Learning from Dogs

Note: the next 10 days are pretty challenging, in the most positive and beautiful way, as Jean and I are to be married at Payson Episcopal Church on Saturday afternoon and we have guests until the 29th.  There will always be a daily post from either me or Jon but do forgive us if they are not of the usual longer reflective style.

Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Both Jon and I have written about Dr Hawkins many times in Learning from Dogs.  But there is also a plethora of valuable material available from the organisation, Veritas Publishing, that is the wrapper, so to speak, around David Hawkins work.

His monthly newsletter is free and often very interesting.  For example, in the one that arrived today, there are a couple of extracts from his October lecture that resonate very closely with what Jon published about Eckhart Tolle the previous two days.

“The Self knows.  The mind thinks.  The thinking is just added as a thrill.  Thinking is a thrill and an entertainment.  Can you get along without thinking?  There is a chair.  I don’t think about the chair but I know it’s there.  Most of real knowingness goes on without thinking.  The animal knows without thinking.  It just knows right off the bat who is a friend and who is a burglar.”

“Make choices instead of craving and desire and clutching.  Choose to be happy instead of craving what you don’t have.  Give up all cravingness.  ‘I cannot be happy unless I get to do this or that.’  You are putting happiness as outside of yourself.  The source of happiness is within.  Winning $1 million does not make a big change in your life.  Surrender all cravings to God.”

And do watch this:

Finally, I have repeated a publication today of a post written about Truth published earlier on Learning from Dogs in September.  It has come out at the same time as this Post.

By Paul Handover