

Richard Moss offers one of the most beautiful metaphors for consciousness: a crystal sphere. When we live from the center, we see reality clearly. The Mandala of Being is the practice of returning to that center, again and again.

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Book Sample: Imagine that consciousness is like a sphere of fine clear crystal. When we stand at the center of the sphere - which is analogous to our true selves - in every direction we look the light is bent in precisely the same way so that nothing is distorted. We see clearly in all directions from a single, consistent point of view. We are living in our own spontaneous and authentic essence and appreciating reality as it is.