As I've worked through relationships and roles the common thread I am finding is the overwhelming sense of responsibility wherever there is suffering or stress.

My question - does the sense of responsibility come from the need to control, or does the need to control create the sense of responsibility?

So beliefs, experience, action are revealing what has been learned by the form/being... But what about thoughts, feelings, emotions? Are they revealing anything/have any purpose? Or like the 3P people say, are they just randomly coming in from who knows where or what? Thanks!!

Listener question: please describe separation and no-separation

Can you please do a podcast on fate and destiny seen from the perspective of learning vs the impulse of life being lived.

There is no self that is the do-er because the self is a concept created by the brain-body as part of learning. And that does not mean an absence of doing or the being having custody of that doing. Can you speak on this please?

Listener question:  I do not have control over other people, events, and circumstances.  Agreed.  And I do not have control over the thoughts that bubble up in my mind.  They arise on their own, for the most part.  But I CAN think on purpose.  Thoughts may arise, but I can also think intentionally.  And this applies to my actions even more so.  My instinct may be to anger or blame or withdraw.  But I CAN act another way if I choose.  Knowing I have no control, and letting go of wanting anything to be other than what it is, eases my way though life.  The idea of noticing, simply observing, without engagement is freedom, and resting in the knowledge that I cannot change anything external to me is peace.  But I’m sticking to my guns here (sorry for the violent metaphor)… I know that I can think on purpose and act accordingly.  And I create my experience to that extent.  Please comment, thank you again.

Exploring Puma Chodron's quote 'The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently'. 

Exploring life's purpose with the Remi quote: 'Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.'

Exploring how true integrity is never about separation.

Expanding on yesterday's 'Outside In' podcast