Good Day

Wish us all love and joy from heart

Doris

"Truth is a pathless land." Jiddu Krishnamurti

http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/03/by-unfoldment-of-heart.html

Ssss

It´s time to overcome some psychic dis-eases:

hastiness, superficiality, vanity and delusion.

I will replace them with practice in the four "Ssss":

Serenity, Significance, Sincerity and Substantiality.

Ssssmile

DI

Will To Change

"It is the will to change that motivates us to seek health."

Harriett Goldher Lerner

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And what is health? The most precious experience of wholeness that inspires us to live & love now...

DI

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http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/your-awareness-friend-sanctuary-refuge.html

Cry River: A Prayer

Cry River: A Prayer for the Amazon

O River Mother, May it Be.

May it Be, Star Father.

May it Be for Water and Wind.

May it Be for Sunlight and Moonlight.

For the Earth, the Winged and Creeping Ones,

The Four Leggeds and Two Leggeds,

Those with Words and those with Songs,

For the river and its children, May it Be.

May it be on Earth as in Heaven.

May it be as it was in the Beginning

When the Spirit said, 'Flow!'

And pure Waters moved through holiness

Up from empty darkness into light.

May it be as in the Beginning

When the Spirit said, 'Breathe!'

And a mighty wind blew seeds from East to West,

Many-colored wings beating in green shadows

Or flashing in sunbeams,

Gold and Purple Wings of Quetzalcoatl, Blue Seraphic wings,

Christ's diamond wing over the jade forest.

May it be as in the Beginning

When the Spirit cried 'Sun!' and it was warm,

The Spirit whispered 'Moon' and it was cool,

And two lights opened their eyes, nurturing blossoms to bear

The Brazil-nut, Acai and Guarana,

Sweetening our lips, strengthening our bones.

May it Be as on the morning when the Spirit cried 'Earth'

And her green body stirred, her brown hills awoke

They rolled over, making valleys;

She parted her lips and the forest sighed, the rain laughed,

The river was a river singing

A song we have not forgotten,

Song of the Mother 'Amasonna':

'Destroyer of Boats,' Shelterer of Tribes,

Mistress of Sacred Medicine, Giver of Visions,

Lung of the Planet, Breath of the World.

May it Be for the trees,

May it Be for the voiceless creatures,

May it be for her deep black veins that must never be pierced again,

May it Be for the healing of her waters,

May it Be for her supple arms of sunlight and wind,

May it Be for the people who dwell upon her banks

And for those so far away we cannot smell

Her flower-scented rain:

May it be as on the first day

a New Creation,

Birthing the River and the River's children once again.

May we all say, 'Flow!'

'FLOW!'

May we all say, 'Breathe!'

'BREATHE!'

May we all say, 'Shine!'

'SHINE!'

May we all cry, 'River!'

'RIVER!'

In the name of the Father, and of the Mother,

and of the Holy Children - We.

Ameen

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Written by Fred LaMotte for Bishop Vincent Warner, who read this prayer at The Talking Trees Concert to save the Amazon rain forest at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, June 19, 2010

Great In Formation

The birds change places in a timely cyclical fashion. So they spread flight fatigue equally among the flock members. ( V Formation, Aerodynamics..)

Garden

Komyozenji temple garden

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

First Thing

"This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness."

Mary Oliver

Every One All The Time

Every one all the time influences the entire universe.

And that is one of the reasons why truly wise men sometimes retreat into caves.

DI

Water

"Water comes from high mountain sources.
Water runs deep in the Earth.
Miraculously, water comes to us and sustains all life.
My gratitude is filled to the brim."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Contemplation

"Contemplation is the highest form of activity"

Aristotle

TYL

Happy Solstice

                  

Reverence

"I know to love is to respect. And reverence is the nature of my love."

Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Let parents bequeath to their childrens not riches, but the spirit of reverence."

Plato

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"The power of reverence is not known, it is felt and can only be recognized by those who are reverent."

Jason Nelson

Questions

"Do you believe you have been dealt an unfair hand: that life seems to be filled with struggle and disappointment? Or,
Do you have a renewable sense of enchantment with the world, a feeling that life is so special, in spite of apparent injustices and suffering, that it simply cannot be squandered?"

"Do you believe that your job, money, recreational activities, and the items you purchase and use are a measure of the success of your life? Or,
Do you feel that self-worth is really about how you honor and respect all aspects of life without doing any harm?"

C. Forrest McDowell

Faith

                 

"In April we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds and when they look at the bare hills they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain, and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean they do not exist."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Baboon

"It was Immanuel Kant's keen conjecture that baboons could talk if they only wanted and didn't speak because they feared being dragged off to labour."

Nautilus

Does consciousness dwell in or outside the brain?

Done

Thought I have to make something of myself.

Practice Of Tonglen

"In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves."

Pema Chödrön

Practice of Tonglen - Teachings

http://pemachodron.org/

Living In The Heart

"Fear and conditioning encourage us to push away those aspects of our experience that are new, unexpected , or that do not feel safe. By creating an area of our experience that is unacceptable, division is created int the psyche. Now we have good and bad, unconscious and conscious, wanted and unwanted. Now we can have an experience without feeling it. We can escape into our heads, space out, disconnect emotionally. While this kind of dissociation is understandable when it comes in reaction to traumatic events, it is dysfunctional in response to the ups and downs of daily life."

"Deciding something before we have taken the time to be with all of our contradictory thoughts and feelings often exacerbates whatever conflict we are experiencing in our outer lives. When we feel an urgency or pressure to decide or figure things out, it usually means that we are escaping into our heads, trying to "make something happen" that is not ready to happen. And this inevitably leads to outward struggle and disappointment. The doors do not open, no matter how hard or how frequently we knock on them. Because we are not in inner harmony, we cannot be in harmony with others. Because we are not in our own "flow", we cannot flow with life as it manifests around us."

"It takes courage to be present in our inner emotional landscape when rain or fog obscure the long view. When visibility is at a minimum, all we can do is put one foot in front of the other. When lots of conflicting thoughts and emotions are churning in the psyche, all we can do is bring our awareness gently to where we are. If we rush through the rain or the fog, we will stray from the path and fall. An accident will delay us from our goal much longer than bad weather will, and then, we will wish that we had been more patient."

"To be patient with ourselves and our own process is the key to living in the heart. We can be in our hearts and not "know" the outcome of a situation. Indeed, the willingness "to be without knowing" is essential to being present here and now for whatever we are experiencing."

Paul Ferrini

http://books.google.at/books?id=Vypc41SrPxEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=living+in+the+heart+paul+ferrini&hl=de&ei=3-wdTMG4B8_9_AaBrLTBDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/01/activity.html
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/camels.html

Important task

"The art of listening needs it highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying."

Sidney Harris

Honest Spiritual Sweat

"When it comes to our unhappiness, our negative states, our suffering, the feel is real but the why is a lie."

"The confusions and doubts inherent in merely speculating about the spiritual life are washed away by our honest spiritual sweat."

Guy Finley

Mystic Emotion

“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties – this knowledge, this feeling … that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.”

Albert Einstein

Namaste

"I honor the Spirit in you which is also in me."

"I salute the God within you."

"I greet the God within."

"The light in me sees the light in you"

"Your spirit and my spirit are ONE."

"That which is of God in me greets that which is of God in you."

"The Divinity within me perceives and adores the Divinity within you."

"All that is best and highest in me greets/salutes all that is best and highest in you."

"I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells,

I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace.

When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One."

Loving Heart

The journey is miraculous in every sense, when I am ready and willing and able to keep in touch with the Loving Heart.

DI

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http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/lear-about-loving-heart.html

Elephants

"I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants."

Anton Chekhov

Change Of Heart

"The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is a change of heart."

John Welwood

Aspiration

"The aspiration to communicate with another person—to be able to listen and to speak from the heart—is what changes our old stuck patterns."

Pema Chödrön

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Breathing space...
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/yeah-but.html

Natural

Let`s remember: Goodness is natural.

And it took a lot of false conditioning to question this.

DI

Becoming Different

It needs practice until head-wisdom becomes heart-wisdom. But only then I truly am it - live it.

DI

Please Call Me By My True Names

By Thich Nhat Hanh (1989)

"Don't say that I will depart tomorrow --
even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.

The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing
on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily
in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake
that silently feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant,
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.

I am a member of the politburo,
with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay
his "debt of blood" to my people
dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.

My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart
can be left open,
the door of compassion."

I see myself

By Thich Nhat Hanh

"I am the forest that is being cut down.
I am the rivers and the air
that are being polluted,
and I am also the person
who cuts down the forest
and pollutes the rivers and the air.
I see myself in all species,
and I see all species in me."

Thich Nhat Hanh