Dancing Thoughts

"The moment contains love..." - RA

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"'For the animal shall not be measured by man.In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not bretheren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth" - Henry Beston

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Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and the direction of the will: this is the path towards the disciplined personality. Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path.

RA

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Only the deepest love accepts complete wisdom, And only the deepest wisdom expresses total love.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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Consciousness and time, John Hagelin

John Hagelin describes the concept of time as perceived from different states of consciousness. This video is an excerpt from SAND Anthology Vol. 2. John Hag...

Time is a perception and consciousness dependent thing... :)

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Where is home? It is the clear reality of the individual mind I call my own, fully merged with countless other beings, the most intimate family I know. This is my true Group. Where is home? It is the unbroken memory and ever-present vivid experience of all past lives, countless rich experiences on myriad worlds—learning in joy and sorrow, passing from ignorance to enlightenment. This is my Self. Where is home? It is the fluid embrace and grandeur of being, a transcendent passion of union with the One Creator whose body is the entire Universe. This is my world. True home, for all of us, is realizing endless awareness, endless meaning and endless value in each iota of matter, thought, and circumstance. This is Godhead.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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151228 Questioning Your Unconscious Actions \ \ Thanissaro Bhikkhu \ \ Dhamma Talk

Evening Dhamma talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (in English). Copyright 2015, Ṭhanissaro Bhikkhu. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonC...

Questioning Your Unconscious Actions

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We Cannot Practice Letting Go

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Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel  

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Nothing more than peaceful being, open heart and clear mind, sitting alone or in a crowd, active or silent – just this is sufficient world service. Awakened mind appreciating infinite creation, trusting divine law, knowing a bigger view – just this is sufficient world service. When we’re ready to accept our innate perfection just a little bit more, then we’ll see physical action is unnecessary to world service. And although big events and works help many, free radiation of what we are, deeply knowing and trusting your All-ness, is enough.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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You just have to find the right teacher. And therefore you'll find the right teaching. And I don't mean me. I'm just a channel also. I didn't make this teaching. I'm just saying what I knows. :) So, the value of finding the right teacher is that you'll find the right teaching. And the value of finding the right teaching is of you'll find yourself. And when you find yourself, you'll know yourself. And when you know yourself, you'll expand to your true being. And thereinlies freedom. I'm just translating. The teacher is the essential only to the degree that the teaching is essential. The teacher is a raft, in a way that the teaching is a raft. You take it, you use it, you get on it, you get off it. You get on the teacher, so you can get the teaching. And you get on the teaching, so you can get to the other side. And then you drop the teaching. Because the teaching is just "dog and ponny show"; "dog and ponny show for the education of the children.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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“Contacted, one feels. Contacted, one intends. Contacted, one perceives. These phenomena are both wavering & fluctuating—inconstant, changeable, of a nature to become otherwise. [Similarly with the ear, nose, tongue, body, and intellect.]” — SN 35:93 (emphasis added) This alternating pattern between consciousness and intention can be explained in two ways. First, the general complexity of the causal principle underlying dependent co-arising—with present causes interacting with past causes to shape the present moment—opens the door to many feedback loops of just this sort. Consciousness and feeling, for example, alternate in just this way, as do consciousness and perception. Second, the specific interaction of consciousness and intention here helps to explain the nested quality of becoming, in which one state of becoming can start within another one, which is nested in yet another one, much like a set of nested boxes or Russian dolls. For example, the seed of consciousness that led to one’s birth on this physical plane of becoming is what has made possible one’s experience of this world through the six senses. Based on intentions interacting with that experience, other moments of consciousness have been conditioned, which serve as seeds for purely mental states of becoming within this lifetime: dreams, plans, and worlds of the imagination. Within those states of becoming, the mind produces further intentions and encounters another level of sensory experience, which conditions further moments of consciousness, and so on—dreams within dreams, stories within stories. And, from the Buddha’s point of view, instability within instability and—for the most part—suffering compounded by suffering.

“Paradox of Becoming” by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment. But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul, is to be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake

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Monks, for anyone who says, ‘In whatever way a person makes kamma, that is how it is experienced,’ there is no living of the holy life, there is no opportunity for the right ending of stress. But for anyone who says, ‘When a person makes kamma to be felt in such & such a way, that is how its result is experienced,’ there is the living of the holy life, there is the opportunity for the right ending of stress.” — AN 3:99 In other words, there is a tendency for a certain type of kamma to lead to a certain type of result, but the intensity of that result is not a fixed thing. It is also influenced by a factor of present kamma: one’s state of mind at the moment when a particular instance of past kamma ripens.

“Paradox Of Becoming” by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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§ 2. Ven. Ananda: “This word, ‘becoming, becoming’—to what extent is there becoming?” The Buddha: “If there were no kamma ripening in the sensuality property, would sensuality-becoming be discerned?” Ven. Ananda: “No, lord.” The Buddha: “Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a lower property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. “If there were no kamma ripening in the form-property, would form becoming be discerned?” Ven. Ananda: “No, lord.” The Buddha: “Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a middling property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. “If there were no kamma ripening in the formless-property, would formless-becoming be discerned?” Ven. Ananda: “No, lord.” The Buddha: “Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a refined property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. This is how there is becoming.” — AN 3:76 ............................. § 7. “Where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow. Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-&-form does not alight. Where name-&-form does not alight, there is no growth of fabrications. Where there is no growth of fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, & death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair. [Similarly with the nutriment of contact, intellectual intention, and consciousness.] - SN 12:64 As that outline shows, becoming constitutes a sense of self-identity located in a particular world. The contours of that self and that world are determined by a combination of old kamma and new; their location is determined by an act of craving and desire.

“Paradox of Becoming” by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile, I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary. The day is coming when I fly off, but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says words with my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. This poetry, I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - Also known as Mevlana

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....... The forms of all experience, are a play of My formless being. When I am not playing, I am known as Shiva; when I am playing, I am known as Shakti. When I am not moving, I am known as Awareness; when I am moving, I am known as mind. When I am resting, I am known as peace; when I am dancing, I am known as the world. ....... https://youtu.be/RWnMEMijWBg

Rupert Spira