How To Transmute Negative Energy With Tonglen Meditation | Zenful Spirit

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqv85sqFU2ul22OLQiBpXvSL8A1z3sPfSJlpgLoDsVg4pajSZjqJ-kudlIA0glE01-Pd0zSHRi_vhaWH_EYSHAyOhOZS01up-NBxis8PBroWafJzugAVfAYCTu0SLx7MwVnyvZUt0Z8SGN/s1600/zen+wise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqv85sqFU2ul22OLQiBpXvSL8A1z3sPfSJlpgLoDsVg4pajSZjqJ-kudlIA0glE01-Pd0zSHRi_vhaWH_EYSHAyOhOZS01up-NBxis8PBroWafJzugAVfAYCTu0SLx7MwVnyvZUt0Z8SGN/s320/zen+wise.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How To Transmute Negative Energy With Tonglen Meditation | Zenful Spirit: "Tonglen is a Tibetan word which means “giving and taking.” As a spiritual practice, it refers to the sending and receiving of energy; taking in the negative (pain, suffering, fear, etc.) and giving back the positive (peace, joy, comfort, well-being).</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The practice can be traced back to 11th century Tibet, and the Kadampa school of Buddhism founded by Dromton Rinpoche. Dromton credits his teacher, Atisha, with training him in Tonglen practice, and tradition holds that Atisha learned it from his teacher Serlingpa, in Sumatra.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Buddhism is often said to have “two wings,” which work together to lift the aspirant to enlightenment: wisdom (insight into the true nature of reality) and compassion (selflessness, caring, loving-kindness). Tonglen belongs to the latter – it’s intended to cultivate compassion and open the practitioner’s heart.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br />But just as it takes two wings to fly, so wisdom and compassion are both necessary on the spiritual path. Compassion is to be informed by wisdom, insight, and right understanding.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tonglen was developed and taught as part of a larger discipline called lojong, or “mind training.”"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">'</a></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> </div>

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ZEN Chill a primary technique used to disengage from a dissociative drama when direct contact is unavoidable.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqv85sqFU2ul22OLQiBpXvSL8A1z3sPfSJlpgLoDsVg4pajSZjqJ-kudlIA0glE01-Pd0zSHRi_vhaWH_EYSHAyOhOZS01up-NBxis8PBroWafJzugAVfAYCTu0SLx7MwVnyvZUt0Z8SGN/s1600/zen+wise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqv85sqFU2ul22OLQiBpXvSL8A1z3sPfSJlpgLoDsVg4pajSZjqJ-kudlIA0glE01-Pd0zSHRi_vhaWH_EYSHAyOhOZS01up-NBxis8PBroWafJzugAVfAYCTu0SLx7MwVnyvZUt0Z8SGN/s320/zen+wise.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">ZEN Chill a  primary technique used to disengage from a dissociative drama when direct contact is unavoidable.<br /><br />Zen Chill is disengaging emotionally and giving neutral responses to what someone does or says. The focus is on you, your feelings and needs, not the other person or their feelings and needs. <br /><br />Someone using Zen Chill is assertive without being confrontational. They will give no appearance of withdrawal, and they will maintain a pleasant and calm tone of voice and demeanour.<br /><br />There are key components to Zen Chill: <br /><br /> Don't share any personal information.<br /><br /><br />Don't volunteer details about your life or your feelings. Everything in your world is perfectly OK, normal and uneventful. Tell them nothing, ask them nothing. Conversation is nothing more than pleasantries about weather, traffic, news etc. Engage in the type of conversation you might have with a total stranger while waiting for the bus. <br /><br />When communicating a decision you have made (should you deem it necessary to share in the first place) do not share your thought process on how you arrived at your decision. It is none of anyone's concern. </span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> Don't get involved in another person's chaos or drama.</span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />When asked to help or get involved, be unavailable without offering the reason why you are unavailable. Sharing the details only motivates others to help you clear your obstacle to being there to help them. You are simply busy, you know, same old stuff. <br /><br />When others try to draw you into their drama and chaos you are a bored and dull listener. You are there, just not present or terribly involved. Never show anger or compassionate involvement; paying attention but not too much attention. Don't offer any advice or opinions of your own. Don't try to solve their problems. You are simply not involved. <br /><br />If someone is angry and manages to get you angry they have successfully projected and transferred their anger to you. Take your leave as soon as possible in cases of anger or rage. Simply and calmly leave or end the phone call. <br /><br />When others lash out, show no anger. When others are nice, don't reciprocate. Be distant and flat in both cases. When others can't easily manipulate a reaction, they tend to leave you alone.<br /><br />Zen Chill keeps things light, fluffy, airy and breezy. There's no real substance to the conversation. You wind up doing a lot of listening and giving very uninteresting and inconsequential answers. You don't feed the supply, so you'll find conversations are shorter and not as frequent - because you're not giving the other person anything they can use. You are of no use to them and also quite boring and uninteresting. <br /><br />ZEN Chill is also 'non answers' to intrusive questions and interrogation. See examples below. <br /><br />Medium Chill can be useful in dealing with instances of Baiting, Blaming, Bullying, Chaos, Circular Conversations, Dependency, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Blackmail, Engulfment / Enmeshment, Hoovering, Manipulation, Projection and Verbal Abuse. While undesirable behaviours cannot always be totally avoided, the damage and impact can be minimised if you can keep yourself as emotionally detached as possible.</span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">When asked an intrusive question:</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">I don't know. I'll have to get back to you.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">We'll see.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">That's a really good question, why do you ask?</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Let me think about that.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">It doesn't concern you.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">My decision is made.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">This is not a discussion</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">It's simply my preference.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">It's none of your business.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">It's already handled, taken care of.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The topic is closed</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">I said no and do not bring this up again</span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Sometimes it can be useful to simply not answer a question and let the question just hang there, pause, then change the conversation:<br />So anyway, how about the weather?<br /><br />When attempting to draw you into drama or chaos:<br />It's none of my business.<br />I can't be there, it doesn't work for me.<br />I'd love to but no.<br />I'm sorry you feel that way.<br />I don't know what to tell you.<br />I don't know what to say.<br />That's a shame.<br />Now you're just being silly (when they accuse you of something).<br />You'll have to speak to so and so about that (when complaining about so and so).<br />You may need to speak to your doctor / lawyer / electrician about that.<br />This is not my problem. If you want to make it my problem I will find a solution to this that suits me and there is every chance that it will not suit you. If you want a solution that suits you, then you need to go work on that & leave me out of it.<br /><br />You may need to get in touch with your intuitive voice for some of these:<br />That's too bad/That's nice. (You may be surprised how long you can keep a conversation going with those words).<br />Now's not the time to talk about that.<br />I can't do anything about that.<br />I want to hear how you're doing.<br />That's up to you.<br />I know you don't understand this.<br />I know you really want to talk about XYZ but now is not the time.<br />It looks like my being here is upsetting you, we'll get together another time.<br /><br />If the drama ramps up in an attempt to get you involved:<br />Exit the conversation. say "Sorry I have to go now. Maybe we can continue later."<br />Leave the room and house if you can safely do so.<br />Any threats of suicide or harm tell them to call 911 or the suicide hotline.<br /><br />Remember to convey everything in a dull, flat tone of voice, with a non-confrontational, matter-of-fact manner. <br />What It Feels Like<br /><br />ZEN Chill can be extremely liberating. You are in control of you, you are directing your life, you are in charge of you, you steer the conversation and you are protected. You are free to exercise your boundaries and communicate them effectively. <br />What NOT To Do:<br />Don't focus on mitigating the other person's anger.<br />Don't worry about how your actions appear.<br />Don't try to solve the other person's problems or try to fix anything<br />What To Do:<br />Maintain a flat, calm and unemotional tone.<br />Choose to emotionally and mentally disengage.<br />Become uninteresting and boring.<br />Learn to say NO</span>

ZEN Chill a primary technique used to disengage from a dissociative drama when direct contact is unavoidable.

ZEN Chill a  primary technique used to disengage from a dissociative drama when direct contact is unavoidable. Zen Chill is disengaging...

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Sebastian de Assis is a writer and international teacher who conducts workshops, seminars, and presentations on his concept of Power Aging

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NelbnY8ro4_r2VsxSOwpmjPwe0ptYemEC1gQV3ZD374FIJG67oqJJUDUVqyKnBp6fBkZ_n7pRoRTKTCUwHyigm5-7x-HdTl9R5cZwh0OqgeHBh1_xpX-MVLqG4VYzGCw3GOx0EouzwnG/s1600/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NelbnY8ro4_r2VsxSOwpmjPwe0ptYemEC1gQV3ZD374FIJG67oqJJUDUVqyKnBp6fBkZ_n7pRoRTKTCUwHyigm5-7x-HdTl9R5cZwh0OqgeHBh1_xpX-MVLqG4VYzGCw3GOx0EouzwnG/s320/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Sebastian de Assis is a writer and international teacher who conducts workshops, seminars, and presentations on his concept of Power Aging which he defines as "the potential for self-empowerment." Emboldened by simplicity and having given themselves wholeheartedly to the present moment, elders can set out on the Zen path which leads to liberation. With great gusto de Assis shares his creative and expansive ideas on becoming a Zen martial artist of life.<br /><br />Squaring off with the Great Mystery, elders can turn to the intangibles of the holy trinity of Zen — Great Faith, Great Doubt, and Great Determination. Those who choose to take this route do not expend their time and energy lamenting the limitations of old age or bemoaning the struggles and pains that assault the body during this stage of life. Instead they seek to expand their horizons and are always on the lookout for ways to advance the common good.<br /><br />De Assis closes ZENior CitiZEN with praise for elders who complete the circle of the aging process with persistence and dignity. He then heralds the Four Noble Principles of service, wisdom, benevolence, and courage. He commends Maggie Kuhn and the Gray Panthers for their affirmation of adventuresome elders.<br /><br />ZENior CitiZEN is a refreshing and life-affirming spiritual vision of being an elder.</span>

Sebastian de Assis is a writer and international teacher who conducts workshops, seminars, and presentations on his concept of Power Aging

Sebastian de Assis is a writer and international teacher who conducts workshops, seminars, and presentations on his concept of Power Aging...

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ZEN visualisations

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgjpMN0KfwS8EkdJdykpVY891e3wv9vOAUxl81OVn0Xigv2UwCddo6bNVGVIPUkT8gegKwqNA3UrkPDhDDemAzRgxDAILkOAKaRLEN9P3YQjjWi1zMTJZKSeq3p6f639GqIRrXY_Sc6mr/s1600/Wabi+Sabi21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgjpMN0KfwS8EkdJdykpVY891e3wv9vOAUxl81OVn0Xigv2UwCddo6bNVGVIPUkT8gegKwqNA3UrkPDhDDemAzRgxDAILkOAKaRLEN9P3YQjjWi1zMTJZKSeq3p6f639GqIRrXY_Sc6mr/s320/Wabi+Sabi21.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />ZEN visualisations<br /><br />The holistic practice of creating positive images of healing within the mental body, which allows the emotional body to respond by becoming receptive to the healing, which subsequently initiates the healing process in the physical body.<br /><br />Our body and mind are intricately connected and our thoughts have a direct influence on our physical health. By using the power of our mind to envision our healing in process, we’re disciplining our nervous system to react in a positive way, resulting in the desired outcome.<br /><br />The regular practice of healing visualisations allows us to detach from our past limited beliefs to release our fears and bring our awareness to the present moment to enable us to create a healthy future. Traditionally, there was an innate awareness of the mind, body and soul connection and healing visualizations were practiced through daily prayer.<br /><br />The Empowerment Healing Visualization relieves stress, anxiety, fear and panic.<br /><br /><br />Practice two times a day.<br />Sit outdoors in nature, with your feet in direct contact with the bare earth, grass or sand.<br />Close your eyes and visualize the colour green.<br />See the colour green as a dense vortex of deep green healing energy.<br />Sense the dense vortex of deep green healing energy spiralling in the earth, beneath your feet.<br />Feel its magnetic force gently drawing your energies downwards, through the soles of your feet.<br />Visualise yourself being rooted into the earth below.<br />Allow your entire being to feel at one with nature.<br />Bring your awareness to your body.<br />Your body feels safe and grounded by the deep green healing energy.<br />Bring your awareness to your mind.<br />Your mind feels still and centred by the deep green healing energy.<br />Bring your awareness to your emotions.<br />Your emotions feel balanced and peaceful by the deep green healing energy.<br />Bring your awareness to your breath.<br />Visualize the dense vortex of deep green healing energy, attracting your inhalations, pulling them deeper within your body.<br />As your breathing becomes deeper, your body becomes relaxed, your mind becomes calm and your emotions become balanced.<br />You feel grounded, centred and in control.<br />Observe this feeling of empowerment within your body, mind and emotions.<br />Create a positive image of this feeling of empowerment within your body, your mind and your emotions.<br />Draw upon it during times of stress, anxiety, fear and panic.<br />Open your eyes gently and repeat aloud,<br />“I trust in the power of my breath to instill strength, stability and harmony throughout my entire being.”<br /><br />As we strive to meet the demands of our busy lifestyles, we can easily become detached from nature, yet our inner wisdom intuitively reminds us to care for our body and mind holistically. By re-connecting with the ancient Indian wisdom of self-healing practices, we can cleanse, calm and empower our energies naturally, to restore balance, harmony and peace of mind.</span><div> <br /></div>

ZEN visualisations

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Raw food diet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTKuj2DR7ARAHZi30KsXAttOREatXbPzWZ59ZKrNkXfesfL5aEgrKojVXFyTSJ-bs-O55TaZFePq0YX24te_k2xM7fK0uYR1mWj-yoWVSx6aK-LhPCIuDVrWpkLE2aS-_fXcsEagUPiyIi/s1600/32616_451557084925318_823044791_n.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTKuj2DR7ARAHZi30KsXAttOREatXbPzWZ59ZKrNkXfesfL5aEgrKojVXFyTSJ-bs-O55TaZFePq0YX24te_k2xM7fK0uYR1mWj-yoWVSx6aK-LhPCIuDVrWpkLE2aS-_fXcsEagUPiyIi/s320/32616_451557084925318_823044791_n.png" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Raw food diet<br /><br />The holistic practice of eating food in its whole, unrefined and uncooked form that’s positively and negatively balanced, supplying the body with a plentiful supply of solar energy and active enzymes.<br /><br />Food eaten in its raw, natural state has a detoxifying, calming and balancing effect on the energies of our body, which instills a similar effect on the energies of our mind and emotions. All the nutrients required by the body are available in plant-based food, in a form that’s easily assimilated. Traditionally, fasting was recommended during illness to allow the body’s energy reserves to be directed towards self-healing, however, adopting a raw food diet for a short period of time can have similar health benefits.<br /><br />Include the following Indian foods to empower the immune system and initiate the body’s natural healing response:<br /><br />Gooseberries – the highest source of vitamin C, these berries are known to rejuvenate bodily systems and work as a natural immune-booster and nerve tonic.<br /><br />Ginger – an anti-aging tonic that reduces inflammation and encourages healthy oxygenation to strengthen the body and ground the emotions.<br /><br />Turmeric – contains anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-microbial properties to reduce inflammation and purify the blood and slow down the aging process.<br /><br />Cardamom – improves digestion and empowers the nervous system to reduce stress, nervous tension and anxiety to relieve cravings.<br /><br />Sprouts – Sprouted nuts, seeds and legumes are extremely nutritious, highly alkaline and detoxifying to calm the nerves and strengthen the body’s stress response.<br /><br />Ghee – also known as clarified butter, it’s rich in anti-oxidants, which calms the nervous system and restores the immune system—extensively used in India to nourish the body and detoxify the mind.</span>

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To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3zYJTTk8g7OabwKxsBVUtuHpYixk6ong5EsMHW8I75NndPSVd8rd-50BLDXAKAwUJtYu0e3LfaMzc9qzUJHn7ivhJvXpGVpSowteO9SDrXz_syye6phR7VZSIXGQtQLZ0zRhlJVky8LjR/s1600/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3zYJTTk8g7OabwKxsBVUtuHpYixk6ong5EsMHW8I75NndPSVd8rd-50BLDXAKAwUJtYu0e3LfaMzc9qzUJHn7ivhJvXpGVpSowteO9SDrXz_syye6phR7VZSIXGQtQLZ0zRhlJVky8LjR/s320/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">“To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the possibility of growth and change there can be no Tao. In reality there is nothing in the universe which is completely perfect or completely still; it is only in the minds of men that such concepts exist.”<br /> ― Alan W. Watts</span></blockquote>

To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead

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True meditation has no direction or goal.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q7B3m_FYtN9hZwsAdv5YnRaGy3GzuxW9MoW6L0vsOTXtnEkf-xO8OH8nTZ3XmyDV9zBPHdtgkHTyver-nvcbxzY54TPDiqK_A0Gyog-rZ9J_hu3oAoXe1I6eSXkmh-rL-9ZojyvdaLGk/s1600/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q7B3m_FYtN9hZwsAdv5YnRaGy3GzuxW9MoW6L0vsOTXtnEkf-xO8OH8nTZ3XmyDV9zBPHdtgkHTyver-nvcbxzY54TPDiqK_A0Gyog-rZ9J_hu3oAoXe1I6eSXkmh-rL-9ZojyvdaLGk/s320/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.<br /><br />True meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not being manipulated or controlled. When you first start to meditate, you notice that attention is often being held captive by focus on some object: on thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions, memories, sounds, etc. This is because the mind is conditioned to focus and contract upon objects. Then the mind compulsively interprets and tries to control what it is aware of (the object) in a mechanical and distorted way. It begins to draw conclusions and make assumptions according to past conditioning.</span><div> <br /></div>

True meditation has no direction or goal.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of m...

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This is the living answer of authentic inquiry.

<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q7B3m_FYtN9hZwsAdv5YnRaGy3GzuxW9MoW6L0vsOTXtnEkf-xO8OH8nTZ3XmyDV9zBPHdtgkHTyver-nvcbxzY54TPDiqK_A0Gyog-rZ9J_hu3oAoXe1I6eSXkmh-rL-9ZojyvdaLGk/s1600/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q7B3m_FYtN9hZwsAdv5YnRaGy3GzuxW9MoW6L0vsOTXtnEkf-xO8OH8nTZ3XmyDV9zBPHdtgkHTyver-nvcbxzY54TPDiqK_A0Gyog-rZ9J_hu3oAoXe1I6eSXkmh-rL-9ZojyvdaLGk/s320/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> “The ultimate understanding is that there is no ultimate understanding.” When it’s in the head, it’s an impressive piece of understanding; when it’s in the heart, as the Buddha said, it’s extinguished. You find a living experience of being, empty of content, empty of you. This is where spiritual awakening begins. This is the living answer of authentic inquiry.</span>

This is the living answer of authentic inquiry.

“The ultimate understanding is that there is no ultimate understanding.” When it’s in the head, it’s an impressive piece of understanding...

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The meditational awakening we speak of is not simply a realisation

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN2hROf-QDx2EdZzoPYlLoY5g1JK_Ld2jq-0-aop6kVjghfnUR1aDjp4lICKy4uKTkEmnsFxBvQgGF_zLCs0un2nDqDsbkg63bh4OOTTWvjT0VzqFsG6D4ObXD3ClBGXN0tCcZ2ooXcDVC/s1600/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN2hROf-QDx2EdZzoPYlLoY5g1JK_Ld2jq-0-aop6kVjghfnUR1aDjp4lICKy4uKTkEmnsFxBvQgGF_zLCs0un2nDqDsbkg63bh4OOTTWvjT0VzqFsG6D4ObXD3ClBGXN0tCcZ2ooXcDVC/s320/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The meditational awakening we speak of is not simply a realisation, not simply the discovery of one’s true nature. This discovery is just the beginning—the point of entry into an inner revolution. Realisation of our recovery does not guarantee this revolution; it simply makes it possible.</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/we-cannot-drop-ball-unless-we-are.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364062607_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/we-cannot-drop-ball-unless-we-are.html" style="background-image: none; 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text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The essential difference between animals and humans is the ability to self-reflect.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/at-ten-stages-we-recognise-that.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364062639_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/at-ten-stages-we-recognise-that.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">At the Ten Stages we recognise that meditation uses words, images, and feelings to evoke a lovingkindness and friendliness toward oneself and others is the healing balm of our practice.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; 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The meditational awakening we speak of is not simply a realisation

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Meditation, the practice of looking deeply, has the purpose of removing wrong perceptions from us.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2CRgnd75FuFMlsRdK2NptV4-OXCklHoHF4o_kjr_to-32TexGzEx8M2ruC7ftQ7XbwknwQmSczbLGtN46ufBFOAMzPQlbzyc0UrRbLnIv9iQdBLryavh-Qz7OsGeqa7LHt0aVXLs75rL/s1600/lc20_1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2CRgnd75FuFMlsRdK2NptV4-OXCklHoHF4o_kjr_to-32TexGzEx8M2ruC7ftQ7XbwknwQmSczbLGtN46ufBFOAMzPQlbzyc0UrRbLnIv9iQdBLryavh-Qz7OsGeqa7LHt0aVXLs75rL/s320/lc20_1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">Meditation, the practice of looking deeply, has the purpose of removing wrong perceptions from us. If we are able to remove our wrong perceptions,we will be able to be free from the afflictions and the sufferings that always arise from wrong perceptions.<br /><br />You have wrong perceptions of yourself and of the other," and the other has wrong perceptions of themselves and of you, and that is the cause of fear, violence and hatred. That is why trying to remove wrong perceptions, it is the only way to peace. And that is why studying the child within is, first of all, the removal of wrong perceptions. We have had from childhood.<br /><br />When you remove the wrong perceptions you remove the suffering,To meditate deeply, you will find out that even ideas like being and non-being, birth and death, coming and going, are wrong ideas.<br /><br />If we can touch reality in depth, we come to realise that 'our child within' means that ultimate reality is free from birth, from dying, from coming, from going, from being, and from non-being. That is why, Recovery is first of all the removal of all notions and ideas that serve as the base of misunderstanding and suffering."</span><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/go-beyond-surface-level-programming-and.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/349865340_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/go-beyond-surface-level-programming-and.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Go beyond surface-level programming and dig into the perceptive knowingness of our innate child withins abilities.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/dissociation-dissy-can-affect-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/340506802_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://frasertrevor.blogspot.com/2015/05/dissociation-dissy-can-affect-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; 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Meditation, the practice of looking deeply, has the purpose of removing wrong perceptions from us.

Meditation, the practice of looking deeply, has the purpose of removing wrong perceptions from us. If we are able to remove our wrong perc...

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Non-attachment is self-mastery; it is freedom from desire for what is seen or heard.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PpyPW6aFLBA/Vjs5-L1cv5I/AAAAAAAAUag/J3CazwFKgBk/s1600/10%2Bstages%2Bcw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PpyPW6aFLBA/Vjs5-L1cv5I/AAAAAAAAUag/J3CazwFKgBk/s320/10%2Bstages%2Bcw.png" width="320" /></a></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Practice is the repeated effort to follow the disciplines which give permanent control of the thought-waves of the mind."</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Practice becomes firmly grounded when it has been cultivated for a long time, uninterruptedly, with earnest devotion."</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Non-attachment is self-mastery; it is freedom from desire for what is seen or heard."</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">-- Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: 13-15 --</span></blockquote> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://dutchsmilingyogi.com/five-yogic-troubles-kleshas/" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/363086083_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://dutchsmilingyogi.com/five-yogic-troubles-kleshas/" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Five yogic troubles - kleshas</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="https://emmanewlynyoga.com/2015/09/17/pranayama-the-choice-between-control-freedom/" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/362757026_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="https://emmanewlynyoga.com/2015/09/17/pranayama-the-choice-between-control-freedom/" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pranayama: The Choice Between Control & Freedom</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://omtimes.com/2015/09/colleen-mauro-spiritual-telepathy/" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/363174934_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://omtimes.com/2015/09/colleen-mauro-spiritual-telepathy/" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Colleen Mauro: Spiritual Telepathy</a></li> </ul> </div>

Non-attachment is self-mastery; it is freedom from desire for what is seen or heard.

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Discrimination' between what is eternal and what is ephemeral

<div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q7B3m_FYtN9hZwsAdv5YnRaGy3GzuxW9MoW6L0vsOTXtnEkf-xO8OH8nTZ3XmyDV9zBPHdtgkHTyver-nvcbxzY54TPDiqK_A0Gyog-rZ9J_hu3oAoXe1I6eSXkmh-rL-9ZojyvdaLGk/s1600/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Q7B3m_FYtN9hZwsAdv5YnRaGy3GzuxW9MoW6L0vsOTXtnEkf-xO8OH8nTZ3XmyDV9zBPHdtgkHTyver-nvcbxzY54TPDiqK_A0Gyog-rZ9J_hu3oAoXe1I6eSXkmh-rL-9ZojyvdaLGk/s320/Blue-ZenKoan-1.jpg" width="252" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />'Discrimination' between what is eternal and what is ephemeral;<br />'Dispassion' to reject that which is ephemeral in order to gain that which is eternal;<br />'Discipline' of the mind to divert it from trivial or ephemeral pursuits in life in order to conserve the energy to pursue that which is eternal; and, finally,<br />'Desire' strong enough to motivate one in that pursuit without getting discouraged by any type of obstacles that arise.</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/we-cannot-drop-ball-unless-we-are.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/364062607_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://mindofcalm.blogspot.com/2015/12/we-cannot-drop-ball-unless-we-are.html" style="background-image: none; 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Discrimination' between what is eternal and what is ephemeral

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Brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XsYy96EZB3zp2686O6buCMRrPduSTg3XMNxFdRuuO5_m6fvDhA2FrgG6LspQ42txqQk1BiYljA-hTlio-OTFZKcyuX1GLJSjGmYycznHZ-zPxDRsd9Nr9wpnNb3esDA2mLbg5N7lHCFh/s1600/revelers-pack-into-the-city-square.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XsYy96EZB3zp2686O6buCMRrPduSTg3XMNxFdRuuO5_m6fvDhA2FrgG6LspQ42txqQk1BiYljA-hTlio-OTFZKcyuX1GLJSjGmYycznHZ-zPxDRsd9Nr9wpnNb3esDA2mLbg5N7lHCFh/s320/revelers-pack-into-the-city-square.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy. The recent discovery of “mirror neurons” has done for behavioural health what DNA has done for genetics. Mirror neurons are what turn on our empathy. They establish a brain-to-brain bridge that puts you on another person’s wavelength. Studies have shown that mirror neurons cause brain cells to “light up” not just when your own finger is pricked with a pin but also when you see someone else’s finger being pricked (an explanation for how the empath functions as well as those with less intense sensitivity).<br /><br />The pattern of neurons firing in your brain actually mimics those of the person you’re observing. In other words, we can feel each other’s pain. What this finding illuminates for me is that our brain’s instinct to share another’s reaction to pain is the biological mechanism of compassion.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />we don't have to think about what other people are doing or feeling, we simply know.<br /><br /><br />"It seems we're wired to see other people as similar to us, rather than different,At the root, as humans we identify the person we're facing as someone like ourselves."</span>

Brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy.

Brain mapping has shown that we’re hardwired for empathy. The recent discovery of “mirror neurons” has done for behavioural health what DN...

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The Reincarnation of our consciousness is the evolution of nature and the manifestation of the child within.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_FA92l049pNT88TYF33WAg0M4EzxSLEX_G3AHYS3iKaAU8sEPbkh6PMhSTnk6MFdv2G9mqTP2qFaOsx7cHL2iM5yReFZAuoe3wAMvbDDgfprgK94tICML_psHIE1omShNgXWlH61rSfd/s1600/0.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_FA92l049pNT88TYF33WAg0M4EzxSLEX_G3AHYS3iKaAU8sEPbkh6PMhSTnk6MFdv2G9mqTP2qFaOsx7cHL2iM5yReFZAuoe3wAMvbDDgfprgK94tICML_psHIE1omShNgXWlH61rSfd/s320/0.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In the real deepest reality of our being, what we call a 'US' is a dynamic bundle of consciousness that is constantly transforming. Where is the self when we were fourteen years of age? Where is the self you were when you when you were five years of age? Actually, in every moment of existence the old self dies and a new one is born. So, the person you were yesterday is not the person you are now, in any way. Your thoughts are not the same, though they may appear to be the same. But your body is not the same, your emotions are transforming. So, if you really look at how the universe functions, the 'observer,' which we call the person, and the 'observed,' which we call the world, are recreated every moment of existence. The reason why you have this illusion of being the same person is 'continuity of memory' which gives you this false belief that you are the same person you were an hour ago, or ten years ago.</span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> come to the realisation that we neither born nor die nor go to heaven, and that reincarnation is really a myth with regard to the child within. </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">An  example of restoration is given of a life being restored to full functionality. It is the life that evolves, not us. Every child within is omnipresent, so where can it come or go? These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.</span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reincarnation of consciousness is the evolution of nature and the manifestation of the restoration of the child within.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Child Within says that each life is built upon the past, and that when we can look back over the whole past we are free. The desire to be free will take the form of a disposition, a restoration of our  childhood perceptions. After a period of time will, as it were, make all truth clear to us. After leaving this life, and while waiting for the next, we are still in the our world.<br />We would describe the child within in these words: This realised child within the sword cannot cut, nor the spear pierce; the fire cannot burn nor water melt it; indestructible, omnipresent is this child. Therefore do not be sad for it.<br /><br />If it has been very bad, we believe that it will become good in the time to come. The fundamental principle is that there is eternal freedom for every one. Every one must come to it. We have to struggle, impelled by our desire to be free. Every other desire but that to be free is illusive. Every good action, is a manifestation of that freedom.<br /><br />WE do not believe that there will come a time when all the evil in the world will vanish. How could that be? This stream goes on. Masses of water go out at one end, but masses are coming in at the other end.<br /><br />The Child Within is pure and perfect, and that there is a state beyond good and evil, and that is our own nature. It is higher even than good. Good is only a lesser differentiation than evil.<br /><br />We have no theory of evil. We call it ignorance.<br /><br />So far as it goes, all dealing with other people, all ethics, is in the phenomenal world. As a most complete statement of truth, we would not think of applying such things as ignorance. Of the absolute we say that is Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss Absolute. Every effort of thought and speech will make the Absolute phenomenal and break Its character.<br />There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion — I am the absolute — cannot be made with regard to the sense-world. If you say in the sense-world that you are the child within , what is to prevent your doing wrong? So the affirmation of our divinity applies only to the noumenal. If I am , I am beyond the tendencies of the senses and will not do evil. Morality of course is not the goal of man, but the means through which this freedom is attained. Stagers Meditations are one way that makes us realise our divinity.  says this is done by the realisation of the freedom within and that everything will give way to that. Morality and ethics will all range themselves into their proper places.<br />All the criticism against the child within philosophy can be summed up in this, that it does not conduce to sense-enjoyments; and we are glad to admit that.<br /><br />Recovery of our child within begins with tremendous pessimism, and ends with real optimism. We deny the sense-optimism but assert the real optimism of the Super-sensuous. That real happiness is not in the senses but above the senses; and it is in every man. The sort of optimism which we see in the world is what will lead to ruin through the senses.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><br />Abnegation has the greatest importance in our philosophy. Negation implies affirmation of the Real Self. The system is pessimistic so far as it negatives the world of the senses, but it is optimistic in its assertion of the real world.<br />The system recognises the reasoning power of man a good deal, although it says there is something higher than intellect; but the road lies through intellect.<br /><br />We need reason to drive out all the old superstitions; and what remains is our child within. There is a beautiful Sanskrit poem in which the sage says to himself: “Why weepest thou, my friend? There is no fear nor death for thee. Why weepest thou? There is no misery for thee, for thou art like the infinite blue sky, unchangeable in thy nature. Clouds of all colours come before it, play for a moment, and pass away; it is the same sky. Thou hast only to drive away the clouds.”<br />We have to open the gates and clear the way. The water will rush in and fill in by its own nature, because it is there already.<br /><br />Man is a good deal conscious, partly unconscious, and there is a possibility of getting beyond consciousness. It is only when we become men that we can go beyond all reason. The words higher or lower can be used only in the phenomenal world. To say them of the noumenal world is simply contradictory, because there is no differentiation there. Man-manifestation is the highest in the phenomenal world. The Stager says he is higher than the unenlightened. The gods will all have to die and will become men again, and in the man-body alone they will become perfect.<br />It is true that we create a system, but we have to admit that it is not perfect, because the reality must be beyond all systems. We are ready to compare it with other systems and are ready to show that this is the only rational system that can be; but it is not perfect, because reason is not perfect. It is, however, the only possible rational system that the human mind can conceive.<br /><br />It is true to a certain extent that a system must disseminate itself to be strong. No system has disseminated itself so much as the Absolute. It is the personal contact that teaches even now. A mass of reading does not make men; those who were real men were made so by personal contact. It is true that there are very few of these real men, but they will increase. Yet you cannot believe that there will come a day when we shall all be philosophers. We do not believe that there will come a time when there will be all happiness and no unhappiness.<br /><br />Now and then we know a moment of supreme bliss, when we ask nothing, give nothing, know nothing but bliss. Then it passes, and we again see the panorama of the universe moving before us; and we know that it is but a mosaic work set upon the absolute, which is the background of all things.<br /><br />The Stager teaches that the absolute can be attained here and now, that we do not have to wait for death to reach it. The absolute is the realisation of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one be deluded by the mirage of personality. Having eyes, we must see the apparent, but all the time we know what it is; we have found out its true nature. It is the screen that hides the Self, which is unchanging. The screen opens, and we find the Self behind it. All change is in the screen. In the saint the screen is thin, and the reality can almost shine through. In the sinner the screen is thick, and we are liable to lose sight of the truth that the Absolute is there, as well as behind the saint’s screen. When the screen is wholly removed, we find it really never existed — that we were the Absolute and nothing else, even the screen is forgotten.<br /><br />The two phases of this distinction in life are — first, that the man who knows the real Self, will not be affected by anything; secondly, that that man alone can do good to the world. That man alone will have seen the real motive of doing good to others, because there is only one, it cannot be called egoistic, because that would be differentiation. It is the only selflessness. It is the perception of the universal, not of the individual. Every case of love and sympathy is an assertion of this universal. “Not I, but thou.” Help another because you are in him and he is in you, is the philosophical way of putting it. The real Stager alone will give up his life for a fellow-man without any compunction, because he knows he will not die. As long as there is one insect left in the world, he is living; as long as one mouth eats, he eats. So he goes on doing good to others; and is never hindered by the modern ideas of caring for the body. When a man reaches this point of abnegation, he goes beyond the moral struggle, beyond everything. He sees in the most learned priest, in the cow, in the dog, in the most miserable places, neither the learned man, nor the cow, nor the dog, nor the miserable place, but the same divinity manifesting itself in them all. He alone is the happy man; and the man who has acquired that sameness has, even in this life, conquered all existence. God is pure; therefore such a man is said to be living in God. Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I am.” That means that Jesus and others like him are free spirits; and Jesus of Nazareth took human form, not by the compulsion of his past actions, but just to do good to mankind. It is not that when a man becomes free, he will stop and become a dead lump; but he will be more active than any other being, because every other being acts only under compulsion, he alone through freedom.<br /><br />If we are inseparable from our child within, have we no individuality? Oh, yes: that is the absolute. Our individuality is absolute. This is not the individuality you have now; you are coming towards that. Individuality means what cannot be divided. How can you call this individuality? One hour you are thinking one way, and the next hour another way, and two hours after, another way. Individuality is that which changes not — is beyond all things, changeless. It would be tremendously dangerous for this state to remain in eternity, because then the thief would always remain a thief and the blackguard a blackguard. If a baby died, he would have to remain a baby. The real individuality is that which never changes and will never change; and that is the child within us.<br /><br />The Child Within is an expansive ocean on the surface of which a man-of-war could be near a catamaran. So in the conscious ocean a real child within can be by the side of an idolater or even an atheist. What is more, in the conscious ocean, the Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, and Parsee are all one, all children of the Almighty.</span></div>

The Reincarnation of our consciousness is the evolution of nature and the manifestation of the child within.

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ZEN MIND AND MEDITATION CENTRE

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioblc4kYJyPdqaqPo5z-H2LsmpyqhUXpZNOOq5nZrrtdV8_GdTrUJN8MKURPu4yTMbr0uBEslyguNo-1AUh59__SdUSREg4BVWWq77mFTqh32IV40pK0cWqPz6IOI6jW7J-G7wYbpY09pi/s1600/rocks2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioblc4kYJyPdqaqPo5z-H2LsmpyqhUXpZNOOq5nZrrtdV8_GdTrUJN8MKURPu4yTMbr0uBEslyguNo-1AUh59__SdUSREg4BVWWq77mFTqh32IV40pK0cWqPz6IOI6jW7J-G7wYbpY09pi/s320/rocks2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />ZEN MIND AND MEDITATION CENTRE<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Somatic Meditation takes our body as the fundamental arena of meditation practice. Rather than trying to develop meditation through our our left-brain, thinking mind in a “top-down” process, as is the case with most contemporary approaches, Somatic Meditation involves a bottom-up process, wherein we connect with the inherent, self-existing wakefulness that is already present within the body itself. In contrast to conventional approaches that emphasize entry through the intentional thinking of the conscious mind and following conceptual instruction templates, Somatic Meditation develops a meditative consciousness that is accessed through the feelings, sensations, somatic intuition, and felt sense of the body itself. We are simply trying to tune into the basic awareness of the body. Put in Buddhist terms, the human body, as such, is already and always abiding in the meditative state, the domain of awakening, and we are just trying to gain entry into that.<br /><br />This bottom-up somatic approach to the meditative process throws into bold relief the way in which conventional, top-down approaches are too often little more than mental projections—in Trungpa Rinpoche’s language, mental gymnastics. In the direct, non-conceptual approach of Somatic Meditation, the practitioner is able to meet his or her own experience in a direct, naked, and totally accessible way. Importantly, it is only this kind of unmediated experience that brings about lasting transformation. In Somatic Meditation, then, we realize that the ultimate meditative state is not found outside, above, or in some other place; it is discovered as the most essential and profound reality of this very human body of ours, just waiting for us to awaken to it.<br /><br />We can look at Somatic Meditation in a more systematic way as the ground of our practice, the path of our journey, and the fruition we aspire to attain. To begin with, the body is the ground or foundation of our meditation because the non-dual awareness that is our most fundamental nature is seated in and pervades the body. The body is the buddha nature. All of our experience, which is what awareness knows and what we work on in meditation, arises in our body.<br /><br />Our body also provides the path of our practice. All the somatic meditation instructions we receive and practices we carry out are always further developments and refinements of our spiritual process, toward the deeper, more subtle, and more complete embodiment of full realization. The body is also the path in another way. When we meditate, our actual path of spiritual unfolding arises out of what we experience, what comes up out of our body, what we have to work through to continue to open. And, further, the body orchestrates that process. So, the body is the buddha nature here, too; within its darkness, it holds what we are working toward—the true person that we are called to be—and it leads us inexorably toward that fruition. Finally, on the path, the body is our protector. When we feel uncertain or lost in our practice, we are able to check what is going on with us against our somatic experience. We ask our body for guidance. When I teach that, in the end, we all have to be our own meditation instructor, this is how we do it; we check whatever we are doing against our interior, somatic knowing, to see if it feels right and to try to sense what is next.<br /><br />Finally, we can look to our body as the fruition of our meditation practice. Through the practice of Somatic Meditation, we gradually uncover the basic reality that is our body, which is completely different from the entity we have previously been thinking of as our body. In this unfolding, stunning discovery, we find that, ultimately, our very own body is nothing other than the trikaya, or three bodies of enlightenment, the three bodies of the Buddha. Our body, in everything that it is, is an expression of the sacredness of the universe, perfect and free. What is quite amazing is that this understanding is not theoretical, nor does it come through our thinking mind; it is a matter of our own direct, fully embodied, personal experience. Here there gradually dawns in us the experience that the fundamental nature of our body is empty, open awareness (Dharmakaya); that this awareness is brimming with implicit energy, the life force (Sambhogakaya), that is constantly being born from the basic space; and that what is coming to birth is our own life—every situation, emotion, encounter, and detail (nirmanakaya).<br /><br />In somatic meditation, then, the body is the ground, the path, and the fruition of our practice. By contrast, the left brain—the seat of our thinking mind and of our conceptualizing ego consciousness—has no direct involvement in the meditative experience. At the same time, it does have several important functions to perform in our spiritual journey; but in order to carry these out, the ego needs to operate as a support, a handmaiden, so to speak, of our basic Soma, of the awakened state within. It has to accept second place in the hierarchy of body and thinking mind. Then, our thinking mind can help. It provides a way for us to sort out and conceptually understand what arises in our sitting. In its executive function, it helps us to translate the sometimes amorphous inspiration of our Soma into concrete and practical goals, action items, and plans. It assists us in arriving at a self-understanding in which our spiritual life and our meditation practice stand at the center. And it is the means by which we are able to bring the expansiveness, warmth, and joy of our meditation into our daily life and integrate it with our everyday person, and to create healthy (as opposed to dysfunctional) patterns in all aspects of our life. In the end, our left-brain thinking mind makes a transition from the endless self-serving narratives of our disconnected ego toward a story of who we are that is rooted in our basic nature and our actual life, with all of its unfolding and open-ended possibilities. Our left brain, as the handmaiden of our journey, helps us arrive at a story that is true, that is without end, and that is truly us.<br /><br />The practice of Somatic Meditation, as found in the more esoteric traditions of Asia and especially in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism and in spiritual Taoism, provides the means and methods necessary for making this journey to spiritual embodiment. This rich inheritance includes both a vast array of practices and accompanying oral instructions, and also a highly refined understanding of the embodying process. 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Just remaining continuously in a bright sense of presence without grasping at anything will bring us a sense of inexpressible bliss.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</em><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOn0_9wJl5Qju7bCD87_ObH32pyQhEu9iR1kCY7EH-B4fhyphenhyphenQyaWTrwqPEMLg6ufyE8-DSO3HH75hc1TbTLDmIhO-BeSmfez1qOznyXacSOVseig-JLWfDKDfgp1tTzfC_r0uoKiKLftr-c/s1600/75223-hammock-between-palm-trees-at-the-maldives.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOn0_9wJl5Qju7bCD87_ObH32pyQhEu9iR1kCY7EH-B4fhyphenhyphenQyaWTrwqPEMLg6ufyE8-DSO3HH75hc1TbTLDmIhO-BeSmfez1qOznyXacSOVseig-JLWfDKDfgp1tTzfC_r0uoKiKLftr-c/s1600/75223-hammock-between-palm-trees-at-the-maldives.jpg" width="320" /></a></em></div> <em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just remaining continuously in a bright sense of presence without grasping at anything will bring us a sense of inexpressible bliss. We still continue to see all of the mountains, lakes, trees, houses, people, and so on , that exist in the world, but we will not be distracted by anything that we see or hear. We remain in a sense of presence . . . that is bright and clear, just like a mirror that reflects all of these same things in the world, but is not affected or changed by what it reflects. We become like that mirror. All of them are merely reflections and they make no changes or modifications to our Natural State.”</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> ~ Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche</span><br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-child-within-is-new-species.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/332819045_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; 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Just remaining continuously in a bright sense of presence without grasping at anything will bring us a sense of inexpressible bliss.

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The main practice of Zen is awareness of the mind

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEm5Z36eunKP1P550hvSaUscXcjMEyFoGljq_SuBKWDGa12z6LZIrLpEeo1764_YuhXi3FtkbdmTpiBZACjHQBuK20bedAhH5x2WHZCZjMYaw-dOrVfSg172rPvVsfEd_n6_E8WHV4ZOA/s1600/mystical.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEm5Z36eunKP1P550hvSaUscXcjMEyFoGljq_SuBKWDGa12z6LZIrLpEeo1764_YuhXi3FtkbdmTpiBZACjHQBuK20bedAhH5x2WHZCZjMYaw-dOrVfSg172rPvVsfEd_n6_E8WHV4ZOA/s1600/mystical.jpeg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It is useful to begin with a more tangible object to calm and refine one's awareness. Breath awareness can be perfect for this. We should cultivate a general awareness of the breath coming in and going out. During inhalation, we should simply be aware that this is taking place. During exhalation, we note that the breath is going out. Awareness is allowed to rest calmly in the present, while we breathe in a natural, unforced way.</span>

The main practice of Zen is awareness of the mind

It is useful to begin with a more tangible object to calm and refine one's awareness. Breath awareness can be perfect for this. We sho...

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The challenge of meditative practice is to cultivate stability-integrated with clarity

<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/barebonesworkshops">CLEAR SPACE</a></p><blockquote>The challenge of meditative practice is to cultivate stability-integrated with clarity, generating an extraordinarily useful quality of awareness. To bring this about, experienced meditators have found there must be a sequence of emphases in the practice. First seek a relaxed, wholesome, and cheerful state of mind. On this basis, emphasise stability, and then finally let clarity take priority. The importance of this sequence cannot be overemphasised.</blockquote>

The challenge of meditative practice is to cultivate stability-integrated with clarity

CLEAR SPACE The challenge of meditative practice is to cultivate stability-integrated with clarity, generating an extraordinarily useful qua...

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Clear Space awareness of the breath is practiced in many different ways.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqItfB84gduF-34YD7YSQxQ5hbfwWb1Skz7x5IKdRBqV-NE1cBrTAfSuPiHUTx2meJuv_rh5XQnPLr-sTL7oBhn552zwGmOTUuF6-soHi_8X0ylZv0c9sAhoXGOwxeX_28_WYdbYVR0tD7/s1600/800x600%2521%2521+-+Virginia%2527s+Majestic+Mountain+Sunsets+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqItfB84gduF-34YD7YSQxQ5hbfwWb1Skz7x5IKdRBqV-NE1cBrTAfSuPiHUTx2meJuv_rh5XQnPLr-sTL7oBhn552zwGmOTUuF6-soHi_8X0ylZv0c9sAhoXGOwxeX_28_WYdbYVR0tD7/s320/800x600%2521%2521+-+Virginia%2527s+Majestic+Mountain+Sunsets+001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> CLEAR SPACE<br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Clear Space awareness of the breath is practiced in many different ways. Some people focus on the rise and fall of the abdomen during the in- and out- breath. Another technique is to focus on the tactile sensations, from the nostrils down to the abdomen, that are associated with the respiration. In yet another method one focuses on the sensations of the breath passing through the apertures of the nostrils and above the upper lip. All of these are valuable methods, and they can be especially useful for people with highly discursive, imaginative minds. 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