I suppose this is when I have to say thank you Leo for the wonderful forum and space you gave me; during the past year, it has been fun interacting with all of you too... Thank you Leo!!! http://www.bbqchickenrobot.com/uploaded_images/poppies-747641.jpg Kali P.S.: I am missing all of you already!!

Dear People I'm ready to close the forum, but I'll let it run for another week, so that those who want to keep in touch with each other can make arangements. http://shophollywood.la/storefront/images/thats%20all%20folks.jpg thank you Leo and all the members for the lovely time and nice memories...e...

"All" and "everything" are attempts by the conceptual mind to step outside of the delusional dream of separation. When in truth the dream, the conceptual overlay , and the phantom are the same phenomenon. Consciousness becomes aware of itself through the naming of perceptions and a pseudo entity em...

toombaru wrote:
It is a mere blink away.



toombaru

and in a mere blink ...all the memories are gone too....

Kali

There is a Buddha here...now you see ...now you don't...





Kali

"Things" have no existence in them selves. Saying that everything is one thing is like saying that every shadow is one big shadow......or every mirage is one big mirage. A bunch of things that do not exist cannot be joined to make one big thing. toombaru Could All - rather than Everything - be a On...

toombaru wrote:An indifferent God.

A vicious God.

No God at all.




(I prefer the latter)




toombaru

Preferencing ....happens....

Kali

Sogyal Rinpoche: " I am going to attempt now to give some sense of what the View is like and how it feels when the Rigpa is directly revealed,... "That moment is like taking a hood off your head. What boundless spaciousness and relief! .......When you "see what was not seen before," everything open...

Very nice Anna!

And Happy New Year to You!

Kali

empty-and-full wrote: The article posted was actually quite unique in the history of their newsletter and proved to be quite controversial.

Truth usually is.

And, that revealed truth could also mean the end of their newsletter....gosh..



Kali

Excerpted from "Defining Enlightenment" by Judith Blackstone Published in Finding a Way: Essays on Spiritual Practice Edited by Lorette Zirker ... To become enlightened is to experience life directly, without the interference of psychological defenses, projections, and preconceptions, and without t...

Silent Mind J: I still don't understand how we can make the mind silent. Thynn: You must realise that you cannot make the mind silent. The more you try to silence the mind purposefully, the more you tie yourself up in knots. The more you try to quiet your mind, the more you propel it into activity....

Finding the Silenced Silent...is stillness...

http://www.watton.org/clipart/christmas/christmas126.jpg Merry Christmas to One and everyone!! Kali Merry Christmas Kali, beautiful picture! I just wonder what those ducks are doing on top of the fireplace? :D The water on their back frosted...so they couldn't shrug it off their backs... they are d...

Slow down......you move too fast. You've gotta make the problem last. We're all stuck in this little bar. Trying to figure out who we are. The bartender asks if we want a drink.. No......we say.........."I wanna think". Oh, what the hell! I've changed my mind: give me a bottle of That! What is it c...