RUMI - YOU ARE OCEAN IN A DROP
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JIVA ME SHIVA TATTWA HO
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RUMI- 100 SILENT WAVES
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At the heart of reality, things only exist in relationship to other things. This is the theory underlying relational quantum mechanics, which argues that, from subatomic particles to human beings, existence is a vast relational unfolding.
This is ancient wisdom. We find it in Taoism, which teaches that reality emerges from the meeting of interweaving opposites. It is also core to Buddhism, expressed most clearly through the Heart Sutra: ‘Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form’. In the West, one of the fathers of psychology, William James, came to the conclusion after a dose of nitrous oxide that “There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
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TO PHILO IS TO GET READY TO DTH
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Woodvivos: The wistful warmth gained from touching and communicating with trees.
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MEDITATION - NOBLE FAILURE
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Our first experiment with a meditation technique of this kind inevitably brings us face-to-face with an alarming discovery: we cannot do the technique at all! We cannot let awareness rest in the breath for even a few seconds together without it slipping off and thinking about dinner tonight, or that irritating snoring sound coming from our neighbor. We’ve given awareness a very simple object – the breath. And such a simple directive: Stay!! Stay, Lassie, stay. Stay on the breath. But Lassie just keeps romping off to play in the woods.
I sometimes call this discovery ‘the Noble Failure.’ It is certainly a failure – because we discover that the mind will simply not rest on the object. But it is also noble, because it gives us (perhaps for the first time) a vantage point from which to observe the nature of ordinary mind.”
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NANO IS ONE BILLIONTH
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| "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." |
| LEWIS B. SMEDES A  A A WHAT YOU GET IS NET ZERO A Researchers from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have discovered that previous vaccinations against common diseases like tetanus, diphtheria, shingles, and pneumonia may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. A Potassium rich foods include beans, potatoes, avocados, coconut waters, and watermelon. A In my end is my beginning. T. S. Eliot A BK GRTR MND OF NATR The fully realized Super Mind—a state in which transcendence infuses one’s daily life in an unbroken flow—has been called Cosmic Consciousness in traditional Vedic teaching. I first heard this term in a rather magical setting—a concert at Radio City Music Hall, where former Beatle Paul McCartney talked about Cosmic Consciousness and incorporated it into a lilting melody, both haunting and uplifting. It was a simple song based on an invitation given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi directly to McCartney: “Come and be cosmically conscious with me.” A CA B KLLR OF CHLDRN VK A Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small–small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Three, Passage 10 A Although most scientists ignored the study of consciousness until the late 1980s, sages from many traditions have contemplated the subject for thousands of years. In general, different states of consciousness have been defined in terms of subjective experiences—for example, feelings of stillness, boundlessness, and bliss. Now scientists are using modern technology, such as EEGs and brain-imaging techniques, to try to understand the physiological underpinnings of these states. A Science isn’t about authority or white coats; it’s about following a method. Ben Goldacre A RD BK - SUPERMIND “Take a full three minutes to emerge from your meditation session,” she counseled. “It is very important, and do so even if time is short and you have to take that time away from the mantra.” That seemed like strange counsel to me. Surely the mantra was key to transcendence—and transcendence was the goal! Although I had heard about people occasionally getting headaches if they emerged too quickly, was the three minutes really necessary? And why did she emphasize it so? Only once I began to think more deeply about the Super Mind did I realize that its development depends in good part upon the carryover of the transcendent state into daily life. By allowing a certain amount of overlap between the transcendent and the ordinary waking state, we may foster the easy mingling of these states and promote the growth of the Super Mind. Yet even knowing this, I too often jump up at the end of a session to get on with my tasks. That brings to mind another important role of the teacher: not only to provide us with new information, but to remind us of things we already “know” but may tend to ignore. A MISHLOVE COLLECTION OF PARANORMAL A MANDE BURUNG A In Indian folklore, the Mande Burung is an alleged ape-like creature said to inhabit the Meghalaya subtropical forests in the remote Garo Hills of the Northeast India. Generally described as a large, hairy bipedal hominoid, some believe that this animal, or its relatives, may be found around the world under different regional names, such as the Yeti of Tibet and Nepal, the Ban-manush in Bangladesh, the Yeren of mainland China, and the Bigfoot of the Pacific northwest region of the United States and all of the Canadian provinces, including British Columbia where the majority of all Sasquatch reports and sightings occur A When you emerge from this state, you may feel rested in a particular way—one that not only energizes you, but also helps you organize your priorities and focus with renewed enthusiasm. A I shall consider human actions and desires . . . as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids. Baruch Spinoza A KLLNG AMAZON  A Besides the remarkable slowing and irregularity of the breath, the most noteworthy physical changes have emerged from measurements of electrical current conducted across the surface of the skin—the so-called galvanic skin response (GSR). The GSR is a sensitive measure of nervous system arousal that increases when a person is tense, anxious, or excited. It is a key measure employed in a polygraph or lie detector. A person afraid of being caught in a lie is likely to feel a spike of anxiety when a sensitive question is posed, and the GSR bounces up accordingly. Of course, the GSR could bounce up for other reasons, and the accuracy of lie detectors has been challenged.  A  A ABHIDHA take the word ‘stone’. Its literal or prevalent primary meaning is a piece of rock. Secondly, it may also be used to indicate hardness. Thirdly, to denote absence of emotion in a person, one says – ‘the stone did not melt’. Thus the same word expresses three different meanings – a piece of rock, something that is dry and hard and en emotionless person. Here the first meaning is the example of abhidha, the second of lakshana and the third of vyanjana. A GENALI INV MALAY A When I first encountered this passage, I immediately fell in love with the description of transcendence embedded in the words “something beyond our mind which abides in silence within our mind.” What a subtle portrayal of how it feels to pass through some mysterious portal into another world! It was therefore no surprise that the text should enjoin us to rest on that something. But not to rest on anything else? There I got stuck. A  A DTH - GO GENTLY INTO THE LIGHT A The thing I noticed the most is that everything appears
brighter and clearer, especially the birds flying by and the
clouds in the sky. I feel an intense awareness of the beauty
of nature.
Nature ambushes me with breathtaking sunsets.
I was driving on the interstate and some trees caught my
attention. They were just second-growth poplars, nothing
special. I had seen them many times before. Yet this time
they were vastly different. They were glowing with
incredible white light. A CARNEGIE-Applause is a receipt, not a bill." A   A POST NUKE AGE UFO SIGHTINGS INCR EXPONENTIALLY A regular practice of TM over time can induce all
manner of useful improvements in physical health, though precisely how
such diverse changes come about is somewhat mysterious. It is easy to
attribute positive changes to “stress reduction”—and that is true, as far as it
goes. But as I consider the complexity of changes that TM induces in both
mind and body, that explanation seems too simplistic A In sports, you have to let the zone come to you by
being as present as possible, and having as much
focus and concentration as possible—then all of a
sudden, you’re in the zone.
Barry Zito A Be yourself; everybody else is already taken.
source unknown A (1) Simplify your Life. (2) Feed your stomach well so that you can have energy. (3) Appreciate Spirituality. (4) Exercise daily. (5) Meditate Daily. (6) Find your Guru (7) Surrender your Ego. (8) Love, and be compassionate towards whole cosmos. (9) Seek how old are you? (10) Celebrate the Death. A ONS I used to dread the “chores” one has to take care of to live in this world. Now I enjoy whatever there is to do. Laundry. Cooking. Cleaning. “Well . . . I still hate vacuuming but I’ve learned to do it really fast and get it over with. A I visited a relative in hospice care. She was in her final days. I told her not to worry because her mom and dad and my mom would arrive to help her cross over. She told me, “I know. They’re already here.” Most hospice workers will share the same story because it’s so common. A 476 KYA  Archaeologists have discovered two logs that were cut with stone tools almost half a million years ago beside a waterfall in central Africa. The surprising find suggests that early hominins—members of the human family tree—were expert woodworkers long before Homo sapiens evolved. A few very ancient wooden artifacts have been unearthed before, but they have only hinted at the ability to work with tree trunks. The researchers who made the new find describe it in a study published on Wednesday in Nature. They think these logs were fixed together to form a platform above the marshy shore of the nearby Kalambo River in what is now Zambia. “This is a disruptive discovery,” says the study’s lead author Larry Barham, an archaeologist at the University of Liverpool in England. “I never would have thought that pre-Homo sapiens would have had the capacity to plan something like this.” A |
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