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Author: Iulia
creating a Space of Love
Every Man* must create around himself his own Space of Love and offer it to his child. Bearing children without preparing a Space of Love for them is criminal. Every Man must create around himself a small Space of Love. And if everyone understood this and acted upon. then the whole Earth would become the brightest focus of Love in the Universe. This is the way He wanted it, and this is Man’s purpose. For only Man is capable of creating such Space.
*Man – throughout the Ringing Cedars, the word Man with a capital M is used as the equivalent of the Russian word chelovek, including both male and female, as for example, the word man is used in Genesis I:27.
excerpt from “The Space of Love” by Vladimir Megre
(Anastasia books – The Ringing Cedars of Russia series, 3rd book)
by Freckled Sky
this also filled my heart today…
nice what a programmer with a dream and two beautiful dancers can co-create!…
“something big without limitation… like a big digital poetry” (says Val).
another one here:
after exploring some more about them and seeing all they’ve been creating since their first .. I have a not-so-full after taste… it mainly went into business…
I’ll stay with the first impression đ
and watching these I remembered I haven’t danced for a while… and I miss it…
sacred woman for a sacred man: (song) Duran Duran “Lay, Lady, Lay”
I’ve just remembered this song…
didn’t find (didn’t search much either) find a more softer video for it…
not the video is relevant now and here, but the lyrics :)… below
to a sacred woman,
to a sacred man,
they dwell in my heart too
<3
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Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed.
Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed.Whatever colors you have in your mind
I show them to you and you see them shine.Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed,
Stay lady stay, stay with your man a while.
Until the break of day, let me see you make him Smile.His clothes are dirty but his, his hands are clean
And you’re the best thing that he’s ever seen.Stay lady stay, stay with your man a while.Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he’s standing in front of you, ooh oohLay across my big brass bed.
Stay lady stayI long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the nightStay lady stay, stay while the night is still aheadLay lady lay…
Stay… stay!…
Ahhh ahhhhhhh
Ohhhh[artist] Diana Manole – rerotikon
first I saw the poster of her exibition on Facebook
there’s something calling my attention in some of her work…
education… on souls
“education is forming of impressions on souls” – Chen Miller, teacher from Israel.
love talk about the emergence of the Universe, with Daniel Schmachtenberger
two evenings ago we watched and listen, together with Ronen, this video:
I was breathless… there is not word thrown, no word misused, no empty words, no works to fill the blanks in his presentation.
Daniel talks about how the Universe works… about emergence, synergy (of which I was always fascinated by and driven by when I was working in organizations, with people), relationships, allurement, evolution (defined as “more elegantly ordered complexity”), consciousness, meaning, experiential self of the moment, spiritual ideals, mind, the self, the whole, the more beautiful future, creating beauty, aliveness, interconnectedness, the uniqueness of each individual to participate, humanity (which “becomes a property”), commons, “awareness of us as facets of one integrated self-evolving reality”.
“in a meaningful way I am actually the evolutionary impulse of Universe who woke up to itself to form that has adequate ordered complexity to contemplate that and then get to consciously choose how o participate with it…”
“your self-actualization is compulsory”, a “unique role to play”…
now “we don’t have humanity”, “we have humans bumping, we have organelles that haven’t organized as a cell that search breathing”…
“what can I actually do to make my life of greatest use to all life?”
and he’s doing this so… naturally, bear foot, wearing shorts and t-shirt, on a beach <3… have I ever write here that I am a sapiosexual?
<3
PS: if you listen to Daniel and feel the same, write me, call me, I want to know more about you! đ
M.N. Saunders on vipassana
I admit I felt good reading Saunder’s comments on A critique of Vipassana Meditation as taught by Goenka.
I haven’t write my thoughts to the critique yet – I have some things to say, from my own experience – but I will put here Sander’s comments, as he is also a part of the professionals who are backing up the technique with factual from medical research.
The fight or flight mechanism causes the body to contract due to stressors in our environment.
Over years these contractions remain as tension or tone in all the body muscles, which are not released.
When muscles are tense they send signals back to the brain and the greater the tone, the higher the frequency of the signals.
If the body has a great deal of tension, then the brain becomes overwhelmed with signals and starts having less stamina to deal with the day to day requirements of dealing with life.
The Goenka technique requires us to concentrate on these tensions and the brain then starts to release the tension. Over time we start to reprogramme all the muscles to remove the tension built up over many years. This has the affect of making the body more flexible, lighter and less painful. In addition, it removes a great deal of load off the brain and gives the brain extra stamina to deal with the needs of life.
The brain feels refreshed and at easy which enables sound judgments and clear thinking.
The technique is based on sound physiology of the body.
If you read the article âThe physiology of boredom depression and senile dementiaâ by M.N. Saunders, you will find out the processes that occur in the brain which bring about the changes and results in a mind that is free of clutter and is sharp and clear.I searched for the paper “âThe physiology of boredom depression and senile dementiaâ by M.N. Saunders” he is referring, I guess it is written by himself, I only found the abstract as it is under research communities repositories.
and…
My final comments on the matter.
You remove a little tension from the body and you get a little peace.
You remove a lot of tension from the body and you get a lot of peace.
You remove ALL the tension from the body and you get TOTAL PEACE AND TRANQUILITY IN BOTH THE BODY AND MIND.Isnât that something worth striving for?
A critique of Vipassana Meditation as taught by Goenka
I just read this article and all the comments to it. It is an extended writing about the vipassana technique and thr 10-day course. I appreciate the effort of the author to gather these many aspects of it. I also wanted to write about it…
If one did not took a 10-day vipassana course in a Goenka center, this text might be irrelevant.
I have now a basis for my writing… there are things I want to say… of course, as I perceive them through my experience and lenses.
I can see the mechanistics of looking at vipassana here… also see some of my mind looking for answers for some of the questions and perceptions I had during my all 10-day sittings.
I am curious about how other vipassana practitioners who are practicing it for many years see this, through their own practice and life experience.
soon to be continued here…
[book] Why I Sit – Paul Fleischman (excerpt 6, last one)
This is the last excerpt from “Why I Sit” booklet by Paul Fleischman.
IX
Those ten days of nothing but focusing on the moment by moment reality of body and mind, with awareness and equanimity, gave me the opportunity ironically both to be more absolutely alone and isolated than I had ever been before […]
Everything I am springs from the universally human. I cause myself, I express myself, as the conditions of the world roll through me. I see this fact, as I sit, as clearly as I see the impact of history and the inspiration of vision. I sit in clear confrontation with everything that has impinged on me and caused me to react, and in reacting, I mould myself.
Life begins in a welter of conditions; mere reactions to these conditions forge limitations; awareness of and conscious response to conditions produces freedom. This clarity regarding my choices enables me to return from sitting to action as a more focused, concentrated vector of knowing, empathic life.
[…]
Sitting itself transforms my motives for sitting. I started in my own historical circumstances, but I was given a technique that has been useful in millions of circumstances over thousands of years. I started with personal issues, and I have been given timeless perspectives to broaden my viewpoint. My search is particular, but not unique. The transmission of this tool has made my work possible. Because others have launched the quest for a fully human life, because others will follow, my own frailty, or villainy, can become meaningful, because these are the soil which I must use to grow. And my own efforts, however great they feel to me, are in the shadow of the much greater efforts of others. I can flower as one shrub in a limitless forest of unending cycles of life. To flower, for a human being, is to work on the science of honest observation that enables a true picture of humanity to be born. […]
In response to the overwhelming sense of evil, fear, meaninglessness, and paranoid privatism of my times, and in response to the hope, idealism, and pregnant sense of eternity of my youth, I learned to sit, to better stand for what I found most true. This helps me live out
what had before been an unconscious faith. It helps me express something healing, useful (in both my personal and professional life), and meaningful to me despite apparently absurd conditions, because it is a link to the universal. It puts me in touch with the fundamentally human that is present in every gesture of mine, and every action of other people, in each immediacy. This in turn has enabled me to join with the generative dance of nature. I practice
knowing myself, and make that the workshop of the day. I refrain from measuring events by my own inchworm life. I frequently forget time, and so join history.X
[…]
I sit in solitude to lose my isolation. What is least noble in me rises up to the surface of my mind, and this drives me on to be more than I was. When I am most shut into my dark self I find the real source of my belonging. […]
Sitting helps me overcome my deepest fears. I become freer to live from my heart, and to face the consequences, but also to reap the rewards of this authenticity. Much of what I called pain was really loneliness and fear. It passes, dissolves, with that observation. The vibrations of my body are humming the song that can be heard only when dawn and dusk are simultaneous, instantaneous, continuous. I feel a burst of stern effort is a small price to pay to hear this inner
musicâfertile music from the heart of life itself.XII
I sit to anchor my life in certain moods, organize my life around my heart and mind, and to radiate out to others what I find. Though I shake in strong winds, I return to this basic way of living. I canât throw away my boyâs ideals and my old manâs smile. The easy, soothing comfort and deep relaxation that accompany intense awareness in stillness, peel my life like an onion to deeper layers of truth, which in turn are scoured and soothed until the next layer opens. I sit to discipline my life by what is clear, simple, selfâfulfilling, and universal in my heart. There is no end to this job. I have failed to really live many days of my life, but I dive again and again into the plain guidance of self-containment and loving receipt. I sit to find and express simple human love and common decency.