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Monday, August 30, 2010

Meditation

Meditation is something that is not contrived, organized.
Meditation IS.
It begins with the first step, which is to be free of all your psychological hurts, accumulated fears, anxiety, loneliness, despair, sorrow.
That is the foundation, that is the first step, and the first step is the last step.

J. Krishnamurti

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Food for Thought

The goal is not happiness, the goal is bliss...
Happiness is worthless: it depends on unhappiness.
Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy.

Osho

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Think of nothing

Thinking, you are separated from existence. Thinking is not a relation, it is not a bridge, it is not a communication ? it is a barrier. Non-thinking you are related, bridged; you are in communion. When you are talking to someone, you are not related. The very talk becomes a barrier. The more you talk, the further away you move. If you are with someone in silence, you are related. If the silence is really deep and there are no thoughts in your mind and both the minds are totally silent, you are one.

Whenever you are silent with someone, you are one. When you are silent with existence, you are one with it.

This technique says be silent with existence and then you will know what God is. There is only one dialogue with existence and that is in silence. If you talk with existence, you miss. Then you are enveloped in your own thoughts.

Try this as an experiment. Try it with anything ? even with a rock. Be silent with it ? take it in your hand and be silent ? and there will be a communion. You will move deep into the rock and the rock will move deep into you. Your secrets will be revealed to the rock and the rock will reveal its secrets to you. But you cannot use language with it. The rock doesn’t know any language.

Confined in thoughts you will be in misery. Unconfined, beyond thoughts ? alert, conscious, aware, but unclouded by thoughts ? you will be joy, you will be bliss.

Osho, The Book of Secrets, Talk #57

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Awesome

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams


I don’t even know what to say.

I’m not often awestruck; I’ve seen a lot, experienced much. But I am indeed awestruck.

Today’s video takes some investment from you. Not in money, but in two other infinite commodities: Time and Desire. You must be willing to take the time to watch this video in its entirety – even if it’s ten minutes a day- and you should commit to adapting what you’ve learned from it to your life. Expendables was the top movie at the box office and it simply shows people being killed. This shows how we ought to live.

This is a dying man’s last gift to the world- an enormous, moving, powerful message. You will be moved, transcended if you allow, and better for it. I had heard of this speech by a young professor who found out he was dying but I never invested the time to watch the whole thing. After five minutes of watching I knew I had to bring it to my fellow KindHearts.

Friends, start this video today and as it moves you- it will immediately- hit the LIKE button or fill out the Tell-A-Friend form. This professor, and our friends and family, deserve it. By the way, we can tell from our web stats that your friends are forwarding the stuff you send them to their other friends too. Kindness is going viral. (www,dailykindness.com)


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Monday, August 23, 2010

Spiritual Wisdom

Only those who partake of the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature. Yogananda 

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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Meditation

There are four phases in meditation
- Experiencing the suffering in life
- Discovering the causes of suffering
- Using meditation to be rid of suffering
- Reaching the ultimate state of no self and no suffering.

Heart Sutra

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Spiritual Wisdom

"Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him. "
-Anonymous

Saturday, August 14, 2010

the best goal is no goal

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

P
ost written by Leo Babauta.

The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seem to be deeply ingrained in our culture. I know I lived with goals for many years, and in fact a big part of my writings here on Zen Habits are about how to set and achieve goals.

These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It’s absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn’t mean you stop achieving things.

It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals.

Consider this common belief: “You’ll never get anywhere unless you know where you’re going.” This seems so common sensical, and yet it’s obviously not true if you stop to think about it. Conduct a simple experiment: go outside and walk in a random direction, and feel free to change directions randomly. After 20 minutes, an hour … you’ll be somewhere! It’s just that you didn’t know you were going to end up there.

And there’s the rub: you have to open your mind to going places you never expected to go. If you live without goals, you’ll explore new territory. You’ll learn some unexpected things. You’ll end up in surprising places. That’s the beauty of this philosophy, but it’s also a difficult transition.

Today, I live mostly without goals. Now and then I start coming up with a goal, but I’m letting them go. Living without goals hasn’t ever been an actual goal of mine … it’s just something I’m learning that I enjoy more, that is incredibly freeing, that works with the lifestyle of following my passion that I’ve developed.

The problem with goals

In the past, I’d set a goal or three for the year, and then sub-goals for each month. Then I’d figure out what action steps to take each week and each day, and try to focus my day on those steps.

Unfortunately, it never, ever works out this neatly. You all know this. You know you need to work on an action step, and you try to keep the end goal in mind to motivate yourself. But this action step might be something you dread, and so you procrastinate. You do other work, or you check email or Facebook, or you goof off.

And so your weekly goals and monthly goals get pushed back or side-tracked, and you get discouraged because you have no discipline. And goals are too hard to achieve. So now what? Well, you review your goals and reset them. You create a new set of sub-goals and action plans. You know where you’re going, because you have goals!

Of course, you don’t actually end up getting there. Sometimes you achieve the goal and then you feel amazing. But most of the time you don’t achieve them and you blame it on yourself.

Here’s the secret: the problem isn’t you, it’s the system! Goals as a system are set up for failure.

Even when you do things exactly right, it’s not ideal. Here’s why: you are extremely limited in your actions. When you don’t feel like doing something, you have to force yourself to do it. Your path is chosen, so you don’t have room to explore new territory. You have to follow the plan, even when you’re passionate about something else.

Some goal systems are more flexible, but nothing is as flexible as having no goals.

How it works

So what does a life without goals look like? In practice, it’s very different than one with goals.

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Friday, August 13, 2010

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Spiritual Wisdom

As long as you are feeling discomfort within anything, you're holding yourself in a vibration where all of the things that you have conjured, and all of the things that you have let the Universe know that you want, cannot flow to you.

--- Abraham

Saturday, August 7, 2010

On Meditation

"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.” - The Bhagavad Gita

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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