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Obviously I have way too much free-time!

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Library Jan 21st!

Curious link for the guide2! - mindful.org curious?

Let's get curious - a great site! - do a thread!!

Meditation Tips for People Who Don’t (Yet) Like to Meditate

Meditation Is Not Boring! - page also has a few books!

Transforming problems into happiness

become your own therapist

Ways to Create Good Karma

Before reading this article, take a few deep breaths and relax a bit. This article is not written to your intellect. It is addressed to someone deeper within you. Read slowly. Do your best to just read it without judgment, and soon you will begin to feel the real possibility for the transformation you have been seeking.

Click here for the full article!

Scientific Reasons to Start Meditating Today

Communicate with your higher self

Communicating and Working With Your Higher Self and Angelic Guides

Meditation awakening - and the suggestions google comes up with ... for example -

Excellent article - all about spiritual awakening! - yet to fully explore!

PASTE the above into spare time?? plus schizo??
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my InBox -

Our minds can be wonderful, but at the same time they can be our very worst enemy. They give us so much trouble. Sometimes I wish the mind were like a set of dentures, which we could take out and leave on our bedside table overnight. At least we would get a break from its tiring and tiresome escapades.

We are so at the mercy of our minds that even when we find that the spiritual teachings strike a chord inside us, and move us more than anything we have ever experienced, still we hold back, because of some deep-seated and inexplicable suspicion.

Somewhere along the line, though, we have to stop mistrusting. We have to let go of the suspicion and doubt, which are supposed to protect us but never work, and only end up hurting us even more than what they are supposed to defend us from.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From my InBox -

Imagine a person who suddenly wakes up in the hospital after an automobile accident to find that she is suffering from total amnesia. Outwardly, everything is intact: She has the same face and form, her senses and her mind are there, but she doesn’t have any idea or any trace of a memory of who she really is.

In exactly the same way, we cannot remember our true identity, our original nature. Frantically, and in real dread, we cast around and improvise another identity, one we clutch with all the desperation of someone falling continuously into an abyss. This false and ignorantly assumed identity is “ego.”
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From that glimpse of the day email -

Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean.

In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of the very nature of the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they dissolve? Back into the mind. Whatever rises, do not see it as a particular problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you are only patient, it will once again settle into its essential nature.

When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family of your mind. Before them, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”
 
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