Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiK6kJuaFgd7q5abmn6aKgFXFb5dB1STdIHoVrmt6qlC0zhquCB9kx9yIdvHdrFjcGuYt_dKRxrj_bCYIp6MhNUX1KjZ4_9Qt-6G6_M_l5dXE0ojyVbJ1Mygbov59S9nfBB7RLZVxLeqQ3/s1600/one+meeting+1000minds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="741" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiK6kJuaFgd7q5abmn6aKgFXFb5dB1STdIHoVrmt6qlC0zhquCB9kx9yIdvHdrFjcGuYt_dKRxrj_bCYIp6MhNUX1KjZ4_9Qt-6G6_M_l5dXE0ojyVbJ1Mygbov59S9nfBB7RLZVxLeqQ3/s320/one+meeting+1000minds.jpg" width="247" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning Meditation is to be aware of thought, of feeling, never to correct it, never to say it is right or wrong, never to justify it, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching and moving with that thought, with that feeling, you begin to understand and to be aware of the whole nature of thought and feeling. Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, how all thought is never free but always old. To see all this, to see the movement of every thought, to understand it, to be aware of it, is to come to that silence which is meditation, in which the `observer' never is.</span>

Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning

Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning Meditation is to be aware of thought, of feeling, never to correct it, never to say it is right or wrong, never to justify it, but just to …

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How The Brain Works During The Two Main Types of Meditation

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2wQlXo8XyGMdHLkC3Rfh8BtgELK0TDb0aqwGik7sdprc5Sold2EXTFlkhcoThp7v8yfQGF-CebMQNGhRTx51Q8rxu7c-TNd3yl_cpP6HJ7SrohSUcsh4pagktt0-Nqsj83ItyQJ0Z6OtS/s1600/one+meeting+1000minds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="741" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2wQlXo8XyGMdHLkC3Rfh8BtgELK0TDb0aqwGik7sdprc5Sold2EXTFlkhcoThp7v8yfQGF-CebMQNGhRTx51Q8rxu7c-TNd3yl_cpP6HJ7SrohSUcsh4pagktt0-Nqsj83ItyQJ0Z6OtS/s320/one+meeting+1000minds.jpg" width="247" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">A new study on what happens in the brain when you meditate finds that more thoughts and emotions may be processed in ‘non-directive’ forms of meditation. All the different types of meditation can be split into two main types: In non-directive types of meditation, people focus on their breathing or a sound, but also allow their mind to wander where it will. In concentrative types of meditation, people try to focus closely on their breath, or something else, in order to suppress other thoughts and feelings they experience. To examine the differences, a Norwegian study had some meditators practising concentrative meditation and others non-directive meditation, while their brains were scanned (Xu et al., 2014).</span>

How The Brain Works During The Two Main Types of Meditation

A new study on what happens in the brain when you meditate finds that more thoughts and emotions may be processed in ‘non-directive’ forms of meditation. All the different types of meditation can be …

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The Mirror of Relationship: Love, Sex and Chastity Like

<p>Who is free of myths knows love Sirs, when you love, when your heart is full, you will know what it is to strive without effort, to live without conflict. It is the mind that does not love that is taken up with flattery, that enjoys adulation and avoids insult, that needs a crowd, a platform, that needs confusion; but such a mind, such a heart, will not know love. The man whose heart is filled with the things of the mind, his world is a world of myth, and on myths he lives; but he who is free of myths knows love. </p>

The Mirror of Relationship: Love, Sex and Chastity Like

Who is free of myths knows love Sirs, when you love, when your heart is full, you will know what it is to strive without effort, to live without conflict. It is the mind that does not love that is tak…

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Fried Food Linked to Diabetes and Heart Disease With an Asterisk

<p><img alt="" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZo0HIVqxdzcVUqE_gr2jh9qtNFWGRctLP-n0o9X4reYwok9ElOt2txwHMVizy-h9grDCho6rZjrkDnQaMNpaZc0-ssdSYx6vI_s6s781I_gXkcuWMopNDzpCwgIxQnPD3f4fGiUwRkdH//" style="float: left;" width="493" /></p><blockquote>Eating fried foods could raise your risk for several life-threatening diseases. But not all frying oils may pose the same health risks RECOMMENDED FOR YOU Celine Dion's Response to the Week's Best Viral Video Is Incredible What Dog Owners Need to Know About China's Pet Jerky Treats Health Time Sections - TIME by Taboola The more fried food you eat, the more likely you are to suffer from Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, reveals new research. But goodies fried in some trans-fat-free oils—now offered at many restaurants since FDA cracked down on trans fats—may not present the same health hazards. A U.S.-based study team analyzed diet and disease data collected from more than 100,000 men and women. Compared to people who ate fried food less than once a week, those who gobbled things like fries, fried chicken, or other deep-fried snacks four to six times a week saw their risk for Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease jump 39% and 23%, respectively. The risks rose even more for people who ate fried food on a daily basis. Cooking oil tends to break down during the frying process—a chemical transformation that changes the oil’s fatty acid composition, explains study co-author Leah Cahill, a research fellow in nutritional sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health. Foods simmering in that degraded oil absorb fatty acids and other unhealthy compounds. That’s a problem, because those acids and compounds contribute to ballooning waist lines, unhealthy cholesterol and blood pressure changes, and higher levels of oxidative stress—all of which could explain the links between fried food consumption and higher rates of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, Cahill says. Still, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for fried-food fans. Cahill says past research has hinted that trans fat-free cooking oils may not pose the same health risks. Cooking at home with fresh oils might also limit your exposure to unhealthy compounds, she adds.</blockquote>

Fried Food Linked to Diabetes and Heart Disease With an Asterisk

Eating fried foods could raise your risk for several life-threatening diseases. But not all frying oils may pose the same health risks RECOMMENDED FOR YOU Celine Dion's Response to the Week's Best Vir…

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Perhaps we have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDLNgNy760Sp1k3biXt3HoHQoQvN8UfkGV-yh4UN3vzW4nyU2ZSs3EwRxp9Efz2iuRqpaZjQvksSmWuhctMYPMWO-n9yDOWtggyvRgTwNCwpmeBKpYv2SvwLi5zb-hxrgg0Z9FcXXTP1w/s1600/recovery+wild+child.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDLNgNy760Sp1k3biXt3HoHQoQvN8UfkGV-yh4UN3vzW4nyU2ZSs3EwRxp9Efz2iuRqpaZjQvksSmWuhctMYPMWO-n9yDOWtggyvRgTwNCwpmeBKpYv2SvwLi5zb-hxrgg0Z9FcXXTP1w/s320/recovery+wild+child.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Verdanasans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 100; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Perhaps we have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. And we cannot abandon everything without deep passion, can you? You cannot abandon everything intellectually or emotionally. There is total abandonment, surely, only when there is intense passion. Don't be alarmed by that word because a man who is not passionate, who is not intense, can never understand or feel the quality of beauty. The mind that holds something in reserve, the mind that has a vested interest, the mind that clings to position, power, prestige, the mind that is respectable, which is a horror........such a mind can never abandon itself.</h1> </div>

Perhaps we have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go

Perhaps we have never experienced that state of mind in which there is total abandonment of everything, a complete letting go. And we cannot abandon everything without deep passion, can you? You cann…

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