Loving and honouring others while berating and judging yourself is still practicing separation consciousness. Unconditional love and unity consciousness means seeing the beauty and divinity of ALL, and that MUST include yourself. Simply put, to deny yourself is to deny an aspect of God, as you are all part of the greater whole of the divine.
Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it.
Tato adinnaṃ parivajjayeyya
kiñci kvaci sāvako bujjhamāno.
Na hāraye harataṃ nānujaññā.
Sabbaṃ adinnaṃ parivajjayeyya.
A disciple should avoid taking
anything from anywhere knowing it (to belong to another).
One should not steal nor incite another to steal.
One should completely avoid theft.
Sutta Nipāta 2.397
The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the
Sutta Nipāta, translated by John D. Ireland
Instead of checking your email or social media the next time you have a free moment, savor the feeling and discomfort of “being bored.” Write down any insights you learn in that moment.
When was the last time you were bored — truly bored — and didn’t instantly spring to fill your psychic emptiness by checking Facebook or Twitter or Instagram? The last time you stood in line at the store or the boarding gate or the theater and didn’t reach for your smartphone seeking deliverance from the dreary prospect of forced idleness? But boredom might not be as not as bad as it seems; in fact, it could be a good thing, which is rather counterintuitive to much that we have learned as adults about what makes life interesting. It is a state we need to reckon with if we want to know ourselves more intimately, and it has the potential to bring us to the present moment.
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The universe is whispering …
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.“ ~ Chinese Proverb
Within you rests the universal answer to every question that you could ever ask yourself. It’s been said that prayer is talking to God … meditation is listening. Can you hear the universe whispering to you?
I kindly ask for help and guidance if I cannot see a better way.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The fast pace of the rat race means we like to try and draw a sharp distinction between the dull drudgery of our everyday working lives and the alluring magic of holiday time. A necessary skill is learning to relax to avoid the after-holiday blues.
It’s not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know!
My thoughts are my reality and I am thinking of a bright new day.
Enjoy this hour to BE YOU … Here’s to celebrating Your Spirit Greatness!
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It’s time to let go of anything you no longer need in your life, and trust that you are about to begin manifesting dreams you’d almost given up on. No regrets, it’s all been an important part of the journey, and what you are bringing with you is more important than what you’ll leave behind.
This is a time of great learning for humanity. We are being confronted by our truths
There is no sidestepping the learning – we planned for these events to happen. Some events may bring great highs and some deep lows.
These events redirect you on your destiny path for you are meant to learn your power in this reality
Listen to your heart for it is the consciousness of divinity.
Ascension = love = change
I love you
We are one
“The Soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The Soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
You don’t need to know.
Life wouldn’t be this grand adventure if you knew what was coming.
Love the mystery.
This is Lana. I have folded thousands of cranes for 30+ years and have imbued them with healing energies and left them for others as prayers for peace and blessings. My expression of spreading the Aloha Spirit to anyone and everyone. For many years while commuting on the Vallejo Ferry to and from San Francisco, I folded and left cranes for people to discover and take away with them … I have left cranes at the various places I visited throughout my day. Every December, I would use specially made beautiful Japanese washi papers to fold cranes and create ornaments for my Yule tree … only to give them away to friends and family during the course of the new year. I find folding and sharing Origami cranes is a willful way to connect myself with those around me and the spirit of mystery. Gassho.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life
and
I will take notice of the many positive things
this day has to offer.
Picture a glass of water, folks …
We’re not going to ask you if its half full or half empty…but rather how much
does it weigh?
Before you wonder where were going with this, open your mind for just a
few moments….
It doesn’t matter how heavy the glass is – it’s how long you hold it for.
Holding it for a minute isn’t a problem.
After an hour, you’ll notice an ache in your arm.
If you’re holding it all day, your arm will become numb.
In each scenario the weight of the glass doesn’t change.
But the longer you hold it, the heavier it becomes.
Stress and worries in life work much the same way.
Think about them for a short while and nothing happens.
Look at them a bit longer they begin to hurt …
But if you feel constantly under the burden of stress, it can manifest in other ways…
Like a weaker immune system, lack of vitality, loss of wellbeing and happiness in
life, or depression and anxiety…
That’s why it’s important to remember to let go of your stresses, Friends, and to
focus your energy into positive pursuits that help both the mind and body flourish.
Aloha Ke Akua
For an hour each week we will have online discussion, instructional guided meditation, and silent meditation time covering various meditation methods. We will also cover all aspects of beginning and sustaining a regular meditation practice. This group will be suitable for all levels of meditators from beginners learning meditation to experts seeking fellowship and the opportunity to share their experiences. These sessions are also conducted weekly live on-site. Contact The Halau for details and to participate.
What is it about the written word that makes a letter so special? For one thing, nobody writes anymore; it truly is a lost art. In this day and age of emailing and texting, people don’t spend the time and effort necessary to generate a handwritten note. It’s a rare occurrence to find one in the mailbox.
But taking the time to pen a handwritten letter to someone communicates so much more than just the words on the page. It shows that we value them and, because of this, we took time out of our busy, over-scheduled lives to put pen to page and tell them truly how we feel (not what Hallmark says we should feel — anyone else think greeting cards never say the right thing?).
Who in our own lives could use a personal note from us? Let’s think about whom we could connect to in this way and then make the time to write to them this week.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the thirst of people for an easier life. But there is a trade-off between peace and convenience.
Experiment with such trade-offs between peace and convenience in your own life. What could be changed and what left alone to flower in its own way?
Yo ca dhammamabhiññāya
dhammamaññāya paṇḍito,
rahadova nivāte ca
anejo vūpasammati.
Thoroughly understanding the Dhamma
and freed from longing through insight,
the wise one rid of all desire
is calm as a pool unstirred by wind.
Itivuttaka 3.92
Gemstones of the Good Dhamma,
compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika
Meditation Map
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back,
and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” ~ Buddha
Guided Meditation is a perfected technique designed specifically to maximize the speed at which you are able to progress to high levels of consciousness using Multi-Dimensional Meditation. Most will notice all the usual benefits of a meditation program immediately such as stress relief, lower blood pressure, and clarity of mind. As you continue, you will be practicing the very best techniques for energy building, Sixth sense development, and all the other things referred to in The Halau.
The Three Chakras of Focus
Throughout the meditation, you will focus only on the following three chakras:
1. the Base (your spiritual energy “power-station” center);
2. the Heart (your emotional feeling center and the seat of infinite compassion; i.e. a sense of oneness with all … Alisone); and
3. the Mind (your intuitive knowledge and psychic vision center).
By drawing in and processing the “pranic energy” of the Universe through these particular three chakras, you nourish and condition your ENTIRE spiritual body (including the four remaining chakras), fostering an incredible amount of inner balance within a short period of time. Each of the three chakras “program” the prana being taken in at that particular point in the meditation, “coloring” in for the specific purpose of that chakra’s function within the micro-universe that is the human body.
As you begin to feel activity within the chakras during meditation, you will notice some are stronger or weaker than the others (i.e. some are noticeably more active or less active as a physical sensation). Always strive for equal balance by giving the weaker chakras more time during the meditation (what we refer to as “calibration”). We also suggest that you spend some time during the day outside of your meditation focusing on your weakest chakra. This will help to strengthen it for the next meditation.
Focusing on the Touch
The technique of “focusing on the touch” is unique because it helps enable instant “non-thought”. If you are truly focused on the feeling of the touch of your two fingers on the chakra, the Babbler cannot invade your mind. If concentration diminishes, however, the Babbler can gain strength, quickly re-capturing your focus.
Focusing on the touch is unique compared to many other styles because it gives your brain something to focus on without using typical and less effective methods, such as visuals or vocally-generated tones; both of which can lead to increased babbling in your brain because both are brain-based practices. Finally, focusing on the touch enables a very deep sensory connection that quickly facilitates the emergence of the Sixth Sense, a critical goal of the meditation.
You are teaching your brain to think in another way using sensations, feelings, and frequencies – the touch! This is what “non-thought” truly is. Thinking without words. It isn’t “not thinking”.
When you begin to have experiences those experiences won’t be narrated to you through words, it will be through all the things you are learning just by doing the meditation.
The Babbler
Your organic brain has been freely babbling since you were young; e.g. words in your head as you think of things or review situations, songs, internal debates, etc. So, it’s no wonder it can seem challenging when you initially attempt to silence it. This babbling can manifest as mental chatter, vivid mental imagery or constant attention given to every itch or physical discomfort. For most people who meditate, including those who have been meditating for many years, the ability to quiet this internal ‘babbler’ is difficult to master. Don’t worry, the brain is extremely adaptable. In just the first month of using the Guided Meditation, most people report a significant decrease in babbler influence! Less mind chatter means more quality time in meditation.
In successfully silencing the Babbler, you will be able to enter into a state of “non-thought” clarity. In this program, “non-thought” refers to a state of mind identifiable by thought that is not rendered in “words.” The point isn’t that you do not think as much as that you are liberated from thought structured at the level of the organic brain. Thus liberated, you are free to think from much higher and quicker levels of your spiritual, energy-based mind.
When the Babbler emerges during a meditation, here’s how you deal with it:
1. Notice it.
2. Thank the part of you that noticed it and brought it to your attention.
3. Go back to focusing on the touch.
NOTE: Be sure not to get frustrated or give the Babbler any more attention than that. This technique will rewire the brain to remove unnecessary chatter.
Are you ready for your meditation? Good, let’s do it!
My friends do not judge me, nor do they influence what I do with my life.
I replace my anger with understanding and compassion.
I let go of my anger so I can see clearly.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning …
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. As a species, we humans possess some unique capacities. We can stand apart from what’s going on, think about it, question it, imagine things being different. We are also curious. We want to know “why?” We figure out “how.” We think about what’s past … we dream forward to the future. We create what we want rather than just accept what is. So far, we’re the only species we know that does this. But as the world speeds up, we’re forfeiting these wonderful human capacities … Do you equate productivity with speed?
Slowing down just might be the difference between ideas and action …
Now that you’ve contemplated this, take three slow breaths, and smile.
Following my intuition and my heart keeps me safe and sound.
On this Solstice, we bow to Divine Mother in Gratitude for all that has come and is coming to fruition … Namastasyai, namastasyai, namastasyai, namo namaha …
I trust my inner light and intuition to guide me.
Put aside your old ways of using your eyes and ears and nose, tongue, body, and mind to focus on issues outside there in the world, to get your knowledge about the world, to figure out how to gain what you want out of the world — and of course getting complacent and careless when you get what you want, and upset when you don’t, and trying to find new ways of getting it. Now we want to use our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind for other purposes, just to see the processes of the senses as they happen, in and of themselves. Look at them in a way that highlights the movements of the mind, how the mind makes a choice, and how it enforces that choice, how it justifies that choice to itself.
All these processes are going on all the time, but we usually don’t look at them because our attention is focused somewhere else far away. So stay right here at the breath, because this is a great place to observe all these other things. The Buddha makes a comparison to six kinds of animals. If you tie them all to leashes and tie the leashes together, the animals will all pull in their various directions to feed. The crocodile will want to go down to feed in the river, the monkey will want to go climb up to feed in the tree, the hyena will want to go to feed in a charnel ground, and so on. Depending on which animal is the strongest, the others get dragged along.
But if you tie them all to an immovable post, then no matter how hard they pull, they all end up staying right there at the post. The post here is mindfulness immersed in the body. The prime way of immersing mindfulness in the body is to be mindful of the breath. When you stay with the breath, you can detect the pull that goes out the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind to past and future, to your likes and dislikes. But you don’t have to give in to that pull because you’ve got a place where you can stay grounded and secure. […]
These things are all here to be observed. They’re all happening all the time. But to see them we have to change our focus. To change our focus requires a change of heart, telling ourselves that this really is important, much more important than things outside. That’s what conviction is all about. Appropriate attention is the change of focus; conviction, the change of heart. You make up your mind — and your heart — that this is an important issue that’s got to be resolved, and this is the way to do it.
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Reflection:
What does using our senses to see the process of the senses mean to you?
Can you share an experience where staying with your breath allowed you to be more aware of where you were being pulled, and to act with true freedom?
How can we get immovable in ‘mindfulness immersed in the body’?
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,
that together we may succeed in building a better world
through human understanding and love,
and that in doing so we may reduce
the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama
Inner peace begins the moment you choose
not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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