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- July 28th, 2007, 7:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Becoming Boring
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13533
Re your comment about Alzheimers
Your comment about Alzheimers got me to thinking: I wonder how many of these individuals who are incarcerated, are simply physical shells of liberated beings who have moved on? There was a classic case of this by a master teacher in our modern day, some man named something Rose, who, shortly after b...
- July 28th, 2007, 7:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Becoming Boring
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13533
Re stages of life: I remember years ago when Bolen first arrived on the scene. I think she and her husband at the time were offering seminars, if memory serves me. That must have been in the 70’s? maybe? Many great teachers, both west and east (Jung was one of the western ones that pop to mind), bot...
- July 27th, 2007, 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Becoming Boring
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13533
- July 26th, 2007, 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Transitioning from outer to inner
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32390
Transitioning from outer to inner
A friend of Zoofence recently referenced one of my Anna's Page entries referring to gurus or teachers who go bad, or "have feet of clay". This generated in my own mind some thoughts about the process of transitioning from the outer teacher to the inner which, to my mind at least, is inevit...
- July 22nd, 2007, 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A Trick for remaining present
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10014
A Trick for remaining present
Since it is obvious, to me at least, that the more baggage we carry into our every-day existence, the more difficult it is to remain present, and to remain present, is essential to opening the heart and being here now without all the distracting noise of the mind. I like to express it more "spi...
- July 22nd, 2007, 3:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Know thyself ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 47457
- July 14th, 2007, 3:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Balance
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9547
Another way to approach your question, is to understand that basically, there is no difference between a “spiritual” life and a “mundane” life, if you recognize before venturing into either “life”, that all of life is spiritual, and all of mundane life is spirituality acting out through the mundane....
- July 4th, 2007, 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who speaks, who listens?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8043
Who speaks, who listens?
In any dialogue, be it mundane, or angelic (of course, everything is mundane, and everything is angelic, but for the sake of argument, I’m dividing thoughts, concepts, and its resultant dialogue into a hierarchy) – the crux to understanding another, is who, or what speaks, and who or what listens. I...
- June 30th, 2007, 10:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Know thyself ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 47457
It's nice to back here - it's been a while. It occurs to me that this may be just a question of terminology, and sequence. To “remember oneself”, should be capitalized, “one’s Self” -- at least for a mind which believes in hierarchy and differentiation – which Self, capitalized, essentially is the G...
- September 9th, 2006, 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: My Exclusive God
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16567
Surrendering
Speaking of surrendering. To clarify what I mean by surrender-- I mean the inevitable struggle between the ego centric vision and the giving up that position in order to embrace God and God's vision, which is non-exclusive, all inclusive, and devoid of ego-centricity. This is a struggle which each o...
- August 27th, 2006, 2:21 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: In Defense of a God
- Replies: 0
- Views: 38147
In Defense of a God
I once might have called myself an atheist, or at best, an agnostic during my 20's. I thought my intellect was enough, that knowledge and understanding of the universe would suffice to allow me to get through life with a modicum of comfort and reliability. And indeed, in my youth, with all my vigor ...
- August 27th, 2006, 3:44 am
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22760
Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places
How's that song go? "Lookin' for love in all the wrong places......" In all the years of advising, or responding, to queries from seekers who are discouraged because they can't find God, or peace, or happiness, despite all their practices, almost without fail, when they dig a little deeper...
- August 18th, 2006, 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: My Exclusive God
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16567
My Exclusive God
I just completed reading the biography of C.S. Lewis - I had heard so much adoration about this guy, that I felt I ought to check him out first hand. While his conversion to Christianity was an interesting topic, and was the primary reason I read the biography, I had actually recently seen the movie...
- August 18th, 2006, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: What is Nishkama Karma?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 20055
- July 22nd, 2006, 12:11 am
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: What is Nishkama Karma?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 20055
Hmmmmmmmm, I like that very much. Perhaps the difference between his action, Ramana's, and the ordinary human being is that the latter would already be attached to the stick. Of course, along with the activity of smoothing the stick, came the gorgeous co-existence of another in need of a stick - who...