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August 17, 2016
I Love Your Silence! : By Helene Perrin Averous
The silence of the sage is a far cry from sulky adolescent silence or the cold war that often rages in families….the silence of a sage is a powerful force that can shift karma and aid in the transformation of a suffering human into a being of light…here is Helene Perrin Averous’ beautiful poem – yes, we all love Ramana Maharshi’s silence…the silence of a mind that has spread across the cosmos. Thank you for sharing, Harsh Luthar!
Bhagavan Ramana
This world is full of words
spewed out in excitement
creating noise and confusion.
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11 Mysterious Photos And The Real Stories Behind Them
Poignant, mysterious, lovely…take a look! Thank you for sharing these wonderful images, alk3r!
The whales at Thorntonloch, Scotland in 1950. “I was 11 when I went to see the whales stranded on Thorntonloch beach. There were 147 pilot whales, the largest beaching in Scotland, and no one had any idea why they were there.
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August 16, 2016
RIO2016 Street Art
Rio Street Art – bright, colorful, striking! Thanks Alk3r!
Coincidicing with Rio’s 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra painted a 190-meter long wall in the city’s former port area. Entitled ‘Etnias’, the 3,000 square meters large mural shows five faces from five continents, relating to the olympic rings.
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Things To Remember When People You Love Leave
“Don’t mistake loneliness for missing someone you loved. They hurt you and if you keep running back to that burning building, loving them will kill you.”
I too wrote a post on this subject, in a different vein, because I see so many destroying their precious lives over what has already passed… https://miraprabhu.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/rejection-is-gods-protection/
Thank you for this profound post, Veronike, and Robert Wertzler, for sharing!
Lovelies,
Maybe today you are hurting just as much as I am. Maybe a partner, friend or family member took your heart and shredded it then walked away on the dirt they left it in and you’re left to pick up the pieces. Maybe you feel worthless and the pain overwhelms you. But I want you to remember a few things…
Pain is real but so is hope.
There are going to be very painful moments in your life that will change your entire world in a matter of minutes.These moments will change YOU. Let them make you stronger, smarter and kinder. But don’t go and become someone you’re not. Cry. Scream if you have to. Then you straighten out that crown and keep on moving.
Don’t mistake loneliness for missing someone you loved. They hurt you and if you keep running back to that burning building, loving them will…
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August 14, 2016
THAT INFURIATING PATTERN FROM HELL!!!
Well, so this is the last day you can NOMINATE my mystical novel
Krishna’s Counsel
for inclusion on the Kindle Scout list:( https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5 ), so, if you haven’t already done so, please do!Even as I make this request, I’m watching a pattern rise up from subterranean depths—only this time I’m watching it with amused curiosity. And why is this? Because, many years ago a brilliant Tantrik guru (Harish Johari) gave me a piece of advice: He said that all I had to do to penetrate the great mystery of who I AM beyond body and mind was to keep watching the insidious antics of my egoic self or mini-me. Just following his perceptive advice has gifted me with an increasing ability to simply witness life as it flows.
So what is this infuriating pattern, you ask? A reluctance to ask for help—not because I am an equanimous yogini, but because my ego does not care to be refused! Since I am pretty cool about how things turn out, this is an amazing experience. So, while I would love for you to nominate Krishna’s Counsel, I am also aware that things happen in their own time and with good reason. (In fact, had my earlier yearnings been satisfied, I would most likely not be living in this mountain town and diving into Ramana Maharshi’s powerful Direct Path of Self-Investigation—and this has convinced me that all that happens, happens for our ultimate good.)
Yes, that counsel delivered to me by that guru as I walked with him through fields of gold in rural Vermont has stood me in fabulous stead—for gradually it led me to Ramana’s path, which helps us shatter the false edifice of mini-me so we can merge into the luminous substratum of our being. For me, this process involves both what I call relative investigation as well as investigation into our Absolute Self, for without the first, the second cannot take place. And a powerful way to perform this is to detect the insidious patterns the run our behavior; simply witnessing these patterns dissolves them, sometimes fast sometimes slow, but the dissolution is inevitable and leads to increasing peace and happiness.
Carolyn Myss speaks of humans being conditioned to play a multitude of roles, negative and positive, all of which somehow gratify the ego. Some roles appear to be grand and unselfish—such as playing the savior, martyr or dutiful and loyal spouse, son, daughter, friend, et cetera, and each role involves the unfolding of a pattern, often ancient, for it comes not just from this lifetime, but from past ones.
In eastern terms, this pattern could be termed a ‘vasana’ or trace impression left on our consciousness that is triggered by some current event or emotion. A vasana can be brief in duration, can run its course over a lifetime/lifetimes, and its effects can range all the way from mild upset to total ruination, as in the case of a serious addiction to intoxicants, which has destroyed the spirits of millions.
Now here’s another pattern I’m watching: I meet someone I feel could use my help, generally someone in bad financial straits or in an emotional mess. I believe I can clearly see what this human needs to do in order to correct the situation and oh, how I yearn for them to rise like a phoenix into light and make something magical of their precious lives! It’s so simple, I say, just listen to me! I go out of my way to support them—until one day the egoic blinders fall off my mortal eyes and I see that my help has been misguided—often because that person is either incapable or unwilling to transform their own negative patterns; at this stage of the game, I inevitably experience a sharp disappointment and want to drop this person like a hot potato.
Whose fault is this scenario? Clearly mine! It is I who suffer the savior complex and I who decide I am going to help and so on. Yes, hard to stomach, but the entire drama begins and ends with mini-me!
What does investigating a pattern or vasana involve? First of all, AWARENESS—the ability to look unflinchingly at who we are in the relative sense, and this can be agonizing. Second it involves ACCEPTING that this pattern is part of our relative nature and that there is nothing to be ashamed of—none of us would be here if we did not have critical work to do! Third, awareness and acceptance organically lead to ACTION—whether that action is a shift in consciousness, the making of amends, or a new behavior that serves our higher Self.
Another pattern seemingly endemic on our planet today is infatuation, or what is commonly known as ‘falling in love.’ Millions are caught in its snare simply because they mistake it for something much more profound. Most often, we ‘fall in love’ with someone based on a transient attraction to body and mind. Then the scales fall and the infatuated one experiences disappointment followed by anger and sadness. What the no-longer-infatuated-one does not care to see is that he has projected his desires and dreams on to the object of his infatuation and is therefore responsible for the effects! Instead of acknowledging that the root of the problem lies within, the serial infatuation addict will often break off the relationship and blame the ‘other’ for the break-up, then sally off to find his or her next victim, never once seeking the source of the pattern.
Fortunately all such patterns can be broken by the practice of investigation. If there is grace, one begins to grow up—and in the case of infatuation, for instance, the realization may strike that what we have taken for love is no more than a delusional egoic projection. For real love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. Love sees both dark and light and loves anyway. Love deepens over time—it does not flip over and die when the inevitable stresses of life pound on the relationship.
Why should we be ruthless about investigating our little selves? Because as each pattern arises into awareness, it dissolves and thereby weakens the egoic mind; eventually, the immortal and blissful Self is revealed as our true nature and we are finally home.
Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva in the form of a sacred hill, who vows to destroy all that blocks us from knowing the luminous peace that is our luminous birthright!
On Listening to Schizophrenia
Mental illness – a dis-ease we will all, at some point in our lives, have to encounter, either in ourselves or in another…valuable advice here…thank you, Robert Wertzler, for addressing a vital issue!
I have written elsewhere on the subject of listening to those afflicted with mental illness, especially to those diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder without the assumption that they do not or cannot make sense. In his own account of his psychosis, treatment, and recovery, John Perceval, an English gentleman who became psychotic in 1830 puts the case more clearly than I can:
That need to be understood, or at least for someone to be willing to listen and to try to understand is universal. Someone in the throes of psychosis, or depression, or anxiety, or flashback of PTSD, or mania is no different. Another thing which Mr. Perceval makes clear in his account in his very detailed telling of his hallucinations and delusions, and how he was dealt with by others, is that he remembered all of it. I think that too often when someone is seen as not…
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“Well, he set me on the trail,” the lawyer said smugly.
Day 29 of a 30-day viewing of
Krishna’s Counsel
on Kindle Scout!
N
ominate
Krishna’s Counsel
,
and if Kindle Scout takes it on, you will not only get a free version but you will also warm the cockles of my heart.
P
lease click on this
link below
—
and
if you like what you see, be kind enough to nominate me:
https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5
.
Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 29:
“Well, he set me on the trail,” Mr. Saldanha said smugly. “I’d done this before, you see, tracked down the runaway son of one of our politicians. Chap had stolen a good amount from his father and flown to Thailand. I caught him on a splendid Koh Samui beach with a boy-toy, hermaphrodite, transvestite, transgender, whatever, it’s hard to keep up with the new lingo.” He shot her a sideways glance. “Your father said you loved the ancient arts of India. You’ll be happy to know I consulted a Vedic astrologer to get me started on your case.”
“Really?” Pia exclaimed.
Please do me the massive favor of visiting my campaign page to NOMINATE this mystical thriller! You would also make my day if you share or reblog this post. Here again is the link: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5 .
Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva in the form of a hill, who challenges us to fight our own darkness so we can realize our awesome divine potential!
August 13, 2016
Where writers get their ideas – John Gardner QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
“…this is the clay the artist must shape into an object worthy of our attention; that is, our tears, our laughter, our thought.” John Gardner was a great inspiration to me when I began writing seriously…thank you for a great post, Bridget Whelan!
Out of the artist’s imagination, as out of nature’s inexhaustible well, pours one thing after another. The artist composes, writes, or paints just as he dreams, seizing whatever swims close to the net. This shimmering mess of loves and hates — fishing trips taken long ago with Uncle Ralph, a 1940 green Chevrolet, a war, a vague sense of what makes a novel, a symphony, a photograph — this is the clay the artist must shape into an object worthy of our attention; that is, our tears, our laughter, our thought.”
John Gardner
Getting Through November
“In the The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche writes, “Sometimes I think that the greatest achievement of modern culture is its brilliant selling of samsara and its barren distractions. Modem society seems to me a celebration of all the things that lead away from the truth, make truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists. And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy,” but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.” Yes, indeed, it takes a sharp and willing mind to slice through the fog that we seem to be enveloped in as a species…thanks for a great post!!!
Someday, I may get over this fiasco of a presidential race, but right now, I am heartbroken over what I see it doing to the people of this nation. It’s only March and I sense the level of chaos and hatred rising exponentially. It’s wreaking havoc as eons of unresolved rage rises to the surface. Collectively, we are moving towards a tipping point and to be honest, I don’t have a clue what that will look like.
Suddenly, this weekend, A Return To Love crept into my meditation. Specifically, where Marianne Williamson writes about the Garden of Eden and God causing man to fall asleep and no where do we find him waking-up. I began to soften instead of polarize and what rose to the surface was, “The world changes when we change, the world softens when we soften.” and “We’re asleep.”
Asleep! SAMSARA (asleep to reality, separation) which arises out of…
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“Men are truly from Mars, I guess; I bet a smart woman would have caught on quickly.”
Day 28 of a 30-day viewing of
Krishna’s Counsel
on Kindle Scout!
N
ominate
Krishna’s Counsel
,
and if Kindle Scout takes it on, you will not only get a free version but you will also warm the cockles of my heart.
P
lease click on this
link below
—
and
if you like what you see, be kind enough to nominate me:
https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5
.
Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 28:
“They’d been at it for months, even right under my nose, when I made it back on short trips,” he added dourly. “But, as she made it a point to tell me later, I was too self-absorbed to take note.” He gave Pia a faint smile. “Funny how dense we men can be…looking back there were so many signs—a renewed interest in ultra-feminine attire, visits to the salon, et cetera, all of which she’d pretty much given up, perhaps because our relationship had fallen into the doldrums. She’d even insisted on separate bedrooms, and still I didn’t click.” His words were tinged with bitterness. “Men are truly from Mars, I guess; I bet a smart woman would have caught on quickly.”
She opened her mouth to agree he’d been a fool then shut it; loose lips were known both to sink ships and to destroy relationships, and this fledgling bond was already precious to her.
Please do me the massive favor of visiting my campaign page to NOMINATE this mystical thriller! You would also make my day if you share or reblog this post. Here again is the link: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/11AA1JA16VAV5 .
Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva in the form of a hill, who challenges us to fight our own darkness so we can realize our awesome divine potential!
