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- ISmile197 - Just What?
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:00:31 +0000
"The whole point of this practice is not about making sense, nor is it about not making sense." - ISmile196 - Seeing Our Negativity Is Our Freedom From It (8mb)
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:00:41 +0000
"This simple feeling of openness to exactly what is going on whether we like it or not is a direct path to awakening." - Video: Adyashanti
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:00:08 +0000
"Look at what is really true." - Video: Eckhart Tolle
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:00:50 +0000
"You are the space." - ISmile195 - Karmic Activity (33mb)
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:00:35 +0000
"Karmic activity is what gets in the way of Enlightenment." - Video: J. Krishnamurthi
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:00:09 +0000
"What is a fact? Really. What is a fact?" - ISmile194 - Lafayette ITP Group (50mb)
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:30:31 +0000
"As we look at this process from a high enough altitude, we see that there is nothing we can point to that is not Spirit." - Video: Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:40:11 +0000
Amazing, watching my teacher's teacher teach the Sandokai. - ISmile193 - Infinite Choice (33mb)
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:00:53 +0000
"The quiet and elegant decision to commit to a stillness practice supports an ever-deepening ability to choose our Path." - Video: Sri Ramana Maharshi / Ram Dass
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:00:26 +0000
"Find the source of the self." - ISmile192 - The Divine Boo-Boo (34mb)
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:00:08 +0000
If there is an 'I' experiencing the Now, it's not the Now. - Video: Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:00:49 +0000
"The greatest guru is your inner self." - Meditation Basics
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:10:36 +0000
From YouTube - Approaching Zazen (seated meditation) - ISmile191 - Getting Past States (17mb)
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:42:55 +0000
"If our energy is focused on what is... then we can get past the space of states." - Being Your Own Therapist
Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:25:46 +0000
You might like this talk. - Go Vote
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:31:33 +0000
A reader forwarded me a letter sent out by Gangaji to her followers recently. Dear Sangha, In 1947 India was in extreme crisis. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were killing each other. Enforced mass migration was causing anger, fear, and despair. The country was [...] - Still working on a site fix
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:22:43 +0000
We're still reeling a bit from the site problems we've been having. Stay tuned as they should be fixed soon. Happy Halloween. - Off to Mt. Madonna
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:37:52 +0000
For the next few days, 25 people will be joining me for what should be a marvelous time at Mt. Madonna Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Photos to follow. Bows, M - Oops?
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:40:46 +0000
Friends, We are currently in the midst of a rather major series of problems with the website. Kind of a surprise to all of us, but it's good for our practice. Hopefully things will be back to normal within the week. Bows, Michael - ISmile190 - Back From Silence (37mb)
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:47:46 +0000
"The deep silence reminded me of how difficult this practice can be." - Off to sit?
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:10:29 +0000
For the next week I will be quieting down at a seven-day meditation retreat called a sesshin in Zen parlance. I'm looking forward to it but will miss my wife, my daughter, and my morning runs with my dog. - Discussions of Ken Wilber
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:13:29 +0000
I?ve enjoyed the controversy surrounding the Ken Wilber camp over the past few years. Some people worship Wilber, others can neither tolerate his personality nor his work. Situations like this breed attachment and attachment always leads to interesting situations. As far as I?m concerned, Wilber has had a significant impact on both the pedagogy and curricular [...] - ISmile189 - Perpetual Rest in the Fire of Life (4mb)
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:00:49 +0000
"When we recognize that we are never separate from the Big Self, or Deeper Self, that has always been, we find that the small self is nothing more than an incomplete extension of Truth." - A Zen Retreat, A Buddhist Farm Offers A Place Away From Money, Stress And BlackBerrys - CBS News
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:52:54 +0000
This was a nice surprise. On CBS Sunday Morning, Green Gulch Farm was featured as a way to escape. Of course, if you?re really doing the practice, it?s not about escape, but about facing everything and avoiding nothing. (p.201) Read the article here. Share/Save/Bookmark - ISmile188 - Recognizing the One in the Many (7mb)
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:35 +0000
"When we open ourselves to the 'Four A's' we are aware, accepting, available, and authentic, we can recognize the One in the many." - Obama?s Church Search - Lama Surya Das
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:26:28 +0000
In this clip, Stephen Colbert asks Lama Surya Das if it would be hard for Barack Obama to convert from a secret Muslim to a Buddhist. - Now that the fire has passed - Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:18:49 +0000
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center's director, David Zimmerman writes his account of the fire that nearly consumed his temple. Click here to read the full update. - What about tradition? (from: Awake in This Life)
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:11:15 +0000
This link regarding the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa, from AwakeinThisLife.com, is worth a look. Click here for the video clip - David Deida - Exploring Sexual Stages with Buddhists (9mb)
Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:10:32 +0000
David Deida is very controversial. I often find him to be quite stuck in all sorts of ways. He can be crude, brutal, and at the same time insightful. Take him or leave him, you still might find this audio clip interesting. In it, Deida explains how the three major schools of Buddhist thought reflect [...] - ISmile187 - Uncovering True Beauty in the Middle of Hell (39mb)
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:25:44 +0000
"The minute we see ourselves in others and others in ourselves, we move into the space of true beauty from the contracted space of hell." - ISmile186 - Avoidance, Obsession & Presence (37mb)
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:00:28 +0000
"What does it mean to really contemplate our own mortality?" - ISmile185 - How the Awakened Move in the World (7mb)
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:00:37 +0000
"There is nothing we need to do in order to walk in the world with Awakened steps. There is, however, a lot we need to undo." - Still Suffering
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:43:24 +0000
Blogger Andrew Sullivan offers this post from James Wood's review of Bart D. Ehrman?s God?s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question?Why We Suffer: Heaven, one of the tenderest verses in the Bible has it, is where God will wipe away all tears from our faces. In her novel ?Gilead,? Marilynne Robinson [...] - ISmile184 - Herding Oxes (46mb)
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:00:53 +0000
"While Awakening is not a linear process, the Ten Oxherding pictures are a great guide for how we can map the process of Awakening." - ISmile183 - Welcoming Negativity (39mb)
Mon, 26 May 2008 07:00:18 +0000
"In stillness practices, where we face our lives fully, the negativity that we experience points us directly into the heart of Awakening." - ISmile182 - No Thing, No One (35mb)
Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:27 +0000
"A good teacher never lets your ego play its usual games." - ISmile181 - The Soft Smile (42mb)
Thu, 01 May 2008 22:00:34 +0000
"When we meet situations without flinching, we can operate from places of surrender... and this changes everything." - ISmile180 - Free of All Stories (34mb)
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:47 +0000
"When we adhere to roles, opinions, convictions, or anything else we are simply attaching to stories." - ISmile179 - Bringing It All Home (8mb)
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:35:26 +0000
"I'm on this Path just like you. So are all teachers. Please remember this." - ISmile178 - When Buddha is Killed (37mb)
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:01 +0000
At the essence of what we're doing, we are uncovering what has always been right here.
