A Simple Path to Well-Being

Paul Garrigan
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There is a simple path to well-being where we relate to life with wonder, intimacy, and trust. At the core of this relationship is learning to live from stillness.

  1. AUG 1

    Beyond Recovery – From Not Drinking Alcohol to No Longer Wanting To

    Recovery for me meant a never-ending self-improvement project and a continuous focus on my problems. So while my relationship with alcohol was destroying my life, the idea of recovery simply wasn't attractive enough to me. Then one day I asked myself the question. How would my life need to be for me to not want to use alcohol? The thing that initially attracted me to alcohol provided some vital clues. I realized that I wanted to be comfortable in my own skin, comfortable around other people, and for the world to appear full of wonder as it sometimes did when I first started drinking alcohol. I then knew that if I could get these things a better way, I wouldn't need alcohol anymore.

    9 min

  2. JUN 19

    Patrick Kavanagh's Teaching on the Passionate Transitory

    PatrickKavanagh teaches us that love, wonder, and joy are available in even the mostdifficult moments. He describes the passionate transitory that awaits us whenwe can see beyond claptrap. .You can also visit my website at: paulgarrigan.com

    10 min

  3. JUN 12

    Whitehead, Yogācāra, the Eternal Now, and Imagination

    Join me on a journey of nostalgia as we encounter the eternal objects of Alfred North Whitehead, the storehouse consciousness of Buddhist Yogācāra, and the liberation that can be achieved through the imagination.You can also visit my website at: paulgarrigan.com

    8 min

  4. JUN 3

    Talking to a Toddler About Epistemology

    Here we explore how a toddler's simple enquiry "why is the sky blue?" can reveal the limits of adult knowing. This question can be an invitation back to a non-ordinary world that is full of wonder. It can help us see how the ordinary way of seeing is just a veil we place upon the non-ordinary.

    11 min

  5. MAY 27

    Why I Gave Up On Spiritual Transcendence

    Wouldn't it be nice to transcend all of the complications of life? No more desires, no more messiness, no more concerns about anything. Here, I discuss why I gave up on this search for spiritual transcendence and found something much better.Check out my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@paulgarrigan1 You can also visit my website at: paulgarrigan.com

    9 min

  6. MAY 20

    The Secret to Cultivating Positive Inner Qualities

    Plentyof attention is given to escaping unwholesome desires and eliminating negativethinking patterns, but what about things we want there to be more of? Qualitiesthat would improve our life if we could increase them. In this video, I discusshow we might go about cultivating wholesome desire through the magic of ourattention. You can also visit my website at: paulgarrigan.com

    15 min

  7. MAY 13

    How Precious Memories Guide Us to Liberation

    Here I discuss how our memories can lead us to a different relationship with reality. They can help us begin to recognize how wonderful life can become when we stop resisting. You can find more about my musings at paulgarrigan.com

    7 min

  8. 03/17/2023

    Not Knowing How I Am Doing

    Every judgement I make about how I am doing is based on unprovable assumptions. Our ideas about who we are and how we are going generate resistance and rejection of what is here.

    7 min
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There is a simple path to well-being where we relate to life with wonder, intimacy, and trust. At the core of this relationship is learning to live from stillness.

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