meditation

Magic. It was worse than feline logic. Leave it to magic to re-fracture and re-herniate his vertebrae in the middle of a battle. A powerful sigh forced itself through the controlled exhale of his Ki breathing, decimating the thin slow line of smoke curling up from the incense. It reformed itself a moment later, right before Bruce__ eyes, and he glared at it with Batman__ most malevolent stare. What a metaphor. A few seconds_ disruption and all was set right again. That was magic__ attitude. No harm done. As if it was as simple as a few seconds_ paralysis.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

Meditate on the Word within the closed walls of your heart to make it stronger through agape.

Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Dan explains the trip__ itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You.

When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

Many people experience a sense of rage and very strong anger toward their parents and others who hurt them. Ultimately that is also a thought. It doesn__ really exist in this very pure and present moment. It doesn__ really exist. So actually what we are really carrying is nothing but a bunch of thoughts. When we let go of those thoughts then nothing else is required. We are free......Whenever you suffer, whenever you struggle, don__ go outside trying to find out what is wrong with your life. Don__ treat your life like you treat your car. When something is wrong with the car we get out, open the hood, see what__ wrong with the engine, and fix it. But life is not like a car. Life is consciousness. Life is not something outside of us. Therefore whenever we feel that we are suffering, tormented, or challenged we should always look into our consciousness. Immediately we discover that we are having a very evil affair with an evil thought. That__ all there is. Just that thought.Such thoughts always come with a specific idea and with some kind of voice: __ am good. I am bad. I am poor. I don__ have this or that. I am not enlightened._ It is always associate with a concept and a belief system. Until we are awakened to the ultimate truth we are completely ruled by our thoughts. Thoughts are always dictating reality to us. So in that sense thought is the ultimate empire of propaganda. Thought is always coloring and defining reality.

This _ perception of impermanence _ gives rise to the knowledge that even those things which seem most intimate to us _ such as our emotions _ are transient states which come and go. _ From _ detached observation it _ becomes clear that even one's conscious mind is but a process like everything else. Most people regard their mental life as their true inner essence ( _ ), but insight meditation discloses that the stream of consciousness is just one more facet of the complex interaction of the five factors of individuality, and not what one 'really is'.

Even in solitude,silence stays,like a loyal supporter,with its unbroken presence.

Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortunate things we have done, all the disturbing mistakes we have made. Yet this classical reflection is not a way of increasing conceit. It is rather a commitment to our own happiness, seeing our happiness as the basis for intimacy with all of life. It fills us with joy and love for ourselves and a great deal of self-respect. Significantly, when we do metta practice, we begin by directing metta toward ourselves. This is the essential foundation for being able to offer genuine love to others

Energy is the language spoken by your body. You probably already know that your brain sends bioelectric signals to your organs and muscles through the nerve pathways in your body. But did you ever consider how your brain talks to your cells?

Channelling is your higher self streaming through in a version your limited mind can accept. There is no such thing as a separate entity, only the perception of it. You are all of it!

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.