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May 21, 2015 8:19:30 GMT
Post by air on May 21, 2015 8:19:30 GMT
How easily we lose our peace of mind and our equilibrium for things that really don’t matter! We let our body-mind react to things that are inconsequential; it seems that we have no control over ourselves. We let go, we get angry, we feel like taking revenge, we get upset and we react instead of responding to situations. We don’t remind ourselves that life is too short to be worried about things. What is important in life is to live with peace and to make each day a day of bliss, joy and tranquility. We can remind ourselves that peace is the foundation of happiness, for where there is no peace, there can be no joy.
AiR
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May 22, 2015 6:36:24 GMT
Post by angelm on May 22, 2015 6:36:24 GMT
Sometimes the best reaction is no reaction at all, but I would agree that there needs to be peace for there to be joy. Otherwise we cannot feel free to allow our-self the pleasure of joy, because in fear and hatred we are afraid to allow such things to flow through us. Letting go is not bad, it can allow us to accept that which is, and be with what we need to learn the lesson we are given.
Other times it is not the outside influences that govern our internal conditions, but our own sense of self-worth from within. Whether or not we are 'worthy' of peace, if we deserve it, or if it is something we must work for. Mostly it is others who tell us we cannot have that which we desire, but it is possible to work past this and discover our own way to receive peace within our lives. For it is all a mindset, and I say I am worthy!
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May 22, 2015 14:58:25 GMT
Post by donq on May 22, 2015 14:58:25 GMT
Hi Air,
Good thread, again. Well done. :-)
Hi Michelle, well put about "Sometimes the best reaction is no reaction at all".
I've just (re) read some meditation text (Mahamudra) which is like words in other Sutras, Tantras and existential instruction and would like to share it here: (from Meditation Differently by Herbert Guenther)
Do not run after what is past, Do not set your hopes on what is yet to come, But look at what is as it is Here and now. Without losing it or going astray from it The wise makes the most of it.
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When the triune creativity (above) in seeing has been mastered what comes-to-presence is the vortex of Being's meaning-rich gestalt; When there is no distraction by (the divisive notion of) there being something to be done and someone doing it, Being's possibilizing dynamics becomes the place of bliss; When one recognizes what one encounters to be one's friend, this letting to be becomes a single vibrant dimension; When one is this stream that carries one, what else is there to do?
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Do not find fault with anything, Without becoming distracted by anything go about your experiencing (what matters), Do not hanker after the indication (of success) by the warmth (you may feel).
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If you let whatever comes-to-presence be in its legitimate dwelling, there (is present) a spontaneous thereness that is dissociated from any doing something. If you recognize whatever has arisen for what it is, (Being's) ecstatic intensity dissolves in its own place. If you have cut off the mind's flitting at its root, the divisiveness of ordinary thinking dissipates in (Being's) vast expanse (from what it has started). If you bridge the time-shifts by your inspection, composure and post-composure states assume a single flavor.
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There was poetically speaks of the inseperability of a composure state and post-composure states by comparing their unity with a cold breeze (stirring of a thought) in the air (the calmness of the psyche):
(Being's, that is, one's) pristine awareness that in its brilliance and translucency is like the sky's reach Must be sensuously experienced in its own limpidity (which is such that a thought's) stirring disdolves in translucency and dynamic freedom; This is the sensuously felt experience of the insubstantiality (of one's, that is, Being's 'intelligence') to be without egocentric grasping Not knowing it so, (one's) single-pointedness in-depth appraisal Is like a flame shaken by the wind-it cannot withstand any adverse conditions.
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May 23, 2015 8:15:41 GMT
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Post by angelm on May 23, 2015 8:15:41 GMT
Make the most of it, the now! Everything we do is an expression of us, the divinity within us speaks to and from our own choices of our very existence... carry on, be as you are only as you can be. We are expansive, infinite beings of love. True freedom is to be, as you are. I get inspired by such readings because I can connect to it and find my own meanings from it. It's like letting the mind wander in a sea, of possibilities of the endless shores of the coast within. Truly magical stuff. It shifts and comes back to us, only to shift once again, each passing moment is only a memory, a time in which we can make the best of or continue in our way but only if we allow ourselves to live with it may we find the peace of mind that is often seeking us in return.
I quite enjoy writing.
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May 23, 2015 11:01:24 GMT
Post by donq on May 23, 2015 11:01:24 GMT
Two Thumbs up! You really were in the (creative) mood!
I'm not good at cooking except frying eggs. Everyone who knows me and tried it, giving two thumbs up and asked what was my secret. I honestly didn't know. I just put my heart (not literally, lol) into it? So, even got the same and exact ingredients, two chefs still make their food differently. :-) I've just tried to say that your post was yummy! P.S. It's strange that in my country, only one thumb up means I am angry with you. What a different meaning! hahaha
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