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Rest Wherever We Are | October 24, 2014
Through meditation we learn how to work
skillfully with thoughts and emotional patterns that interfere with
simply being able to rest wherever we are, with full presence.
- Mark Coleman, "A Breath of Fresh Air"
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Flower of the Day: 10/24/14
“There
is an inner path that leads you to acceptance and gratitude. We begin
by recognizing and dissolving the frozen images in our system. Next, we
become aware of our desire for negativity and pacts of revenge. We
recognize our identification with the victim in the form of the wounded
child. Through all this, we go on liberating our denied feelings. We do
our part until we break through even just one layer of the veil of
illusion that makes us see everything as a threat. Eventually we are
able to enter the inner sanctum that allows us to perceive everything as
a gift, even challenging situations that bring deep discomfort.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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The Depths of Our Experience | October 23, 2014
The work of Buddhism is to awaken, to
come out of the sleepy dreams and notions of reality that we hold to be
true and replace them with a direct experience of what is more
accurately occurring. To awaken in this way, we need to become conscious
of what’s actually going on at the very depths of our experience.
- Will Johnson, "Full Body, Empty Mind"
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Flower of the Day: 10/23/14
“I
can’t explain what oneness is, I can only show you the path that will
lead you to this experience. Silence is needed for this phenomenon to
take place, even if you are the only one in silence and the whole world
is making noise. If you are in silence, I will be able to guide you
towards this experience. Without silence you will find it difficult to
absorb the teachings that are being transmitted. Most of what is
transmitted is not picked up or received, because of the noise. Great
and rare opportunities for healing are being wasted, and this healing is
what prepares the field for the experience of oneness.”
Sri Prem Baba
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Flower of the Day: 10/21/14
“It
is important to commit to becoming aware of your paradoxes, of your
lack of integrity. When are you dishonest in life? How do you fake love
to sustain the games of your lower nature? A certain kind of courage is
needed in order to love, because you need to be whole and integral. To
love, you need to be aligned with the truth because love is a fragrance
of the truth. I am talking about the truth of the divine self, not the
transitory truth of the small self that is sustained by the mask. The
mask is not at all committed to the truth: it is merely a pretense.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
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The Insight of Impermanence | October 22, 2014
To those whose knowledge is developed,
everything within and without oneself, within and without one’s house,
within and without one’s village and town, is an object at the sight of
which the insight of impermanence may spring up and develop.
- Ledi Sayadaw, "Meditation en Masse"
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Flower of the Day: 10/22/14
“It
is necessary to have an ego to live in this realm. This is one of the
laws of this world, just like gravity. We need to have a mediator
between the inner and outer world, and the ego is this mediator. It is
formed from the impressions we receive from the outer world which give
us an idea about who we are. But it has a very important role within the
game, because the ego is the one that makes the journey. The ego
identifies the lower self and becomes identified with the divine self.”
Sri Prem Baba
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
Flower of the Day: 10/20/14
“I
see many spiritual seekers who disregard the possibility of
somatization, developing physical symptoms due to spiritual or emotional
distress. They believe that everything occurs in the subtle bodies, so
they don’t take enough care of their physical bodies. The opposite is
also true: some people are so identified with their bodies that they
fall into despair when they cannot find the causes of their symptoms.
The middle way is of sensibility. When you are on the path to
self-realization, you may have transcendental experiences as well as
challenging ones, but it all depends on the amount of blockages you
carry.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
Cultivating Equanimity | October 20, 2014
Classical mindfulness, unlike popular
mindfulness, is all about the cultivation of equanimity. One is able to
experience both pleasure and pain without clinging to anything in the
world.
- Andrew Olendzki, "The Mindfulness Wedge"
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Via Daily Dharma
Wildness of Mind | October 19, 2014
The wildness of mind that we experience
when we sit quietly noticing our body and breathing for five minutes is
the result of everything we’ve been doing before those five minutes.
- Gaylon Ferguson, "Fruitless Labor"
Flower of the Day: 10/19/14
“The
denial of our feelings is our main poison. We can only open up to
experiencing all of our feelings once we have understood enough about
ourselves. If we have not yet cognitively understood our inner workings,
we won’t allow ourselves to dive into this experience of our feelings.
We don’t have any control over our feelings because they are completely
protected by fear, arrogance and other aspects of our lower nature.”
Sri Prem Baba
Saturday, October 18, 2014
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Flower of the Day: 10/18/14
“Many
of the games of our lower nature which cause destruction in our lives
and in the lives of those around us come from our inability to feel
gratitude. Ingratitude results from a lack of understanding about the
game of life. This feeds the victim within us who sees fault in
absolutely everything, not just in difficult unpleasant situations, but
also in the good things of life. One of the main characteristics of the
victim is complaining and lamenting. This turns into an addiction which
is oftentimes more powerful than even the addiction to chemical
substances.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
Defining Emptiness | October 18, 2014
Emptiness simply means an absence of
reactivity. When you relate to somebody, there's not you and me
and your little mind running its little comparisons and judgments. When
those are gone, that is emptiness.
- Charlotte Joko Beck, "Life's Not a Problem"
Friday, October 17, 2014
Flower of the Day: 10/17/14
“We
see reality subjectively, since we look at it through colored lenses
that distort our perception. These lenses are our mistaken ideas and
false beliefs. For example, say that your mother was betrayed and
therefore became resentful. She might have then transmitted her belief
to you that ‘men cannot be trusted because they betray you.’
Consequently, you would end up attracting men who cheat on you, because
your energy was vibrating at this frequency and these beliefs acted like
magnets. When you look at men you always become suspicious, and this
activates the worst in them. That’s how we confirm our beliefs and
maintain our limited perception of reality.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
The Principle of Renunciation | October 17, 2014
The principle of renunciation is not to
encourage a state of lack, but to establish as complete a state of
simplicity as possible.
- Ajaan Amaro, "Just Another Thing in the Forest"
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