| “We can look at the process of realization from the perspective of transcendence or from the perspective of embodiment. When people talk about getting rid of the ego, they’re talking about a transcendent experience. It is possible to transcend the personality or the ego, or even physical existence. However, there is a more difficult process which leads to the state of embodiment of reality. Rather than simply transcending the personality or physical existence, this state involves actually embodying essential existence in one’s life.”
– A. H. Almaas, Diamond Heart Book Four, Chapter 1
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| Developing Our Skillfulness
Because each of us is trapped in the system of interconnectedness by our own actions, only we, as individuals, can break out by acting in increasingly skillful ways. The Buddha and members of the noble sangha can show us the way, but actual skillfulness is something we have to develop on our own.
– Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “We Are Not One “
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| 6 Steps Of Yoga Practice |
 Swami Veda Bharati, together with Swami Rama were my first yoga teachers in the early 1970’s. Swami Rama passed away in 1996 and Swami Veda Bharati is now the leader of the Himalayan Tradition of Yoga and Meditation in Rishikesh, India. Just over seven years ago, I re-establishe … |
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| Awareness Breaks the Spell
Seeing attachment, aversion, expectation, and disappointment as they arise allows the mind to understand and to disengage from them. Awareness breaks the spell; the mind is no longer enchanted when we see the defilement for what it is. When a defilement has no hold on the mind, suffering ceases.
– Steve Armstrong, “Got Attitude?”
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| What Gives Rise To Human Dignity And Nobility? |
 I just found this interesting book by Venerable Dr. K Sri Dhammananda Thero. He was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar in the Theravada tradition who lived between 1919 and 2006. He lived mostly in Malaysia and Singapore. There are many books to his credit. I stumbled acros … |
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| When we are unconditionally kind and present, we directly dissolve the trance of unworthiness and separation. In accepting the waves of thought and feeling that arise and pass away, we realize our deepest nature, our original nature, as a boundless sea of wakefulness and love.
– Tara Brach, Mindfulness Daily
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| Mindfulness – The Movie With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh |
 Mindfulness – The Movie with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) is in the final stages of production. The movie is the work of Larry Kasanoff, the producer of True Lies and Mortal Kombat and other violent films. After meeting Thay, Larr … |
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| Closely Inspecting Experience
To see things as they are is to unearth our hidden assumptions about ourselves and our world, to bring them into the light of full consciousness, and to notice how, on close inspection, these assumptions often contradict our actual experience.
– C. W. Huntington, Jr., Jr., “Seeing Things as They Are “
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| Everything Is Workable And Lovable |
 Here is yet another selection of Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das. This quote is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche who I met in 1971. Who knew he would become such a driving force in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the west. <strong style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left; t … |
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| We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Daily Peace Quote
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| Brand New trial plan from Christie Marie’s Unlimited Abundance |
 Quick update. Christie’s post-Masterclass sale on the Unlimited Abundance Program ended last Wednesday. BUT… due to numerous requests from fans… She’s re-opening it with an incredible new trial plan that’ll be available for next 3 days. See the full details here >>& … |
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| Conscious Love
When we use our attention to touch and open the deeper truth in a person, we not only catalyze the experience of love, we become love. The source of love is revealed to be within us; we no longer have to go looking for it somewhere outside.
– Nicole Daedone, “Love Becomes Her”
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| Gabrielle Bernstein Awakens Your Authentic Power |
 In this video, Gabrielle Bernstein awakens your authentic power. This took place at the Mindvalley Awesomenes Fest. Gabrielle Bernstein is a renowned author, speaker, yogi, and self-proclaimed “spiritual junkie”, and her incredibly motivating presentation touches on key … |
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| It is from the oppression of your programming that you need to be liberated. Only then will you experience that inner freedom from which alone all social revolution must arise. For the passion that arises in your heart at the sight of social evils, and impels you to action, will have its origin in reality, not in your programming or ego.
– Anthony De Mello, Daily Peace Quote
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| Mindfulness – The Movie With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Mindfulness – The Movie with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) is in the final stages of production. The movie is the work of Larry Kasanoff, the producer of True Lies and Mortal Kombat and other violent films. After meeting Thay, Larr … |
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| There is nothing more important than compassion. Nothing. There is nothing that needs to be done, nothing that needs to be improved, not if the price we must pay is to lose compassion.
– Cheri Huber, Daily Peace Quote
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| 26 Lessons from Gandhi |
 Here is another article from the lovely Luminita Saviuc, a former Mindvalley person. In this her article, she listed 26 lessons from Gandhi and commented on each one. I am just going to quote the lessons and you can view her comments on the 26 life changing lessons from Mahatma … |
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I first met Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1972 at the Lama Foundation near Taos, New Mexico. I was there with my ex-wife and son and Zalman also had a young son. The two boys ran around the compound and had a lot of fun. Alan Ginsberg was also there I think with Bhagwan Das. …
