Dear Seaturtle:

I would like it if this thread will not be only a conversation between you and I, but a place where more members will participate in, members with more knowledge of Buddhism.

Seaturtle and Shakti start with the same letter and both have a t in them.. Shakti Seaturtle, that’s the goal?

“I would really like to discover more ways to uncover and release these samskaras, my motivation being to have more energy (Shakti) in clarity, to live more consciously“-

– as in, Seaturtle – Samaskaras = Shakti …

Remove the impurities (deceptions, false beliefs, invalid shame and guilt, misunderstandings), aka samaskaras,  and you end up with pure cosmic energy, aka Shakti. Did I get it right?

“I want to live from a place of surrender, by accepting things the way they are and acknowledging the outside world cannot fix my inside world. I also struggle with this concept, versus the control I should take in my life.“- accepting things the way they are does not imply being passive (or shouldn’t, says I). I think that it’s about accepting and surrendering to the truths of this world that we have no control over (we can’t change them), and focusing on what we do have control over, doing all that we can do about the things that we can change for the better.

anita