Thursday, March 31, 2011

Forgive

"It takes much more courage, strength of character, and inner conviction to forgive than it does to hang on to low-energy feelings." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Work And Play

The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both. 


  Lao Tzu

Monday, March 21, 2011

Thought For The Week: Run Towards What We Love

"We tend to run away from what is uncomfortable or painful landing wherever we land. Let's instead intentionally run towards what we Love."


  Tom Notarianni Jr.


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Monday, March 14, 2011

Thought For The Week: Who Do We Take Our Cue's From?

"Many times in life we look at someone else's actions towards us and make inaccurate decisions about ourselves"


  ~  Tom Notarianni Jr.


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Let It Come and Let It Go


A friend of mine recently posted this on facebook: 

"ugghhh please get off mind....it's haunting!"

In this simple yet profound post lies the struggle of humanity. All pain and pleasure exist only in the mind. "Haunting" is a great way to describe it. What we are haunted by is our own thoughts that come from nowhere and go to nowhere. They are not real but our minds make them real and thus we suffer. This is the primary reason addictions arise. Addictions provide a rapid but momentary relief from our circle thinking. However, addictions soon create more problems then they solve (Really, they don't "solve" any problems). The nature of mind is to think. Thoughts will arise and emotions (feelings in the body) will follow. The idea is to let them come - don't resist them. What we resist persists. Conversely, we don't want to hold on to the thoughts and emotions. Often we become attached to them and it's our own mind that can make something tiny grow to enormous proportions and soon our monkey mind turns into an 800 pound gorilla effortlessly tossing us about. The practice is to "Let it come and let it go". When the thoughts and emotions come, let them come - and, just as quickly let them go. In the blue sky of our clear mind clouds will drift in. Let them drift in and let them drift out without much notice. The clear blue sky doesn't ever worry about the clouds.


  ~  Tom Notarianni Jr. 

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Japan and Lao Tzu

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

Friday, March 11, 2011

Medicine Buddha Mantra Offering For The Suffering Caused By The Tsunami In Japan



The Peaceful Minds Center would like to offer this Medicine Buddha Mantra to help ease the suffering of those affected by the tremendous earthquake and tsunami that followed. We also offer this Mantra to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Recite it if you wish, while holding the well-being of those affected in your heart. 

Monday, March 7, 2011

Rhymes and Reasons



So you speak to me of sadness
And the coming of the winter
Fear that is within you now
It seems to never end
And the dreams that have escaped you
And the hope that you’ve forgotten
You tell me that you need me now
You want to be my friend

And you wonder where we’re going
Where’s the rhyme and where’s the reason
And it’s you who cannot accept
It is here we must begin
To seek the wisdom of the children
And the graceful way of flowers in the wind

For the children and the flowers
Are my sisters and my brothers
Their laughter and their loveliness
Could clear a cloudy day

Like the music of the mountains
And the colours of the rainbow
They’re a promise of the future
And a blessing for today
Though the cities start to crumble
And the towers fall around us
The sun is slowly fading
And it’s colder than the sea

It is written from the desert
To the mountains they shall lead us
By the hand and by the heart
They will comfort you and me
In their innocence and trusting
They will teach us to be free

For the children and the flowers
Are my sisters and my brothers
Their laughter and their loveliness
Could clear a cloudy day

And the song that I am singing
Is a prayer to non believers
Come and stand beside us
We can find a better way

Words and music by John Denver

Thought For The Week: Pain


"Pain is what we feel
as we let go of the person we've always been
to become the person 
of which we have no conception." 


   ~  Pema Chojor

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Osho: Why Is Love So Painful?


Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless.
Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is the same pain that the child feels when he comes out of the womb of the mother. It is the same pain that the bird feels when he comes out of the egg. It is the same pain that the bird will feel when he will try for the first time to be on the wing.
The fear of the unknown, and the security of the known, the insecurity of the unknown, the unpredictability of the unknown, makes one very much frightened.