Sunday, April 12, 2015 thru Monday, April 13, 2015

Akasha : soul space - the field of Awareness - remains unchanged; unbounded

"By choosing to repeat the past, you are keeping life from renewing itself." p. 167
"Carry yourself like a Child of the universe." p.193

Deeply mystical journey - the phenomenon called apoptosis : programmed cell death - can rescue us from all fears. pp. 170-3

Exercises devoted to mindfulness
"Flowing with the vibrating Fabric of the universe." 167
"Give the universe room to respond to you." ~ The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra p. 192

"Here in the heart there is freedom, here in the heart there is peace. Here in the heart is the answer to questions much deeper than these." ~ John Denver 

"I and thou," or the sense of being as a wave on the Infinite ocean of Being p. 195
Joy of someone who has risen about the fear surrounding death p. 174
"Keep creating yourself." p. 163
Love is all I ever hoped to find here. Love is still the only dream I know... John Denver

"Mystical notion of dying every day turns out to be the body's most concrete fact." p. 171

Namaste' Cafe' - Sunday, April 12, 2015

Paradoxes from...

Quantum physics whose understanding depends upon knowing where things come from in the first place. p. 163

Reduced to Joy poems by Mark Nepo "We can grow by simply listening, the way the tree on that ridge listens its branches to the sky..."

"Secret of Surrender is that you do it inside, without trying to please anyone else." p. 169

Tagore asks himself, "What will you give / When death knocks at your door?" His answer:

 The fullness of my life -- The sweet wine of autumn days and summer nights, My little hoard gleaned through the years / And hours rich with living..." p. 174

Ubiquitous: present, appearing, or found everywhere.
Vision of transforming duality into unity. p. 209 The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra

When is a story Worth Writing?

"X factor behind the scenes: we are eXquisitely sensitive to the balance of positive and negative forces." p. 171-2

YOU are the field of all possibility p. 164 

~ Big

Saturday, April 11, 2015

A beautiful Spring day...

  Begin each day with meditation ... Become interiorly silent

Can you hear the past? Can you heart the future? 

"Dig that sound" ... "Digging the present moment" ~ Alan Watts

Egoistic pride Eventually subsides

Feel what you Feel without taking sides ... let your breath Fall easily out and Flow easily in

Go back to your childhood and find that place of wonder

Hamlet Soliloquies still bringing a smile to my face as I listen to Alan Watts quote Shakespeare

Interminable chatter ceases and we become Interiorly silent

 Thank you Dream Catchers

"Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun." Miguel Angel Ruiz

Painting by Richard Quinn 

Kabbalah : Kabbalistic a map of consciousness, a geometrical symbol of the complete universe." ~ Working with Oneness

"Like shapes in the spray as the sea breaks on the rocks." ~ Alan Watts

"Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe." 

Nice long walk with Misty

"Open the gates and seize the day... arise and seize the day" ~ Newsies
Pranava is sanskrit for the om (aum) mantra: the sound manifestation of the highest consciousness or highest light called Brahman. The mantra exerts us to repeat it in order for our mind to be absorbed and merge into that brahman of the upanishads on three levels:

• Verbally: to let the sound resonate and work its magic on the conscious level
• In a whispering fashion: to affect the subconscious mind
• Mentally: to transform the super-conscious mind

Quiet the mind
Rote-ish ways : routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.

Thank you for sharing this Celestine Yoga 

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. " ~ William Shakespeare

Unification of spiritual and physical world

"Virtue has no intention of being Virtuous, it simply is" ~ Alan Watts

We need to wake up and fall in love with the earth."—Thich Nhat Hanh

Thank you for sharing this, Dream Catchers

 Thank you, Namaste' Cafe

Zazen : : literally "seated meditation" : a meditative discipline. The precise meaning and method of Zazen varies from school to school, but in general it can be regarded as a means of insight into the nature of existence. Wikipedia

Getting through the week with a preponderance of purpose

"Are You Bulletproof?"

Bhakti Yoga―The yoga of love and devotion 

Creativity

Divine Qualities of yoga include a state of spontaneous creativity, love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. 

Essence of yoga is the union or integration of all the layers of life: physical, emotional, and spiritual. Focuses on practices that take our awareness inward and promote the integration of the mind, body, and spirit. 

Going beyond the ego’s habitual identification with the mind and body and directly experiencing our true spiritual self.

Honoring playtime...

I exist beyond all limitations

Karma Yoga―The yoga of service and action

Law of Giving and Receiving : we need to both give and receive to keep abundance, love and anything else we want circulating in our lives.

Meditation, physical poses, and breathing practices.

 Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world. 

Patanjali : legendary sage to whom the classic text on raja yoga is attributed

Qualities of yoga include a state of spontaneous creativity, love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. 

Rooted in this connection to spirit, we are able to solve the challenges that arise in life with greater ease and grace. 

State of Spontaneous creativity

Art by Nelly Tsenova

"There is no justification for the permanent destruction of the world. I believe that the world and our life in it are conditional GIFTS. We have the world to live in and the use of it to live from on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we need to know it and we need to know how to take care of it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it we have to love it. And we have ignored all that all these years. " -Wendel Berry From his interview with Bill Moyers

Unity consciousness : the state of enlightenment in which there is complete freedom from all conditioning.

Vasana: Sanskrit for unconscious cause. It's the software of the psyche, the driving force that makes you do something when you think you are doing it spontaneously. " p. 181 The Book of Secrets

“When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded consciousness.”
 an ineXtricable part of the field of consciousness, we are also infinitely creative, unbounded and eternal.

"Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence."

"Yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body. The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit. Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. In this expanded state of consciousness, we experience freedom from suffering. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful and carefree."

Zen Thinking's Facebook post this am : "expectations are resentments waiting to happen."