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  • One heart

    Can you polish your mysterious mirror
    And leave no blemish?
    Lao Tzu

    There is never been a single thing
    Then where is dust to cling?
    Huang Po

    Joining hands
    One heart.
    You and Me

  • I am eternally present

    I am eternally present.

    There is nothing to do.

    Nowhere to go.

     

  • Living Together

    When we live with another person, to protect each other’s happiness, we should help one another transform the internal formations that we produce together. By practicing understanding loving speech, we can help each other a great deal. Happiness is no longer an individual matter. If the other person is not happy, we will not be happy either.To transform the other person’s knots will help bring about our own happiness as well. A wife can create internal formations in her husband, and a husband can do so in his wife, and if they continue to create knots in each other,one day there will be no happiness left.Therefore, as
    soon as a knot is created, the wife, for example, should know that a knot has just been tied in her. She should not overlook it. She should take the time to observe it and, with her husband’s help, transform it. She might say, “Darling, I think we’d better discuss a conflict I see growing.” This is easy when the states of mind of husband and wife are still light and not filled with too many knots.

    The root cause of any internal formation is a lack of understanding. If we can see the misunderstanding that was present during the creation of a knot, we can easily untie it. To practice mindful observation is to look deeply to be able to see the nature and causes of something. One important benefit of this kind of insight is the untying of our knots.

    Reference: Peace Is Every Step p. 67-68 by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Real Love

    We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. We must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, and of the person we love. This is the ground of real love. You cannot resist loving another person when you really understand him or her.

    From time to time, sit close to the one you love, hold his or her hand, and ask, “Darling, do I understand you enough? Or am I making you suffer? Please tell me so that I can learn to love you properly. I don’t want to make you suffer, and if I do so because of my ignorance, please tell me so that I can love you better, so that you can be happy.” If you say this in a voice that communicates your real openness to understand, the other person may cry.

    That is a good sign, because it means the door of understanding is opening and everything will be possible again. Maybe a father does not have time or is not brave enough to ask his son such a question. Then the love between them will not be as full as it could be. We need courage to ask these questions, but if we don’t ask, the more we love, the more we may destroy people are love. True love needs understanding.

    With understanding, the one we love will certainly flower.

    Reference: Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Know your Self as That

    Robert Spira

  • Decompartmentalization

    We have so many compartments in our lives. How can we bring meditation out of the meditation hall and in to the kitchen,and the office? In the meditation hall we sit quietly, and try to be aware of each breath. How can our sitting influence our non-sitting time? When a doctor gives you an injection,not only your arm but your whole body benefits from it. When you practice half an hour of sitting meditation a day, that time should be for all twenty—four hours, and not just for that half-hour.One smile,one breath,shouldbeforthebenefitofthewholeday,not just for that moment. We must practice in away that removes the barrier between practice and non—practice.

    When we walk in the meditation hall, we make careful steps,very slowly. But when we go to the airport or the supermarket, we become quite another person. We walk very quickly, less mindfully. How can we practice mindfulness at the airport and in the supermarket? I have a friend who breathes between tele- phone calls, and it helps her very much. Another friend does walking meditation between business appointments, walking mindfully between buildings in downtown Denver. Passersby smile at him,and his meetings, even with diflicult persons, often turn out to bequite pleasant, and very successful.

    We should beable to bring the practice from the meditation hall in to our daily lives. We need to discuss among our selves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hours of hard work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns. Mindfulness can penetrate the activities of everyday life, each minute,each hour of our daily life, and not just be a description of something far away.

    Reference: Peace Is Every Step p. 34-35 by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • A Simple Prayer

    A Simple Prayer picture
    Saint Francis of Assisi’s Simple Prayer

    Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
    Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
    Where there is injury, pardon.
    Where there is doubt, faith.
    Where there is despair, hope.
    Where there is darkness, light.
    Where there is sadness, joy.

    O Divine Master,
    Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
    To be understood, as to understand;
    To be loved, as to love.
    For it is in giving that we receive.
    It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
    And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
    Amen.

    St. Francis

  • Zheng Gu Shui

    The words zheng gu shui mean “bone setting solution” in English. In my experience it’s simply the best solution for bruises, sprains and pain to the extremities with no bleeding. And Zheng Gu Shui relieves pain in the bones and joints as well. Yet another example of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that works. I have used this many times on my self and friends with astonishing results almost every time!
    The only caveat: do not use in connection with infection or open wounds.

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    Reference: Zheng Gu Shui wikipedia.org

  • You Deserve Enlightenment

  • Meditation as a great Art

    Krishnamurti saw meditation as a great art, “perhaps the greatest.” One must learn this art by practicing without technique—watching oneself: in daily activities (walking, eating), practices (speech, gossip), reactive emotions (hate, jealousy)—becoming aware of these things “without any choice.” Many forms of meditation have been invented to escape conflicts. These forms, according to Krishnamurti are “based on desire… the urge for achievement,” implying conflict, and a “struggle to arrive.” This striving, he saw as “within the limits of a conditioned mind, and in this there is no freedom.” True meditation is “the ending of thought,” leading to “a different dimension… beyond time.” Thought and feeling “dissipate energy.” Their repetition is mechanical, and, while necessary, do not permit one to enter the “immensity of life.” Meditation is the “emptying of the mind of the known.” It is not thought, nor prayer, nor “the self-effacing hypnotism of words, images, hopes and vanities” all of which must “come to an end, easily, without effort and choice, in the flame of awareness.”

    Reference: Jiddu Krishnamurti meditation wikipedia.org

  • The path of inner refinement is extremely simple and easy

    Bai Yuzhan said, “The path of inner refinement is extremely simple and easy; just get the fire of the heart to descend into the elixir field. The elixir field is the chamber of water, while the heart is fire. When fire enters water, then water and fire mix and true yang is produced. Therefore people Call them heart and genitals, not water and fire.”

    Reference: Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body translated by Thomas Cleary p. 115

  • Magnus on Mount Everst in Chess

    I have followed the young Mozart of Chees, Magnus Carlsen, since he entered the world of chess 10 years ago. Magnus is now 22 and he is currently the world number in chess. In january 2013 the young Chess Grandmaster received  a staggering 2861 in rating. This is an all time rating record. Beating Garry Kasparov long time old record of 2851. There is more than 50 points between number one and two on the FIDE rating list! To put this perspective  there is only a handful of players who has been above 2800 in chess history. The the current world champion in Chess, Viswanathan Anand,  has mere 2772 as in rating as number 7 on the list.

    In 2012  in Bilbao Masters Magnus Carlsen demolished Viswanathan Anand in the following game:

    Update:
    Magnus Carlsen further clear in February FIDE Ratings theweekinchess.com

    Links:
    Homepage of Magnus Carlsen magnuscarlsen.com
    Magnus Carlsen wikipedia.org
    FIDE Rating list january 2013 fide.com

    Magnus Carlsen is going to play 5 of the top 10 players of the world in The 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 11 – 27 January 2013 in Wijk aan Zee

  • Garlic Ginger and Green Onion Recipes for Common Cold

    Garlic
    To treat the early stages of the common cold, take 50 gr. of garlic, the white heads of green onion, and fresh ginger, and boil in water; drink hot and cover yourself with a blanket so that you transpire.

    Ginger
    When fever and chills are present, grate 30 gr. of ginger, boil it in water, add one teaspoon of brown sugar. To suppress coughing due to the common cold, grate 50 gr. of ginger and mix with 2 teaspoons of maltose, boil in 3 cups of water until the water is reduced to half a cup, and then sip slowly.

    Reference: Chinese Foods for Longevity by Henry C. Lu p. 22-23

    There is a whole book written on the wonders of ginger, garlic and green onion based on Traditional Chinse Medical (TCM) Food Therapy claiming to cure all most any kind of imaginable disease in man. The book includes more than twenty different recipes to cure the common cold with ginger, garlic and green onion!

    Reference: Curing Diseases the Chinese Way: With Ginger, Garlic and Green Onion compiled by Wang Fuchun and Duan Yuhua

  • Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa is a Chinese natural herb medicine ( TCM ) against lung disorders including, cough, hoarseness, loss of voice, dry skin, sore throat and colds.

    Reference: Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa wikipedia.org

    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa
    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa
    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa Cartoon
    Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa usage

  • Mind does not know mind

    Mind does not know mind;
    having a mind, one does not see mind.
    Producing thought is confusion;
    no thoughts is nirvana.

    The Buddhas attain liberation by way of mind;
    the mind, without defilement, is called pure:
    immaculate in all states of being, it does not take on form.
    Those who understand this attain the great Way.

    Reference: Stopping and Seeing: Comprehensive Course in Buddhist Meditation by Chih-i (Translated by Thomas Cleary) p. 59