chogyam trungpa's cutting through spiritual materialism is good, even if it is just reading the title..it made me laugh when i first saw it.
we as a species, collect things that are bright and shiny, as well as things that have distinct tastes..going where desire takes us,
and it is true we do inherit others baggage. love making, birth (particularly for women since they experience it more directly) and death
as well as rituals of marriage and feality (better for same sex couples) are the events of life where conciousness is quickened. We have our own and we inherit our parents, our brothers and sisters, our aunts and uncles, and grandparents. plus all the stuff other's plunk on us
like the daily news, and the latest bible reading from the pastor. Remember deep down you are a clean page and that you can edit the book of you. Thus you can write forward and delete out, that after giving thanks to the energy there in for its serving you, parts of yourself that no longer serve..that belonged to someone else. once it is let go, then sudden you are releashed and refreshed. remember you exist always in the present moment. well being surrounds you..just percieve it..it is already so.

www.beliefnet.com/story/158...864_1.html belief.net guided meditation for new years.