Jun 27, 08:23 AM
Free Guided Meditation Download
This is a free guided meditation track you can download. This is a 20 min audio track that has chimes at 10, 15 and 20 minutes. It is guided for the first 5 minutes and then music to give you a chance to meditate for the length of time you wish.
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~ dorje
Sep 27, 11:45 AM
Search for Purpose.
They say that a Tourist doesn’t know where they have been and a traveler doesn’t know where they are going. For me I felt like I was slowly making the transition between being a tourist and a traveler. Where was I going… I didn’t know. All I had was my intention and a sense of purpose. I was on a mission to find my Teacher and I was prepared to go anywhere and do anything. My purpose was to learn so that I may share that wisdom with others and perhaps if I learnt well enough and through dedication and hard work, tireless effort I may make such an impact on them that they may go on to teach others and so on and so on, a some what idealistic dream but it was all that I wanted to do. My soul purpose you might say.
So I had interviews with Abbots of Monasteries and Lamas of various Traditions. I was looking for the most qualified Teacher I could find and at the same time I knew nothing of what I was looking for. I had no way to tell a good teacher from a not so good teacher. No way to know a fake or phony, Perhaps if they had light shining from there eyes or could tell me who I was in my former life and what I was looking for… but no, none of that was likely to happen.
Here I was the blind leading myself along a road at night trying to find my way.
Reminds me of Shantideva a great India Yogi and Scholar that I was to learn about later in my studies, He had a most marvelous saying, the kind of thing you need to hear at time like this.
He would say something along the lines of:
It is like your walking through the hills in the middle of the night, lost trying to find your way. And then a flash of lightening lights up the nights sky and it all becomes clear just for a few moments so that you can get your bearings once again and continue upon your way.
I think in moments when I have been looking for an answer or for a reason to go on I am lucky cause I know that lightening comes, sooner or later if you just stay put and wait it will come.
~ enjoy
This was published in the book –
On Purpose Towards – a more meaningful life, selections by Margaret Gee.
I was asked to write something… a page or so about what I related to this subject. This is what I wrote.
Available on New Holland isbn 1741101433
Sep 27, 10:27 AM
The Rainstorm
There is something to be learnt from a rainstorm.
When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road.
But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet.
When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed though you still get the same soaking.
This understanding extends to everything…..........HAGAKURE (taken from the book of the samurai-Yamamoto Tsunetomo)
Sep 1, 06:21 PM
Contentment
in sitting there is no comfortable position,
only positions to place the body.
in life there is no firm ground,
only the shifting sands blown by the winds of time.
Venerable Atisha says:
therefore always practice contentment,
& rely upon a happy mind alone.
continue ~ enjoy
Mar 18, 06:24 PM
The brothers karamazov and the power of now.
I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don’t be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead of nearer to it—at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of … Now
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconcious resistance to what is.
On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement, on the emotional level it is some sort of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends upon how strongly you are identified with your mind.
Hmmm…Observing observing observing… accept accepting acceptance… be free, just be.
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
power of now byEckhart Tolle,
Two books well worth reading.
enjoy~dorje
