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Deepak Chopra has started a movement remarkable for the way it has spread. It’s not a new vow. It is a new time. Deepak has the intent “to have at least a 100 million” join him in taking the vow above. Yes, 100 million. It’s a simple vow.

I took this vow many moons ago. I’ve since renewed it many times. And just recently took it again at I Take The Vow.

Join me!

Intention is a powerful force.

Intention is the core of all conscious life. It is our intentions that create karma, our intentions that help others, our intentions that lead us away from the delusions of individuality toward the immutable verities of enlightened awareness. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.

–Master Hsing Yun

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But let’s keep talking about this vow. What is it? How is it? Is it? Is it…even?

Yes it is.

What is IT? It is that. Tat. Tvam. Asi.

That.
Thou.
Art.

Yeah, I had to go all Sanskrit on ya! It simply means that the underlying Reality of everything in the Universe is the same as the Divinity within us. It is? Yes!

Then why do we need to take a vow and get very clear what intentional living means. Well, because…uh…we’re deluded!

Into believing That Thou Aren’t.

Thus we have to take responsibility for how we live in this world. We have to take vows. We have to employ intentional living. And of course to bring it all to fruition, we have to

take action.

There’s no way around it.

Change is the only constant. The more crucial question is does change when it happens raise us collectively, or push us down? By all indicators the change we’re in right now is the kind that gives to all. It is a change in consciousness, and a change that has its own momentum. When power doesn’t recognize right thought, leading to right action, then some change is forced, prompted by such factors as the trouble in global financial markets and the economy, the housing and mortgage industries, and the auto industry.

Outdated systems eventually get replaced. Yet this forced renewal is slow and painful. Watch this video of Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo and we’ll pick up the ideas on the other side:

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When we look at the world in a general way, our challenges seem to outweigh our ideas to bring about sustainable solutions. As Tenzin Palmo says, we’re creating more and more suffering in the search for happiness, and this is delusion. At the same time, we’re not powerless. We can think, say and then behave accordingly:

I take the vow of non-violence in my thoughts, my speech and my actions.

It’s a serious commitment. It has the potential of breakthrough. One of the most important factors of positive change is consistency of application and a guarding against wrongs that necessitated change in the first place. A vow creates a thread that runs through, that grabs and anchors you when life throws its all at you and you may falter. And a collective intention carves the way to collective awakening.

Tenzin Palmo wonders out loud if a collective awakening can happen. She plainly states it hasn’t yet, and I would agree. With all the profound teachings available to humanity we’re still in our infancy in putting these teachings to good use in our lives and the life of the world. Humanity learns the hard way. We’ve awakened in various pockets. Yet, there’s a trend to learn and implement ahead of the curve. A trend to bring others up as you rise. A trend to acknowledge common ground. A trend to honor one source.

Are you That?

Yes. More and more know it.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation…you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

–Seneca