Kindness And Generosity
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I was tired after work last week and backed the car into another car. I was calm and gave her my name, address and mobile phone. When I came home I thought about it about 15 minutes. My conclusion was that I was tired and unattentive, and I wrote a blog about […]
“The Pain Body”, Afflictive Emotions And Karma
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I am rereading Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, and chapter 5 is about the pain-body. Since Tolle mentions karma, I was intrigued to find similarities between the pain-body and karma.
From A New Earth, chapter 5:
The voice in the head has a life of its own. Most people are at the mercy of […]
Finding The Flow
photo credit: Torsten Mangner
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my […]
Silence Terrifies People: Go Beyond Fear
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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most. — Bob Dylan
There is one thing I have become aware of when I socialize with people, it is that people fear silence. Have you noticed how difficult it is for people to be alone for one moment without finding something or someone to […]
Peace Is Every Breath
What is it that everybody has, is with us all time, excited when we are, relaxed when we are, that we are totally dependent on, but we seldom are aware of and appreciate?
Breath
In the beginning of the 1990’s, I attended a meditation course for beginners in the Tibetan tradition, and learned breath meditation. After 15 […]
