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Meditation in Manhattan. Learn how to keep emotionally balanced. Experience the joys of mental silence. http://is.gd/1NCjV
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Meditation in Manhattan. What would I learn, what benefits would I get? Experience the joys of mental silence. http://is.gd/1NCjV
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Great Russian discovery, make pure, delicious, health-giving water in your own home, absolutely free:
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Melba Joyce, jazz artiste extraordinary, on the joys of being a backing singer with Smokey Robinson. http://is.gd/15geI
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sorry, URL Corrected: Main thing is you must realize what you are, what you have got and how much you have faced it, you have got it and how it has worked out. http://is.gd/Z6aY
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Main thing is you must realize what you are, what you have got and how much you have faced it, you have got it and how it has worked out. http://is.gd/YrLc
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Maybe explaining experience is as helpful as gilding a lily, or adding another hue to the rainbow ….http://is.gd/UxZP
Monday, June 8, 2009
When did you last see real genius? take a look at Coleman Hawkin's improvisation on Body and Soul: http://is.gd/U4bU
Friday, June 5, 2009
Question: When is yoga not yoga? Answer: When your teacher has his hands in the wrong places. http://is.gd/PiBd
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Swaha and Swadha, qualities related to the powers of a guru. Plus a rare photo of the greatest teacher of all. http://is.gd/NXXJ
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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I was longing for an active escape from the quicksand of relativism - gems of spiritual seeking from Seamus Heaney.http://is.gd/IX9c
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Child abuse in Ireland, the Ryan Report, a national disgrace. Michael O’Brien Transcript: http://is.gd/Gr18
Monday, May 25, 2009
The greatest problem of human beings is that don’t know themselves, they don’t know what powers they have….http://is.gd/DPOH
A holy fire in Maine. Collective bliss, the transforming power of love. Spiritually deepening. http://is.gd/DcCF
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Swine �flu scare. How do the potential deaths compare with the equally preventable cancer and road deaths? http://is.gd/vbbx
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North Americans do not have a developed sense of irony. (The Australian writer and humorist, Kathy Lette, noted that“Americans are suffer from an‘irony deficiency”’.)
Yesterday, in my dog-run in Seton Park, Bronx, Liz, a wise psychologist and owner of a wonderful dog called Charlie, said when asked about this that a sense of the double meaning in words doesn’t arise in children until the age of 8 or later and that, in her view, this non -ndertanding of irony in many Americans might be seen as a sign of arressted deveopment.
I posited that it might be more to do with an absence of cynicism and a much greater openness to possibilites - which is one measure of innocence.
When I came to work here, there was a noticeable willingness to try new things which is not present in much of Europe. When presented with a new idea, Europeans would either categorically say “that would never work” or ” we tried that X years ago and it didn’t work.” Americans would be more likely to scratch their heads and say, “Gee, I don’t know - but let’s give it a try and see.”
My online dictionary defines ‘innocence’ as: the absebce if guilt, or lack of guile or corruption, or purity.
Many Europeans I have spoken to regard ‘innocence’ as a bad or negative thing, something to be gotten rid of as soon as possible, but it isn’t, it’s a very powerful, positive quality.
Look at how innocent young babies are, human or animal, and how the vast majority of people relate positively to them.
Yesterday, in my dog-run in Seton Park, Bronx, Liz, a wise psychologist and owner of a wonderful dog called Charlie, said when asked about this that a sense of the double meaning in words doesn’t arise in children until the age of 8 or later and that, in her view, this non -ndertanding of irony in many Americans might be seen as a sign of arressted deveopment.
I posited that it might be more to do with an absence of cynicism and a much greater openness to possibilites - which is one measure of innocence.
When I came to work here, there was a noticeable willingness to try new things which is not present in much of Europe. When presented with a new idea, Europeans would either categorically say “that would never work” or ” we tried that X years ago and it didn’t work.” Americans would be more likely to scratch their heads and say, “Gee, I don’t know - but let’s give it a try and see.”
My online dictionary defines ‘innocence’ as: the absebce if guilt, or lack of guile or corruption, or purity.
Many Europeans I have spoken to regard ‘innocence’ as a bad or negative thing, something to be gotten rid of as soon as possible, but it isn’t, it’s a very powerful, positive quality.
Look at how innocent young babies are, human or animal, and how the vast majority of people relate positively to them.
Turiya - 4th state
Western science limits itself by considering cognitive functions such as thinking as the highest state of consciousness. However, in eastern philosophy, as well as in western mysticism, the existence of a higher state of consciousness is relatively common knowledge even if it isn’t accessible. This higher state of consciousness transcends thinking and other processes of the logical mind and is called ‘the fourth state of consciousness’: the state of ‘thoughtless awareness’. In thoughtless awareness the dualism of the human mind is transcended and one enters the silence in the gap between the thoughts. The silence of ‘thoughtlessness’ leads to pure perceptive existence as opposed to the usual projective perception of the world, where projections from our logical human mind are thrown into reality and then extracted again. The perception of reality can therefore never be pure, if undertaken from an epistemic mental level. The mind sees the outside world only through the limitations of its own understanding, through the tinted lenses of human categories, laws of logic and interpretation based on past experiences.
These limitations of the human mind make it ultimately impossible for humankind to perceive reality in its pure form. The Kantian ‘thing itself’ cannot be perceived independent from its translation through our mental categories. Reality without mental coloring, without the biased and distorted mental translation can thus only be perceived if we learn to transcend the human mind. And the human mind can only be transcended by mystical experience that allows us to enter this state of absolute silence, where we are aware of our surroundings without ‘coloring’ them with the projection of our thoughts.
In the mystical experience one enters a state of pure existence, pure awareness, pure attention and pure being. As pure being, pure existence, one can experience reality as such, without translator, without thoughts, in absolute silence. This state of mystical transcendence of the mind, of absolute silence and complete serenity, has been called by different names according to the different mystical traditions: Mystical Extasis (Christianity), Gnosis (Gnosticism), Tao (Taoism), Satori (Zen Buddhism), Sahaja Samadhi (Sikh tradition), Nirvana (Buddhist and Hindu traditions) and Yoga (Indian mysticism).
Yoga is the Indian description of this mystical experience of “union” - a joining of our individual consciousness with the all pervading energy of the universal consciousness, of the individual ‘Atma’ with the universal ‘Brahma’. The English word ‘yoke’ and ‘joy’ derive from the Sanskrit word Yukti, reflecting the joyful aspect of this mystical fusion of the individual with the universal consciousness.
This state has a significantly relaxing effect on body and mind. Considering that stress is mostly induced by thinking about past or future events, the meditative state of being in the present, in the ‘here and now’ shows to have an important effect on stress relief. In addition, far beyond stress relief, meditation in this form has been shown to have important therapeutic effects on disease processes and can most certainly play a crucial role in disease prevention.
Western science limits itself by considering cognitive functions such as thinking as the highest state of consciousness. However, in eastern philosophy, as well as in western mysticism, the existence of a higher state of consciousness is relatively common knowledge even if it isn’t accessible. This higher state of consciousness transcends thinking and other processes of the logical mind and is called ‘the fourth state of consciousness’: the state of ‘thoughtless awareness’. In thoughtless awareness the dualism of the human mind is transcended and one enters the silence in the gap between the thoughts. The silence of ‘thoughtlessness’ leads to pure perceptive existence as opposed to the usual projective perception of the world, where projections from our logical human mind are thrown into reality and then extracted again. The perception of reality can therefore never be pure, if undertaken from an epistemic mental level. The mind sees the outside world only through the limitations of its own understanding, through the tinted lenses of human categories, laws of logic and interpretation based on past experiences.
These limitations of the human mind make it ultimately impossible for humankind to perceive reality in its pure form. The Kantian ‘thing itself’ cannot be perceived independent from its translation through our mental categories. Reality without mental coloring, without the biased and distorted mental translation can thus only be perceived if we learn to transcend the human mind. And the human mind can only be transcended by mystical experience that allows us to enter this state of absolute silence, where we are aware of our surroundings without ‘coloring’ them with the projection of our thoughts.
In the mystical experience one enters a state of pure existence, pure awareness, pure attention and pure being. As pure being, pure existence, one can experience reality as such, without translator, without thoughts, in absolute silence. This state of mystical transcendence of the mind, of absolute silence and complete serenity, has been called by different names according to the different mystical traditions: Mystical Extasis (Christianity), Gnosis (Gnosticism), Tao (Taoism), Satori (Zen Buddhism), Sahaja Samadhi (Sikh tradition), Nirvana (Buddhist and Hindu traditions) and Yoga (Indian mysticism).
Yoga is the Indian description of this mystical experience of “union” - a joining of our individual consciousness with the all pervading energy of the universal consciousness, of the individual ‘Atma’ with the universal ‘Brahma’. The English word ‘yoke’ and ‘joy’ derive from the Sanskrit word Yukti, reflecting the joyful aspect of this mystical fusion of the individual with the universal consciousness.
This state has a significantly relaxing effect on body and mind. Considering that stress is mostly induced by thinking about past or future events, the meditative state of being in the present, in the ‘here and now’ shows to have an important effect on stress relief. In addition, far beyond stress relief, meditation in this form has been shown to have important therapeutic effects on disease processes and can most certainly play a crucial role in disease prevention.
Friday, March 6, 2009
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