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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Loads more interesting reading over he weekend ...

Visualisation exercise compassion

Amazing universe

Great tennis rallies of Federer Nadal

Amazing dog tricks

Youtube state of the kid

Pema Chodron foundation articles

Christmas Carols - various - one is over 3 and a half hours!

More to folllow ...
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Rest in peace Brussat spiritual perspective

Cracking the happiness code

More Tiny Buddha - interviews!

Spiritual friendship

Pema Chodron quotes (good reads)

Google a couple of her best?

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.”

~ Pema Chodron

Much more at this site -

Pema Chödrön Quotes (Author of When Things Fall Apart)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my emails -

The beginner’s mind is an open mind, an empty mind, a ready mind, and if we really listen with a beginner’s mind, we might really begin to hear. For if we listen with a silent mind, as free as possible from the clamor of preconceived ideas, a possibility will be created for the truth of the teachings to pierce us, and for the meaning of life and death to become increasingly and startlingly clear.

My master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche said: “The more and more you listen, the more and more you hear; the more and more you hear, the deeper and deeper your understanding becomes.”
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More from that site -

For meditation to happen, calm and auspicious conditions have to be created. Before we have mastery over our minds, we need first to calm their environment.

At the moment, our minds are like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will burn steadily only when we can calm the air around it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions. On the other hand, once we have found a stability in our meditation, noises and disturbances of every kind will have far less impact.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my emails -

We may say, and even half-believe, that compassion is marvelous, but in practice our actions are deeply uncompassionate and bring us and others mostly frustration and distress, and not the happiness we are all seeking.

Isn’t it absurd that we all long for happiness, yet nearly all our actions and feelings lead us directly away from that happiness?

What do we imagine will make us happy? A canny, self-seeking, resourceful selfishness, the selfish protection of ego, which can as we all know, make us at moments extremely brutal. But in fact the complete reverse is true: Self-grasping and self-cherishing are seen, when you really look at them, to be the root of all harm to others, and also of all harm to ourselves.
 
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