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Here's a wonderful paragraph from this entry by

typing_sound, describing what I interpret as a moment of pure awareness, a moment of what can be called enlightenment. I think that some of us have lots of them, and some have a few, and some haven't had one yet. I suppose, I imagine, that to be enlightened would be ease in staying in such a state of consciousness longterm. But anyway, here's what Robert wrote:

I think I dreamt that because I helped this drunk guy, earlier on that evening, and I guess I felt like an angel in a way. My mind was silent and had some kindness in it. You ever helped someone, or really listened to someone, and your own mind has gone silent? It's like you disappear and they become the centre of the universe instead. That's where peace is, when you really receive the universe, or whatever's happening in the present moment, you really receive it, let it in, really agreeing to this moment, feeling yes, okay, come on in, you can enter and share whatever I have, you can have my time and my attention, the door of my heart is open to you, come on in, this is fine, this is okay, I don't need to change this, this moment is the only moment, this is reality right now, I am actually alive right now, I am here, I exist in this very moment. You get the idea. ;D

Morning Motivation

( on goals or motivations, by Thubten Chodron )

I heard it in nutrition class. Then again on the Buddhist group. Apparently the Buddha ate meat too. I looked up the Dalai Lama's meat habit and discovered that it's old news. He has been eating meat on and off for a very long time. Tibetan Buddhists apparently would rather not talk about it. It seems there is some embarrassment that their holy leader doesn't follow the entire doctrine. To some of them it is wrong to eat meat, that it is contradictory with the teaching of compassion for all living beings.

( thoughts )

Ten of the forty possible symptoms for this syndrome are:
--feeling intense stress, pressure cooker sensation
--depression, feeling dark and dense energies, ugly and icky feelings
--anxiety, panic, feelings of hysteria
--frequent desire to eat that feels like low blood sugar, craving for protein
--weight gain esp in the abdomen
--aches and pains
--disorientation, not fitting in
--disappearance of old friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences
--emotional ups and downs, weeping
--vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams
--memory loss, trouble with words

And the diagnosis is NOT heavy metal toxicity, adrenal fatigue, Lyme disease or metabolic syndrome. What could it be? These are signs that you are ascending to a higher energetic level. The author is targeting mainstream Americans....but she looses me on the home page of her site, with the photograph. Something about her eyes.

Nowadays many have lost the old way, and many try to usurp the style of Zen, setting up their own sects, keeping to clichés, and concocting standardized formulas and slogans. Since they themselves are not out of the rut, when they try to help other people, it is like a rat going into a hollow horn that grows narrower and narrower until the rat is trapped in a total impasse.
- Yuanwu (1063-1135)

http://www.sixthsunfoundation.org/

I finally went to the website listed at the back of his books, and it is a prototype of a website, but a good start.

Thanks to

ngakmafaery for sharing this article. In it Mark Morford of San Fransisco suggests that Obama inspires people not through great speeches or brilliant policy, but because he has a higher energy. Something about his presence blows people away. Perhaps Obama is an exceptional being who touches our higher nature and raises collective consciousness. I believe that he has begun to do that, already. He doesn't know much about foreign policy, but he seems to have an open heart. I still have hope that we will turn back from the precipice.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL

( news brainstorm: thoughts about VPship and sexism vs racism )

Here's an example of a person who reacted with kindness instead of hostility when someone tried to do him wrong. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89164759

Over the weekend I attended a conference called Transforming the Mind, and this piece was played as the grand finale: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Jill Bolte Taylor is an excellent storyteller and the story is worth hearing. Jill is also a neuroanatomist. She had a stroke one morning and observed her own brain shutting down. The blood vessel popped in the left hemisphere of her brain, and crowded out her language centers and more, leaving her with right brain hemisphere functions. She experienced Nirvana, or what some might call a near death experience.....but it is better to hear her tell the tale. I hope you enjoy!

You don't need logic once you successfully mistake your own sick fantasy for wisdom.
--Kinky Friedman

( more of my favorites )

A friend who resides in upstate NY sent me this link (http://www.coresynch.com/) and asked me what I thought. I was skeptical at first, because everybody can put up a groovy website and act like they have some special knowledge. But then I read this essay (http://www.coresynch.com/Philosophy_CoreSynchronism.pdf) and decided that for the most part I agree with the author about what people are and how we work. It was notable the degree to while this philosophy is a synthesis of traditional yogic understandings (chakras, etc) and naturopathic medicine (healing crises, etc.).

( a central statement about health from coresynch )

"Through mantra, we no longer cling to the reality of the speech and sound encountered in life, but experience it as essentially empty. Then confusion of the speech aspect of our being is transformed into enlightened awareness." -Kalu Rinpoche

( more )

I've been learning history from listening to the tributes to President Ford after his death. I was a child when he served. Now I understand more about him and I am grateful that he was a president of this nation. It is widely believed that he was not re-elected because he pardoned Nixon. Lots of people have something to say about that decision. It isn't possible to know the true content of his thoughts when he made that decision, but I find myself among those who think that perhaps it was not the right choice.

( on Cheney, Nixon, impeachment, the natural lifetime of democracy, and more )

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Entries tagged with enlightenment

An Enlightened Moment

Quote of the Day

The Dalai Lama Eats Meat

Another Diagnosis

Gurus Gurus Everywhere

Toltec Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

Who Shall Be the Lightworker's VP?

The Man Who Did His Mugger Right

A Neuroanatomist tells the Story of her Stroke

Quotes

A Philosophy that Resonates with me: Core Synchronism

The mantra of Chenrezig: Om Mani Padme Hum

Forgiveness and Democracy

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