Donnerstag, 11. August 2011
Dienstag, 9. August 2011
Body awareness
Jill Satterfield:
The body holds memories and feels emotions and thoughts before the mind actually cognizes them. That’s fascinating to me. If we aren’t conscious of our thoughts and emotions as they arise, they won’t just magically disappear; they go into the body, stay on as a memory, and shape tissue.
So, if we get intimately in tune with our own body, we can feel what we’re going to think and what we might be just about to act upon (and the repercussions of those thoughts turning into actions) before they carry us away. We can feel emotions starting to rise in the body, and with that information and those clues, we can take a moment, pause, make a choice, and not have to be swallowed by or lose control of our emotions. For instance, in the case of someone who’s angry a lot. Once they know their body a little more, they can feel the patterns, the very beginning stages of an outburst. One has time to take a pause and quell, rather than continually losing control. So the body offers us this incredible mirror or portal into the mind and heart. The mind and the heart kind of wear the body. So the body is the physical house for the mind and heart, for consciousness. And our consciousness has a lot of influence and can actually shape the physical body and more frequently than not, it does.
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I haven’t met anyone who can’t benefit from meditation, body awareness, kindness and understanding.
Once we see that we are all in this together, once we begin as individuals to embrace our humanity, to begin to be nice to ourselves and then to eventually be kind to ourselves and to eventually love ourselves, everything opens up. There’s not a separation between me and you, or you and anyone else, or them, and us. It’s about being human. Isn’t a wonderful way to live, to fully embrace our textural, dimensional, colorful, rich humanity?
http://www.schoolforcompassionateaction.org/
The body holds memories and feels emotions and thoughts before the mind actually cognizes them. That’s fascinating to me. If we aren’t conscious of our thoughts and emotions as they arise, they won’t just magically disappear; they go into the body, stay on as a memory, and shape tissue.
So, if we get intimately in tune with our own body, we can feel what we’re going to think and what we might be just about to act upon (and the repercussions of those thoughts turning into actions) before they carry us away. We can feel emotions starting to rise in the body, and with that information and those clues, we can take a moment, pause, make a choice, and not have to be swallowed by or lose control of our emotions. For instance, in the case of someone who’s angry a lot. Once they know their body a little more, they can feel the patterns, the very beginning stages of an outburst. One has time to take a pause and quell, rather than continually losing control. So the body offers us this incredible mirror or portal into the mind and heart. The mind and the heart kind of wear the body. So the body is the physical house for the mind and heart, for consciousness. And our consciousness has a lot of influence and can actually shape the physical body and more frequently than not, it does.
(...)
I haven’t met anyone who can’t benefit from meditation, body awareness, kindness and understanding.
Once we see that we are all in this together, once we begin as individuals to embrace our humanity, to begin to be nice to ourselves and then to eventually be kind to ourselves and to eventually love ourselves, everything opens up. There’s not a separation between me and you, or you and anyone else, or them, and us. It’s about being human. Isn’t a wonderful way to live, to fully embrace our textural, dimensional, colorful, rich humanity?
http://www.schoolforcompassionateaction.org/
Freitag, 29. Juli 2011
In the present
Charlotte Joko Beck:
"Being in the present is the point of sitting and of practice in general: it helps us to be wiser about life, more compassionate, more oriented to what needs to be done. We become more effective in our work. Such outcomes are wonderful; yet we cannot strive for them or make them happen.All that we can do is prepare the necessary conditions. We need to be sure that the soil is well prepared, rich and loose and fertile, so that if the seed falls, it will spring forth rapidly. The student’s job is not to be hunting for outcomes, but to be preparing the way. As the Bible says, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” That is our work."
from: “Nothing Special”
"Being in the present is the point of sitting and of practice in general: it helps us to be wiser about life, more compassionate, more oriented to what needs to be done. We become more effective in our work. Such outcomes are wonderful; yet we cannot strive for them or make them happen.All that we can do is prepare the necessary conditions. We need to be sure that the soil is well prepared, rich and loose and fertile, so that if the seed falls, it will spring forth rapidly. The student’s job is not to be hunting for outcomes, but to be preparing the way. As the Bible says, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” That is our work."
from: “Nothing Special”
Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011
Heal
invitation . today . first humming . something unknown . then singing . just my song . and letting . the language . also . be . unknown
Samstag, 2. Juli 2011
Humility
Christina Feldman:
All forms of conceit give rise to the endless thoughts and storytelling that solidify the beliefs we hold about ourselves and others. Liberating ourselves from conceit and the agitation it brings begins with our willingness to sensitize ourselves to the subtle and obvious manifestations of conceit as they appear. The clues lie in our judgments and comparisons, the views we construct about ourselves and others. Suffering, evaluating, envy, and fear are all signals asking us to pause and listen more deeply. We learn to bow to those moments, knowing they are moments when we can either solidify conceit or liberate it.
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A teacher was asked, “What is the secret to your happiness and equanimity?” She answered, “A whole-hearted, unrestricted cooperation with the unavoidable.” This is the secret and the essence of a bow. It is the heart of mindfulness and compassion. To bow is to no longer hold ourselves apart from the unpredictable nature of all of our lives; it is to cultivate a heart that can unconditionally welcome all things. We bow to what is, to all of life. By liberating our minds from ideas of “better than,” “worse than,” or “the same as,” we liberate ourselves from all views of “self”and “other.” The bow is a way to the end of suffering, to an awakened heart.
from: http://www.tricycle.com/
All forms of conceit give rise to the endless thoughts and storytelling that solidify the beliefs we hold about ourselves and others. Liberating ourselves from conceit and the agitation it brings begins with our willingness to sensitize ourselves to the subtle and obvious manifestations of conceit as they appear. The clues lie in our judgments and comparisons, the views we construct about ourselves and others. Suffering, evaluating, envy, and fear are all signals asking us to pause and listen more deeply. We learn to bow to those moments, knowing they are moments when we can either solidify conceit or liberate it.
(...)
A teacher was asked, “What is the secret to your happiness and equanimity?” She answered, “A whole-hearted, unrestricted cooperation with the unavoidable.” This is the secret and the essence of a bow. It is the heart of mindfulness and compassion. To bow is to no longer hold ourselves apart from the unpredictable nature of all of our lives; it is to cultivate a heart that can unconditionally welcome all things. We bow to what is, to all of life. By liberating our minds from ideas of “better than,” “worse than,” or “the same as,” we liberate ourselves from all views of “self”and “other.” The bow is a way to the end of suffering, to an awakened heart.
from: http://www.tricycle.com/
Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011
Space
Eckhart Tolle:
Can I be the space for this?" is the primordial spiritual practice. Usually, or always, you will find that, yes, you can be.
Can I be the space for this?" is the primordial spiritual practice. Usually, or always, you will find that, yes, you can be.
Beyond language
Norman Fischer:
When in daily living we learn to return again and again to where we are in body, emotion, and mind, we are learning to hold our language and views lightly, to see that they are ever-evolving currents of being, that they are not only ours but belong to everyone else as well.
When in daily living we learn to return again and again to where we are in body, emotion, and mind, we are learning to hold our language and views lightly, to see that they are ever-evolving currents of being, that they are not only ours but belong to everyone else as well.
Samstag, 18. Juni 2011
Marvelous understanding
St. John of the Cross:
I was sad one day & went for a walk. I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition & came near. It often does not take more than that to help at times: to just be close to creatures who are so full of knowing, so full of love that they don't chat, they just gaze with their marvelous under-standing.
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Inoma:
Johann told me he grew up during ww2 in an institution for children who were said to be difficult to educate..They mistreated him and several times he tried to escape. A few times he was successful, but always for a few days only. One time he ran into the forest and slept there. In the morning he woke up, opened his eyes and saw directly into the eyes of a salamander quietly sitting near him. "We gazed, and then," Johann said, "I could cry for the first time in years."
I was sad one day & went for a walk. I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition & came near. It often does not take more than that to help at times: to just be close to creatures who are so full of knowing, so full of love that they don't chat, they just gaze with their marvelous under-standing.
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Inoma:
Johann told me he grew up during ww2 in an institution for children who were said to be difficult to educate..They mistreated him and several times he tried to escape. A few times he was successful, but always for a few days only. One time he ran into the forest and slept there. In the morning he woke up, opened his eyes and saw directly into the eyes of a salamander quietly sitting near him. "We gazed, and then," Johann said, "I could cry for the first time in years."
Freitag, 17. Juni 2011
Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011
Sonntag, 22. Mai 2011
This moment is live
Thich Nhat Hanh:
"Drink your tea reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life."
"Drink your tea reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life."
Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011
Life expressing itself
Jon Kabat-Zinn:
"More than anything else, I have come to see meditation as an act of love, an inward gesture of benevolence and kindness toward ourselves and toward others, a gesture of the heart that recognizes our perfection even in our obvious imperfection, with all our shortcomings, our wounds, our attachments, our vexations, and our persistent habits of unawareness. It is a very brave gesture: to take one's seat for a time and drop in on the present moment without adornment. In stopping, looking, and listening, in giving ourselves over to all our senses, including mind, in any moment, we are in that moment embodying what we hold most sacred in life. Making the gesture, which might include assuming a specific posture for formal meditation, but could also involve simply becoming more mindful or more forgiving of ourselves, immediately re-minds us and re-bodies us. In a sense, you could say that it refreshes us, makes this moment fresh, timeless, freed up, wide open. In such moments, we transcend who we think we are. We go beyond our stories and all our incessant thinking, however deep and important it sometimes is, and reside in the seeing of what is here to be seen and the direct, non-conceptual knowing of what is here to be known, which we don't have to seek because it is already and always here. We rest in awareness, in the knowing itself which includes, of course, not knowing as well. We become the knowing and the not knowing, as we shall see over and over again. And since we are completely embedded in the warp and woof of the universe, there is really no boundary this benevolent gesture of awareness, no separation from other beings, no limit to either heart or mind, no limit to our being or our awareness, or to our openhearted presence. In words, it may sound like an idealization. Experienced, it is merely what it is, life expressing itself, sentience quivering within infinity, with things just as they are."
excerpt from `Coming to Our Senses`
"More than anything else, I have come to see meditation as an act of love, an inward gesture of benevolence and kindness toward ourselves and toward others, a gesture of the heart that recognizes our perfection even in our obvious imperfection, with all our shortcomings, our wounds, our attachments, our vexations, and our persistent habits of unawareness. It is a very brave gesture: to take one's seat for a time and drop in on the present moment without adornment. In stopping, looking, and listening, in giving ourselves over to all our senses, including mind, in any moment, we are in that moment embodying what we hold most sacred in life. Making the gesture, which might include assuming a specific posture for formal meditation, but could also involve simply becoming more mindful or more forgiving of ourselves, immediately re-minds us and re-bodies us. In a sense, you could say that it refreshes us, makes this moment fresh, timeless, freed up, wide open. In such moments, we transcend who we think we are. We go beyond our stories and all our incessant thinking, however deep and important it sometimes is, and reside in the seeing of what is here to be seen and the direct, non-conceptual knowing of what is here to be known, which we don't have to seek because it is already and always here. We rest in awareness, in the knowing itself which includes, of course, not knowing as well. We become the knowing and the not knowing, as we shall see over and over again. And since we are completely embedded in the warp and woof of the universe, there is really no boundary this benevolent gesture of awareness, no separation from other beings, no limit to either heart or mind, no limit to our being or our awareness, or to our openhearted presence. In words, it may sound like an idealization. Experienced, it is merely what it is, life expressing itself, sentience quivering within infinity, with things just as they are."
excerpt from `Coming to Our Senses`
Samstag, 7. Mai 2011
Silence and letting go
Thomas Merton:
“…..as we progressively let ourselves go into silence, we also feel more acutely our resistance to letting go, our fear of loss of control, of vulnerability, of not knowing. Facing these fears is the real work of practice.”
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Jack Kornfield:
"Paradoxically, letting go is both the goal and the path."
“…..as we progressively let ourselves go into silence, we also feel more acutely our resistance to letting go, our fear of loss of control, of vulnerability, of not knowing. Facing these fears is the real work of practice.”
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Jack Kornfield:
"Paradoxically, letting go is both the goal and the path."
Freitag, 22. April 2011
Two ways
By Rabia Basri,
translation Charles Upton
I have two ways of loving You:
A selfish one
And another way that is worthy of You.
In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone.
In that other love, You lift the veil
And let me feast my eyes on Your Living Face.
translation Charles Upton
I have two ways of loving You:
A selfish one
And another way that is worthy of You.
In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone.
In that other love, You lift the veil
And let me feast my eyes on Your Living Face.
Freitag, 1. April 2011
Divine belonging
John O´Donohue:
"If you really live your life to the full, death will never have power over you. It will never seem like a destructive, negative event. It can become, for you, the moment of release into the deepest treasures of your own nature; it can be your full entry into the temple of your soul. If you are able let go of things, you learn to die spiritually in little ways during your life. When you learn to let go of things, a greater generosity, openness, and breath comes into your life. Imagine this letting go multiplied a thousand times at the moment of your death. That release can bring you a completely new divine belonging."
from: http://www.johnodonohue.com/about
"If you really live your life to the full, death will never have power over you. It will never seem like a destructive, negative event. It can become, for you, the moment of release into the deepest treasures of your own nature; it can be your full entry into the temple of your soul. If you are able let go of things, you learn to die spiritually in little ways during your life. When you learn to let go of things, a greater generosity, openness, and breath comes into your life. Imagine this letting go multiplied a thousand times at the moment of your death. That release can bring you a completely new divine belonging."
from: http://www.johnodonohue.com/about
Donnerstag, 31. März 2011
Mirror: language
Marshall B. Rosenberg:
If my child is not picking up the room and I say, “You are lazy,” lazy is an enemy image. If my life partner is not meeting my needs for intimacy and I say, “You are insensitive to my needs,” insensitive to my needs is an enemy image. When we say that some people are “terrorists,” that’s an enemy image. Enemy images turn people into things. When we see the other person as a monster, all we want to do is to punish them. This type of language disconnects us from what’s alive in one another, disconnects us from life
If my child is not picking up the room and I say, “You are lazy,” lazy is an enemy image. If my life partner is not meeting my needs for intimacy and I say, “You are insensitive to my needs,” insensitive to my needs is an enemy image. When we say that some people are “terrorists,” that’s an enemy image. Enemy images turn people into things. When we see the other person as a monster, all we want to do is to punish them. This type of language disconnects us from what’s alive in one another, disconnects us from life
Sonntag, 27. März 2011
Nature
could it be, to assume there is hierarchy in nature is a fundamental misunderstanding?
nature persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
inoma
nature persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
inoma
Freitag, 18. März 2011
Weak and strong
I looked deeply and saw: what is usually regarded as strength, is often weakness. And the other way around.
Inoma
Inoma
Donnerstag, 17. März 2011
Genuine communication
formulating personal opinions as personal opinions, not general truths, allows space for another view.
inoma
inoma
Better ways
There are better ways to live,
in accordance with nature.
Great Spirit Thank You
for showing us these ways
and for helping us to walk them.
in accordance with nature.
Great Spirit Thank You
for showing us these ways
and for helping us to walk them.
Samstag, 12. März 2011
Understanding
awareness is. it means
understanding that
whenever anger arises,
intelligence is lost.
inoma
understanding that
whenever anger arises,
intelligence is lost.
inoma
Montag, 7. März 2011
Pupil asks rebbe
And the pupil asks the rebbe, “Why does it tell us to lay these words upon our heart? Why doesn’t it tell us to put them in our heart?” And the rebbe answers, “It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and the words can’t get it in. So we just put them on top of the heart. And there they stay. There they stay until someday, when the heart breaks, they fall in.”
through Jacob Needleman
through Jacob Needleman
Support
"When we surrender to the inherent mystery of how support is truly given and received, as teachers and therapists we recognize the hugeness of what we don't know. This in itself is immeasurable support for those who look to us. Spirituality meets.."
Gangaji
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Teachers and therapists or whoever we are.
Gangaji
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Teachers and therapists or whoever we are.
Samstag, 26. Februar 2011
Montag, 21. Februar 2011
Nonviolence
Nonviolence begins with respect, not only for humans, but also for the Earth, the plants and the animals. Thank you joy of being.
DI
DI
Apache Blessing
”May the sun bring you energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being.
May you walk gently through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life.”
Apache Blessing
from: http://askthelama.com/
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being.
May you walk gently through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life.”
Apache Blessing
from: http://askthelama.com/
Every breath
“Gratefulness is the heart of prayer.”
Brother David Steindl-Rast
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"Make every breath a prayer."
St. Paul
Brother David Steindl-Rast
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"Make every breath a prayer."
St. Paul
Dienstag, 15. Februar 2011
A living path
I walk a Living Path. May I honor precious moments of meeting, no matter how fleeting.
:-)
DI
:-)
DI
Present
Often, not more words are needed, but someone truly listening. Non-judgmental listening is a healing present to both, the part that expresses and the part who listens.
TYL
InOma
TYL
InOma
Flowers
Flowers are always singing, even when they are withered. Flowers enjoy their lives constantly. They have knowledge of transformation, not of death. Flowers do not suffer and they never compare themselves.
InOma
InOma
Trust in life
Let us have patience. Every false path is like a blind alley. With the presence of humility and receptivity comes guidance and protection in experience and trust in Live grows. Beloved are we, all together.
TYL
TYL
Montag, 14. Februar 2011
Practice of peace
"Most important is to become nonviolence, so that when a situation presents itself, we will not create more suffering. To practice nonviolence, we need gentleness, loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity directed to our bodies, our feelings, and other people. With mindfulness--the practice of peace--we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh
Dienstag, 8. Februar 2011
Spirit of the valley
"In the valley of countless flowers, roots mingle. Wars begin on mountaintops. Peace comes from the spirit of the valley."
Fred Lamotte
Fred Lamotte
Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011
Inter-connectedness
Inter-connectedness is. It lets us experience the beauty and wholeness of living, all brokenness included.
Inoma
Inoma
Samstag, 5. Februar 2011
Being present
I act for the good of all, when I generate the energy of attentiveness, understanding and compassion for my wounded child.
Inoma
Inoma
Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2011
Shared humanity
"Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön
Montag, 31. Januar 2011
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
No imaginative vision or conceptual framework
is adequate to the great reality."
Bede Griffiths
Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2011
Sonntag, 23. Januar 2011
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
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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:-)
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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:-)
Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011
Montag, 17. Januar 2011
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
Freitag, 14. Januar 2011
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
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
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"If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are."
Tao Te Ching, Translation by Stephen Mitchell
Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2011
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
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
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
Montag, 10. Januar 2011
On purpose
While being with ourselves, let us all have nonviolent redemptive goodwill - friendly attentiveness - warm determination - gentle curiosity.
Inoma
Inoma
Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011
Samstag, 8. Januar 2011
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
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”
“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.
Dawna Markova
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You always move the entire universe.
Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2011
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
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
Montag, 3. Januar 2011
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.
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
DI
Sonntag, 2. Januar 2011
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
Rabindranath Tagore
"Every breath is a moment of intimacy: we are breathing in what the trees have just exhaled."
Lama Willa Miller
Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010
Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2010
Ready
"I like to say to people, "from our point of view, as long as you’re breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what’s wrong with you."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The ill are not ill alone. They are healthy, too. Indeed they are also healing us, in my view. They give us chances to discover and practice love. Is that not important to remember?
When I read Jon Kabat-Zinn´s book "Full Catastrophe Living" a few years ago, I was so glad with his approach to sicknesss and health. He wrote a paradigm change happens regarding this subject and I experience it, too. Thank One
(....)
One morning Ernstl streched out his hand and I reached for it. But he did not want me to hold his hand. He only liked to touch palms, very quickly and this a few times. It became a ritual with which he could make me happy. I think, deep down he knows that. Ernstl is diagnosed as autistic and deaf-mute.
Mr. B. always gives me his two hands as welcome. We box into the air together and this makes us laugh. He loves to sing. He has no problems with wording of sentences he knows with sound. We often sing, but not too loud. He is very sensitive to the moods of people who are with him. He reflects their moods. When his often sad relative is near, then he is also sad. When I am with him and I just feel good, then he immediately responds to the energy with brightness in his face. He learns to walk again after a stroke. He truly rejoices in every step. His speech center functions not the way we were used to and his thinking process is changed.
With Hilda I always sing the same christmas song. Only the refrain, again and again, in july, too. Other songs I am singing she sometimes likes to listen to, but she does not sing other songs as far as I know. She is a person who currently screams a lot like an unsatisfied baby. Many do not like to be with her, not even her family. She spends most of the time being alone. When I am looking forward to see her, when I am looking forward to hear her singing, a kind of whispering singing, then it is a day I am able to be fully present with her and feel positively moved by her being the way she is. She screams not. She just demands full presence, full attention. She knows exactly what she wants and what she does not want. When she gets what she wants, she is content. I feel content, when I am able to make her feel content.
It´s not always singing...but singing is a great tool, I figured. Sometimes it´s taking the time to enjoy the little breakfast someone loves to prepare for you. Sometimes it´s a regular farewell-waving at the window, for which you have to wait a minute or two...little things. "Little things? There are no little things!"
DInoma
Jon Kabat-Zinn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The ill are not ill alone. They are healthy, too. Indeed they are also healing us, in my view. They give us chances to discover and practice love. Is that not important to remember?
When I read Jon Kabat-Zinn´s book "Full Catastrophe Living" a few years ago, I was so glad with his approach to sicknesss and health. He wrote a paradigm change happens regarding this subject and I experience it, too. Thank One
(....)
One morning Ernstl streched out his hand and I reached for it. But he did not want me to hold his hand. He only liked to touch palms, very quickly and this a few times. It became a ritual with which he could make me happy. I think, deep down he knows that. Ernstl is diagnosed as autistic and deaf-mute.
Mr. B. always gives me his two hands as welcome. We box into the air together and this makes us laugh. He loves to sing. He has no problems with wording of sentences he knows with sound. We often sing, but not too loud. He is very sensitive to the moods of people who are with him. He reflects their moods. When his often sad relative is near, then he is also sad. When I am with him and I just feel good, then he immediately responds to the energy with brightness in his face. He learns to walk again after a stroke. He truly rejoices in every step. His speech center functions not the way we were used to and his thinking process is changed.
With Hilda I always sing the same christmas song. Only the refrain, again and again, in july, too. Other songs I am singing she sometimes likes to listen to, but she does not sing other songs as far as I know. She is a person who currently screams a lot like an unsatisfied baby. Many do not like to be with her, not even her family. She spends most of the time being alone. When I am looking forward to see her, when I am looking forward to hear her singing, a kind of whispering singing, then it is a day I am able to be fully present with her and feel positively moved by her being the way she is. She screams not. She just demands full presence, full attention. She knows exactly what she wants and what she does not want. When she gets what she wants, she is content. I feel content, when I am able to make her feel content.
It´s not always singing...but singing is a great tool, I figured. Sometimes it´s taking the time to enjoy the little breakfast someone loves to prepare for you. Sometimes it´s a regular farewell-waving at the window, for which you have to wait a minute or two...little things. "Little things? There are no little things!"
DInoma
Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010
Heart´s field
"Research suggests that the heart's field is an important carrier of information."
Institute of Heart Math
(thanks friend)
Institute of Heart Math
(thanks friend)
Mindfulness practice
"The willingness to harm or hurt comes ultimately out of fear. Non-harming requires that you see your own fears and that you understand them and own them. Owning them means taking responsibility for them. Taking responsibility means not letting fear completely dictate your vision or your view. Only mindfulness of our own clinging and rejecting, and a willingness to grapple with these mind states, however painful the encounter, can free us from this circle of suffering. Without a daily embodiment in practice, lofty ideals tend to succumb to self-interest."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn
People, plants, animals
I am afraid we are neglecting local relations with people, plants, animals.. in favour of virtual global.
DI
DI
There´s a better way
"Acting out and repressing are the main ways that we shield our hearts, the main ways that we never really connect with our vulnerability, our compassion, our sense of the open, fresh dimension of our being. By acting out or repressing we invite suffering, bewilderment, or confusion to intensify."
Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön
Compassionate giving & receiving
"When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving!"
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010
Body and mind
There is one thing that when cultivated and regularly practiced leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? Mindfulness centered on the body.
Anguttara Nikaya I, 21
Anguttara Nikaya I, 21
Receptive - creative
As mother Earth, only a deeply receptive mind is creative for the good of all.
DI
DI
Four Dignities
"There are Four Dignities in human life: lying down, sitting, standing up and walking."
Buddha
Buddha
Freitag, 19. November 2010
This bird
“Nothing really dies,” I told him. “It just turns into something else. Everything is always changing form. Do you remember the pumpkin that rotted into the earth in your garden? Tomatoes sprouted where it used to be. This bird will go back to the earth and turn into lavendar flowers and butterflies,”
Anne Cushman
Anne Cushman
Feelings
"Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh
Sonntag, 7. November 2010
The third ear
"Seeing involves keeping at a distance."
Joachim-Ernst Berendt,
The Third Ear: On Listening to the World
http://www.new-universe.com/pythagoras/third-ear.html
Joachim-Ernst Berendt,
The Third Ear: On Listening to the World
http://www.new-universe.com/pythagoras/third-ear.html
Back to our senses
Coming back to my senses, discovering the capability to develop all my senses, I find that is not only a necessity for my health and the health of the planet, but also a great present and adventure.
TYL, Doris InOma (Oma means Grandma in my language)
TYL, Doris InOma (Oma means Grandma in my language)
Samstag, 6. November 2010
Freitag, 5. November 2010
Approaching the secret of true beauty
"But we all know death is inevitable, don't we?"
"Knowing the truth and accepting it are very different things. A classic example is the story of Kisa Gotami, who could not accept that her young son had died. Clutching his lifeless body, she went from neighbor to neighbor, begging for medicine to cure him. One man took pity on her and said, 'I don't have the medicine you need, but I know someone who does.' When she came to me demanding the remedy, I sent her off to collect a mustard seed from every house in which no one had died. Empty-handed after a long search, she realized that death is universal, and was finally able to accept her loss. At the same time, she learned that there's a path to the deathless — to nirvana — for those who let go of their attachment to life."
An Excerpt from Coffee with the Buddha by Joan Duncan Oliver
from: http://bit.ly/dfakOI
"Knowing the truth and accepting it are very different things. A classic example is the story of Kisa Gotami, who could not accept that her young son had died. Clutching his lifeless body, she went from neighbor to neighbor, begging for medicine to cure him. One man took pity on her and said, 'I don't have the medicine you need, but I know someone who does.' When she came to me demanding the remedy, I sent her off to collect a mustard seed from every house in which no one had died. Empty-handed after a long search, she realized that death is universal, and was finally able to accept her loss. At the same time, she learned that there's a path to the deathless — to nirvana — for those who let go of their attachment to life."
An Excerpt from Coffee with the Buddha by Joan Duncan Oliver
from: http://bit.ly/dfakOI
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