Archive for the 'Body & Spirit' Category
The Duality of Pain And Pleasure
Our materialistic world is full of dualities and contradictions. Without Pain we know not of Pleasure. Only when we welcome Pain, we know and [...]
Impure Mind
“Impure mind is a past master in creating false grounds for continuing its present state of Being.”
Wisdom of Tao I Ching
Ambition
Those who wish to change the world
According with their desire
cannot succeed.
The world is shaped by the Way;
It cannot be shaped by the self.
Trying to change it, you damage it;
Trying to possess it, you lose it.
So some will lead, while others follow.
Some will be warm, others cold
Some will be strong, [...]
“The mind is like a parachute – it works only when it is open.”
The Dalai Lama
Pranayama (Sanskrit: prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit word often translated as control of the life force (prana). When used as a technical term in yoga, it is often translated more specifically as “breath control.” Literal translations include A. A. Macdonell’s “suspension of breath” and I. K. Taimni’s “regulation of breath.”
Pranayama (Devanagari: prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit compound.
V. [...]
Inner Child
Think about this -
“Being” takes precedence over “Doing.” An infant or a young child is always in Being. We adult filter messages and stimuli all the time that [...]
A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet.
She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully.
Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes.
Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on [...]
3900 Saturdays And 1,000 Marbles
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it’s the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.
A few weeks [...]
The event is nothing;
The respond is everything.
We do have a choice;
We can’t change the event but we can change our perception.
An event is always in the past tense. Do we want to live the past? It’s gone. That event coming back will not be exactly the same. Just like water in a flowing river, that [...]




