On Stress
From a Discussion on Shilpan’s guest post. (now offline) Hans Selye was an early researcher into stress. He defined 2 types – distress and eustress. The second of course a positive stress like falling in …
Category: Consciousness
Happiness Everlasting
When we are kids, our parents read us ‘fairy’ stories about princes and princesses, white knights in unused armor, and happiness everlasting. The stories are a bit skewed by the message that someone or something …
Retreat Forward
Recently, Tom Stine returned from a weeks silent retreat and wrote about his experience. It reminded me of my own experiences. I’ve been on retreats as short as 2 days and as long as 6 …
Eckhart on Oprah 8
This week was the 8th of 10 classes Oprah is doing with Eckhart Tolle on his book A New Earth. They get better each week. I made notes on a few points that struck me. …
Really?
Back on Takuin, the discussion continues about being. His points drew out some further thoughts, worthwhile as a post… If the reader is ready, the message will be heard. If it reflects reality well, it …
Intention requires
Just listening to the second short free workshop by Lynne McTaggart on Intention. http://www.theintentionworkshops.com/ While they are an intro to a workshop intensive series coming, they cover some great material. In the talk she suggests …
Insight part 2
Last month, I wrote in Stroke of Insight about Jill Bolte Taylor’s conscious experience of a stroke. A fascinating presentation she gave at TED. While I disagreed with her understanding of the experience (brain hemispheres …
The evolving I
Tom has a great quote by Ramana Maharishi back on his blog. He talked about the difference between the false ‘I’ thought [idea] and the deeper true ‘I’ of absolute being. At first we seem …
What Awakes
In a discussion back at Tom’s blog, a fellow with bi-polar was asking about illness relative to spiritual progress. This turns out to be a perfect example of the difference between experience and being. If …
Group Think or Group Be
Recent discussions here illuminate something to consider, the role of the group. During the process of awakening, we lose the sense of ego, the pain body, then the whole sense of identity. The whole idea …
Eckhart on Oprah continues
This week was part 7 in the 10 part free web classes with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah. They’re really getting into the core of it now, with this weeks chat on Who you really are. …
Stages of waking
From a recent discussion on an Adyashanti retreat in comments, here. I would say people often slowly approach waking, not really sure if they are or not, then there is the switch. The change from …