Mindful Contemplation
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Liberation Through Non-Clinging
A dharma talk where Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses the nature of impermanence and letting go of the grasping mind. Related articles The Buddha as counter-evolutionary (thenonbuddhist.com) The Buddha’s Struggle With Anxiety? (thebuddhasmind.wordpress.com) Beginning Buddhism (busybuddha.wordpress.com) Four Noble Truths (maribelquinones.wordpress.com)… Continue reading
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Mindfulness as the Path of Opening
May all let-go of frustration. May all come to stability and equanimity. May all flourish. Namaste _/|\_ Continue reading
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elective affinity
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into… Continue reading
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piercing intension
the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading
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Twilighting Idolatries
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading
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Flowing / Swaying
Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an… Continue reading
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Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to… Continue reading
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Withdrawing
Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading
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A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions There is only one core issue for all of psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin? For most of its history, psychology… Continue reading
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Whatever, Etc. 0026: Become Your Breathing
Just some basics for beginning sitting meditation. Make yourself comfortable, be friendly with your thoughts–ask them to please not bother you for five minutes–and simply breathe. Related articles Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration (keithwaynebrown.com) Thinking without Personal Recognition (keithwaynebrown.com) wandering, wondering: (a)maze (keithwaynebrown.com) Can… Continue reading
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Sphurana
Write text here… Related articles Shiva Nataraj (keithwaynebrown.com) The Incarnations (keithwaynebrown.com) In The Silence Of Heart (prachipbhandari.wordpress.com) Winged Information: A Peer Into The Mountaintop. ~ Donny Duke (elephantjournal.com) Continue reading
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Alan Watts on Waking Up
My buddy-friend-guy of 9 years, Christopher, has been listening to this a lot in the last few days. I always love to hear the voice of Alan Watts. And this one kept grabbing my attention because of the ambient music… Continue reading
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unMonastery :: EdgeRyders
This is something I would like to experiment with doing here in the States. I have often thought that something based along the lines of a monastery, ashram, or sangha would do more good for locales than colleges or universities… Continue reading
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Originally posted on The highest manifestation of wisdom is kindness. : by Jane Cleary The word OM is probably more likely to be recognized by its symbol, even though it is the sound of OM that is the point… Continue reading
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Fear and Fearlessness
O you luminous being, you heart encompassing a brilliance: let-go fear; end your self exile in darkness: Only open your eyes & see the Light. Textimony 20121209 Related articles Abandon Hope (and Fear) (shambhala.com) Pema Chodron – Renunciation as saying… Continue reading
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