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Obviously I have way too much free-time!

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From another email I just checked -

When you are practicing meditation, it’s important not to get involved in mental commentary, analysis, or internal gossip. Do not mistake the running commentary in your mind (“Now I’m breathing in, now I’m breathing out”) for mindfulness; what is important is pure presence.

Don’t concentrate too much on the breath; give it about 25 percent of your attention, with the other 75 percent quietly and spaciously relaxed. As you become more mindful of your breathing, you will find that you become more and more present, gather all your scattered aspects back into yourself, and become whole.

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Also had a shopping trip and so much in gold coins I just on impulse popped into the newsagent to see if they had any interesting mags ...

Purchased "Scientific American science of dogs and cats"

Already a couple of searches plus facts about humans emotions and their pets ...

Read only a small portion but already! ---->

Amazing facts about dogs

Amazing stories about dogs

Trivia dog Hachiko

Wonderful stories about pets

Stories therapy dogs (animals)

Can animals aid therapy

Pets relieve stress

Daisy Yuhas

Pet survey (Scientific American)

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Dont-expect-everyone-to-understand-your-journey.jpg


More here -

Don't expect everyone to understand your journey - Enlightening Quotes

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Also a spot of reading -

Mary - loyalty is still a concept & most Buddhists believe true liberation comes only once you free the human mind of it's concepts ....

Plus these searches -

Expand your mind

Ways to increase brain power

Develop good habits kindness

Kindness videos for home computer and the gang?

Cheers
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From an old email -

For us to survive on the spiritual path, there are many challenges to face, and there is much to learn. We have to discover how to deal with obstacles and difficulties; how to process doubts and see through wrong views; how to inspire ourselves when we least feel like it; how to understand ourselves and our moods; how really to work with and integrate the teachings and practices; how to evoke compassion and enact it in life; and how to transform our suffering and emotions.

On the spiritual path, all of us need the support and the good foundation that come from really knowing the teachings, and this cannot be stressed strongly enough. For the more we study and practice, the more we shall embody discernment, clarity, and insight. Then, when the truth comes knocking, we will know it, with certainty, for what it is, and gladly open the door, because we’ll have guessed that it may well be the truth of who we really are.

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“If this is so, then the distinction between scientists, poets, painters, and writers is not clear. In fact, it is possible that scientists, poets, painters, and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call commonplace and to re-present them to us in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded. Those people in whom this gift is especially pronounced, we call geniuses.”

~ Gary Zukav

beliefs Archives - Tiny Buddha

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More reading -

Evoking the power of compassion in us is not always easy. I find myself that the simplest ways are the best and the most direct. Every day, life gives us innumerable chances to open our hearts, if we can only take them. An old woman passes you with a sad and lonely face and two heavy plastic bags full of shopping she can hardly carry. Switch on a television, and there on the news is a mother in Beirut kneeling above the body of her murdered son, or an old grandmother in Moscow pointing to the thin soup that is her only food. . . .

Any one of these sights could open the eyes of your heart to the fact of vast suffering in the world. Let it. Don’t waste the love and grief it arouses. In the moment you feel compassion welling up in you, don’t brush it aside, don’t shrug it off and try quickly to return to “normal,” don’t be afraid of your feeling or be embarrassed by it, and don’t allow yourself to be distracted from it. Be vulnerable: Use that quick, bright uprush of compassion—focus on it, go deep into your heart and meditate on it, develop it, enhance and deepen it. By doing this you will realize how blind you have been to suffering.

All beings, everywhere, suffer; let your heart go out to them all in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

15: The Cute Diamond | Chicken Soup for the Soul

From another email -

Is karma really so hard to see in operation? Don’t we only have to look back at our own lives to see clearly the consequences of some of our actions? When we upset or hurt someone, didn’t it rebound on us? Were we not left with a bitter and dark memory, and the shadows of self-disgust? That memory and those shadows are karma. Our habits and our fears too are also due to karma, the results of our past actions, words, and thoughts. If we examine our actions, and become really mindful of them, we will see that there is a pattern that repeats itself. Whenever we act negatively, it leads to pain and suffering; whenever we act positively, it eventually results in happiness.

Cheers!
 
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