Principles
Modern Terms
Metaphors
Ancient Terms
100

The practice of consciously replacing a harmful thought with a healthy one.

What is Shift-Thought?

100

The measurable energetic frequency of one’s state of being; also of an entire environment or culture.

What is Vibration?

100

The tool of manipulating our environments in order to easily create harmony, prosperity, and success.

What is the Automatic Key-In System?

100

The inner mental formations that shape perception and behavior, there’s tens of thousands of them running through our head each day, most of them the same the day previous.

What are Thoughts?

200

The practice of calming one’s self, reflecting and repenting, forgiving one’s self and others, and then visualizing a better future.

What is Introspection?

200

The act of purposely using mental imagery to shape the future and to create healing.

What is Visualization?

200

This principle teaches people that there can only be one pilot in charge of your life in any given moment, and you get to choose in each moment who is in control - your roommate, or your true nature.

What is The Commander’s Chair?

200

The pure, timeless awareness beneath thoughts, emotions, and identity. This is the real you.

What is our True Nature?

300

The principle showcasing how our consciousness can reside in four different buckets: clear, mini-blind, blind-spot, and dark spot, plus how to purify all of it to create true liberation.

What is the Thought Window Principle?

300

These are like the guardrails for life as a human being; they are also the laws by which all of nature must inevitably follow.

What are Principles?

300

A metaphor showing how the human mind has the ability to achieve and create almost anything, as long as it focuses intently on it.

What is the 40W Laser?

300

The practice and lifestyle of pursuing connection with the divine.

What is Spirituality?

400

The simple process of: increasing positivity energy and reducing negative energy, then increasing thought awareness ability, then serving others.

What is the 3 Steps To The Dao System?

400

The act of letting go of resentment, to free both yourself and others.

What is Forgiveness?

400

The source of all human suffering, this simple metaphor teaches us how to understand and transform the roots of clinging, attachment, and illusion.

What is C02? (self-attachment)

400

The ongoing process of aligning one’s actions with the Dao so that their family and community can have an improved quality of life and more access to the Sangha and principles as well.

What is the Cultivation Of Dao?

500

This principle, an old puzzle, shows us how to get out of our limited frame of reference, how to serve others, and why doing so removes our suffering.

What is the Nine Circles Principles? 

500

The invisible bonds and conditions that connect people and experiences. This is the heart of why relationships happen, and why people have different attractions for different people and different opportunities.

What is Affinity?

500

This metaphor describes how good intentioned spiritually minded people try their best to figure out how life works but they can never quite seem to find the harmony that spirituality promises.

What is The Home Depot Principle? 

500

The complementary forces of light and dark, activity and rest; they represent duality.

What is Yin & Yang?

600

The skill of delivering criticism kindly, clearly, effectively, and with compassion.

What is How To Share Negative Feedback?

600

The practice of being fully present in the here and the now instead of lost in the past or in the future; commonly experienced in meditation.

What is Living In The Moment?

600

This is the teaching that helps leaders and cultivators to soften the resistance that human beings often have to being shown new information or being given help around deep topics.

What is The Love Account?

600

The principle of effortless action, flowing with nature instead of forcing.

What is Wu Wei?