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On Mar 15, 2012 viral wrote on Nothing Left to Fight Against, by Zenkei Blanche Hartman:
On Feb 13, 2012 iJourney Coordinators wrote on Seeing is an Act, by Jeanne de Salzmann:
On Sep 17, 2011 viral wrote on Living With a Rebel Within, by Dzogchen Ponlop:
@manisha, beautiful reflection!
On Sep 8, 2011 viral wrote on Difference Between Eah and Oh!, by Jerry Wennstrom:
@Chris, great share! Thanks for the wonderful story ..
On Oct 18, 2010 viral wrote on Reality Poses No Danger, by Thanissaro Bhikkhu:
On Jun 29, 2010 viral wrote on A Portrait in Patience, by Pavithra Mehta:
adding on to the reflections on meditation that Nikki started, i agree -- Though it isn’t its primary raison d’être, meditation is a perfect training ground for developing patience. Take being aware of the breath -- an invaluable tool in meditation. But even if we try meditating with the breath for five minutes , we quickly see how unstable our attention actually is. As a new meditator, it can feel hopeless -- mere seconds go by and the mind is already lost in some memory or day dream, gone for many minutes at a time. We might find that the mind actually wanders much faster in meditation than it does in our more everyday experiences (like say, reading a book). And that’s because everything is magnified in meditation. It’s designed to be that way, so that awareness can sharpen and refinement can happen at a subtler level of mind. Over years of practicing, I came to experience the principle at play here: when things realign at the core, this transformation ripples upward from the depths to the surface, and outward into the rest of our lives. So each time we realize that the mind is no longer focused, that realization presents us with an immediate opportunity to practice a new way of being. And that opportunity can only come alive -- with a heart of patience.
Wrote up a much longer piece recently on this.
all in all, awesome passage, wonderful recording, and great comments ... melissa, regarding the male/female energy, turns out the author is also female :-)
On Jun 11, 2010 viral wrote on The Fallacy of Togetherness, by Osho:
patsy, i've always appreciated what you share. wanted to think out loud about the questions you pose here, by posing one more question. as context for that question, this snippet from the passage:
"If ten internally focused individuals are sitting in a room, it is not that there are ten internally focused individuals sitting. It is each individual sitting by themselves, thereby not forming a crowd."
here's the question: this being the case (which I think it is), why do ten internally focused individuals still decide to sit together? i think there is real value in it, inspite of ultimately each individual sittiing by themselves.
reflections?
best,
On Dec 25, 2009 Viral wrote on Willing to Experience our Suffering, by Charlotte Joko Beck:
"Well, a number of years ago a very good friend of mine and I were really into this beauty thing: what does it mean? Why did Doestoyevsky talk about beauty? Why did he say you can save the world with beauty? The way I try to explain it now, and it's just a fringe of an explanation, is that being human is having both pathos—you know about death, about suffering, you know all of that, and you can't get away from it—but the other side of being human is joy. You have friends, you can touch things and, in the long run, you're related to the universe. There's a great joy in that, and beauty is somehow the line, the edge between the two, the edge between the shadow and the light, and both of them become richer when they're both there." -- from a Works and Conversations Magazine interview of James Hubbell, by Richard Whittaker
On Jun 17, 2009 JZ wrote on Walking the Razor's Edge, by Charlotte Joko Beck:
This is a fanastic passage. It make me think of a profound experience from my childhood, so thank you guys for sending out the passage.
On Feb 4, 2009 viral wrote on The Two Beliefs of Successful People, by David Brooks:
On Jan 14, 2008 A Reflection from the Thought-of-the-Week Photograph wrote on Why Do You Meditate?, by Andrew Cohen:
On Jul 16, 2007 Photograph Above wrote on The Secret To Surfing the Waves, by Ani Tenzin Palmo:
On Jul 16, 2007 viral wrote on Ten Rules For Being Human, by Cherie Carter-Scott:
On Jul 2, 2007 Note from the Photographer wrote on Releasing Your Specifications, by Gary Zukav:
On Jun 11, 2007 viral wrote on Who Was That Masked Man Anyway?, by Lawrence Kushner:
On May 13, 2007 TOW Team wrote on The Soul of Money, by Lynne Twist:
On May 7, 2007 TOW Team wrote on Questioning Our Questions, by Eric Vogt, Juanita Brown, David Isaacs:
On Apr 18, 2007 VM wrote on From Sincerity to Authenticity, by John O'Donohue:
On Apr 4, 2014 viral wrote on Only Service Heals, by Rachel Naomi Remen:
Thanks for sharing your insights Abhishek!