Observe your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become acts. Understand your acts, for they become habits. Study your habits, for...
... Yo Aideen, Thanks for sharing this. It reminded me of one of my favorite Swami Sivananda sayings that went something like: "Before any actions, there are...
Greetings all! I have recently become acquainted with a teacher on the Facebook Sangha named Lin Zi Quan who has written some exemplary works. One of them,...
Thanks for both links, Ted. I love the way you talked about the functions of a belt. Until quite recently, I was living in a “Bible Belt” & although...
Thanks for that, Sean. I was vaguely searching my mind for that reference as I was typing, & it wouldn’t come to me. I think it’s ignorance, rather than...
... that a ... they ... only serve ... only want ... tolerance. ... much of ... You're welcome, Aideen. The easiest way to grasp how people think around here...
... florish is for good men to do nothing. Sean, I used to have that quote on the header of a website I used to have up for an online publication I toyed with....
I asked a methodist minister his take on pacifism and action, he talked about the story of Jesus and the money changers in the temple, the ministry said that...
... talked about the story of Jesus and the money changers in the temple, the ministry said that some offences are so great they just need to be stopped! ... ...
I don't think the minister was equating violence with action, you had given great examples of non violent action I personally suffer from the guilt of non...
The value of meditation, or the act of meditating, may be seen as too passive in light of the overt and obvious damage of warfare and environmental neglect and...
... had given great examples of non violent action ... volitial time in history, the fact is I am caught up in the struggle for survival like everyone else....
Well Ted I decided to go back to school and eventualy study law. I realized as long as I work with my body I will always be subject to the will and intent of...
... realized as long as I work with my body I will always be subject to the will and intent of those above me(harder to practice the ZRight Livelyhood.) Also...
In alt.meditation.transcendental, John Manning <jrobertm@...> wrote: "Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to...
... it is ... Yo Sri Bruceji, Thanks for sharing these (last) words of the Buddha. While reading them, I was listening to the Daily News Live show on Comcast...
Baseball has always been a spiritual metaphor Ask Jack Kerouac medit8ionsociety <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ... it is ... Yo Sri Bruceji, Thanks for...
... With other words: It must be realized. But then it is not just a 'belief'. It is not a concept or an adapted attitude. The real problem is that whatever is...
HI, yesterday i read a news... that some churches in England banned ''YOG TEACHING'' i was really surprised... is it good work? or churches do not know the...
Yo Sri Raj, There will probably never be a time when some "religious" group doesn't try to boost itself by putting down some other path. In this case, it's...
Some churches ban pepper, some churches ban coffee, other churches ban short pants. But in England as well as America church participation is voluntary and if...
In answer to an email that asked "What should I meditate on?", we had directed a member to this technique that appears in the Concepts of Meditation section on...
That is fantastic! medit8ionsociety <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: In answer to an email that asked "What should I meditate on?", we had directed a...
So yesterday I'm talking with one of the nurses I work with about food as she has discovered that her migraines, skin rash, recent large weight loss and all...
"The spiritual path is itself a great secret. The little Japa that you do, the scriptures that you read, the audience that you hold and whatever you appear to...