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Interesting Times Call for More Appropriate Practices
Submitted by Kali on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 00:23I’m loving this quote right now…. and I’m sure its not just men that he’s referring to…. the Dali Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” Read more »
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Is it possible for you to purely listen?
Submitted by Kali on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 01:21Is it possible for you to purely listen?
To just listen?
To listen without judgement or opinion, expectation or hope? Is it possible to just purely listen?
So if I listen as deeply as I can... beneath the judgement and opinion, beneath the expectation and hope... all that drops away and there is just pure receptive listening. So now there is just listening.
Then I become the listening, and that drops away into pure timelessness... timelessness that was never born and will never die or enter into the stream of time. It just is.
Pure empty I Am-ness.... Clear Deep Heart/Mind. Read more »
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Whats It Like to Take a New Name?
Submitted by Kali on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 23:05It’s been, and continues to be, an interesting process stepping into a new name. I mean what is in a name anyway?! Have you ever really thought about it? Are you your name?
We Change Names When We Get Married
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Duality as the Dance of ONE
Submitted by Kali on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 22:32Perhaps it is our perception of duality that has us seeing things as separate… but our experience of the dualistic nature is one of Oneness… so to see things as dualistic we can get a sense of what it is like to be One with everything by consciously experiencing the separate nature of the parts. So if it weren’t for contrast and comparisons, opposites and juxtapositions our cognition of one thing for the other couldn’t exist; and if we weren’t able to grow our ability to cognize the world around us then how would be capable of evolving at all. Read more »
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Another Mondo Zen Retreat... and a Whole New Name
Submitted by Kali on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 19:03Up until a year ago my meditation practice didn’t really have a formula. I’d been to weekend yoga and Zen meditation retreats that were held in silence and I’d done the typical ten day silent Vipassana retreat. I’d turned my attention inward and sat for hours and hours on my own at home, I’d read books and I was acknowledging a calmer, more peaceful inner world experience for my efforts. But I wasn’t really convinced the payoff was there and I still didn’t really know why I was doing it. Read more »
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What Will It Take?!
Submitted by Kali on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 23:11Why do we have it stuck in our heads that unless we are experiencing pain, suffering and critical conditions then there is no need to motivate ourselves toward change or to improve or evolve or ways of being? Read more »
Colors
Submitted by Marcowynja on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 22:44I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts about an unexpected occurrence, maybe a side effect of meditation and inner exploration; that being the seeing of various colors when coming out of, or even during meditation. Read more »
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Stuff You Might Like
Submitted by Marcowynja on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 08:23I just wanted to create a space here where I could collect things of interest in one place. Useful innovative products and ideas...Things we might find helpful, or entertaining, or mind blowing...
So first up is the Blue Apple from the folks at Daily Grommet. It keeps your produce fresh longer. http://www.dailygrommet.com/products/376-bluapple-keep-fresh-fruit-and-v...
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together
Submitted by alex on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 16:54This world is simply a complicated place. I hope its not beginning to end. I'll need to stop going round in circles like some square. I'd rather be hypnotized into being self aware. I feel numb to feeling. No emotion exists in me. The only artificial dreams I make are those that leave my finger tips. I may not be able to dance but my fingers can. To play, is to be. Synthesizing emotions I cannot obtain naturally. Playing obscure keys to get what cannot be felt. That, is why I play guitar. Read more »
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Space in the Mind is Peace in the Heart
Submitted by Kali on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 18:50I've just come back from a month in the States at Gabriel Cousens Tree of Life - Raw Food - Rejuvenation Centre and a Mondo Zen Teacher Training Retreat with Jun Po Roshi. I planned for a month of contrast and I certainly got it. In Arizona at the "Tree" I roamed around a mountainous desert, ate raw food, sat wearing white with eyes closed and palms turned up in chin mudra. At the Wild Goose Zendo in Massachusetts I abided by a lake in the woods, ate cooked food, sat wearing black with eyes open and chin mudra palms turned down. Read more »