Etsy
An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!
It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home.
I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my
trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on
my list home made gifts.
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness
to ourselves and others.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see.
The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we
breathe can be a source of joy.
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness
that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years
for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in
the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh
Comments on "Vibrations of the Absolute"
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CE said ... (8:41 AM) :
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I Am This said ... (10:05 AM) :
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CE said ... (2:56 PM) :
post a commentI never had any vision of some deity or great person in my life. And I don't see these visions as important, relevant, or useful at all. I see these, like the ego, as impuritites in that pure consciousness. Even if I see Jesus in a vision, or in person, I will not bow to him in worship.
By the way, I read a lot of nasty things about Muktananda, written especially by former disciples and followers.
I don't know but I don't put my trust in any human being, deity or god. I'd rather stand alone in my quest for reality or truth.
Do you have continuity in your practice of meditation, Imemine?
Rang bzo .. a Tibetan word used to mean "personal fabrication". It is used in the Buddhist scriptures to describe opinions which are baseless.
Your claims are neither here nor there. They are hearsay. You hold an opinion based on hearsay. And it sways me neither to nor fro.
As for visions in meditation - they are inconstant, so they cannot last. They are not-self. They arise and fall away in their own way at all times. When we are able to examine them in their true nature there is no hold.
I don't really have any practice, or discipline. I try to live in the present as much as possible, observing my thoughts, feelings, and actions without judgement. I simply don't try to escape from reality and suffering and to seek enlightenment. I stare down my fears, endure my pain and suffering, and feel my loneliness. And I do what I have to do. I'm actually happy doing this.
Opinions? Yes, lots of them. But I don't see them as truths, just my ideas about reality. Usually, I keep telling myself I don't really know.