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The Dharma Keys

108 Ways to Awaken Your Path with a Heart & Unlock Your True Calling in a World Gone Crazy
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.Rumi

You’re ready to read this book if:

  • You know there is so much more to life than you are currently experiencing.
  • You want to discover the real purpose of your life.
  • You want to connect to the depths of your soul and truly embrace the magic and wonder of Your Self beyond the superficial layers of existence.
  • You feel a pull to make a special contribution to the world.
  • You want to experience more synchronicities, magic, wonder, and joy in your life.
A True Story

The Moment Nothing Was Ever the Same Again…

When I was 18 years old, I had a profound experience that completely rocked my world and changed my life forever. It was the moment I took my first step onto my path with a heart and began living my Dharma.

I’m sharing this story so you can realize how profoundly powerful it can be to step off your path without a heart and embrace your true path. While we all have different stories, the essence is always the same.

A path with a heart blesses us. A heart without a path is riddled with suffering and curses.

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The book is designed to help you answer three questions: Who are you? Why are you here? What are you here to do?

How this book will help you live your purpose

Understand What Dharma Really Means

See what it means to live in alignment with the universe—and recognize when your life has moved against that deeper purpose.

Break the Cultural Trance

Question the beliefs, expectations, and old programs that have sent you down a path you were never meant to live.

Discover Who You Are and Why You Are Here

Draw out your own answers to the questions beneath your life: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I here to do?

Find Your Path with a Heart

Discover the path you love and that loves you back—the life that brings your gifts, service, joy, and needs into alignment.

Know Who You Are Here to Serve

See what your life has prepared you for, how your skills can serve others, and the contribution only you can make.

Take the First Bold Steps

Move from understanding your purpose to changing the choices, habits, and direction of your life.

Trust Yourself Fully

Become self-sovereign: able to hear your own knowing and make clear decisions without handing your life to other people.

Live with Meaning, Joy, and Peace

Wake up knowing your days matter, your life belongs to you, and you are walking the path you came here to live.

Inside the book

The Five Parts of The Dharma Keys

The book is divided into five parts. Each part takes you closer into your Dharma, one key at a time. Here is a brief overview of the book.

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Part I

Understanding Dharma

What Does It Mean to Live in Alignment with the Universe?

Living your Dharma is the most important thing you can ever do. But what is Dharma? What does it mean to live your Dharma? How will you know if you’re aligned with Dharma or not? What is the current state of the world we’re living in, and how does that relate to you right now?

In this first part, we open our hearts and minds to a new way of seeing, being, and living in this universe. We rediscover a powerful force that is inside all things at all times and align with it. We awaken to the nature of the universe and why we are truly here. Welcome to the magic of Dharma.

As you expand your mind and heart to the deeper essence of things, you’ll realize what a truly magical world you are living in. You’ll discover why things are the way they are and how you fit into this wonderful world.

A person breaking through masks, chains, and illusion into a sunlit forest
Part II

Waking Up & Breaking the Trance

Seeing Through the Veils of Illusion

Knowing about Dharma doesn’t mean you’re living your Dharma. One of the most essential parts of embracing our Dharma is undoing and releasing the disempowering ideas and beliefs that have been injected into us from our culture and sent us off on the wrong path.

This profound inner journey requires us to question everything we’ve learned about life and the purpose of our lives so we can see what’s really true for us and what is disempowering cultural programming. In Part II, we expose and remove the old programs that have us trapped playing games we can never win. Once we uncover and abandon what is not true for us, we stop recreating our misery without realizing it. Yay!

  • Are you willing to expose the things that no longer serve you?
  • Are you willing to question your motives and release all the old programs that no longer serve you?
  • Are you willing to get off the old path and start a new one?

By doing this work, you’ll break the invisible chains around your neck and dance into your new life of joy!

A golden path running through four circles toward a mountain sunrise
Part III

Discovering Your Unique Path with a Heart

What Is Your Highest Purpose & Greatest Expression of Your Self?

In Part III, we discover why you, specifically, are here at this time. What is your personal path with a heart? Who are you here to serve? And what can you do with your life that will bring you the greatest joy, abundance, freedom, and love?

In this part, you’ll be asked powerful questions to awaken powerful answers to your life’s highest purpose. You will discover the Four Circles of Dharma and find out exactly what your life has prepared you for, how your skills can be used to serve others, who you are here to help, and how you can change the world and have all your own needs met. This clarity naturally unfolds once you are surrendered to the highest good for all.

But don’t try to rush this clarity or skip steps. Many books on “life purpose” and “mission” begin here in Part III. But, as you’ll soon realize, without detoxing the old path from your system and understanding what Dharma really is, asking these questions will only yield more problems and disappointments.

Until you’ve detoxed the old path and escaped the social programming, you won’t be able to answer these questions with complete integrity and power. The magic of discovering your Dharma begins once you can see through the veils of illusion and live your life anew. Magic awaits those who surrender to the highest good for all.

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Part IV

Making It Happen

Taking the First Bold Steps into Your Greatness

Once we’re clear about our true path, we can get started and begin the fateful first steps into our destiny. Only you know what this means. And you’ll find out by the time you reach here. But don’t try to jump ahead and rush this. Take it slow. Breathe deeply, and most importantly, love the process.

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Part V

Your Own Dharma Keys

Trusting Your Self and Becoming Self-Sovereign

The end result of living your Dharma is self-sovereignty. You reach a state where you can fully trust yourself and make accurate decisions in your life. In the final part of this book, you’ll have an opportunity to fully embrace your Dharma, synthesize what works for you, and create your own Dharma Keys—the keys that work specifically for you.

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  • Know who you are and why you are here.
  • Free yourself from the stress, worry, and anxiety of living against your purpose.
  • Release the relationships, situations, jobs, and habits that no longer serve you.
  • Bring meaning, joy, and peace into your days by living your path with a heart.
  • Bonus: Discover Your Dharma training with five core lessons, four bonus sessions, and printable exercises.

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Ancient wisdom for modern times
“It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another.”

The word is ancient. The decisions are modern: what work to do, which voices to stop obeying, whom to serve, what to release, and what step to take next.

★★★★★5 out of 5 stars

Amazing Book!

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2016 · Format: Paperback

Amazing Book!!! Michael you are a great leader and helping us to find our way in this confusing world.

I would recommend it to anyone that is looking for his life purpose or just having the feeling that something is missing in his life and can’t pinpoint it.

The book takes you on a journey of finding who you are, your whys and yours who’s.

It is busting lots of social paradigms that we all been infused and wakened you to see the truth.

Once you read this book will see the world differently. You will see the truth and you will find your Dharma!!

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About the author

Michael Mackintosh

At eighteen, I came home from Africa completely lost. During a meditation in my mother’s studio, I saw my life divide into two paths. One continued the life that was killing me inside. The other led toward a life of light and purpose. I chose the second path.

I have spent more than twenty years helping other people discover their dharma and begin living their path with a heart. The Dharma Keys is the book I needed when I reached that fork in the road.

Michael
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Read it. If your purpose is no clearer, tell us.

If The Dharma Keys does not help you see your purpose more clearly within 30 days, write to us and we will refund you in full.

Questions

Before you begin

Who is this book for?

This book could be for everyone because Dharma applies to everyone—and everyone is better off living in alignment with their Dharma and true purpose, rather than against it.

But the truth is, not everyone is ready to liberate themselves from the chains of their cultural programming, stand on their own feet, and live the life they were born to live. Sadly, the majority of human beings here on this planet would rather run away from their destiny and live a boring half-life of mediocrity, distraction, and creature comforts than grab their mission by the horns and go on the wild ride that’s awaiting them. You’re different.

This book is for you if:

  • You’re unwilling to do work you don’t enjoy.
  • You’ve had enough of spending time with people who just don’t “get” you.
  • You’re feeling stuck, confused, and frustrated that something is not right with your life, and you’re not sure what it is.

You’re ready to read this book if:

  • You know there is so much more to life than you are currently experiencing.
  • You want to discover the real purpose of your life.
  • You want to connect to the depths of your soul and truly embrace the magic and wonder of Your Self beyond the superficial layers of existence.
  • You feel a pull to make a special contribution to the world.
  • You want to experience more synchronicities, magic, wonder, and joy in your life.
Why read this book?

You hold in your hands a magical key that unlocks the doors to your true destiny. This book is designed to draw out from the depths of your soul your deepest answers to life’s deepest questions:

Who are you?
Why are you here?
What are you here to do?
What’s your life all about?
How do you personally fit into this huge, complex world?
What’s the meaning and purpose of your life?

You already have a unique blueprint, a specific role in this world, a special gift that ONLY you can deliver. But the world we live in doesn’t recognize you and doesn’t appreciate your gifts. Most people want you to fit into a little, predictable box and do what you’re told. These people want you to suppress yourself so they can feel more comfortable about killing their own soul and not embracing their true path.

You didn’t come here to pretend to be someone else and live in a cage. You came here to experience life. To feel alive. To express what’s inside of you.

As you discover your Dharma, you’ll come back home to yourself. You will fall in love with life and learn to fly. You’ll be held by the Universe and rediscover your unique place in this world. By living your true purpose, you’ll finally discover the truth about yourself. You’ll know what makes you unique in all the galaxies of this eternal universe.

Most importantly, you will get grounded and embrace your true path with a heart. You came into this world to walk with courage on your own path, a path that you love and that loves you back. By embarking on this adventure, you’ll escape the monotonous life others want you to live, rise up to fulfill your hero’s journey, and begin your life of Dharma, power, and wonder. You’ll find out why you’re here on this wonderful spinning rock we call “Earth,” shooting through infinite space at 66,000 miles an hour.

My hope is that by the time you’ve finished this magical book:

  • You’ll wake up in the morning in awe and wonder.
  • You will know exactly who you are and why you are here.
  • You will free yourself from the stress, worry, and anxiety that comes with not living your life on purpose.
  • You will be liberated from all unaligned relationships, situations, jobs, and habits that no longer serve you.

My hope is that by the time you’re done with this book, you’ll be living in magic. You will feel peace in your heart and a smile on your face, because truly, life is good and you’re at peace with yourself and at peace with the world.

What exactly do I get for $17?

The complete 296-page book as a designed PDF, the Kindle EPUB, the reader library, and the Discover Your Dharma training with five core lessons, four bonus sessions, and printable exercises.

Is this a physical book?

This is the complete digital edition, so you can start reading in the next two minutes.

Do I need to know anything about dharma?

No. The book draws from several ancient spiritual traditions, but it starts at the beginning and brings the idea of dharma into ordinary modern life: work, relationships, money, service, and the decisions in front of you now.

How long does it take to read?

As long as you want. Each key is short, a few pages at most. Some people read one key each morning as a practice. Others read it straight through as a step-by-step program. Both work.

What if it's not for me?

Then tell us within 30 days and we'll refund you completely. You keep the book.

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