"...it is sometimes important to evaluate the past." Yes, I agree -- but is this something we do all the time? If it can be evaluated and then put away, great,...
... <vicki@> ... next. ... bait, I am ... example, ... it ... You said it yourself -- it feels like love. And love is freedom from ourselves. We lose...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_bi_ge/where_s_the_money;_ylt=A lkov.JXb.KD5v26RveJE0Ws0NUE Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, puts it bluntly: The...
ABSOLUTELY. Great post. ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_bi_ge/where_s_the_money;_ylt =A ... that ... thing ... people ... are ... said. "But...
... Thanks... the same thing can be applied to a concept such as "the world" or "the universe". People have seen a glimpse down the aisle of a store, seen the...
I'm actually tempted to reply with the same words. Except this last is much more mind blowing.... I understand, I see, yet I don't. I am so tired of trying to...
... last ... I can only reply with 'more of the same' :-p. When Nisargadatta says "time is in the mind, space is in the mind", he isn't speaking mystically,...
... P.S. the real trick is to stop predicting the future and consulting memory so often. I don't mean for important stuff like getting to work in the morning,...
Yeah. Or, what you are looking for is what is looking; same thought. I see that you can't tell mind what it is.... What is so infuriating is, I don't work...
... You are stuck at trying to achieve a future goal, which I assume is what you've been stuck at your entire life. This time it seems it's enlightenment. By...
... you or anyone else can help. "I" can't stop wanting, and "I" can't stop "I." Obviously, "I" can't surrender. So I try to relax and pretend it is a...
In every single second of life, you have the opportunity to be what you are. Ten thousand years ago, it was Now. Now, it's now. In ten thousand years, it...
Thank you. I feel rather like someone has shaken me by the shoulders, or wagged a finger in my face, which needed doing.... I'd spent several minutes...
... shoulders, ... time. There is not hope for the future, but hope for Now ;-). The future remains hopeless, because it never arrives. You cannot achieve ...
I hear you, I do. There have been several moments today of simply realizing I was in the story, and stopping it, and looking, listening. I thought, what's so...
... A lot of it has to do with interest, or lack thereof. When one desires something in the future, it's hard to pay attention to the 'now', particularly when...
It seems that you are prolly stuck in exactly the same place I am :^) I could have written all of the below… Except that for the most part the *choice* or...
... am :^) ... Do you want that 'weight' or 'intensity' back? The intensity can come from life itself, it doesn't need to be limited to one thing in ...
"Even closer to the root is what we may call a longing to know Truth at all cost. If there is no longing, it is not time, and all is futile." I would actually...
"Trust in your own best wisdom, and never violate that trust. Follow your clarity, generosity, sincerity, honesty, inner peace, caring for people and for your...
Hi Omkara, Those are very wise words I understand exactly what you are saying. I should just say however that I haven't lost the intensity for Life itself not...
... Life ... all ... You can't do better than how you've done, because the memory of how you did is just a memory. Can you do better in the future? Only if...
"Ohh the mind is so tricky :-)" Only when we are interested in it, captivated by its contents. From here, the top two spiritual practices are always...
"As all waves are in the ocean, so are all things physical and mental in awareness. Hence awareness itself is all important, not the content of it. Deepen and...
... Maybe it's a little more than just being conditioned to regard things that aren't glued together as separate. Our identification with the body tends to...