Daily Contemplations

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done,
we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change.
So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger,
but in wisdom, understanding and love.

Jennifer Edwards

I work near the Brisbane river and at lunch I go for a walk. There is something powerful about walking in amongst the mangroves, water, birds - natural

Surrender
Each moment Is perfectly unique
Smell gives off trees
Sound permeates reality
Universe ripples
Waves on the forshore
People pass by
Awareness

My children shoot up
They are flying over head
Dare I turn away?

Dare I turn away?
This moment never again
Wind down the window! (-))

"we meditate on what is arising. we do not meditate on things past, future, or indefinite in time ... this is practical insight meditation"

-- Mahasi Sayadow

"Your mind will continue to wander throughout your life, no matter how enlightened you get"

Kenneth Folk

""we meditate on what is arising. we do not meditate on things past, future, or indefinite in time ... this is practical insight meditation"

-- Mahasi Sayadow"

The renegade thought he would try watching the past or the future and the watching just kept arising now.

"Dare I turn away?
This moment never again
Wind down the window! (-))"

Turning away
Still the breeze
Dare there be a heaven and hell?

"The renegade thought he would try watching the past or the future and the watching just kept arising now.
"


Yeah! : )

Reading webpage on a
mindfulness-based stress reduction
training program
get you someone really to pull the wool with you
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Notices presence of Woolly-Bully
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complete

Recall the feeling of winning at a sport or winning an argument
now compare that to
The feeling you get when you see a beautiful sunset or walking along the beach

As you walk around today notice how many people have a smile on their face.
I work in the city and the only time I see people with a smile on their face is when there are more then one person together talking.
Are we incapable of being happy without other people.

I walk around with a smile when ever I am aware.
There was a lady the other day who was having a go at her children, she turned around and said "What are you smiling at"
Are people so insecure about themselves that seeing someone elses happiness is automatically threatening

Smile and see how it helps shape your day

Man, if I see someone walking down the street alone with a smile on their face it makes me suspicious.
What does that say about me?

"Man, if I see someone walking down the street alone with a smile on their face it makes me suspicious.
What does that say about me? "

Mike it says your normal,
I am the one thats not behaving normal going by observation
But there is freedom in the smile

Here is a parable to ponder on (Anthony De Mello)

A group of tourists sit in a bus that is passing through gorgeously beautiful country;
lakes and mountains and green fields and rivers.
But the shades of the bus are pulled down. They do not have the slightest idea of what lies beyond the windows of the bus. And all the time of their journey is spent squabbling over who will have the seat of honour in the bus, who will be applauded, who will be well considered. And so they remain till the journey's end.


WAKE UP

What causes unhappiness - attachment
Why is there attachment - due of Clinging
What is clinging - Clinging is composed of 2 elements a positive and a negative
The positive is the flash of pleasure and excitement
The negative is the sense of threat and tension

Our fears, beliefs and attachments create our illusionary world
The moment we pick up an attachment we are not capable of living a fearless life as our hearts are tied to the object.
Open your eyes and see where the attachment come from. You were not born with it.
A lie has been told that you will not be happy without the attachment.
If you reflect on the things you have been attached to you will realize that a day will come when this attachment does not matter and in hindsight was trivial.
No person or object outside of you has the power to make you happy or unhappy. Only you can decide whether you cling to the attachment or not.

Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves.

- Thich Nhat Hahn


"You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain;
I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.
As the peach-blossom flows down stream
and is gone into the unknown,
I have a world apart that is not among men."

- Li Po

Read an interesting article by Duncun (Baptist Head) on a technique by Rudolf Steiner on recalling past lives see
oeith.co.uk/2010/04/05/investigation-of-...-the-steiner-method/

What I found interesting is were an experience (memory) is said to progressively filter down through thought (astral) to emotion (etheric) to will (physical).

And that this has been associated with Chakras

chakra Position Body Function
ajna brow astral Thinking
anahata heart etheric emotion
manipura stomach physical will

A dog is a dog, a rock is a rock, a tree is a tree.
Everything is As It Is
except us humans who try to be something else

* I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
o Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.

The Self believes that Fear protects it
That feeling of tension from the percieved threat from an object
Aversion is like craving and clinging
it binds (attaches) you to an object
Even when you look into love you see the fear
Fear of loss or loneliness
In duality there is never yin without yang or yang without yin

How to live Fearlessly

'Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.'

- T. Adams

Dongshan said to the assembly:

'It's the beginning of autumn, the end of summer, and you people will go, some to the east and some to the west: you must go where there's not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles.'

Then he paused and said, 'But where there's not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles, how can you go?'

Shishuang said, 'Going out the gate, immediately there is grass.'

Dayang said: 'I'd say, even not going out the gate, still the grass is boundless.'

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O Living Flame of love
That so tenderly wounds
My soul in its deepest core!
As you are no longer painful,
Perfect your work in me if you so will,
Break the web of this sweet encounter.

O sweet burn!
O delicious wound!
O tender hand! O gentle touch!
Savoring of everlasting life
And paying the whole debt.
In destroying death you have changed it
into life.

O Lamps of fire,
In whose splendors
The deep caverns of sense,
Which are usually dim and dark,
with an unusual brightness
Now give light and heat to the Beloved,

How gently and how lovingly,
You lie awake in my heart,
Where you dwell secretly and alone;
And in your sweet breathing,
Full of grace and glory,
How tenderly you fill me with love

John of the Cross

That is an amazing quote by John of the Cross... thanks Jeff, I should really look into some of his writing...