Ben2D

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

[letsdreamforlifeposts]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

[ben2d]

When God Created Man, She Was Only Joking.

[lazyyogi]

You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Timothy Leary (via lazyyogi)

[panatmansam]

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely — or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Oscar Wilde,  (1854 - 1900) Irish playwright and bon vivant   (via panatmansam)

[silent-mindfulness]

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open, and we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via silent-mindfulness)

[ashramof1-deactivated20201019]

Tilopa was a Bengali mahasiddha who developed the mahāmudrā method around 1,000 C.E. Tilopa gave Naropa, his successor, a teaching on mahāmudrā meditation called the Six Words of Advice.

’ Tilopa’s Six Words of Advice ’

Don’t recall, Let go of what has passed - mi mno* Don’t imagine, Let go of what may come - mi bsam Don’t think , Let go of what is happening now - mi shes Don’t examine, Don’t try to figure anything out - mi dpyod Don’t control, Don’t try to make anything happen - mi sgom Rest Relax, right now and rest, - rang sar bzhag

(* Tibetan )

[lasaldeldiabolo]

[liberatingreality]

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bruce Lee (via liberatingreality)

[panatmansam]

Military May Be Turning to Meditation for PTSD

With its emphasis on developing tranquility, meditation may seem an odd fit for the military. But recent studies have shown that mindfulness meditation is extremely effective in lowering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and increasing focus.

During the past nine years, over 2 million American soldiers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As many as several hundred thousand may now suffer from PTSD, say experts. Symptoms include anxiety, anger, depression, flashbacks and nightmares.

PTSD is usually treated with drugs, behavioral therapy and other approaches. But for many, these approaches don’t work. Now, a completely natural method is proving itself successful: mindfulness meditation.

(please click the link for the complete article)

[explore-blog]

A lack of confidence is at heart a misunderstanding of the way the world works. It’s an internalized feudalism, which imagines that only certain people — but not oneself — have the right, preordained, to get certain things.

An animated field guide to finding fulfilling work in the modern world by merging money and meaning. 

Also see Anna Deavere Smith on what confidence really means. 

(via explore-blog)

[panatmansam]

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn’t fit the other. I didn’t care.

Charles Bukowski, Women (via panatmansam)

[panatmansam]

Many traditions include the belief that one can do more to prepare for death than just acquire intellectual knowledge of the process of dying. In [many shamanic traditions] mind-altering technologies have been developed using psychedelic substances or powerful non-drug methods that make possible real experiential training for dying. In this context, compelling psychological encounters with death, so profound and shattering as to be indistinguishable from actual biological annihilation, are followed by the sense of spiritual rebirth. This is the core-experience of shamanic initiation, rites of passage and mystery religions. Symbolic death of this kind not only gives a deep realization of the impermanence of biological existence, but facilitates spiritual opening, and provides insight into the transcendent nature of human consciousness.

Stanislav Grof - Beyond Death - The Gates of Consciousness (via panatmansam)

[purplebuddhaproject]

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi (via purplebuddhaproject)

[purplebuddhaproject]

Just to say ‘I believe’ or ‘I do not doubt’ does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha (via purplebuddhaproject)

[stunningpicture]

I turned the leaf that looks like a samurai into a print. I’m calling it “Leaf in the Wind ( 風で葉 )”

[purplebuddhaproject]

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi (via purplebuddhaproject)