Loved your message Wade. Your aspirations are mine as well. I practice focusing my attention on what is right and true and good and complete, rather than what...
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Mar 25, 2012 1:49 am
Attach Yourself to Good Things "If the mind is completely detached from everything, if there is no personal desire, then you are liberated. Of course, people...
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Mar 26, 2012 12:18 am
From a story by Ray Bradbury, here the robot tells his human friend the real facts of life: "What are we?" He asked. "Why, we are the miracle of force and...
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Wade Whittaker
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Mar 27, 2012 12:30 am
Hey Patrick, You and I have just started using affirmations.I am curious to know if you are feeling excited about employing affirmations as I am,it is almost...
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Wade Whittaker
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Mar 27, 2012 11:28 pm
Jack, Thank you for welcoming me to the group ........You are so right about , "........focusing not just on the gifts of God, but the Giver behind the gifts."...
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Mar 28, 2012 2:28 am
"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected ...
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Apr 1, 2012 8:15 pm
Cleaning the Mental Lake "On the surface of the mental lake there are waves, your normal thought forms. Below the thought forms, you have the subconscious...
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Apr 2, 2012 12:58 am
We are one of 7 billion people that are one of billions of species of living things on Earth. Our planet is one of several circling a medium sized star that is...
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Apr 3, 2012 12:35 am
All Nasrudin's disciples were gathered at a feast. They ate and drank for several hours, and talked about the origins of the stars. The night drew on and...
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walto
walterhorn
Apr 3, 2012 5:08 pm
... Well, of the millions of neurons that could have fired, and the many trillions (indeed infinite number) of thoughts I might have had, it's the particular...
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walto
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Apr 3, 2012 5:10 pm
... NB: Please don't pass this on to your friends who have a taste for Oxycontin or have lost over $100K in Vegas in the past couple of years. W...
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Apr 3, 2012 11:54 pm
... Well, if you are referring to "desire" from a Buddhist perspective (Thanha - "craving") then addiction would make Nasrudin's teaching nonsensical (as are...
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walto
walterhorn
Apr 4, 2012 1:12 am
... Hunh. The story you posted doesn't actually mention or suggest "Light" or any such universal desire. Rather, it focuses on "A fine plate of sweets left...
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Apr 4, 2012 1:30 am
... OK - here's some sweets I hope can be well digested: All Nasrudin's disciples were gathered at a feast. They ate and drank for several hours, and talked ...
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cosmic_yogi1
Apr 4, 2012 7:36 pm
Yo, Explained like a True Yogi. Thanks ONE...
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WestWindWood
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Apr 5, 2012 4:00 pm
If we do not eat we will starve to death. If there was no sex, the human race would die out in a generation. Everything in moderation. ...
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Apr 5, 2012 5:02 pm
... Of course Sri Westwingwood is correct - in moderation. Just joking, but semi-serious too. This concept of everything in moderation is not one we have...
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Apr 5, 2012 7:57 pm
Try to feel, when walking out of doors, that everything around you is part of your own expanded awareness. Behold the leaves trembling on the trees, and try to...
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Apr 6, 2012 9:20 pm
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the eternal...
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Apr 6, 2012 11:33 pm
"There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in...
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Apr 7, 2012 4:11 pm
Some call Him Ishwar, some call Him Allah, some simply God, but we have to acknowledge that it is He who made us for greater things: to love and be loved. What...
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Apr 7, 2012 8:25 pm
April 6, 2012 NY Times In Defense of Superstition By MATTHEW HUTSON SUPERSTITION is typically a pejorative term. Belief in things like magic and miracles is ...
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walto
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Apr 8, 2012 3:37 pm
There are…factors in Freud's concept of psychoanalysis which transcend the conventional notion of illness and cure. Those familiar with Eastern thought, and...
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Frank
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Apr 8, 2012 6:08 pm
We published notice of these films on Feb 18, 2012, and although we don't allow this forum to become a venue for "ads", we feel that as these films are being ...
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Apr 9, 2012 7:48 pm
Tormented by thirst of the spirit, I was dragging myself through a gloomy forest,* When a six-winged seraph† At the cross-roads appeared to me. With fingers...
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Apr 10, 2012 6:13 pm
Don't change: Desire to change is the enemy of love. Don't change yourselves: Love yourselves as you are. Don't change others: Love all others as they are. ...
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Apr 12, 2012 10:34 am
Meditation for Healing A New Video Event With Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya The rampant materialism of modernity has led to a dysfunctional situation in which...
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Apr 13, 2012 1:09 pm
From an article on Huffington Post by Joseph M. Marshall III about Lakota Native American Wisdom ...
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Apr 13, 2012 1:58 pm
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This...
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Apr 14, 2012 11:14 pm
This quote is from Karlfried Graf Durckheim (1896-1988) He was a German Psychiatrist who had been a Nazi envoy who was found to have a Jewish Grandmother in...
