The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the West, a "shopping mentality": shopping around from master to master, teaching to teaching, without any continuity or real, sustained dedication to any one discipline. Nearly all the great spiritual masters of all traditions agree that the essential thing is to master one way, one path to the truth, by following one tradition with all your heart and mind to the end of the spiritual journey, while, of course, remaining open and respectful toward the insights of all others. In Tibet we used to say: "knowing one, you accomplish all." The modem faddish idea that we can always keep all our options open and so never need commit ourselves to anything is one of the greatest and most dangerous delusions of our culture, and one of ego's most effective ways of sabotaging our spiritual search.
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Lovely meditation | ||
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Posts: 915 (06/26/09 21:01:35) |
Meditation
Dear God, Thank you for every blessing and for every awareness that has been brought to my life. Thank you for each moment of the day that lies before me, allowing me to create my greatest expression of love. Thank you for the opportunity to see familiar, loving faces today that I may express my love and gratitude to them. Thank you for new and unfamiliar people and opportunities that may appear today, bringing me greater insight into myself. May this day bring forth a freedom in my soul that I did not know yesterday. May this day remind me to be strong and compassionate. May this day show me my own courage. I ask for the outpouring of Your love on every creature large and small that lives upon the back of Mother Earth. Please open my heart even further that I may be an expression of the
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From Neale's site | ||
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Do not miss a single chance -- not one single opportunity -- to tell someone how wonderful they are, how special they are, how important to you they are, how
incredible as a person they are, how beautiful they are inside and out. Do not miss a single opening in which to insert such a comment, genuinely felt and
genuinely meant.
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Another of my recent emails | ||
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Posts: 918 (06/28/09 20:47:33) |
Dear Geoff,
Think about the length and breadth of your life. It is fun to live in the fast lane sometimes because you get to grow and expand but you also need to deepen and integrate your experiences and that requires you to slow down and contemplate. Live in love, Richard D. Blackstone www.CreateOneLove.com Life runs in cycles Geoff and it has its ebbs and flows much like the tides in the ocean. Each phase of our life cycle is natural and it is best to not resist the flow when you need to go fast but it is also natural to float at a leisurely pace when that is required as well. You don't need to paddle as fast as you can all the time to get downstream quicker. What happens is that you often pass by the things you truly desire because you are so focused on getting downstream. Relax and enjoy the contemplative times. Richard D. Blackstone www.RichardBlackstone.com |
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More from Paul Haider | ||
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Posts: 919 (06/29/09 00:18:39) |
Detachment allows you to be happy no matter what happens. It does not mean that you don't care, but you give up expectation,
anxiety, and frustration if things don't work out. Detachment means just that---you set yourself apart from the outcome---thus you can be at peace, win,
lose, or draw. Detachment takes practice, the practice of setting aside highly charged emotions, thus you are content, joyful, and peaceful as god within
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A few more quotes sites | ||
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http://www.eclecticinspiration.com/quotes/bmartin.html
<P> http://www.troutman.org/misc/quotes.html <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Renunciation+has+both+sadness+and+joy+in+it&meta= <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=sigh+love+hate+sky+above+fate&meta= <P> http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Love/1/index.html <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=hardest+challenge+yourself+world+everyone+trying+make+somebody+else&meta= <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=nobility+lies+in+being+superior+to+your+previous+self&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= <P> http://www.ask.com/web?q=dalai+inner+disarmament&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Let+your+religion+less+theory+more+love+affair.&meta=&aq=f&oq= <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=difference+between+ordinary+person+yogi+view+emotions+react+&meta=&aq=f&oq= <P> http://www.careerlab.com/comments.htm <P> http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Quotes+about+meditation+&meta= <P> Namaste |
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More from Paul Haider | ||
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Posts: 922 (06/29/09 23:41:47) |
In Sanskrit the word PREMA means DIVINE LOVE. In order to reach PREMA one must let go of all doubt, reasoning, theories, and understanding to be at peace. In order to be happy, one must let go of all that is impermanent. It's not enough to think happiness---one must embody happiness as part of your true being. And one must come to understand that we know very little, and ask the god within God for help, to show you the way to peace and happiness. "Oh God, I ask your help --- show me the way to happiness and peace"
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On love ... | ||
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Dear Geoff, JOY, TRUTH, LOVE Live in love,
Three words that are interchangeable Geoff and when you speak one of them it always leads to the other. Here's how it works. Love is who you really are, love is the glue that holds the universe together, love is the eternal flow of the universe and you are ensconced in it right now. You cannot escape it nor do you want to. Love is who you really are. That is the truth of you and that is the truth of life in all dimensions of space and time and everywhere else. Love manifests itself through the feeling of joy. When you feel joy you are experiencing the truth of your being at the highest levels, the truth of love. Go for the feeling of joy as much as you possibly can and you will be in the flow of the truth of your being and one with love. This joy exists in every moment of now and all you have to do is choose it and be it. |
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Posts: 928 (07/07/09 17:03:42) |
When you are nervous, disoriented, or emotionally fragile, inspired chanting or reciting of a mantra can change the state of your mind completely, by
transforming its energy and atmosphere. How is this possible? Mantra is the essence of sound, the embodiment of the truth in the form of sound. Each syllable
is impregnated with spiritual power, condenses a deep spiritual truth, and vibrates with the blessing of the speech of the buddhas. It is also said that the
mind rides on the subtle energy of the breath, the prana, which moves through and purifies the subtle channels of the body. So when you chant a mantra, you are
charging your breath and energy with the energy of the mantra, and so working directly on your mind and your subtle body.
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Fear versus love | ||
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Posts: 930 (07/09/09 20:41:33) |
Love is freedom Geoff. The opposite of love is fear. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, brings back, leaves, conceals, hoards and hurts. Not so
good stuff huh? Love is the truth of your being. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real and it is an illusion. Love is real. Fear is not real. The beauty of
living in a dualistic relative universe is that it allows us to know Love by knowing what love is not.
Live in love, Richard D. Blackstone www.CreateOneLove.com
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Another book I love ... | ||
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Posts: 931 (07/12/09 00:46:26) |
The Messiah Complex As you are awakening, there are some pitfalls we would like you to avoid. The most important one is the dreaded Messiah Complex. Before mission members are completely on their multidimensional feet, this complex tends to have some appeal. Mission Control would like to take a moment to make it a little less appealing. Being Christ and thinking you are Christ are two different matters. If you only think you are Christ, you will then act like you think christ would act, which usually entails trying to save someone. Let us make one thing very clear: This mission is not about "saving" anyone. All inhabitants of this planet are masters. Even the aliens are masters who are here doing a brilliant job mastering being aliens. Everyone on the planet knows the game and everyone has made their decision. If a person has chosen to continue as a master of limitation, that is their inalienable right. Saving people from their rights is not the intention of this planetary mission. And having our ground crew members running around with messianic fervour trying to rescue people from their free will is not through any request of Mission Control nor by any mandate of the Councils. The Earth has elected to evolve beyond limitation; however, anyone who opts to explore that process further is free to do so - just not on this planet. Such people will be allowed to continue their experiments with limitation on some other piece of planetary property that is in a less advanced stage in its evolution. The members of this mission have chosen to master divine expression instead of limitation, and are being asked to do so on this planet at this time. It is
critical to remember that one choice is not better than the other.
Mission Control expects our members to respect everyone's sovereignty and decisions. We also expect you to stand in your full presence and emanate your divine essence. In this manner and in no other, you will have the power to effect another's choice to do the same. Your embodiment of Spirit is the only act that will assist the mission in unfolding smoothly and efficiently to its destined conclusion. http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/callanish/39/et101/et101.htm
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Interesting view on things ... | ||
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Posts: 932 (07/13/09 16:44:43) |
"It is true that overcoming obstacles and difficulties accelerates spiritual progress. The most serious lifetime difficulties, like severe psychiatric
illness or physical disability, may be signs of life progress, not regress. In my opinion, it is often the very strongest souls who have chosen to shoulder
these burdens because they provide great opportunities for growth."
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Love-ly links & quotes | ||
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Posts: 933 (07/13/09 18:34:28) |
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=beginning+of+love+is+to+let+those+we+love+be+perfectly+themselves&meta=&aq=f&oq= http://www.suite101.com/reference/unconditional_love http://www.ask.com/web?q=heaven+letter+unconditional+love&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir http://www.learnhowtoloveyourself.com/fallmadlyinlovewithyourself/ http://member.melbpc.org.au/~grjallen/love44.htm http://www.ajna.com/articles/a_definition_of_unconditional_love.php http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Forgiveness+answer+child+dream+miracle&meta=&aq=f&oq= http://www.quotegarden.com/love.html http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Love+is+when+you+realize+that+he%27s+as+sexy+as+Woody+Allen&meta= http://www.heavenletters.org/unconditional-love-is-a-state-of-being.html http://itakeoffthemask.com/life/unconditional-love/ http://www.ajna.com/articles/spirituality_and_science/the_universe_as_a_hologram.php http://www.suite101.com/search.cfm?searchType=1&q=happiness "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." http://www.higherawareness.com/Namaste
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http://www.rigpa.org/en/teachings/extracts-of-articles-and-publications/242-natural-great-peace.html
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Another great quote about truth | ||
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"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all
religions."
~ Gandhi http://www.ask.com/web?q=wise+person+accepts+the+essence+of+the+different+scriptures+&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir Namaste |
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More quotes | ||
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More advice from the Dalai Lama | ||
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Zen stories | ||
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Page I may have mentioned before :) | ||
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The Gods we are - one HUGE site | ||
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