What Would Life BE Without Friends?

Living Truth – is also known as Thursday Night Group and would be best defined as a spiritual community.

We all long to be part of something greater than ourselves. Yet, left on our own it is easy to fool ourselves and the people around us. Participating in spiritual community is how we deepen our understanding of who we are and what is really TRUE for us.

I have had the honor of hosting weekly gatherings for many years. The things that I have learned and the many people I have meet along the way have been life changing. I went through a series of personal awakenings in the early 90′s followed by a growing interest of people wanting to learn from me. I became recognized as spiritual madman who was able to create massive movement in people’s lives. What happened shortly there after was both exhilarating and frightening. Almost over night I become a self-realized spiritual teacher. I became passionate about helping others heal, wake up, and break free of their years of conditioning. My passion for helping people opened Pandora’s box.  It seems that most individuals actually wanted to remain little children and idolize me as their holy daddy instead of taking full responsibility for their life. As much as I tried to lead them to their own inner wisdom and be their own inner guru, they continued to seek my advice for decisions and actions to take in their life.  Learning how to deal with this student-teacher dynamic was both  my greatest challenge and biggest gift.

After 9 years of teaching and leading groups, I needed to step back from everything and re-examine what worked and what didn’t work and come up with new ways of working with people. I spent 3 years contemplating my previous 9 years, and now spend Thursday evenings sharing what I have learned. I feel that a ripening has taken place within me and a renewed passion for being with others in the world.

Today, Living Truth is a refuge for seekers, a safe and loving environment to reconnect with yourself, others and the divine.

Each evening has it’s own unique flavor which may include meditation, dyads, dharma talks, life coaching, guide imagery, spontaneous wisdom teachings,  group exercises and more.

It is a spiritual community which is defined by each member’s willingness to embrace truth teachings and spiritual practices.

I hope you will join us sometime.

In love and service,

Greg

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David Engel and Greg Clowminzer use the dyad process to intimately define what every marketer is after–decision.

Greg: A decision is a mental, strategic move, in order to avoid some future consequence.

David: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: It’s not a spontaneous act. A spontaneous act is without thought; it’s something that just happens. That’s not a decision.

David: Got it. Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: I can also feel a decision in my body. There may be tension in certain spots. A decision is like energy that’s locked up like water in a dam. It’s gotta find a spot to exit. Wherever it exits becomes the decision.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

David: A decision is conscious, and it may be unconscious as well. Whether people know what they’re doing or not, they’re deciding things. So, I don’t know what a decision is not right now.

Greg: Thank you.

David: Tell me what a decision is.

Greg: A decision is adding meaning to something. It’s when one perceives a desirable outcome or perceives an undesirable outcome.

David: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: A non-decision is an act in the moment, without any thought of the future… an act in the moment without any thought of the future is not a decision.

David: Got it. Thank you.

Greg: It’s just a choice in the moment.

David: Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: For me, a decision is a choice. It’s all somehow lumped together… I don’t know what the difference between the two of those is. I think they’re both one.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision isn’t.

David: A decision is not… well… I’m thinking about my dog right now and how she does things. I don’t think she’s really deciding anything. She’s just kind of doing stuff.

Greg: Thank you.

David: Tell me what a decision is.

Greg: When I think of decision, I think that I’m on a timeline. If I act or behave in a certain way, what will be the outcome of that event? Decision is very linear. It’s very strategic. It’s very, “If I do this, what will be the effect?”

David: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: Simply being is not a decision.

David: Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: A decision is connected to something emotionally… something deeper than the thing itself. Like, I may decide to drink water. But that’s not because I want to drink water. It’s because I’m thirsty and feeling pain. To make the pain go away, I drink the water. Or, I may anticipate some future event… maybe I’ll run out of water. So, I go to the store and stock up on a couple of gallons of water so I don’t run out during that day or week or whatever. I’ve decided to buy the water only because I’m fearful of how uncomfortable it would be to run out.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

David: After saying that, I’m thinking about fear. A decision is not trust. It’s me thinking, “I have to do something because I can’t trust that it’s going to be okay. I have to make it happen.”

Greg: Thank you.

David: Tell me what a decision is.

Greg: What’s coming up is it’s like an inner vote. It’s like, “Do I vote for health reform, or not?” If it gets passed, there’s this inner decision to pass health reform, but it’s not implemented yet. It’s just a decision; it’s like a vote. So, decisions are like inner votes. How many vote for buying a new car? How many vote for not buying a new car? How many vote for calling her back? How many vote for not calling her back? It’s like this inner dilemma. Like there’s a voting system, around what I want.

David: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: A decision is not action. It’s just kind of a mental reconciliation of the possible actions to take.

David: Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: I’ve got this image of a kid pulling off petals from a flower, “She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me…” and {chuckles} it’s really all just a mentation. The flowers aren’t going to tell me if she really loves me. It’s like the mind trying to wrap itself around whatever event needs to happen. It’s an illusion that’s created by the mind itself. All the pieces on the chessboard are created by the mind that’s making the decision.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

David: A decision is not letting someone else decide for me. Or, maybe that is the decision sometimes – to let other people decide for me.

Greg: Thank you.

David: Tell me what a decision is.

Greg: What’s coming up is that decisions are all fear based. They’re trying to predict the least unfavorable outcome. It’s simply rallying the inner landscape and preparing it for the action to take.

David: Got it. Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: Love is not a decision. Love just is.

David: Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: For me, a decision is the same as buying something. It’s buying or selling something. Everything that’s coming to me right now… that has been coming to me this whole time… I’ve been thinking about making a buying decision. “What isn’t a buying decision?” Then, I go and think about another buying decision. So, I’m just realizing how married my whole world is to having people make buying decisions. That’s like everything.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

David: I’m having a hard time right now because I’m thinking that even ‘not deciding’ is a decision to not decide. So, I have no way right now to define what a decision is not.

Greg: Thank you.

David: I think that looking at life and the nature of it, there’s an infinite amount of decisions available. Right now I could wave my arms around. I just decided to lift up my hands. I could move here… or there… or there. And in computer programming, I can’t program a computer to randomly go across all these moments. But, I could hold my hands at 90 degree or at 81 degrees… there’s infinity right here in front of me. So, I don’t even know how to wrap my brain around a non-decision.

Greg: Thank you.

David: Tell me what a decision is.

Greg: A decision is the meaning I place on something. I’m 49 years old. I can decide that’s too old to date or too old to have children. I can look at my financial situation and decide that I’m too old to become a millionaire. I could make a decision on who I think I’m worthy of dating or not dating. I decided that I’m too smart to work for somebody else. That’s a decision I made. That means I’m going to be self-employed.

That decision caused a sequence of events in my life. So, I come back to what are some of the earliest decisions I’ve made that are actually impacting my life. Is that a decision that’s serving me? Or, is there another decision that could serve me better? So, decisions are “What series of events in my life have I decided mean something?”

David: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: A decision is not adding meaning to something. It’s allowing things to be as they are. It’s not over-labeling or over-defining things and not putting meaning into something, rather than just allowing it to be the way it is.

David: Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: This question is activating my mind – like electricity. Wow. I’m really present to my limited landscape… I really like advertising and that’s my thing. That’s my limited perception of reality – I’ve never had kids. I’ve lived in S. California my whole life. I’m present to how that experience of reality is influencing my decisions. And not just that. My emotions are influencing my decisions. Like, I might see a pretty girl and be afraid to talk to her. Maybe I’ve got some landscape about that in my head, but there’s emotion too. It feels fearful or uncomfortable, and that influences whether I introduce myself or not.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

David: I’m thinking of turning off the brain. To be with no mind, just total peace. A blissful state. That’s for sure what a decision is not.

Greg: Thank you.

David: Tell me what a decision is.

Greg: I see that there’s a kind of a pecking order of things. There’s the natural law of the universe. And just above that, there’s instincts. That’s what animals have and humans too. It’s a really low operating system. The next place up is decision making. From there, ones goes to choice, love or just allowing things to be. These are higher states. So, decision is kind of a low level operating system.

David: Thank you. Tell me what a decision is not.

Greg: What’s coming up is that a decision is somehow not necessarily in alignment with the natural law of things. It’s very much driven by ego and the will, rather than looking at the law of nature. And the reality of what’s happening and aligning with that rather than fighting it. Decisions seem more like a fight. They feel more defensive rather than to be in alignment with the harmonious flow of the universe.

David: Thank you.

Greg: Tell me what a decision is.

David: I’m thinking about trees… maybe I’ll save this for what a decision is not. A decision is… well it’s not something that trees do. I don’t think that trees decide jack. They just stand there. I’m growing an elm tree from a seed right now. It’s been a real inspiration for me. But animals make decisions. Moving things. Bugs make decisions, I guess. Rabbits make decisions. Humans make decisions. Decisions are things are that only moving things can make.

Greg: Thank you. Tell me what a decision isn’t.

David: When I see trees, I just imagine someone with their hands up, looking up to the sky like: “I surrender.” It’s got its hands up and it’s just taking in the energy – if someone cuts it with an axe, it doesn’t resist. It just takes it; it’s just surrenders. If fire comes and burns it, it doesn’t do anything. It’s rooted into the earth. It’s just there.

Greg: Thank you.

Greg’s Reflections

Decision, instinct, and choice are actually three separate things. Instincts are hardwired into the physical body; animals use instincts. Decisions come from the mind. They’re more intellectually based, more linear. Choice is from the heart.

Maybe advertising is moving out of decision mode, which is, “How do you manipulate people’s thoughts?” And maybe it’s moving into a place of choice, which is more heartfelt and connection based. Maybe that’s what social media is all about – connecting people’s hearts and giving them more choice through interconnectedness.

David’s Reflections

After this dyad, I realized that I was lumping decision, instinct and choice together.

NOTE: The thoughts shared here are not “the truth” rather a process of self-discovery for both David and Greg. We invite you to find a friend or associate and examine this inquiry for yourself.

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“If you are feeling stuck in life, dealing with big challenges or simply want to reconnect with yourself in a deep and meaningful way, then I urge you to join me for what will be a very special day.” -Greg

Greg Clowminzer will spend a relaxed day exploring the power of dyads. With dyads we set aside the normal learning culture of books and knowledge gained through training. Using dyads we learn to trust ourselves and to speak from that place of inner awareness. This inner awareness takes time and support and it can’t be rushed. Wisdom grows for each in it’s own way.

Experience directly the power of being in a dyad! Allow yourself the freedom to be and know your true self. Allow this knowledge to be deep, not just on the level with intellectual ideas within a ‘what if’ simulation of reality. Allow your whole being to go beyond conceptualizations in a direct experience of reality, within a way it really is, in a complete union with truth.

In the words of Eihei Dogen – a Japanese Zen Master who lived between 1200 and 1253 said “To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one’s self and others. Then there is no trace of enlightenment, though enlightenment itself continues into one’s daily life endlessly.”

Because communication is so important in all areas of personal and professional development it becomes fundamental and primary for real growth. Participating in dyad communication practices has helped thousands of people learn and recognize their own as well as others communication patterns which can effectively  transform  relationships, business and life.

The workshop is dirt cheap at only $79.00 and I offer this workshop at this price out of a deep commitment to help and be of service to others.

To register or for more information you may contact me at (760) 930-9604

Location: Private Residence in San Diego (TBA upon registration)
Date: TBA
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $79

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“It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. …knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.” – Freda Adler

This is ONE of the most IMPORTANT tools you may EVER use!!!

I recommend you spend time each month questioning YOUR LIFE. Take an honest appraisal of what’s REALLY going on with the help of the 7 P’s Personal Performance Process. It will give you clarity, insight, solutions and priorities which you can begin to take conscious action.

Time to make sure your ship is steering the right course. I recommend about 1 hour per month and 4 hours per quarter to really review, reflect, re-orient, re-plan, recommit and realize rewards. Ideally take a weekend and have a mini retreat which gives you uninterrupted time. This can be such a powerful, enlightening and rewarding session.

Please do not procrastinate it away. You are the only one who can do it.

Spend at least 30 minutes and answer all of the questions below. Be brutally honest with yourself.  These questions catch your blind spots, keep you on track and help improve your habits. When you ask them regularly, you will become more focused, clear, creative, purposeful, aware and balanced.

The 7 P’s Personal Performance Process:

Patterns, processes, procrastination – habits

- Where can I be more effective in what I am doing?

- What 5 things have I been procrastinating?

- What are my time wasters?

- How can I enhance my inter-personal skills?

Problems, past, pain

- Where am I vulnerable?

- Where do I hold myself back?

- What am I afraid of?

- Where do I not like myself?

- What stresses me?

- For what problems must I ask for solutions?

Perceptions and perspectives of myself and others

- What are the hidden agendas of my boss or partner or family?

- What contacts or friends do I want to develop more?

- What negative or limiting thoughts keep jumping into my mind?

- What key choices must I make?

Prosperity

- How can I increase my abundance?

- In what areas should I obtain more learning?

- What specific actions should I take to be more productive at work?

- What important project have I been putting off?

Principles and values

- What 3 areas in my life must I recommit to?

- Where must I clarify my stand or position?

- What deeds or actions must I forgive or accept?

- What must I do to bring more balance into my life?

- What value is most important for me to master now?

Purpose, potential, passion, power, possibilities, path

- What are my deepest heart-felt desires, dreams and visions?

- Where am I unclear of my life purpose and goals?

- How can I experience a greater sense of meaning in life?

- Where are some opportunities for me to give?

Peace of mind, play, pleasure, pamper

- When do I feel greatest happiness in my life?

- What activities do I find fun, and how can I do more of them?

- What new ideas are teasing me these days?

When you have completed the answers, ask yourself, “What am I missing? Is there anything else?” Use questions often. The subconscious mind is always answering. We must only practice asking and then listening.

INSPIRATION

“Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What’s good about this? What’s not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?” — Charles Connolly

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What is a direct experience?

Words can not describe a direct experience because it is beyond words, symbols or conceptualization. It is beyond all the indirect methods we commonly depend on for knowing; sensing, thinking, believing, deciding, reasoning, or feeling. And yet, when a direct experience happens, it is self evident beyond certainty and doubt.

Again, enlightenment is a direct experience of the absolute Truth and the Truth is that which exists apart from our perception or conception of it.

In the case of self-enlightenment gained from using the question, “Who am I?” it means that you are in direct contact with the truth of your “I.” The previous sentence seems to suggest that there are two of you: you and your “I.” This is a result of the duality in our language and not the case in actuality. In the case of self-enlightenment you are at one with your “I” in the sense of being your true “I” consciously.

In the state of direct experience (enlightenment), there is no mental dichotomy, no subject-object duality but an at-one-ness with your self. People who have achieved a direct experience of self speak from their deepest or highest source. They no longer identify themselves as only being their body, emotions, thoughts, mind or the roles they may play in life. Such people speak from themselves without having to refer to their past thoughts or the thoughts of others. A person who has had a direct experience of self increasingly sees each moment in life as a new and unique experience and does not tend to be stuck in a limited way of seeing things.

If you have attended an Enlightenment Intensive with Greg Clowminzer before, then you know how dramatically they can change your life. In this focused environment, you can discover an entirely new perspective, a new way to see and interpret your experience, a new depth and breadth of consciousness itself. Indeed, as one recent participant told us:

“The experience of being at the intensive has shown me that there is a completely different way to live from a completely different motivation. Being at the intensive has enforced my understanding of who I actually am, and THE WAY to live my life.” — P.B.

Dear Friends,

Every one of us desires to be awake. Every one of us desires to live from deeper authenticity. We all want to be more real as well as to have relationships that are more real.

Who Are You?
Beyond your job, education, possessions, cultural background, sex, religion, conditioning and personal history…

What Are You?
Beyond all your current understanding, memories, knowledge and spiritual background…

Even though ‘Answers’ to all these questions can be found in the sacred texts of the world, the ‘Answers’ are like the menu at a restaurant – the menu is not the meal! The menu is only a tantalizing description of what can be tasted…

On an Enlightenment Intensive you are invited to ‘taste’ and ‘devour’ the Real Meal.

There is no menu to read over and intellectualize about – no second hand descriptions - only the real life work of plunging into the depth of “Truth”, with the intent to eat from the plate of Real, First Hand Experience.

The Enlightenment Intensive calls to that part of you which yearns for, and intuits, the reality that there can be a total and deep fulfillment.

For thousands of years there have been a few individuals from all cultures who have wondered “What is the meaning of it all?”

This quest for ’There’s gotta be more than this!?’ has been going on since the beginning of time. You may have experienced the spectrum of life’s highs and lows – somehow being drawn inward to find more depth and meaning.

Then it may dawn on you, either gradually or suddenly, that “There must be more to this life?” than following the status quo. There must be more to the “Dream” sold to us by society, religion, parents, and ingrained institutions.

Even those who’s worldly success is considered formidable by others gradually come to feel the nagging hollowness and short lived ‘high’ that comes from attaining their outward successes.

Enlightenment is something that is not describable by words or emotions… only pointed to by sacred scripture, teachers and holy books.

This “Enlightenment” cannot be gained or grasped by the intellect.

And, It cannot be earned by penance.

It is a moment of Union with Truth, the Absolute Truth of your inquiry.

It is beyond all thought, feelings or vision.

It is “Knowing” without a “how” that is granted by Grace itself.

All you can do is to practice for Enlightenment Readiness.

It has been said that Enlightenment is an accident and that diligent practice only makes you “accident-prone”!

The Enlightenment Intensive is a tremendously powerful event in which a high percentage of individuals have a true and direct realization of the Truth.Unencumbered by philosophy, dogma, prior conditioning, or knowledge.

The Enlightenment Intensive is extremely powerful for new seekers of Truth as well as veteran ‘seekers’ and ‘finders’. No meditation experience is necessary. Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, this workshop will allow you to greatly increase and deepen your potential for a direct experience of Truth.

Any other growth work you do will be greatly enhanced because you have a ground of being rooted in reality. When you allow yourself to ‘empty your cup’, the possibility of “Depth” to be had is infinite.

People have learned:

• How to focus their intent in a profound and powerful way
• How to achieve a quiet, peaceful mind in the midst of everyday chaos
• How to experience the opening of their heart when everything else seems to try to close it
• How to experience great compassion for each other and/or all living things
• How to love themselves more than they ever have
• How to experience a sense of profound ease with self

Benefits participants have received:

• The ability to be open to whatever occurs for you in each moment, without judgement
• Developing a tremendous spiritual practice of self-acceptance
• Honest communication with others
• Discovering that they are just fine, no matter what their current experiences happen to be
• They began to live life more and more from that profound awareness of “Truth”
• A deep and lasting sense of relief in everyday life
• A tremendous surge of life energy
• Directly experiencing Who and What You Are?
• Working through their own fear of emotion, pain and/or death
• Keys to breaking through all the barriers encountered on the way to the Enlightenment experience

As you can see, this workshop is having a profound impact on people’s lives and relationships in very positive ways. If you fully participate in this workshop I can guarantee you too will experience similar lasting results!

Greg Clowminzer is Zen Coach a self-realized spiritual teacher and life success coach who has been studying and practicing not only martial arts and meditation but also shamanic healing arts, tantra, humanistic psychology, yoga, life coaching, and other spiritual and esoteric traditions from around the world for the last 20 years – and by now should know to keep his mouth shut – but has too much information he wantsto share with you in order to transform you into a total master of living alife of true happiness – one that you can operate effectively in a cool and sexy way in today’s modern world.

Greg lives just north of San Diego, CA and is founder of zencoach.com which coaches and consults withindividuals and groups, helping them awaken to a greater purpose and meaning intheir personal and professional lives. Greg use a blend of eastern and western views as a means of introducing people to the untapped potential of the human spirit.

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Enlightenment Intensives are offered several times each year. To be notified of upcoming events please SUBMIT your information below.  For immediate assistance call 760-930-9604.