Frustration has some interesting facets I think. The frustration of a scrub lady working twenty years to get by and pay bills would be different in type from...
Dante and I just got back from our daily visit to a nearby state park. It is so easy to be mindful and mind-empty of the usual inner chatter while in nature. I...
While wandering in the world, Nasrudin found himself before the door behind which the Truth lived. He knocked. "Who is it?" a voice asked. "Nasrudin"; "Sorry,...
Dear all, although this issue has been presented in each and every way, i feel somewhat creative today and found a simile or metaphor that would like to share...
The sign from God in contemplation is silence, because it is impossible for anyone to do two things at once --- we cannot both speak and meditate. Through the...
Hi, Sweet Tooth - Beautiful posts. Thanks so much. I read The Artist's Way and completed the workbook about three summers ago. You mentioned that you had done...
Hi Bobby G, Nina bobby wrote: <<I think the real question can be stated as a pro and con. The proposition: Structure limits Creativity. I say no, and take the...
http://www.processarts.com/pages/reviews/artcle_cg.html Art and the Challenge of Change By Stewart Cubley A student once asked Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, one of the...
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud (and beautifully calligraphed on a card by my most important calligraphy...
If you do concentration and meditation Pranayama, comes by itself. The breath becomes slower and slower. We will practice this Pranayama daily unconsciously....
One of the most common questions we are asked, by email and in our classes, is "What is the best meditation technique?" One candidate for this title is very...
This is so nice, Freyja, thank you.............I remember once when doodling at work..with a pencil....no thought involved......doodling while talking to a ...
http://www.processarts.com/pages/reviews/intrviw.html Life, Paint & Passion: Art as Transformation an interview with Stewart Cubley Stewart’s approach to the...
Loretta is a member of the Meditation Society of America, and many of you are familiar her wisdom from the several articles she has shared in our newsletter,...
Early Morning Meditation Talk given in the Sacred Samadhi Hall of Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh The Real Cause of...
Meeting Nisargadatta by Swami Paramatmananda At this juncture, I came across a book entitled, I am That, a collection of conversations with Nisargadatta...
Jesus was the first to tee off and he hit the ball a little left and it ended up in the water hazard. Because it was Jesus, his ball floated and when he got...
No matter how much an unenlightened person attempts to come up with the perfect "unanswerable question" to place before an enlightened person, all their...
Hi Nina <<Ah, speaking of unshakable, I know a woman who used to check her car oil every time she got a period. Well, one day she noticed her car was not...
Listen to Hafiz: The Difference Between a good artist And a great one Is: The novice Will often lay down his tool or brush Then pick up an invisible club On...
... meditation ... the ... during ... 21,600 ... Bliss, ... that ... to ... Armando: Thank you all for your replies. One of the points I wanted to make was...
People collect their spiritual "experiences" like merit badges, to show them off at their meetings with other badge collectors. These experiences are normally...
On Thu, 29 May 2003 15:50:18 -0000 "freyjartist" <freyjartist@...> ... [snip] ... Well, in "the field of no concepts," there's nothing to write about --...
While many, if not most of the vedantic sages warn against putting stock in meditation experiences, there are those for which they have some utility. People...
On Thu, 29 May 2003 11:48:36 -0000 "Jeff Belyea" ... Is this a declaration born of recent experience or did you just get an unexplainable urge to hold forth on...
After passing through the six centres, the Kundalini reaches the Thousand-Petalled Lotus known as the Sahasrara, and the aspirant goes into Samadhi. According...
Kundalini is the serpent power of sleeping Sakti, that has 3 1/2 coils with face downwards, in the Muladhara Chakra, at the base of the spine. No Samadhi is...
... As I read the words above I am saddened (though quite temporarily) from the thought of everyone that has read these words and follows the advice above to...
The Anteroom Welcome to the anteroom... where you already are Beyond that door is the realm we all speak of Some of us speak as tho we are beyond that door But...
