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Archive for June, 2008
Amigo
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008A course in consciousness
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Enlightenment through being really annoyed…
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Ram Tzu
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Feeding your demons
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Mindful Meditations
Friday, June 20th, 2008From the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
3 minute short Body and Sound meditation. (download)
5 minutes of breathing meditation, an excellent first exposure to mindfulness. (download)
12 minutes of breath, body, and sound awareness practices. (download)
17 minutes of mindfulness of breath, body, sound, emotions, and thoughts, followed by a short loving-kindess meditation. (download)
3 minute short Loving Kindness meditation. (download)
All meditations by MARC’s Director for Mindfulness Education, Diana Winston.
Practice
Friday, June 20th, 2008[Spiritual practice] consists in nothing more than acting out of concern for others.
from Ethics for the New Millennium by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (p. 236)
(thanks Meena …)
[poem]Why poetry?
Friday, June 13th, 2008What is the point of lying in a poem?
There simply is no point.
This is why poetry resonates so strongly with humans.
Its always about truth on some level. The truth of human experience.
Is it possible to lie in a poem? Even intentionally?
All things are possible in the universe.
But not this.
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- dennis landi © 2008
The Pronoun Mythos
Friday, June 13th, 2008“I”, “me”, “myself”, “mine”, “my” are illusions of the “self”.
“You”, “your’s”, “yourself” are illusions of the “other”.
“They”, “Them” and “Their’s” are illusions of a separate “self” from the “others”
“His”, “Her” and “Its” are subdivisions of a subdivision of an illusion.
“We”, “us”, “ours” is only true in if there is no “other”.
Therefore We are One or We are Nothing. We are Everything or we are Nothingness.
We are not Nothingness.
We are One. I am One. You are One.
One is.
There is only one true Pronoun regardless of its Name.
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- dennis landi © 2008
[poem] I am thou
Friday, June 13th, 2008I am this because of that.
I am that because of this.
I am in that. This is in me.
I am in this. That is in me.
My mind is in that. This is my mind.
My body is in that. This is my body.
When this body dies, I am in that.
When that body dies, I am in this.
When this mind dies, that mind does not.
I am not that if I am not also this.
This is not me if that is not me.
I am not, if you are not.
I am you and you are me.
We are not this if we are not also that.
We are in me, and we are in you.
I am us and you are us.
I am thou.
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- dennis landi © 2008
