Techniques of Light:

Don Miguel Ruiz's Workshop

It might not seem like much just to read it, but somehow I think if you can take his words to Heart, they can make a Difference for you, too! BEing in this workshop and with the man afterward has really made a *big* Shift in my Life!!!! I'm reading his book, "The four Agreements" and doing the Work. And it's nice to be spending more & more Moments in BLISS all the time. When I move out of *Bliss* that is OK, too, but, I'm having the T.o.L.'s to move mySelf back there more quickly and easily.

And a great big Thank You!!! to Tasha for the hours of work spent transcribing the tapes & our notes!

Enjoy!!!!! ~~~ L&L, SL:)

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From: "T. Taylor" <tktaylor@u.washington.edu>

To: Sharri Lorraine <lorerainbow@earthlink.net>

Subject: Don Miguel's Workshop (fwd)

Well I got one done!

Tasha

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Mastery of Awareness and Transformation:

Don Miguel Ruiz

 

He works with your imagination. Everything is a dream - use your imagination to create your dream!

He told a story:

There was once a planet in another galaxy. It was a planet of toys, millions and millions of toys. Toys populated the whole planet. Now these toys took their life very seriously, they did not know that they were toys. They had jobs, they did tasks, and they had a very strong structure on how things were supposed to be. Well one day one of the toys looked at himself and said, I believe that I am a toy Then he realized that he was here to play, and that he could play. He started to tell all the other toys that they were toys and that they were here to play. He told the toys that you are here to play. Well he was not liked by the toys that took things very seriously and as a result he ended up being crucified and died.

So now this toy is reborn on a planet called Earth. At a point in his life he has a revelation that he is a biological toy. And if he is a biological toy then he is here to play. By believing he was a toy, suddenly it changed everything in his life. He starting having fun in life.

We have to remember that life is a game. We like to sabotage our happiness to find an excuse to be serious. We are part of a big game.

But if I am a toy playing the game, who controls the game? The game was in control of the toys. And the toys had to play and everyone suffers.

And if you suffer the most you get to go to heaven as a reward!

He believes we are toys. He is enjoying the game of life he is playing and he is having fun.

When you play a game you want to have fun and not suffer. We have become trapped by the needs we create. When we play the game of life and suffer.

When he was a child he did not go out to play and suffer. Children forgive and live in the moment.

Life is a game. The game rules are collect power, pride, get even and experience emotional poison. We want someone to love us, but then we have fear that our heart will be broken. We go to that game and have the drama of a relationship. We can change the game. We learned the game of drama, we teach it to our children. However if we have awareness you don't have to play the game.

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For his students Don Miguel created a ping pong tournament. He called it The World Championship. However he created the rules. And after every game he changed the rules. His students got mad because he broke the rules, but instead, he just changed them. He taught them they could change the rules.

Every religion has specificity of God. They write the rules. If you don't follow the rules you go to hell.

Instead of the old rules for the game of life, he proposes:

New Rules for the Game of Life

1. Love yourself

2. Love everything (out there) and everyone else.

3. You have a right to love and be happy.

4. You have a right to make a choice and speak the truth, to create your personal rules.

5. No one goes to hell you only go to God. There is no other place to go. Hell is a dream where everybody suffers. Hell is just a game.

6. If we have the power to change the rules then we can create heaven.

The mastery of transformation is in changing the rules. We can change the rules that make us angry, jealous and fearful. He has a lot of fun just being.

We tend to grow up believe that we are nothing. Nothing is something else! Just be yourself. LIVE YOUR TRUTH. Freedom is to do whatever you want. Follow your heart.

Don Miguel likes the Toltec word Mitote (pronounced Me-toe-tay). Mitote is like having a 1000 people in a market place talking all at once. All parts are talking at the same time. It is a challenge to put order in Mitote and create discipline. Mitote challenges us to end chaos in your mind and create the perfect communication. You can get calm from the chaos.

He asked a student, "Who are you?" The student hummed and hah-ed and finally said he did not know. You have concepts of what you are but you do not know who you are. We believe that we need answers to who we are to feel safe.

To go to awakening you need to go for the truth. If you can live with truth you don't need to know who you are. Once he accepts he does not know what he is and that is okay then he can be happy.

You awaken when you don't need to know about yourself. Example: You don't know how your liver works, yet it will work anyway. You don't need to know how your liver works. You do not know who you are and you just accept that.

The Mitote helps you to stop your mind. In India they go to meditation to stop the mind. In Toltec you learn to stop the mind while interacting with others!!!

He only thinks when he needs to think. He tells his apprentices to stop thinking. He says thinking is like a wild horse. The voices talking and like a wild horse that takes you anywhere. If you do not stop thinking, you keep coming up with solutions. Now you have to think about the solutions.

Thinking is a tool in your hands. You need to have power over thinking. Knowledge tells you what is and is not possible. Knowledge is the description of a dream. We become the slaves to knowledge. Now is the time to take knowledge out of your head and put it in the trash. Then you will become wise. Once you become wise take knowledge out of the trash and put it in your pocket. Use knowledge to communicate.

You have power over knowledge not knowledge having power over you. It is possible. Everything is possible. It is possible to end the nightmare.

It is possible to live your life in happiness.

You make an inventory to see what is in your business. He wants us to make an inventory of what we believe. If a belief goes against truth or happiness or it is not love, trash it. You can change your beliefs if it makes you happy. If you use the four agreements you will start being more happy. Your life will change.

The four agreements are used to rebuild your dream, increase your personal power, and make you stronger. They will help you change. They will help you rebuild your dream. They will increase you personal power of love, truth and integrity. Action makes the difference.

It is time to dream a new dream. Take a power journey and start dreaming another dream. To be happy is a way of life. The Toltec is an artist of the spirit. It is time to create anything you want, create a masterpiece of art.

It is wonderful to always be in love.

Everything is mythology. What you wish to be? You create a movie and everyone else is secondary. Myths create drama. Pure mythology and you want people to fit into a role. You can create mythology and you can create heroes and events.

In Don Miguel's mythology he married God, she is his wife, and he is very much in love with God. Everything is beautiful. He talks to God. He respects all creation. God is so generous and he gets all he needs. God does not have to sacrifice. You do not need to tell God she is good enough. He thanks God all the time from the bottom of his heart. If someone thanks you - you will do it over and over and over again. I APPRECIATE, I am GRATEFUL... that is love.

Thank your body. The body is divine and completely loyal to you even if you mistreat it. Treat your body with love, honor, and respect. Once you love your body then you will take care of your body. Thank life and GIVE LOVE.

Every time you judge you hold it in your body.

Meditation:

 

Take a step by step process to move toward not thinking. Goes from knowledge concept becomes belief.

Think=Image=Who I am=Point of View for Self - I do not know.

I believe I am. I don't know = Point of View simply.

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Gini Gentry, one of his master students spoke: The only thing that you can control in your life is what you wear! The river of life is going on now. Resistance is action and we work so hard at it! Arising from the resistance is the pain. Don't worry, I am responsible; that is what we resist.

Acceptance does not mean approval it means understanding the river is going on. Surrender, accept divine grace in your life. The voices in your head are Judgments that hook you in Duality and keep you in Misery. Get your voices, your people, under control. Under the voices, which is a mask, IS Who You ARE.

As you Trust yourself you don't need that continuous stream of information. You were born with a switch. The switch in your brain is Choice. Every opinion has emotional attachment to it. Disconnect!! When we believe better, we do better. It is a good idea not to judge.

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Don Miguel spoke of the Four Agreements:

It is a way to help you into the mastery of transformation.

1. Be impeccable with your word. Use the truth. The word represents a sword with two sides. Power you can use for or against yourself. Never go against yourself in any way.

2. Do not make assumptions for if we make assumptions, we create false dreams.

3. Don't take anything personally. You can do this, but you must practice doing this.

4. Always do your best. No more/No less. You will not be frustrated if you always do your best. Suffering is an addiction.

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Don Miguel talked about "The Four Agreements" (the name of his book) [& from the fly page:] "Be Impeccable with your Word Speak with Integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourSelf or to gossip about others. Use the Power of your Word in the direction of Truth and Love. Don't take anything personally Nothing others do is because of you.

What others say and do is a Projection of their own Reality, their own Dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. Don't make Assumptions Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one Agreement, you can completely Transform your Life! Always do your Best Your Best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your Best, and you will avoid Self-Judgment, Self-Abuse, and Regret.