The Light of Self Expression
August 12, 2010
August 5, 2010
The Key to Our Well-Being
Our society provides no curriculum or schooling on how to notice love or to recognize the many people who have transmitted its life-giving power. Most of us haven’t been taught that to receive love deeply and transmit it wholeheartedly is a real human possibility, that it can be learned, and that to do so is the key to our deepest well-being, our spiritual life, and our capacity to bring more goodness into this world.
So as adults, we need to become newly aware of the love that has infused our lives all along, to turn our attention to it afresh with the eyes of a child. To do so is to become conscious of the tremendous capacity for love that even now permeates our being—to open to it, to be healed by its life-giving energy, and to participate in its power to renew our world. We can awaken to the deepest goodness in ourselves and others. We can learn to recognize and commune with the blessings that have always been pouring forth.
- John Makransky, "Love is All Around" (Fall 2007)
Read the complete article here.
http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/love-is-all-around
So as adults, we need to become newly aware of the love that has infused our lives all along, to turn our attention to it afresh with the eyes of a child. To do so is to become conscious of the tremendous capacity for love that even now permeates our being—to open to it, to be healed by its life-giving energy, and to participate in its power to renew our world. We can awaken to the deepest goodness in ourselves and others. We can learn to recognize and commune with the blessings that have always been pouring forth.
- John Makransky, "Love is All Around" (Fall 2007)
Read the complete article here.
http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/love-is-all-around
August 3, 2010
All in All
When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love.
And between these two, my life turns.
- Sri Nisargadatta
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love.
And between these two, my life turns.
- Sri Nisargadatta
July 6, 2010
Accommodate Whatever Arises
Understanding that there is no solid, singular, or permanent “me” makes it possible to accommodate whatever arises in life without feeling so intimidated by our experience, without rolling over like a defeated dog in a dogfight. We can see that things arise due to our karma playing itself out and that it does not necessarily have to be so personal. In this way we can identify with something greater—which is our nature itself.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, "Realizing Guiltlessness" (Winter 2004)
Complete Article: http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/realizing-guiltlessness?offer=dharma
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, "Realizing Guiltlessness" (Winter 2004)
Complete Article: http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/realizing-guiltlessness?offer=dharma
June 17, 2010
Random Past Citations That Once Excited the Brain
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind... ~F Scott Fitzgerald~
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~CS Lewis~
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee. ~Emily Dickinson~
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. ~JD Salinger~
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ~Milan Kundera~
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost~
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then ~Roger McGough
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. " -- JFK--
"Here is a new spiritual practice for you : don't take your thoughts too seriously." --Eckhart Tolle
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Buddha
"Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings it is your Buddha nature."
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~CS Lewis~
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie - True Poems flee. ~Emily Dickinson~
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. ~JD Salinger~
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ~Milan Kundera~
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost~
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then ~Roger McGough
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. " -- JFK--
"Here is a new spiritual practice for you : don't take your thoughts too seriously." --Eckhart Tolle
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Buddha
"Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings it is your Buddha nature."
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