Observe your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become acts. Understand your acts, for they become habits. Study your habits, for...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 2, 2007 1:28 am
... Yo Aideen, Thanks for sharing this. It reminded me of one of my favorite Swami Sivananda sayings that went something like: "Before any actions, there are...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 2, 2007 1:47 am
"Don't just sit there---Meditate!" "Don't just meditate---Sit there!"...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 2, 2007 2:17 pm
... Yes....
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 2, 2007 2:34 pm
Greetings all! I have recently become acquainted with a teacher on the Facebook Sangha named Lin Zi Quan who has written some exemplary works. One of them,...
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Aideen McKenna
aideenmck
Sep 2, 2007 7:52 pm
Thanks for both links, Ted. I love the way you talked about the functions of a belt. Until quite recently, I was living in a “Bible Belt” & although...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 2, 2007 8:10 pm
Ego or not a wise man once said, all that it takes for evil to florish is for good men to do nothing. Aideen McKenna <aideenmck@...> wrote:...
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Aideen McKenna
aideenmck
Sep 2, 2007 9:30 pm
Thanks for that, Sean. I was vaguely searching my mind for that reference as I was typing, & it wouldn’t come to me. I think it’s ignorance, rather than...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 3, 2007 12:41 am
... that a ... they ... only serve ... only want ... tolerance. ... much of ... You're welcome, Aideen. The easiest way to grasp how people think around here...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 3, 2007 12:48 am
... florish is for good men to do nothing. Sean, I used to have that quote on the header of a website I used to have up for an online publication I toyed with....
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 3, 2007 1:11 am
I asked a methodist minister his take on pacifism and action, he talked about the story of Jesus and the money changers in the temple, the ministry said that...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 3, 2007 2:33 am
... talked about the story of Jesus and the money changers in the temple, the ministry said that some offences are so great they just need to be stopped! ... ...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 3, 2007 1:54 pm
I don't think the minister was equating violence with action, you had given great examples of non violent action I personally suffer from the guilt of non...
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Jeff Belyea
mindgoal
Sep 3, 2007 3:57 pm
The value of meditation, or the act of meditating, may be seen as too passive in light of the overt and obvious damage of warfare and environmental neglect and...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 3, 2007 4:00 pm
... had given great examples of non violent action ... volitial time in history, the fact is I am caught up in the struggle for survival like everyone else....
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 3, 2007 4:37 pm
Well Ted I decided to go back to school and eventualy study law. I realized as long as I work with my body I will always be subject to the will and intent of...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 3, 2007 11:02 pm
... realized as long as I work with my body I will always be subject to the will and intent of those above me(harder to practice the ZRight Livelyhood.) Also...
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Bruce Morgen
editorjuno
Sep 4, 2007 12:02 am
In alt.meditation.transcendental, John Manning <jrobertm@...> wrote: "Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to...
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Ted
txhandyman57
Sep 4, 2007 1:27 am
... it is ... Excellent! Thank you!...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 4, 2007 1:43 am
... it is ... Yo Sri Bruceji, Thanks for sharing these (last) words of the Buddha. While reading them, I was listening to the Daily News Live show on Comcast...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 4, 2007 4:34 am
http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 4, 2007 8:21 am
Baseball has always been a spiritual metaphor Ask Jack Kerouac medit8ionsociety <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ... it is ... Yo Sri Bruceji, Thanks for...
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idbeiyin
Sep 4, 2007 9:15 am
... With other words: It must be realized. But then it is not just a 'belief'. It is not a concept or an adapted attitude. The real problem is that whatever is...
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zataka10
Sep 6, 2007 1:14 am
HI, yesterday i read a news... that some churches in England banned ''YOG TEACHING'' i was really surprised... is it good work? or churches do not know the...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 7, 2007 1:16 am
Yo Sri Raj, There will probably never be a time when some "religious" group doesn't try to boost itself by putting down some other path. In this case, it's...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 7, 2007 10:42 pm
Some churches ban pepper, some churches ban coffee, other churches ban short pants. But in England as well as America church participation is voluntary and if...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 10, 2007 2:53 am
In answer to an email that asked "What should I meditate on?", we had directed a member to this technique that appears in the Concepts of Meditation section on...
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sean tremblay
bethjams9
Sep 10, 2007 8:09 am
That is fantastic! medit8ionsociety <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: In answer to an email that asked "What should I meditate on?", we had directed a...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 13, 2007 2:12 pm
So yesterday I'm talking with one of the nurses I work with about food as she has discovered that her migraines, skin rash, recent large weight loss and all...
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medit8ionsociety
medit8ionsoc...
Sep 14, 2007 11:00 am
"The spiritual path is itself a great secret. The little Japa that you do, the scriptures that you read, the audience that you hold and whatever you appear to...
