The great reality

"Above all...go beyond words and images and concepts.
No imaginative vision or conceptual framework
is adequate to the great reality."

Bede Griffiths

Laid on ice

Thinking is life laid on ice.

Inoma

Question

What happens, when I see the world by numbers?

Deep sea

(from: Wikimedia Commons)

Heal thy self

The shadow of helplessness, the fear of helplessness....will teach you a lot. I am its student."

Saki Santorelli, Heal Thy Self (a wonderful book to me)

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I am also its student. And it´s wonderful to experience that learning true respect leads to unlearning fear.

Inoma

Black bear

Black Bear in the Orchard by Mary Oliver

It was a long winter.
But the bees were mostly awake
in their perfect house,
the workers whirling their wings
to make heat.
Then the bear woke,

too hungry not to remember
where the orchard was,
and the hives.
He was not a picklock.
He was a sledge that leaned
into their front wall and came out

the other side.
What could the bees do?
Their stings were as nothing.
They had planned everything
sufficiently
except for this: catastrophe.

They slumped under the bear’s breath.
They vanished into the curl of his tongue.
Some had just enough time
to think of how it might have been –
the cold easing,
the smell of leaves and flowers

floating in,
then the scouts going out,
then their coming back, and their dancing –
nothing different
but what happens in our own village.
What pity for the tiny souls

who are so hopeful, and work so diligently
until time brings, as it does, the slap and the claw.
Someday, of course, the bear himself
will become a bee, a honey bee, in the general mixing.
Nature, under her long green hair,
has such unbendable rules,

and a bee is not a powerful thing, even
when there are many,
as people, in a town or a village.
And what, moreover, is catastrophe?
Is it the sharp sword of God,
or just some other wild body, loving its life?

Not caring a whit, black bear
blinks his horrible, beautiful eyes,
slicks his teeth with his fat and happy tongue,
and saunters on.

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:-)

Attractive

Power is attractive.
More attractive is Love.

Two kinds of intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,

as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,

collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more

marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet,

one already completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness

in the center of the chest. This other intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,

and it doesn't move from outside to inside

through the conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.

Version by Coleman Barks

"The Essential Rumi"

HarperSanFrancisco, 1995

Heart

"Find the Master by traversing that sacred 12 inches from your head to your heart, where a different consciousness lives in you, a living Christ consciousness."

Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault

The unmoved

"The unmoved is the source of all movement."
(...)
"If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are."

Tao Te Ching, Translation by Stephen Mitchell

Sacred gift

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

Albert Einstein

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My current understanding is Heart/Soul moves mind - the intuitive mind. The rational mind helps to recognise to what and brings it in to the human language of words. I need regular practice in meditation/stillness to feel grounded, centered and to know what to do.

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http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/01/step-by-step.html

Flap at right time

How dragonflies use their four wings

from

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3342126/How-dragonflies-use-their-four-wings.html

Dr Usherwood said: "We found that two pairs of wings can allow the dragonfly to produce higher forces, allowing acceleration and climbing, while, if the wings flap with the right timing, the lower wings are able to reduce the energy wasted."

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my four cents:

top wings are heart and attentiveness.

attentiveness means focus, on purpose.

lower wings are mind and awareness.

awareness is, not focused, open

flap at right time

inspired by Tink

 TYL

On purpose

While being with ourselves, let us all have nonviolent redemptive goodwill - friendly attentiveness - warm determination - gentle curiosity.

Inoma

Oh

"oh don't you know you just take my breath away"

Claire Hamill

Practice meditation

"If we really knew how unhappy it was making this whole planet that we all try to avoid pain and seek pleasure - how that was making us so miserable and cutting us off from our basic heart and our basic intelligence - then we would practice meditation as if our hair were on fire. We would practice as if a big snake had just landed in our lap."

Pema Chödrön

Complement

"The vicious cycle of poverty, [Mother Theresa] said, has been clearly articulated and is widely known. What is less obvious and goes almost completely unacknowledged is the vicious cycle of wealth [my emphasis]. There is no recognition of the trap that wealth so often is, and of the sufferning of the wealthy: the lonliness, the isolation, the hardening of the heart, the hunger and poverty of the soul that can come with the burden of wealth. She said that I had extended little or no compassion to the strong, the powerful, and the wealthy, while they need as much compassion as anyone else on earth."

“You must open your heart to them and become their student and their teacher,” she said in her letter. “Open your compassion and include them. This is an important part of your life’s work. Do not shut them out. They also are your work.”

Lynne Twist, “The Soul of Money”

Sun & wind

"The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence."

Dawna Markova

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You always move the entire universe.

So far

No recipes, formulas, generalizations, pre-scriptions for living in truthfulness. Although a part of me would like to have.

Have a good day :-)

“Look at the faces of people whom you meet. Each one has a incredible story behind their face. A story that you could never fully fathom, not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors. We all go back so far.”

Brother David Steindl Rast

~ A Good Day ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdbSVSMwHPA&feature=related

TYL

The reason

"The reason we’re often not there for others… is that we’re not there for ourselves."

Pema Chödrön

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The reason I am often not there for you...is that I am not there for myself.

The reason you are often not there for me....is that you are not there for yourself.

Goodness still is

You know, those good news are considered as something ordinary. But goodness still is natural. To question this needed a lot of false conditioning.

DI

Awareness is

Now we are unlearning and learning to have compassion for ourselves.

Indeed

"These great trees are prayers."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Every breath is a moment of intimacy: we are breathing in what the trees have just exhaled."

Lama Willa Miller