"You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."
Thomas Merton
Sonntag, 28. Februar 2010
Samstag, 27. Februar 2010
Divine truth is simple
"All things in life which have importance, beauty and value are simple; and simplest of all things is the divine truth."
Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Freitag, 26. Februar 2010
Recognize & embrace
"You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering. If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness."
(...)
"...these feelings...
..to recognize them, embrace them, look deeply into them. It's like a mother when the baby is crying. Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it."
Thich Nhat Hanh
(...)
"...these feelings...
..to recognize them, embrace them, look deeply into them. It's like a mother when the baby is crying. Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010
Your healer
You have your healer within you and by your sides.
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According to an old shamanic tradition - concerning the energy-field of a person - you have two healers: Your holy child to the left of you and your holy adult to the right. Both are male, when you are female; and female, when you are male. Before you is - for the most of us today - your wounded child, same gender as you. Behind you is your adult-self, same gender as you.
..A ritual ends with the wounded child - now healed - and the adult-self changing places. The place before you is regarded as the place from where you act and communicate with the world.
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According to an old shamanic tradition - concerning the energy-field of a person - you have two healers: Your holy child to the left of you and your holy adult to the right. Both are male, when you are female; and female, when you are male. Before you is - for the most of us today - your wounded child, same gender as you. Behind you is your adult-self, same gender as you.
..A ritual ends with the wounded child - now healed - and the adult-self changing places. The place before you is regarded as the place from where you act and communicate with the world.
Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010
The whole world is
"Don't look for Mr. or Ms. Right. Right yourself and the whole world is right."
Lama Surya Das
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Healer heal thyself. With attentiveness, trust and patience. Step by step, moment by moment. TYL
Lama Surya Das
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Healer heal thyself. With attentiveness, trust and patience. Step by step, moment by moment. TYL
Separate & Unite
“In order to find one´s place in the infinity of being, one must be able both to separate and to unite.”
I Ching, Richard Wilhelm
I Ching, Richard Wilhelm
Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010
Montag, 22. Februar 2010
Invincible
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. "
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Love
"When we are least under the influence of conditioned, habitual patterns of perception, we can most feel unconditional love."
John Welwood
John Welwood
Sonntag, 21. Februar 2010
Samstag, 20. Februar 2010
Only in case
Only in case you believe you have to: "Beat him, scratch him, bite him, but don´t hurt him!" Or her. :-)
This is only possible, when we are in a playful mood. I´d say otherwise it is better to simply feel like "when in doubt, feel, that´s all." To feel is to heal.
This is only possible, when we are in a playful mood. I´d say otherwise it is better to simply feel like "when in doubt, feel, that´s all." To feel is to heal.
Big puzzle
"No one knows everything. No one knows nothing. Everyone has a piece of the puzzle."
Lama Surya Das
Lama Surya Das
Insight
"We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other."
Huston Smith
Huston Smith
Freitag, 19. Februar 2010
Your path
If it is your path, it is a path where no one went before. The miracle is: all paths merge there.
DI
DI
Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010
Impressive
"Momo's installation in the old amphitheatre was celebrated as zestfully as only the poor of this world know how."
Michael Ende
Michael Ende
Live is just
What I think, believe, trust is - is
That which I promote, nurture, further.
Meaning there is no way to be against,
Only ways to be for.
Live Is Just
DI
That which I promote, nurture, further.
Meaning there is no way to be against,
Only ways to be for.
Live Is Just
DI
Feel
"When in doubt, feel. That’s all."
"Mental torture happens because something hasn’t been felt. It’s
the surface siren, the car alarm. That annoying thing that goes off when you’re trying to sleep (if you live in San Francisco, you know exactly what I’m talking about!). So instead of going out and smashing that car with the alarm, go in and feel. Because the torture is a mental alarm; the obsessed, unhappy mind is the result of emotional energy that has not moved, like a weather system that’s been trapped." (..) So, when in doubt, feel."
(...) "The mind can’t do that job. When the mind tries to do that job, it doesn’t work, it just creates more torture. You know what I mean?"
(...) "For the mind to be happy it has to be unburdened of what it cannot deal with, what it cannot control, what it cannot understand. And it cannot control and it cannot understand feelings, period."
"Now, after feelings have been truly felt and the energy field is clear, then the mind can do whatever it wants to do. It can do all its little analyses, draw its conclusions, and so on. But now there’s no energy in it, there’s no charge anymore; so it’s fine, it’s not a problem. But when that charge is there—it doesn’t work."
Jon Bernie
"Mental torture happens because something hasn’t been felt. It’s
the surface siren, the car alarm. That annoying thing that goes off when you’re trying to sleep (if you live in San Francisco, you know exactly what I’m talking about!). So instead of going out and smashing that car with the alarm, go in and feel. Because the torture is a mental alarm; the obsessed, unhappy mind is the result of emotional energy that has not moved, like a weather system that’s been trapped." (..) So, when in doubt, feel."
(...) "The mind can’t do that job. When the mind tries to do that job, it doesn’t work, it just creates more torture. You know what I mean?"
(...) "For the mind to be happy it has to be unburdened of what it cannot deal with, what it cannot control, what it cannot understand. And it cannot control and it cannot understand feelings, period."
"Now, after feelings have been truly felt and the energy field is clear, then the mind can do whatever it wants to do. It can do all its little analyses, draw its conclusions, and so on. But now there’s no energy in it, there’s no charge anymore; so it’s fine, it’s not a problem. But when that charge is there—it doesn’t work."
Jon Bernie
Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2010
Long story
"Life-alienating communication has deep philosophical and political roots."
"Life-alienating communication both stems from and supports hierarchical or domination societies, where large populations are controlled by a small number of individuals to those individuals, own benefit. It would be in the interest of kings, czars, nobles, and so forth that the masses be educated in a way that renders them slavelike in mentality.
The language of wrongness, "should" and "have to" is perfectly suited for this purpose: the more people are trained to think in moralistic judgements that imply wrongness and badness, the more they are being trained to look outside themselves - to outside authorities - for the definition of what constitutes right, wrong, good and bad. When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings."
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: a language of life
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-language.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/12/personal-responsibility.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/life-alienating-communication.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/song-from-brett.html
"Life-alienating communication both stems from and supports hierarchical or domination societies, where large populations are controlled by a small number of individuals to those individuals, own benefit. It would be in the interest of kings, czars, nobles, and so forth that the masses be educated in a way that renders them slavelike in mentality.
The language of wrongness, "should" and "have to" is perfectly suited for this purpose: the more people are trained to think in moralistic judgements that imply wrongness and badness, the more they are being trained to look outside themselves - to outside authorities - for the definition of what constitutes right, wrong, good and bad. When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings."
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: a language of life
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-language.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/12/personal-responsibility.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/life-alienating-communication.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/song-from-brett.html
Rhythm, dance & soul
Human nature is rhythm, dance and soul, not to march in industrialized step.
DI
DI
Dienstag, 16. Februar 2010
It is all reciprocal
"..we can change our minds, we can change our own attitudes, we can, indeed, learn how to come back to our own pure awareness where we stop making judgments and trying to change everything to our own egoistic ideals and just relax into the present moment. So that's wonderful. We don't have to exhaust ourselves by changing what's out there. What we need is to change what is in here, inside ourselves. And once we've changed ourselves, that also radiates outside and affects the people we meet and everything in our own environment. It is all reciprocal!"
Ani Tenzin Palmo
Ani Tenzin Palmo
Observe
"To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Observe! There are few things as important, as religious, as that."
Frederick Buechner
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Observe! There are few things as important, as religious, as that."
Frederick Buechner
Montag, 15. Februar 2010
Sonntag, 14. Februar 2010
Guides
"O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee."
Kabir
And within you, as friend!
TYL
Kabir
And within you, as friend!
TYL
Samstag, 13. Februar 2010
A fruit
"Grief is a fruit; God does not make it grow upon a branch too feeble to bear it."
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Directly seeing
"Directly seeing the natural radiance of our minds reteaches us our own loveliness."
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg
Freitag, 12. Februar 2010
Master of mind
"Good is it to have a well-trained mind,
for a well-trained mind brings happiness."
Dhammapada
for a well-trained mind brings happiness."
Dhammapada
In new ways
"..But the paradox is that you can only change yourself or the world if you get out of your own way for a moment, and give yourself over and trust in allowing things to be as they already are, without pursuing anything, especially goals that are products of your thinking. Einstein put it quite cogently: "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." Implication: We need to develop and refine our mind and its capacities for seeing and knowing, for recognizing and transcending whatever motives and concepts and habits of unawareness may have generated or compounded the difficulties we find ourselves embroiled within, a mind that knows and sees in new ways, that is motivated differently. This is the same as saying we need to return to our original, untouched, unconditioned mind.
How can we do this? Precisely by taking a moment to get out of our own way, to get outside of the stream of thought and sit by the bank and rest for a while in things as they are underneath our thinking, or as Soen Sa Nim liked to say, "before thinking." That means being with what is for a moment, and trusting what is deepest and best in yourself, even if it doesn't make any sense to the thinking mind. Since you are far more than the sum of your thoughts and ideas and opinions, including your thoughts of who you are and of the world and the stories and explanations you tell yourself about all that, dropping in on the bare experience of the present moment is actually dropping in on just the qualities you may be hoping to cultivate -- because they all come out of awareness, and it is awareness that we fall into when we stop trying to get somewhere or to have a special feeling and allow ourselves to be where we are and with whatever we are feeling right now. Awareness itself is the teacher, the student, and the lesson."
Excerpted from the book Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
How can we do this? Precisely by taking a moment to get out of our own way, to get outside of the stream of thought and sit by the bank and rest for a while in things as they are underneath our thinking, or as Soen Sa Nim liked to say, "before thinking." That means being with what is for a moment, and trusting what is deepest and best in yourself, even if it doesn't make any sense to the thinking mind. Since you are far more than the sum of your thoughts and ideas and opinions, including your thoughts of who you are and of the world and the stories and explanations you tell yourself about all that, dropping in on the bare experience of the present moment is actually dropping in on just the qualities you may be hoping to cultivate -- because they all come out of awareness, and it is awareness that we fall into when we stop trying to get somewhere or to have a special feeling and allow ourselves to be where we are and with whatever we are feeling right now. Awareness itself is the teacher, the student, and the lesson."
Excerpted from the book Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Let´s trust
"All experiences are useful, all days are holy, and all beings are divine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2010
Smile
"Human's are so cool...they don't need to plug into anything to charge, they just go to bed...and have wild dreams"
Suzen Juel
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This morning on the mountain.
Female guest: WHO ordered this snow?! You?! So that you can take a ride on the bobsleigh? Right?!
Host: coming closer, smiling brightly: Yes! But alone it is boring.
Fg: Ask your neighbours.
H: They are not odd anymore.
Fg: Hm. Are you sure?
Long Silence
He as if to himself only: It likes better to sing in another bird house.
Suzen Juel
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This morning on the mountain.
Female guest: WHO ordered this snow?! You?! So that you can take a ride on the bobsleigh? Right?!
Host: coming closer, smiling brightly: Yes! But alone it is boring.
Fg: Ask your neighbours.
H: They are not odd anymore.
Fg: Hm. Are you sure?
Long Silence
He as if to himself only: It likes better to sing in another bird house.
Activities of silence
"Divine silence implies the ability to listen, to hear, and to love."
Lama Surya Das
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The ability to listen, to hear, and to love grows within ourselves through the discipline of being consciously in silence.
Lama Surya Das
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The ability to listen, to hear, and to love grows within ourselves through the discipline of being consciously in silence.
All about us
"...the last place it would ever occur to most of us to find the sacred would be in the commonplace of our everyday lives and all about us in nature and in simple things."
Alice O. Howell
Alice O. Howell
Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010
Accepting
"There is no such thing as spiritual practice except stepping out of self-deception and stopping our struggle to get hold of spiritual states."
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Penetrated with relatedness
"Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness."
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010
This we have now
This we have now
is not imagination.
This is not
grief or joy.
Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.
Those come
and go.
This is the Presence
that doesn't.
It's dawn, Husam,
here in the splendor of coral,
inside the Friend, the simple truth
of what Hallaj said.
What else could human beings want?
When grapes turn to wine,
they're wanting
this.
When the nightsky pours by,
it's really a crowd of beggars,
and they all want some of this!
This
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell,
like bees building a honeycomb.
The human body and the universe
grew from this, not this
from the universe and the human body.
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Essential Rumi"
is not imagination.
This is not
grief or joy.
Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.
Those come
and go.
This is the Presence
that doesn't.
It's dawn, Husam,
here in the splendor of coral,
inside the Friend, the simple truth
of what Hallaj said.
What else could human beings want?
When grapes turn to wine,
they're wanting
this.
When the nightsky pours by,
it's really a crowd of beggars,
and they all want some of this!
This
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell,
like bees building a honeycomb.
The human body and the universe
grew from this, not this
from the universe and the human body.
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Essential Rumi"
Montag, 8. Februar 2010
Practicing
To sit upright in silence
For some time, daily,
Is helpful to stand more upright
And walk more upright.
DI
For some time, daily,
Is helpful to stand more upright
And walk more upright.
DI
Finding a deeper silence
"Many of the qualities we attribute to a divine spirit of love or
sacred presence reflect the truest and most sacred silence.
Divine silence is accepting, non-judgmental, forgiving, open-minded, and great hearted. Divine silence implies the ability to listen, to hear, and to love.
When we communicate with the sacred,
whether we think of it as being an inner or outer presence,
these are the qualities we take for granted.
These are the qualities we are seeking to nurture in ourselves
as we cultivate the sacred within..."
Finding a Deeper Silence
by Lama Surya Das
sacred presence reflect the truest and most sacred silence.
Divine silence is accepting, non-judgmental, forgiving, open-minded, and great hearted. Divine silence implies the ability to listen, to hear, and to love.
When we communicate with the sacred,
whether we think of it as being an inner or outer presence,
these are the qualities we take for granted.
These are the qualities we are seeking to nurture in ourselves
as we cultivate the sacred within..."
Finding a Deeper Silence
by Lama Surya Das
Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010
Our heart
"The rough edges we encounter are ways in which we forge our humanity and awaken our heart."
John Welwood
John Welwood
Samstag, 6. Februar 2010
Beautiful boy
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uldu_1-JCJE
John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uldu_1-JCJE
Merging finitude in infinity
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity."
Voltaire
Voltaire
Freitag, 5. Februar 2010
Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010
Good deal
"You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh
Montag, 1. Februar 2010
Live today
It is all said, uncountable times, beautifully, uniquely, more or less. More important is to practice today, to live here. Now, the present.
DI
DI
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