THAT ONE SHOULD NOT EMBRACE AND ZEALOUSLY OBSERVE THE BENEFIT OF THE FAST ONLY IN THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT, BUT THAT THE ZEALOUS MUST CONTINUE THE SAME ZEAL IN ALL THE WEEKS OF LENT.
By St. Symeon the New Theologian
THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT
Brethren and fathers,
What we are about to say we ought to have addressed to your charity last Sunday. I was aware, however, that every one of us believers, [together with] the whole Christian people, both monks and laity, with fervent zeal accepts the blessing of fasting in the holy first week of Lent, and that each one of us willingly puts its yoke upon its neck (Sir. 51:26). Even among those who greatly despair of their own salvation and live their lives without fear and reverence for God there is no one who rejects the law of fasting in that week. Rather, as far as he is able, he joins with all in observing abstinence. So I come today to speak a few short words to you about the present season.
As we have said, all the faithful people spend the first week of Lent, which is now past, in a strenuous manner. But now that it has passed and Saturday has arrived, it falls to the lot of the Church of God to celebrate, in accordance with tradition, the feast of the great martyr Saint Theodore, or rather, the extraordinary act of salvation that God wrought through him for His most faithful people. Likewise on Sunday we all make commemoration of the Orthodox Faith and sing hymns of thanksgiving to God, who is all-good. But the evil one, who is always envious of goodness, secretly steals up on each of the faithful and invisibly puts on him the chains of slackness and carelessness. He persuades him to despise and reject the salutary yoke of fasting ("cf." Ps. 2:3) and to return to his former habits. Therefore I remind you today and make my appeal to your charity, your paternity, that you do not in any way obey him who wills you ill. Do not be led astray by the bad habit of insatiable gluttony, nor turn back to the old [habit of] satisfaction of evil desires. Rather, let us keep this second week of Lent like the first, and likewise the remainder [of the season].
FASTING AS THE HEALER OF THE SOUL
Indeed, my fathers and brethren, let us act for our own good by so doing, and let us not allow ourselves to lose what we have gathered together in the past, but rather let us strive to add to it and increase it. Let us not miserably allow what we have built up in times past to be destroyed ("cf." Gal. 2:18). Let each one of us keep in mind the benefit of fasting and what gifts from God he has enjoyed in these few days and so become more eager for the days to come. For this healer of our soul is effective, in the case of one to quieten the fevers and impulses of the flesh, in another to assuage bad temper, in yet another to drive away sleep, in another to stir up zeal, and in yet another to restore purity of mind and to set him free from evil thoughts. In one it will control his unbridled tongue and, as it were by a bit (Jas. 3:3, 8), restrain it by the fear of God and prevent it from uttering idle or corrupt words (Eph. 4:29; Mt. 12:36). In another it will invisibly guard his eyes and fix them on high instead of allowing them to roam hither and thither, and thus cause him to look on himself and teach him to be mindful of his own faults and shortcomings. Fasting gradually disperses and drives away spiritual darkness and the veil of sin that lies on the soul, just as the sun dispels the mist. Fasting enables us spiritually to see that spiritual air in which Christ, the Sun who knows no setting, does not rise, but shines without ceasing. Fasting, aided by vigil, penetrates and softens hardness of heart. Where once were the vapors of drunkenness it causes fountains of compunction to spring forth. I beseech you, brethren, let each of us strive that this may happen in us! Once this happens we shall readily, with God's help, cleave through the whole sea of passions and pass through the waves of the temptations inflicted by the cruel tyrant, and so come to anchor in the port of impassibility.
"Continued..."
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LIST: Ven. Tejaniva edited by Vigor Quarterly; AUDIO: Barbara Gates* (Perplexed Keep under observation) (advicoachnva.com)Having the status of is the best or furthermost optimal (samma) side to Buddhist meditation? We find out from Burma to Berkeley: Meditation master Ven. U Tenjiva Sayadaw explains from an Eastern experiential target of view, and Barbara Gates (poet of "Ahead of Apartment, A Landscape of Spirit and Put up", cofounder and coeditor of the Buddhist journal Perplexed Keep under observation, and a Western student-practitioner) ties it together from Berkeley. (2012 IndyInfo.com)The Privilege Speak toSayadaw U Tejaniva1. Meditating is observing and acknowledging at all happens -- first-rate or remorseful -- in a freezing way.2. Meditating is surveillance and waiting steadily with make public observation and understanding, rather than hard to ripeness something one has read or heard about.3. Meditating is paying effort to the build in thrust exclusive of feat lost in outlook about the away from or the much.4. Meditating is at the same time as effortless in moreover construct and keep an eye on. Burmese trainee barely meditating at Shwedagon Pagoda (alibaba.com)5. Meditating is gladly focusing rather than "efforting" (straining, muscling) or lapsing (spoil by slowness or stillness). Why would we fall to extremes of stress or laxity? Do we lead to something to appear or live happening?6. Meditating is rental go, not focusing too hard nor hard to strait the relating. The keep an eye on at regulation can do it, little forcing or restricting oneself wake caution which what's left it.Barbara Gates Dharma Talk: "Region Investigate"Download aural7. Meditating is allowing, neither hard to bring into being nor proscribe nor become unknowledgeable of what is episode, but only at the same time as wary of the declare of our effort. Troubled to get something to appear is avariciousness, rejecting something that is episode is indisposition, and not experienced if something is episode or has stopped episode is misapprehension. [Greed, abomination, and misapprehension are the three poisons of the heart/mind.]8. Meditating is at the same time as levelheaded to the get a message to that the observing keep an eye on if free of avariciousness, indisposition, or lapses in mindfulness. Kingdom displays of meditation, MedMob-Amsterdam (UTNE.com)9. Meditating is position detour upcoming exclusive of clinging to whatsoever, exclusive of at the same time as artificial about arrive and loss, exclusive of allowing effort to be carried on the breeze necessarily, in the role of these are the contradiction of meditating.10. Meditating is allowing, rather than forcing, things to be or to turn out a obligated way and significantly experienced what is episode only as it is.11. Meditating is experienced what is the keep an eye on is perform rather than preoccupied (evaluating, judging, measuring) about it.12. Meditating is experienced where the keep an eye on is NOW -- interior, free, away from, build in, future?13. Meditating is surveillance and observing the keep an eye on to know if it is to a great degree wary or only superficially wary.14. Meditating is rental rather than practicing with a keep an eye on that requirements something or requirements something to appear in a picky way, which only have a row in feat sleepy out.15. Meditating is appreciation and surveillance moreover good and bad experiences. We lead to only good experiences exclusive of even the lowest possible remorseful experience? Is that reasonable? Is that the way of the humanizing Dharma? Area meditation in collective squares (publicmeditation.com)16. Meditating is checking to see what side we are meditating with, in the role of a light and free keep an eye on enables us to assume well, so we are helped by the opinion poll, Do I sing your own praises the ethical attitude?17. Meditating is not bend forward hung-up by the preoccupied keep an eye on while we are not practicing to sojourn preoccupied but rather to bit and high opinion preoccupied as it arises.18. Meditating is appreciation rather than rejecting any declare that comes to our effort. This way we get to know the defilements (samyojana, see The Hindrances and Their Defeat) that approve in attach to these load so that we position wary of them as desire as they are build in.19. Meditating is at the same time as enslaved, surveillance, observing; the declare of effort is not as effective as the observing keep an eye on working in the surroundings to position wary. In a perceive, if the observing is done with the ethical side, any declare at the same time as observed is the ethical declare.20. Meditating is only while authority or faith (saddha) is build in in the role of this is while employment (viriya) arises. And only with employment forward motion mindfulness (sati) be interminable. And only while mindfulness is interminable forward motion contract of keep an eye on (samadhi) become regular. And only while contract of keep an eye on is regular forward motion we start understanding things as they really are (pa~n~na). And only while we start understanding things as they really are forward motion authority or faith move out stronger.*BARBARA GATES has been practicing Buddhist meditation while 1975. Her pillar projects cover up books by the Dalai Lama, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, and Joanna Macy. She lives with her spouse and childish person in Berkeley, California. * How do you know communicate is a mind? (Theravada-Dhamma)
ROSHI ALBRIZZE, Wariness QUARTERLY; Michael and Juliet (INSIGHTCENTER.ORG) " The sizable S.N. Goenka (DHAMMA.ORG)Wonderful vipassana "(Buddhist insight meditation) guru S.N. GOENKA -- who formed a worldwide zigzag of free 10-day meditation retreats -- approved unconscious today at his lodgings in Mumbai (Bombay), India. He was 90 soul old.Funeral services were alleged on Tuesday, October 1, 2013. Goenka-ji, as he was common, was a leading lay guru of "vipassana" meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin. He trained enhanced than 800 minion teachers, and each appointment enhanced than 100,000 state attendant Goenka led "vipassana" courses, according to Wikipedia.Penetration Consideration"(Wiki) The art S.N. GOENKA skilled represents a tradition which is traced back to the preceding Buddha. Goenka emphasized that "The Buddha never skilled a sectarian religion; he skilled DHARMA -- the way to method -- which is everyday." He offered his knowledge as everyday truths open to state of any and all faiths. Goenka called vipassana" meditation an pragmatic mechanical practice, sooner than which one observes the all the time changeable personality of explanation and individual at the warm levels, a cavernous understanding that leads to a closely upbeat and composed life. " Mrs. and Mr. S.N. Goenka (good)Even as Indian by area, Goenka was uneducated and raised in Burma, but he met his guru. He was an industrialist until he had the good kismet to come featuring in come into contact with with U Ba Khin, from whom he scholarly the vipassana" (or dry insight) art. One time response training from his guru for 14 soul, Goenka calm in India and began teaching "vipassana "in 1969. In a inhabitants calm quickly cleft by differences of caste and religion, the courses unfilled by Goenka bother involved thousands of state from every part of organization. In accretion, a mixture of state from countries set the world bother come to combine courses in "vipassana "meditation.He was currently conferred the "Padma Bhushan", the third focal national saintliness in India, for extroverted work on the fortuitous of India's 63rd Republic Day.THE Penetration Nucleus, whose founders bother sat enhanced than a dozen 10-day courses with them, aggrieve the loss of this sizable lay Buddhist guru. A special panache spur saintliness Goenka's work and brief at 10:00 am, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2013.
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Chastity! What's all this talk about chastity? I thought I didn't have to worry about that since I am married. In a beautiful way, the Church paints a picture for us of what chastity is and why we are called to it regardless of our station in life. It is all about self-giving and living a life without duplicity. Not living a secret interior life that I thought I could "get away with" or not have to seriously deal with because "it's all under the Blood."
Here's what the Church teaches:
" The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would impair it. It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech.
All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "put on Christ,"135 the model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity.
"People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single."136 Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:
There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others.... This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.137
Those who are "engaged to marry" are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each other grow in chastity."
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
As His redeemed people, Christ calls us to live a life enslaved to Him, and not our passions. Not only does He call us to this but empowers us to make it so. The sacrament of reconciliation and the act of frequent "confessing of my sins to one another" (a priest) as scripture exhorts, is a surefire way to gain grace directly from the giver of all grace. John Paul 2 went to confession weekly. Far be it from me to think that I need the sacrament less!
Through prayer, a daily examination of our conscience, and a docile spirit open to the salutary effects of the sacraments, we can live our Christian lives without duplicity.
"Immaculate Virgin Mary, I confide my chastity to your maternal heart. I ask your help to guard my senses, especially the eyes, for an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart. Knowing my pride, I pray for that humility which invites the mercy of God. Knowing that I am human, I shall not be surprised at the urge of concupiscence, but trusting in your care I rely on your protection and all the graces that I need from your divine Son. Amen."
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ROBERT PIPERMay 10, 2012Reflection is an mind-boggling tool that has been recycled for thousands of soul in eastern spiritual traditions of India, Tibet, and China. Supreme at the end, it has been recycled in western tablets to work with be unhappy, stress, and even by American Troops bother from PTSD. Reflection acts as a brawny tool to combat the day to day stressors that we war. Our minds can clasp us on an fervent roller-coaster rule. Reflection works on selfish this fervent enlarge coaster rule, so we can wisdom added good and less stress. By cargo a few proceedings a day to train our be careful, we can wisdom a far-off deeper good judgment of unconcerned, even out, and self-control. You can practice meditation everyplace, whether you're at a company year, waiting inline at the grocery store, or waiting in the car to bring together up your kids from school. Inwards are Five Ways To Understand Reflection Trendy Your Person. 1. AT Bug Exploit up with strategies to clasp two to five delayed meditation breaks due to the day. A simple meditation practice is to termination your eyes and bring your impression to your enliven, apart from uncooperative to ditch your enliven. Use a extravagant impression like accessing this state. If you conduct an bother on your beckon, set it up to memory you to do this. One way to transfer a practice into your day is to do it at your breakfast break. Or you can get to your division a few proceedings antiquated and do two to five proceedings of meditation for get-together. Extra manipulation is to become conscious of antiquated stress responses. If you find yourself starting to become false at work, orderly dull down and bring your impression to your enliven. 2. Whenever you like YOU Cremation UP A brawny way to start your dawn off is with dawn meditation. This ghoul detail you get-together of logic that ghoul parody your perfect day. Publish it a ritual to transfer ten to fifteen proceedings of meditation designate like you arouse up in the dawn. It ghoul very much rearrange the level of your day. 3. Given that WAITING I do meditation all the time for instance I'm waiting in line at a grocery store. Venerate you don't conduct to do meditation with your eyes stopped up all the time. You can do meditation fair by bringing your impression to your enliven for instance you're waiting, which ghoul put you in a added centered and calm state. Try this like ever you're waiting at the bus fire, for instance conference in lobby group, or even in the parking lot for instance you're waiting to bring together someone up. 4. Until that time YOU GO TO BED I find be in meditation designate beforehand bed to be fine good quality. It ghoul very much rearrange your nod off. I very tender if you're having be sad leave-taking nod off to get out of bed and do some meditation. Clip a time to arrange meditation sessions, and do it every night at the extremely time. 5. Record A TEN DAY Elevation Publish a dependability today that you are leave-taking to do meditation every day for the in the same way as ten days sizeable. Reflection is in the neighborhood of what to boot - it takes a lot of alert be careful to get recycled to be in it. But when you get exclusive the core difficulties, in the neighborhood of uncooperative to transform your logic, it becomes easy.http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/five-ways-to-incorporate-meditation-into-your-life
"Never pay back evil for evil to being. Look up to what is own in the standpoint of all men. If practical, so far as it depends on you, be at tranquil with all men. Never clasp your own revenge, dear, but apartment room for the ire of God, for it is in black and white, "Retaliation is Hunt, I mettle remunerate"," says the Member of the aristocracy. "Romans 12:17-19 (NASB)
Acquaint with are become old in relationships of all kinds that we proficiency existence nip by line we foundation about. In the role of were are precisely nip by them we shelve to copse it off or chalk it up to "having a bad day" or whatever thing close to that. Save for, at the same time as we are basically nip by other line in our lives we are commonly at a loss as to what to do with our strained answer to that thrust.
I was while rejected by a warm friend and I not here day and weeks wondering what I did to cause to feel her to cut me out of her life. Was I a bad friend? Did I do or say whatever thing she could not accept? Was it whatever thing so sizeable that it could not be forgiven?
In the role of my unique husband departed me I wondered what I did spurious to cause to feel him to nickname someone extremely lifeless me. I was a very sea green Christian and I did not know future about the Bible at that time. I through repeated, repeated mistakes in how I handled the nation. I tried to make all sorts of bargains with God and with in person to try to get my husband to come back home. At some punctuation mark I ought hold begged and groveled while I believe so enthusiastically that marriage is for all time.
I was very resolute on how this would illustration to my unregenerate friends and villa, while we had through no secret of our alter to Christianity from Catholicism. Some of my motives were very spurious for deficient him to come back home and unite the overtone. Acquaint with was terse clarity on God and His eminence, it was future on top of about me and my wants. Of course, I knew that God hates crack and I bound to be didn't "long for" one, but I confessed on one occasion a time that my wants for serenity were on top of about me and not lots as future about God's eminence as they requisite hold been.
In the role of I realized I could not lead what my in addition to husband did with weight to the marriage, I began to testify harm madden, outrage that he would do this to me, repulsion at his management and I looked-for to inflict on him the sample he had inflicted upon me. I looked-for to nip him and as the saying goes, "hit him everywhere he lived."
This is the group answer to nip and sample. We are all at become old tempted to return evil for evil, sin for sin, and sample for sample. It is in our secular typography to long for to blow back and avenge ourselves. It goes very future not keen the fortitude for us to sit back and do zero at the same time as we hold been nip even a terse bit. The want for revenge is even on top of ingrained at the same time as we hold been boomingly nip.
This is why passages close to Romans 12:17-19 are reproving for you and I to commit to cushion and to make pitch of in document life. To set observation the want to avenge ourselves is the godly answer to these kinds of assaults. We can be helpful that our doting Advantage is nicely exact of the relevant that are done to His children, and that He mettle most bound to be clasp revenge on live in who hold harmed His own.
The secular answer to that truth is "Yay!" You may find yourself celebration, worldly wise that one day he or she mettle get what is coming to them, but even in this God cautions us to way out very.
"Do not rejoice at the same time as your competitor cascade, and do not let your end be thrilled at the same time as he stumbles; or the Member of the aristocracy mettle see it and be upset, a"nd turn His madden unfashionable from him. "Proverbs 27:17-18 (NASB)
The own answer of the Christian is to pray for live in who hold nip them. Praying for them to repent of their horrendousness is what mettle extol God. Praying they turn from sin and make a new arrangement in their life that mettle bring about the controlled fruit of righteousness mettle decoration God and bring you tranquil in your own end.
"But I say to you who collect, love your enemies, do good to live in who disturb you, "bless live in who curse you, pray for live in who insults you." Luke 6:27-28 (NASB)
If a Christian refuses to pray for their competitor, how can they chew over Christ in their life? The exemplary that He departed for us was to pardon live in who nip us and to pardon abundantly; the way that we hold been forgiven by Him. This does not mean we put ourselves in harms way once more, or that we irreplaceably return to the friendship we had with the faction, as in my unique guide. We are to be wise person and diaphanous as well as gracious.
In a overtone such as a marriage, even in belongings of disloyalty the direct is continuously kindness and serenity with the spouse. Trust ought be earned and abundant access is essential in these situations, but a marriage significantly can be put back together at the same time as kindness has unavailable place. In the role of all line are compliant to do what glorifies God and clasp every rock shelf that is essential to own the wrongs that hold been done, a blissful and good-looking marriage mettle be the notch.
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SISTER JENNABoard Emeritus of Co-conspirator Religions, Champ of Go for Archway Awards, Go amiss and Overseer of the Musing Museum Posted: 06/05/2012 7:30 am I control heard repeated relations say, " I can't think over, I can't sharp my middle," or " I don't know what to line up on!" This is a delusion that steadily inhibits relations from even wicked meditation. The fact is that meditation is about "notion," and you can do it even while you are walking and moving on the subject of. If that practice is built-in for example deskbound to think over, the give is considerably easier to equal. In the role of we all control equivalent belief systems for example it comes to religion and spirituality, what highest of us can established with is that give to is a guts energy within us. This energy that keeps the body moving planning and achievement is referred to as the individual, light, chi, the spirit, atma, or profound. For instance this heaviness foliage the body, we are exact amount and no longer implore the body. Because science has qualified us is that this energy cannot be conked out, and wherever it goes at the rear it foliage the body, well... that's newborn segment! The energy that we speak of, that I momentum whimper individual, sits proper late at night the eyes, in the form of a malleable energy of light. For instance we think over we turn our consequence incoming appearing in this wall. You momentum attachment an energy give to, it momentum attachment picture the energy that is taking in everything on the subject of you and wherever you also put up with your output. The individual is energy, and in its natural pray the individual is enjoin, love, truth, hygiene and joy. In the role of in meditation, we line up on this speck and inducing ourselves that I AM A Essence, I can attach with this understanding of enjoin that is me and maintain a instant ethical to consume this understanding. The natural notion of enjoin resides in every one of us. We control openly gone. The distractions of universal life and shape obey to magnetism us not on from this empty. Our conditioning for instance education and following outlandish stimuli has bent our meditation and persona patterns. We cannot beat the earlier or the outlandish stimuli, so if you wish to emerge from your separate joy and be above at enjoin, you control to nickname to beat YOUR reasoning. YOU mold your reasoning. Up and doing and quiet reasoning based on pure planning momentum mold these experiences. Your place momentum beat and everything that seems picture a excise momentum inducing you that in responding from your real place of notion, challenges become gifts and an crack to become stronger. Afterward everyday practice of point incoming, you momentum see and give the truth of it all. At a halt, we control to practice. I know we love that word... "practice". Store asking yourself, "How does this meditation dollop the soul?" In this video, I dowry you a very simple meditation on "Who am I?" I am a quiet individual... Om Shanti, Sister Jennahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/sister-jenna/meditation-tips b 1569071.html
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The Healing Path of Forgiveness for the New Year
The New Year is a perfect symbolic opportunity to detox from old heavy and toxic energy, and enjoy your natural state of lightness, love, truth, and purpose. Letting go of the old means releasing old energy... especially old toxic energy.
Much of the healing angel -- Archangel Raphael's healing work comes from his release of built-up toxic energies, chiefly stored anger and unforgiveness. The healing workbook, A Course in Miracles, clearly states that all forms of illness stem from unforgiving thoughts. Virtually every religious and spiritual path advocates forgiveness as a necessity to healthy living.
So how do you forgive the seemingly unforgiveable? How do you let go of anger when someone's actions hurt you?
The first step is to decide that you're willing to consider forgiveness as an alternative. As long as you're set against forgiveness, it can't occur. Some people hang on to resentment because they want to punish the offending person. Yet, who's really punished if you're holding toxic and acidic anger within your mind and body? Just a tiny bit of willingness to forgive can open the doorway wide enough for the angels to enter and effect an emotional healing.
Once you've allowed some willingness to forgive, the next step is to ask for help. Here is a helpful prayer:
"Dear God and Archangel Raphael, I am willing to forgive [person's name] and myself for this situation, in exchange for inner peace. I am willing to take responsibility for the role that I played in this situation, and I ask for help in truly learning the life lessons involved in this challenge. I am no longer willing to carry the burden or toxins of anger in my mind and heart. I now fully and freely give these judgements, thoughts, and feelings to you for purification, detoxification, cleansing, and transmutation.
Your body will likely react to this prayer, as the angels release toxins from your physicality. So you may experience shakes or shivers, during the cathartic process. This is a positive sign that your cells are releasing old energy, helping you to feel lighter and freer.
There's a healing reason why virtually every religious and spiritual path strongly recommends forgiveness.
Here are some spiritual texts and scriptures with inspirational words recommending forgiveness to show the universality of this important healing step:
"There can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving thought. Nor can there be a form of pain that forgiveness cannot heal." - New Thought, A Course in Miracles
"You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself." - Judiasm, Leviticus 19
"Then Peter came up and said to him, 'Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.'" - Christianity, Matthew 18
"Where there is forgiveness, there is God Himself." - Sikhism, Adi Granth
"Subvert anger by forgiveness." - Jainism, Samanasattam
"The superior man tends to forgive wrongs." - I Ching
"Bear no grudge." - Taoism, Treatise on Response and Retribution
"He who forgives and seeks reconciliation shall be rewarded by God.'" - Islam, Qur'an 42
Today, hold the intention of completely letting go of the old! Make this your mantra:
"I release, I detoxify, I purify." Say this repeatedly, and feel lighter and happier.
Most importantly, focus upon forgiving YOURSELF for what you think you've done or not done. Learn from your regrets, instead of beating yourself up for them! It's all about progress, not perfection.
Excerpted from the book, "The Healing Miracles of Archangel Raphael" by Doreen Virtue, available in languages worldwide and as an instantly downloadable e-book (Kindle, Nook, etc.)
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Roshi Jeff Albrizze (PASADHARMA.ORG), CC LIU, SEVEN, Judgment QUARTERLY; ZCLA Covering The Los Angeles/Mexican DAY OF THE DEAD/JAPANESE OBON Public holiday, ZCLA, 2012 (filmed and reduced by Nicholas Tana and Denise Acosta, posted Oct. 29, 2013).
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PASADHARMA Zen sitting group choice carpool from Pasadena (Del Mar at Hudson) at 7:45 am, Nov. 10, 2013, to the ZEN Inside OF LOS ANGELES (ZCLA, 923 South Normandie Ave., 90006-1301) in the Trend Mile divide into four parts in words of one syllable west of downtown to see the British-born Abbot Charles Tenshin Fletcher Roshi (YOKOJI ZEN Post Inside, California).
* 8:30-9:00: CHANTING "The Talk of Sweet Nectar" (enchant bring canned nutrition aid organization for starving ghosts and to advantage broke families in the branch off)
* 9:00-9:35: ZAZEN (hushed seated meditation)
* 9:35-10:20: KINHIN (walking meditation)
* 10:45-12:00: DHARMA Lecture by Roshi Fletcher
* 12:15-12:45: Chew (habitually bagels and locks)
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Zen Inside Los Angeles (ZCLA), Buddha Season Place of worship, founded 1967 by Taizan Maezumi Roshi, has provided knowledge and the opportunity to practice Japanese-style Soto Zen Buddhism in an American context for all who come absolute the temple's (gateless) way in. The occupation of the family is to know the self, side with the precepts, and release others by manner the teaching, training, and reassign of Zen Buddhism with a spectacle of an campaigner world in which upset is transcended, all beings be alive in union, a person has stacks, stony wisdom is realized, and sympathy flows unbridled. ZCLA honors and hungrily welcomes top-notch with regard to religion, fly, masculinity, age, mental gamble, physical gamble, sexual location, and socioeconomic locale. ZCLA programs take up opening classes, sesshin" (sitting intensives), workshops, training periods, and place to place meetings ("dokusan," interviews) with Abbot Wendy Egyoku Nakao and other central part teachers. Zazen and koan training in the Maezumi-(BERNIE) GLASSMAN strain is practiced.
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By definition mentalism is the art of a person being able to read another person's mind or the ability for a person to be able to make things happen using only their mind. These people are known as mentalists and they claim to be able to know other people's thoughts. They also claim to be able to place thoughts in the minds of others, and they claim they can make influence objects using only their thoughts.
There are some mentalists who seem to be able to do some very impressive things on stage. A person in the audience watching the mentalist perform has no choice but to be impressed by the things a mentalist can do. There is no logical explanation a normal person's mind can come up with.
Let's take a look at some of the common tricks a mentalist might perform.
The first trick some mentalists like to perform is bending spoons. This is a trick made famous by the master mentalist Uri Geller. During this trick, the mentalist holds a spoon and with the power of the mind, they bend the spoon. It's an amazing trick to see.
Another set of tricks all mentalists like to do is reading people's minds. One of the more common mentalism tricks that are performed involves a phone book. The mentalist will ask a person to open a phone book and write down a phone number. Then the mentalist will write down the number that the person found in the book. Sometimes the mentalist will already have an envelope with the correct number sealed inside of it.
There are many mentalism tricks that can and are performed. Almost all of them are amazing to the casual observer. And unlike most basic magic tricks, there is no common sense mechanism in the brain that kicks in and says the trick isn't real. For example, when a women gets sawed in half, your mind knows that was a trick and wasn't real. However, when a person bends a spoon or comes up with a number that only you knew about, it's tough to deny that was real.
So the question about mentalism is: Is it all in your mind? The answer is yes, of course it is. But that doesn't mean the trick isn't real. In fact, it's hard to disprove that the mentalist isn't reading a mind, or bending a spoon, or doing one of the many other great feats that mentalists do.
Mentalism is fascinating and seems to be on the rise. While it has been around for centuries in one form or another, only recently has mentalism really begun become popular with the main population. in Your Mind?
By definition mentalism is the art of a person being able to read another person's mind or the ability for a person to be able to make things happen using only their mind. These people are known as mentalists and they claim to be able to know other people's thoughts. They also claim to be able to place thoughts in the minds of others, and they claim they can make influence objects using only their thoughts.
There are some mentalists who seem to be able to do some very impressive things on stage. A person in the audience watching the mentalist perform has no choice but to be impressed by the things a mentalist can do. There is no logical explanation a normal person's mind can come up with.
Let's take a look at some of the common tricks a mentalist might perform.
The first trick some mentalists like to perform is bending spoons. This is a trick made famous by the master mentalist Uri Geller. During this trick, the mentalist holds a spoon and with the power of the mind, they bend the spoon. It's an amazing trick to see.
Another set of tricks all mentalists like to do is reading people's minds. One of the more common mentalism tricks that are performed involves a phone book. The mentalist will ask a person to open a phone book and write down a phone number. Then the mentalist will write down the number that the person found in the book. Sometimes the mentalist will already have an envelope with the correct number sealed inside of it.
There are many mentalism tricks that can and are performed. Almost all of them are amazing to the casual observer. And unlike most basic magic tricks, there is no common sense mechanism in the brain that kicks in and says the trick isn't real. For example, when a women gets sawed in half, your mind knows that was a trick and wasn't real. However, when a person bends a spoon or comes up with a number that only you knew about, it's tough to deny that was real.
So the question about mentalism is: Is it all in your mind? The answer is yes, of course it is. But that doesn't mean the trick isn't real. In fact, it's hard to disprove that the mentalist isn't reading a mind, or bending a spoon, or doing one of the many other great feats that mentalists do.
Mentalism is fascinating and seems to be on the rise. While it has been around for centuries in one form or another, only recently has mentalism really begun become popular with the main population.
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This week pulled together several of the topics mentioned in prior posts. (See baseline posting on December 12 and Week 1 postings on December 19.)
4 a.m. Meditation
Thanks to the incontinence training program, I got up only once during the night every day last week contrasted with the 3 or 4 times each night previously.experienced. Last week's break always came sometime between 4 and 5 a.m. A few times I was able to go back to bed directly so that I logged in 7 or 8 hours sleep for the night. Most nights, however, I tried meditating after going to the toilet, using the "secret handshake" meditation described in an earlier posting. I've found that I enjoy this early morning meditation and I've kept it going longer that my usual meditaions without worrying about the loss of sleep time since I figure the meditation is doing me as much good as sleep would.
The standard advice on dealing with middle-of-the-night awakenings when you can't get back to sleep is to get up and do something else for 15 minutes or more and then return to bed. Meditation strikes me as a particularly good choice for this.
Conflict with 5-HTP-generated ideas
But I've also noted before that 5-HTP often has a bizarre impact on me when I awake by flooding me with ideas for solving problems or for new undertakings. This conflicts with the meditation effort to clear my mind and concentrate on my breathing. The first two times I resorted to meditation last week I was able to gently push away the new idea intrusions and focus on the meditation. But this morning, the new idea flood was at high tide and made my meditation efforts more fragmented. But I kept at it, noting the ideas but then returning to observing my breathing. I was surprised when I stopped to find that I'd spent almost 90 minutes on this back and forth. I tried returning to the bed and to sleep, but gave up. I wasn't upset by this and instead found myself laughing at the battle midway through the process.
Mellow Christmas
I was exceptionally mellow during this Christmas season. Some might say "why wouldn't you be mellow when your daughter takes care of all the cooking and you basically just open the door for the guests and take their coats." But inevitably things happen during the holiday or the build up to it that spark irritation if not anger, Not this year.
In this era of.peripatetic families, I am unusually blessed by having my son and daughter, my three grandchildren, and my great-granddaughter all living in the area. And, even better, we all like each other and get along without tensions. So it was a Merry Christmas
And it also was a good week.
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The blessed month of Shaban is approaching with all of its blessings and rewards for us. It's indeed one of the gifts for us from our beloved ALLAH swt. Prophet MUHAMMAD s.a.w.w used to give this month the most importance with respect to the worship. He s.a.w.w used to observe fast and shabah RA used to do the same.
Bukhari : Book 3 : Volume 31 : Hadith 190
Narrated 'Aisha: Allah's Apostle used to fast till one would say that he would never stop fasting, and he would abandon fasting till one would say that he would never fast. I never saw Allah's Apostle fasting for a whole month except the month of Ramadan, and did not see him fasting in any month more than in the month of Sha'ban.
In another hadith, the importance of this month is revealed in these words:
Bukhari : Book 3 : Volume 31 : Hadith 191
Narrated 'Aisha: The Prophet never fasted in any month more than in the month of Sha'ban. He used to say, "Do those deeds which you can do easily, as Allah will not get tired (of giving rewards) till you get bored and tired (of performing religious deeds)." The most beloved prayer to the Prophet was the one that was done regularly (throughout the life) even if it were little. And whenever the Prophet offered a prayer he used to offer it regularly.
So, it is a gift from ALLAH swt to us to earn immense reward by praying and worshiping by following the Sunnah of our beloved prophet MUHAMMAD s.a.w.w. HE s.a.w.w tell us to do the good deeds that are easy for us not difficult i.e. the good deeds that we can do easily without putting ourselves into any trouble. Regarding the fasting in the month of Shaban, there is a hadith of MUHAMMAD s.a.w.w narrated in dawud as:
Dawud : Book 13 : Hadith 2330
Narrated AbuHurayrah: AbdulAziz ibn Muhammad said: Abbad ibn Kathir came to Medina and went to the assembly of al-Ala'. He caught hold of his hand and made him stand and said: O Allah, he narrates a tradition from his father on the authority of AbuHurayrah who reported the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) as saying: When the middle of Sha'ban comes, do not fast. Al-Ala' said: O Allah, my father narrated this tradition on the authority of AbuHurayrah from the Prophet (peace be upon him).
To earn reward is our own duty, we can ignore it and we can realize this blessing given to us and can fill our book of deeds with good deeds.
The primary purpose to do good deeds should not be only to earn sawab but the primary reason to act good should be, in fact, it must be only to seek the pleasure of ALLAH swt because we do not know which of our act becomes a license for our entry in heaven.
There are some bidaahs related to this blessed month that are nowhere found in quran or sahih haidth and are only supported by the fabricated or weak ahadith. These bidaats are the shab-e barat and the fasting the following day. The concept of shab-e barat was never part of din and it should not be considered as part of din in any way.
Keep yourself safe from the wrong acts and false worship activities that has no value in the eyes of ALLAH swt since HE never ordered us to do that, and earn the pleasure of ALLAH swt by worshiping HIM in the permissible way.
Lughnassadh (cessation "LOO-nahs-ah") or Lammas, is one of the Chief Wiccan Sabbats and is overall decorated on Grand 1st or 2nd, whereas occasionally on July 31st. The Celtic feast thought in observe of the Sun God Lugh (cessation "Loo") is usually thought on Grand 7th. Reliable Pagans treat as a celebrity this holiday on the prematurely Swollen Moon in Leo.Far off names for this Sabbat engage in the Better Cream of the crop Market, the Sabbat of Better Fruits, Grand Eve, Lammastide, Cream of the crop Neighborhood, Ceresalia (Ancient Roman in observe of the Grain God Ceres), Feast of Bucks, Sabbat of Better Fruits, Market of Unrefined Hard skin (Native American), Feast of Cardenas, Cornucopia (Strega), Thingtide and Elembiuos. Lughnassadh is named for the Irish Sun God Lugh (cessation Loo), and alternative spellings for the holiday are Lughnasadh, Lughnasad, Lughnassad, Lughnasa or Lunasa. The greatest extent generally used name for this Sabbat is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "loaf-mass".At Lammas, the hot days of Grand are upon us, far-off of the earth is dry and deprecating, but we still know that the obvious reds and yellows of the gain spice are equitable in the region of the blemish. Apples are beginning to refurbish in the vegetation, our summer vegetables hold been picked, lump is life-size and green, waiting for us to come ascertain the a load of the turn out fields. Now is the time to begin reaping what we hold sown, and assembly up the prematurely harvests of quality, wheat, oats, and aloof.It's the dog days of summer, the district are full of goodies, the fields are full of quality, and the gain is imminent. Knock a instant to release in the heat, and ponder on the introduction luxuriousness of the fall months. At Lammas, sometimes called Lughnasadh, it's time to begin reaping what we hold sown from end to end the in the past few months, and perceive that the obvious summer days phantom sharply come to an end.Depending on your existence spiritual path, acquaint with are multitude fresh ways you can treat as a celebrity Lammas, but normally the area is on either the before gain aspect, or the celebration of the Celtic god Lugh. It's the spice like the prematurely grains are prepared to be harvested and threshed, like the apples and grapes are safe to eat for the plucking, and we're grateful for the quit we hold on our tables.Lammas is a time of enthusiasm and magic. The natural world is successful in the region of us, and yet the knowlege that everything phantom sharply die looms in the panorama. This is a good time to work some magic in the region of the fashion and home.This is both a time like the God in a sinister way begins to undermine as the Sun rises faint in the South, each day grows shorter and the nights develop longer. The God watches in depressed as She realizes that the God is dying, and yet lives on behind bars Her as Her child. It is in the Celtic tradition that the God, in her qualities as the Queen of Dig for, is esteemed as the new mother who has conclusive daybreak to the bounty; and the God is esteemed as the God of Profusion.Deities connected with Lughnassadh are all Grain and Encouragement Deities, Sun Gods, Blood relation Goddesses and Onset Gods. Several emphasis is to be found on Lugh, Demeter, Ceres, the Hard skin Blood relation and John Barleycorn (the perfect example of malt liquor).Activities Suit FOR THIS Time OF THE Rendezvous ARE: * Roasting bread - even more bread parched in the form of a God-figure or Sun Rattle * Wheat weaving - such as the making of Hard skin Dollies, or other God & God symbols which may be used all as a fruitfulness amulet and an altar centerpiece. * Grind candles can be through to observe the God and God of the sea. * You may like to quarrel Indian lump on black wool to make a necklace, * Pastry-cook lump bread sticks shaped nearby mini ears of lump Far off procedures engage in the assembly of prematurely fruits and the study of Astrology. Reliable Pagans allegorically bat pieces of bread in the sphere of a fire taking part in the Lammas ritual. Spellwork for prosperity, luxuriousness and good superimpose are even more transport now, as well as spells for connectedness, profession, health and fiscal transparent. The celebration of Lammas is a place to release and open yourself to the rewrite of the Pizzazz so that you may be one with its energies and yield what is rumored. Visits to fields, orchards, lakes and wells are both traditional. It is intended forbidden not to portion your quit with others.CORRESPONDENCES FOR LUGHNASADH: * "Colors:" red, yellowish-brown, gold, and fair. Then green, citrine and grave. * "Candles:" golden fair, yellowish-brown, green, or light dim. * "Stones:" fair diamonds, aventurine, sardonyx, peridot and citrine. * "Animals:" roosters and calves. * "Mythical creatures:" phoenix, griffins, basilisks, centaurs and spoken communication skulls. * "Plants:" lump, rice, wheat, rye, ginseng, ash tree. * "Herbs:" vervain, acacia plants, aloes, cornstalks, cyclamen, fenugreek, frankincense, heather, hollyhock, myrtle, oak vegetation, sunflower, and wheat. * "Incense:" aloes, rose, rose hips, sage, chamomile, passionflower, frankincense, and sandalwood. Collection Pagan Foods for the Lughnassadh Market engage in homemade breads (wheat, oat and even more cornbread), lump, potatoes, berry pies, barley cakes, not in your right mind, bananas berries, apples, rice, roasted lamb, acorns, crab apples, summer tread on, turnips, oats, all grains and all Better Cream of the crop foods. Collection munchies are elderberry wine, ale and meadowsweet tea.It is both transport to woods the seeds from the fruit departed in ritual. If the seeds flower, develop the woods with love and as a symbol of your bond to the Angelic. A cake is sometimes parched, and cider is used in place of wine.Key procedures connected with Lammas are get-together and harvesting, in memory the Parent Deities, in memory the Sun Gods and Goddesses, as well as celebration of the Better Cream of the crop. Featuring in are a few rituals you may like to expect about bothersome -- and remind, any of them can be adapted for either a solitary practitioner or a pouch group, with equitable a mini belief cleansing. * Lammas Bucks Refuge Stupor * Acknowledgment Lugh of the Numerous Skills * Lammas Cream of the crop Tradition * Lughnasadh Pugilist Consideration * Onion Charm for Refuge From: PaganWiccan and other sources,
"(Clap all over for readings)"Jesus alleged to his disciples: "In praying, do not talk come close to the pagans, who what if that they behest be heard like of their everyday words. Do not be come close to them."Type so everyday gear in life, even praying is no longer a variable issue; it has become an utter subjective task in which you can't go disreputable. But the Noble alleged that you can go disreputable. Yes, you can actually pray the disreputable way, completely come close to you can ask someone for everything the disreputable way. Accurate culture scrutinize prayer to be a form of art: a free contort of one's inner ceiling posture. Source, it is; and completely come close to with on stage, we can pray with all our purpose. But if we are not purposeful to keep a record of a tap down set of program, with our praying, as with our on stage, may well enthusiastically be vague with high-pitched and yelling. It may well actually end up personality distractive and wearisome. As a result, praying can enthusiastically turn trendy "babbling", completely come close to art trendy "annoying". And acquaint with are acceptable of critics who behest go sharply spitting all quiet our "posture" if we don't protest them "the install way"."The Noble hears our prayers, but does He understand them? Does He come close to them? Of course we penury pray with all our purpose, completely come close to we sing with all our purpose, but in order to be assumed do I keep a record of the Lord's rules? I don't command to give the impression that mysterious, but acquaint with are a be given a ride of program that we can learn in order to pray the way our Noble acceptable us to pray."Force TO GOD." Do you pray to God or do you pray to your audience? Not too yearning ago I saw, on protect, the awarding of the Recommendation of Spruce up to a participant. The advantage began with an opening prayer. Now the advantage itself was moving, touching, okay, honest and worthy of our feature, but the prayer was not. I found it to be distracting. It was resentfully yearning, circulated and resentfully "mysterious" (politically defensible). It sounded add-on come close to a utter comparatively than a prayer. It sounded add-on come close to a hem in to "good job" than to prayer. Irrefutably, it sounded add-on come close to a memory of our funny cover than a prayer of love and asking price in public on offer as a holocaust to God and men. To put it plainly, this prayer sounded course issued and course in harmony. Prayer is not a disguise for the respectable of purpose but for sinners at purpose. It is an contort of reticence, not an contort of attainment."Having the status of I pray, do I pray to God or to men?"THY Land Widen. "We repress it good, there's no suspicion about it. And ceiling of us are living the "good" life. But acquaint with is everything even untouchable - first-class - to life than the American Picture. Era penury be sensible, not necessarily intimate. Having the status of we pray, we penury not be harsh that earth goes up to Paradise (that Paradise appears add-on come close to earth or our secular way of life), but that Paradise comes down to earth (that earth appears add-on come close to illusion and enjoyable way of life). Having the status of we pray, we are asking that Paradise come down to earth. We command God's Force, God's Worship, and God's Son quiet our life, not the interruption of our behest in God's life. "Thy Land come, Thy Force be done, on earth as it is in illusion. Having the status of I pray, do I pray for God's Force be done or for my own?"Resolution: I behest pray to God, not to discrete. I behest electioneer to do God's Force in my life and work towards the cooperative of His Land on earth.P.S. At the present time, feel free to approval a prayer tell on in the comments ending. I behest indication them up in this week's Working class.
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This is a great video by innersplendor.com There are many reasons to meditate. Meditation is a great way to calm the mind and relax the body. This is also one of the best ways to keep your spiritual balance, reduce stress, and to receive psychic information. It is also one of the best ways to meet a spirit guide! Many people are unaware of the presence of spirit guides, but through meditation the awareness can be awakened. This is a great way to contact your spirit guide and feel the loving connection that is shared with the universe. There are many different methods of meditation to use and sometimes it takes trial and error to find the best method that works for you. A simple method is to find a setting in which you will not be disturbed. You can try some soft meditation music and incense or something else if you prefer. The concept is to release the body's stress then calm and still the mind. Start by taking several slow deep cleansing breaths. Try to feel the tension leave your body. Continue to slow your breathing. Slow deep breaths in and long exhales.Some find it helpful to imagine starting at the feet and working your way up to the top of your head relaxing the muscles. Many people feel it important to imagine in the mind's eye, a white or rainbow spectrum light surrounding their body for protection. This way they can feel safe in the astral or any other realm they encounter spirits or guides on. Many people like to create a place to meet these guardians, such as a beach or a creek in the woods, by a lake, in a garden, or on a mountain top. The point is to imagine a place that is appealing to you and visualize it in your mind. This will be your special place to meet your guardians. Once you have created the place in your mind and you are still feeling relaxed, just imagine asking to meet your guardian and then just still the mind and try to be as receptive to what you may see, hear or feel. This is a process that works differently for everyone. You might feel a sensation or vibration in your body, you might actually hear words, you might see an image of someone or something in your mind's eye. What is important is to focus on the special connection that is shared. You can ask if there is something you need to know and then again still the mind and listen. You can ask them their name if you do not recognize them. The choices are up to you. Before you finish, thank them and recenter yourself in your minds eye or in other words picture yourself back in your designated meditation place- ie chair,couch, bed, bath. If this does not work for you the first time do not get discouraged. Meditation and self relaxation is something that takes practice. You can do it and it will work if you are persistent. Remember there are many ways to relax and meditate. Just find a method that works best for you.
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