[Dialogue] A radical understanding of "All is Good"

[Nancy Lanphear]

A few years ago there was a book and a movie by Anna Quinlan and I cannot
rememeber the name BUT the line that I do recall is   "LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE".
Just that line itself has become a mantra for me and has served me well over
the years just as "all is good" has done.

Isn't it amazing to know that these quotes, mantras, even titles of books
that haven't been read can call forth the truth about life!  I am thankful
for all of it!

Love,

Nancy

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Tim Wegner <twegner at swbell.net> wrote:

> My daughter gave me a book by Byron Katie entitled "Loving What Is:
> Four Questions That Can Change Your Life" (see:
> http://tinyurl.com/698gsar )
>
> I never would have bought this book in a 100 years because judging by
> the cover it looks like an overly sweet self-help book. After
> reading, I discovered that that premature judgement couldn't be
> further from the truth. Byron Katie seems to me to be a strange cross
> between Joseph Mathews and Ekhardt Tolle. She has a radical
> understanding of "all is good" that reminds me of the RS-1
> conversation.
>
> Byron Katie has a Buddhist-like understanding that suffering is
> caused by believing our thoughts that are inconsistent with reality.
> This made me immediately think of Ekhardt Tolle, who describes a
> process of transcendence that happens when you simply observe your
> thoughts. Only after making this connection with Tolle did I notice
> that he endorsed her book on the book jacket!
>
> Byron Katie has a little different approach from Tolle, a series of
> four questions and a "turnaround" that enable you not to supress
> thoughts (can't be done) but to stop believing them.
>
> First one writes down some thought that is stressful and troubling.
> Then ask:
>
> 1. Is it true?
>
> 2.  Can you absolutely know that it's true?
>
> 3.  How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
>
> 4. Who would you be without the thought?
>
> Finally, turn around the concept you are questioning, and be sure to
> find at least three genuine, specific examples of each turnaround.
> (This assumes that we project onto others attitudes we possess
> ourselves -- cf Ken Wilber, "No Boundary".)
>
> Youtube has a copious amount of material on Byron Katie in action,
> just do a Youtube search for "Byron Katie". Here are two links for
> two parts of one conversation with a young woman who says "my mother
> is controlling". This illustrates the four questions and turnaround.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn14ooi-6UQ
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2296SdZ_xg
>
> You may not get the full radicality of this from these youtube
> videos. Katie says she is a "lover of what is", and her affirmation
> of the "way it is" includes disaster, cancer, death of a loved one,
> and in her case, her impending blindness.
>
> I would be very interested in whether any other folks make of this. I
> am planning a class in my my church.
>
> Tim Wegner
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