The Five Daily Practices

The Five Daily Practices

We start with the Five Daily Practices. They can take you as little twenty minutes per day but they can set you up with a positive outlook and a more productive, fullfiled day.

The Five Daily Practices are five distinct exercises that are done during the course of a day. Each exercise has a specific purpose. They each incorporate the conscious mind and the physical body and encourage each to work together and activate those parts of your inner self that are not apparent or obvious to the everyday self. Each exercise does not necessarily take the same amount of time to perform nor do they independently achieve the same result. In fact each one can be remarkably different. Each is performed in a different part of the day. And although these exercises are connected and form part of your day, as your needs change and so do these exercises. Each exercise has a specific function that contributes to a cohesive whole. A brief summary of each practice is shown below. For a detailed overview and guide to each exercise click on the icons below:

What Are The Five Daily Practices

The Five Daily Practices are a philosophy of life. They are a practical system of being. An active philosophy of living and existence.

They do not discuss an abstract concept nor do they theorise about what could be. They are knowledge of what is. Why? Because they offer you the experience of this knowledge first hand. There is no vague drifting off into some precious land nor the hard ridged focus of a single doctrine, but merely the encountering of yourself.

The Five Daily Practices are an external system that will help you to develop your own internal knowledge. It is a system of training yourself to let go of present regimes and to have the liberty to discern your own understanding of how things are and your place and course of action within the scheme of things. They can give you the strength and peace of mind to do what you need to do to ensure your own happiness. Happiness that will not be dictated by what someone else says you should be.

The Five Daily Practices are five distinct exercises that are done during the course of a day. Each exercise has a specific purpose. They each incorporate the conscious mind and the physical body and encourage each to work together and activate those parts of your inner self that are not apparent of obvious to the everyday self.

Each exercise does not necessarily take the same amount of time to perform nor do they independently achieve the same result. In fact each one can be remarkably different. The time needed for their fulfillment is minimal, perhaps 20-30 minutes per day. Each exercise is performed in a different part of the day. And although these exercises are connected and form part of your day, your needs change and so do these exercises. Each exercise has a specific function that contributes to a cohesive whole.

From waking to falling asleep you are expected by life to perform a variety of chores. You will go through a range of emotions. And with these changeable demands placed upon you, you must use the appropriate energy and equipment if you are to perform to the best of your abilities. To fail through lack of information is one thing but to get by and know that you could have done better creates frustration, negativeness, aggression and a disillusionment with life. This produces a never satisfied happiness. Everything is superficial. Happiness becomes something you have when things are going well and you have no obvious problems. But your definition of happiness does not have to be that. It can be deep and lasting and penetrate your whole being. Providing that you let it. And there is the clue. 

The Five Daily Practices are five distinct exercises that are done during the course of a day. Each exercise has a specific purpose. They each incorporate the conscious mind and the physical body and encourage each to work together and activate those parts of your inner self that are not apparent of obvious to the everyday self. Each exercise does not necessarily take the same amount of time to perform nor do they independently achieve the same result. In fact each one can be remarkably different. The time needed for their fulfillment is minimal, perhaps 20-30 minutes per day. Each exercise is performed in a different part of the day. And although these exercises are connected and form part of your day, your needs change and so do these exercises. Each exercise has a specific function that contributes to a cohesive whole. 

From waking to falling asleep you are expected by life to perform a variety of chores. You will go through a range of emotions. And with these changeable demands placed upon you, you must use the appropriate energy and equipment if you are to perform to the best of your abilities. To fail through lack of information is one thing but to get by and know that you could have done better creates frustration, negativeness, aggression and a disillusionment with life. This produces a never satisfied happiness. Everything is superficial. Happiness becomes something you have when things are going well and you have no obvious problems. But your definition of happiness does not have to be that. It can be deep and lasting and penetrate your whole being. Providing that you let it. And there is the clue.

Let yourself be who you are

The putting together of theses exercises within this framework will teach you all the self discipline that you will need to take the responsibility for your own happiness. At first you need direction and you need rules. These will give you the training and the self trust that are necessary for you to let go of your ego. Your fears and inhibitions that stop you from living who you are will be gone. Fear of self recognition is a major hurdle on the way to happiness. When you carry the load of conditioning that weighs you down and tells you that you don’t want to get too close to yourself or let anyone else see what your true person is like, you cannot earn contentment. This lack of satisfaction is the product of outside influences. It is the fear of this influence and the threats that come with it that will interfere with you being who you are.

None of us are born bad. We are all destined to achieve a good life. It is the external influences and expectations created by others that corrupt your path in life. And unless you return to the source of your being you will never be able to truly do what you need to do with your life.

This is not a talking philosophy.

This is not a talking philosophy -This is a living philosophy

“If you leave this existence a better place for your having been here you will truly have attained immortality”.