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‘If you think meditation is boring, then you’re just thinking.’
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When thinking stops, we must be right there with what is happening.’
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Sunday 31 March 2024
WOKE PRIORITIES
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Saturday 30 March 2024
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We are living in a waking dream that completely defines and delimits our experience of life. The rest of the world is merely a backdrop as we struggle to get somewhere, to be a better person, to accomplish, to avoid making mistakes. As in a dream, we take our stories to be the truth—a compelling reality—and they consume most of our attention. While we eat lunch or drive home from work, while we talk to our partners or read to our children at night, we continue to replay our worries and plans. Inherent in the trance is the belief that no matter how hard we try, we are always, in some way, falling short.
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ACTIVITY MEDITN
Activity — a More Complete Practice
Activity, standing, or dancing meditation, in other words, can be a superior method — not just a compromised alternative to sitting. If you can manage three activities of body-speech and mind together, you involve more concentration, which can be invaluable in our busy, modern lives. As Larry Mermelstein said, in a feature on modern-day Vajrayana:
“Our world is moving a lot faster than it probably was back in those days and so, yes, the stresses and complexities seem to be much greater than centuries ago. But so what? The very choicelessness of it is good for us. We have to do everything we can to incorporate the teachings on a continual basis in our lives.” [4]
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“You can meditate walking, standing, sitting or lying down,” said Buddhist monk Noah Yuttadhammo. “Each requires a different degree of effort as opposed to degree of concentration. Walking meditation having the highest degree of effort, lying meditation having the highest degree of concentration.” [2]
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While the female chicks go on to lay the more than 1.2 trillion eggs humans consume annually, 6.5 billion male chicks each year are hatched, only to be quickly snuffed out. That’s because they don’t lay eggs,
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Buddhist mindfulness meditation called vipassana,
which means “to see clearly” in Pali, the language of the Buddha. It is a
practice based on teachings that explicitly acknowledged the suffering I was
feeling and offered a way to awaken from it.
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“A vast shower of merit will pour down on a giver.” –Samyutta Nikaya I.101
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WHEN WE STOP RUNNING: BECOMING AVAILABLE TO THE LIFE OF THE MOMENT
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How we respond to bad news reflects not just how bad the news is but also how bad our view of the world is. Whenever some bad news comes: some people just go off on a mental spiral downward; where they become pessimistic, cynical, desperate – and while the news might be bad, their reaction reveals that their own basic view of the world is itself bad. If any news can just set us off, then that means we haven’t found some stable foundation for our own lives. And that is the real bad news.
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BG 12.17 One who neither rejoices nor grieves, who neither laments nor desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicious things – such a devotee is very dear to Me.
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Friday 29 March 2024
Wednesday 27 March 2024
EXTN CRSS 109 LFT x DET V PROB X WW “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,”
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It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability — our willingness — to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale, no class, no category — it can be found in a geranium or in a galaxy, in the burble of a brook or in the Goldberg Variations. “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,” wrote Walt Whitman, eternal patron saint of wonder.
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All studies found significant positive associations between brownfield land proximity or density with at least one health relevant outcome, including poorer self-reported general health, increased mortality rates, increased birth defects, increased serum metal levels, and accelerated immune ageing.
Monday 25 March 2024
NOW KNOWS BY NOW
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Aim to live with awareness and willpower. That is the life of the higher mind—intentional, rather than habitual. Energize your activities with more presence, emotion, and determination. That is the result of a deeper level of commitment, and it will lead to deeper—and more fulfilling—results.
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Saturday 23 March 2024
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"A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have."
-- Author Unknown
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‘Our minds and Shakyamuni’s are inseparable — only the thoughts are different.’
Zen GraffitiA Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. - John F. Kennedy
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| ”I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.“ |
| SOCRATES A  A  A  A TO ENLIGHTEN IS TO DISAPPEAR TA-QRA How can you get enlightenment through meditation? “You” can’t. Through meditation, kundalini, kriyas, scripture study, bhakti or jnana or any other path/method. Because ‘enlightenment is not a personal event that happens to a “you” in “time.” It is the substratum, Being, that already underlies all of the dream-character’s activities and efforts…including meditation. Because meditation effect is not permanent, does it mean my enlightenment will go away too? As above, there is no “my” enlightenment. There is no “my,” no “self.” Trying to make that dream-“I” enlightened, through meditation or any other approach, is the complete opposite of enlightenment. Realizing there never was any separate self that could either get enlightened or not get enlightened…is enlightenment. Or more accurately, just Being. So the purpose of meditation is not for the meditator to ‘get enlightened.’ It is for the meditator to disappear. A  PRION NEBULA A |
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