This is actually so simple it should be possible for anyone to understand. I plan to teach it to my oldest daughter (she is ten years old). I will start out asking her if she has ever felt the joy of just being alive.
I think the basic joy of being is often easier for a child to understand than for an adult. To a child this is often a natural part of life %ndash not all the time, but at least now and then. I wonder what the result would be if this was taught to all children in school?
: This is actually so simple it should be possible for anyone to understand. I plan to teach it to my oldest daughter (she is ten years old). I will start out asking her if she has ever felt the joy of just being alive.
: I think the basic joy of being is often easier for a child to understand than for an adult. To a child this is often a natural part of life %ndash not all the time, but at least now and then. I wonder what the result would be if this was taught to all children in school?
I absolutely adore Eckhart Tolle. :) Have you ever listened to audio recordings of his workshops? It's an absolute delight. Listening to his workshops is often being in a state where my heartvoice is permantently saying yes, yes, yes. :D Followed by laughter and then more yes.
Namaste!
Gustaf
One funny thing. Somewhere he says that the measurement of spiritual success is the absence of thoughts. I made a connection to what is suggested to me in most books on personal development which I have read, and which has often made me confused. They claim I have an inner voice chatting all the time. I don%rsquot recognise that. My mind seams to be quiet most of the time. Maybe I am suppressing this voice, as I most often seem to do with my internal pictures? But it might also be the result of now more than 25 years of meditation.
Namaste!
Vyana
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: : These last few weeks I have become rather fond of Eckhart Tolles teachings on being in the now. The basic wisdom here is so simple, but still so profound. Our main object in life should be just staying in the now, in the basic feeling of joy from just existing here and now. What else we do, we just do for fun. Such things cannot create a life. The best they can ever give us we already have, here and now. It is so easy to get caught up in pursuing that which we already have. But that can only create misery, because it makes that, which we already have, dependent on external conditions.
: : This is actually so simple it should be possible for anyone to understand. I plan to teach it to my oldest daughter (she is ten years old). I will start out asking her if she has ever felt the joy of just being alive.
: : I think the basic joy of being is often easier for a child to understand than for an adult. To a child this is often a natural part of life %ndash not all the time, but at least now and then. I wonder what the result would be if this was taught to all children in school?
: I absolutely adore Eckhart Tolle. :) Have you ever listened to audio recordings of his workshops? It's an absolute delight. Listening to his workshops is often being in a state where my heartvoice is permantently saying yes, yes, yes. :D Followed by laughter and then more yes.
: Namaste!
: Gustaf
:
: These last few weeks I have become rather fond of Eckhart Tolles teachings on being in the now. The basic wisdom here is so simple, but still so profound. Our main object in life should be just staying in the now, in the basic feeling of joy from just existing here and now. What else we do, we just do for fun. Such things cannot create a life. The best they can ever give us we already have, here and now. It is so easy to get caught up in pursuing that which we already have. But that can only create misery, because it makes that, which we already have, dependent on external conditions.
: This is actually so simple it should be possible for anyone to understand. I plan to teach it to my oldest daughter (she is ten years old). I will start out asking her if she has ever felt the joy of just being alive.
: I think the basic joy of being is often easier for a child to understand than for an adult. To a child this is often a natural part of life %ndash not all the time, but at least now and then. I wonder what the result would be if this was taught to all children in school?
I had been making some efforts to silence my mind last week, but when my own thoughts became quiet, I kept hearing all these voices calling my name! Some of them I recognised, like my mom. Others I have no idea who they are. Students and seekers, I assume!
Well, in two weeks I will be soaking up the Goddess vibes at Rennes la Chateau, in France so I'll trust that to blast me back to peace and silence. In the meantime, my current unbelievably hyperactive state is functional. I've stopped resisting it. Boing boing boing ka-boing boing boing yadda yadda lalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Blessings!
: One funny thing. Somewhere he says that the measurement of spiritual success is the absence of thoughts. I made a connection to what is suggested to me in most books on personal development which I have read, and which has often made me confused. They claim I have an inner voice chatting all the time. I don%rsquot recognise that. My mind seams to be quiet most of the time. Maybe I am suppressing this voice, as I most often seem to do with my internal pictures? But it might also be the result of now more than 25 years of meditation.
: My usually silent mind is very yackety yack these days! Doing too many things at once. My inner narrator is back, trying to create some linear order out of the chaos, I guess!
: I had been making some efforts to silence my mind last week, but when my own thoughts became quiet, I kept hearing all these voices calling my name! Some of them I recognised, like my mom. Others I have no idea who they are. Students and seekers, I assume!
: Well, in two weeks I will be soaking up the Goddess vibes at Rennes la Chateau, in France so I'll trust that to blast me back to peace and silence. In the meantime, my current unbelievably hyperactive state is functional. I've stopped resisting it. Boing boing boing ka-boing boing boing yadda yadda lalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaa...
: I am really looking forward to meet you here in Sweden and to participate in the workshop! Actually, I have to admit, I am really excited about that. I am starting my "oral chelation" to clean out the uranium from my body at the end of May. I am somewhat excited about that to. However, I still don%rsquot hear any voices. Actually, I cannot remember having heard voices more than once or twice in my adult life. Even my heart voice works at the emotional and kinaesthetic levels.