tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53704445565996783552024-03-13T07:50:36.191-07:00shascitaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-16772946930118763052012-08-24T23:59:00.001-07:002012-08-28T12:25:53.412-07:00Become the sky; Inside this new love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Inside this new love, die.<br />
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Your way begins on the other side.</div>
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Become the sky.</div>
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Take an axe to the prison wall.</div>
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Escape.</div>
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Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.</div>
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Do it now.</div>
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You're covered with a thick cloud.</div>
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Slide out the side. Die,</div>
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and be quiet. Quiteness is the surest sign</div>
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that you've died.</div>
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<b><i>Your old life was a frantic running</i></b></div>
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<b><i>from silence.</i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><i>The speechless full moon</i></b></div>
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<b><i>comes out now.</i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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RUMI</div>
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<br /></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-19442800523732860032012-08-21T12:11:00.002-07:002012-08-25T00:03:46.792-07:00whisper <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>
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<span>Start seeing everything as God</span><br />
<span>But keep it a secret</span><br />
<span>Become like a man who is awestruck</span><br />
<span>and nourished, listening to a golden nightingale</span><br />
<span>sing in a beautiful foreign language</span><br />
<span>while God nests invisibly upon it's tongue.</span><br />
<span>Hafiz, who can you tell in this world</span><br />
<span>That when a dog runs up to you</span><br />
<span>wagging it's ecstatic tail,</span><br />
<span>you bend down and whisper in it's ear</span><br />
<span>'Beloved, I am so glad that you are happy to see me,</span><br />
<span>Beloved, I am so glad, so very glad, that you have come.'</span></div>
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<span><br /></span></div>
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<span>~ Hafiz</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-87965960412672399462012-05-24T21:28:00.001-07:002012-05-24T21:35:50.690-07:00Just wait for the birth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth.....for the hour of new clarity." </span><blockquote>
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">- Rilke</span></blockquote>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-23812065198415816622012-04-24T16:45:00.001-07:002014-07-25T12:43:15.954-07:00Affirmation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am about to marry my best friend, start a company, grow into a role as trusted advisor to amazing inspired people in the contexts of education, technology, and spirituality. I work with and support my best friends and loved ones. I am strong, healthy, happy, peaceful, and actively still in the eye of the storm. I feel Divine presence continually and Trust in that perfect guidance. I celebrate Life joyfully and am filled with gratitude, abundance, and bouyant generosity. I recognize the divine spark in the eyes and spirit of each person who crosses my path, and I love fiercely and confidently, allowing patience to blossom through the experience of struggle. I am growing into a role of motherhood, discovering depth of connection and groundspring of wisdom in our Divine Mother. I serve with grace. I engage in radical communication, holding space for the highest good to emerge as Grace so wills. I love with my mind and think with my heart -- Jai Guru!<br />
<br />
I am</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-26720718768723593272012-04-08T23:58:00.001-07:002015-09-01T06:55:08.479-07:00promise fulfilled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
easter 2012. the Christ Consciousness has arisen.<br />
<br />
Jaya!<br />
<br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-42079784043971748352012-04-06T20:24:00.000-07:002014-07-25T12:46:13.805-07:00Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy freedom! <br />
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Today is Passover, the day Jews celebrate freedom -- may we all be free from the enslavement of limited possibilities and ignorance of God.<br />
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Today is also Good Friday, the day many Christ-followers reflect on the crucifixion of Jesus and the salvation that followed in witness of his expansive freedom and communion with God -- may the Christ Consciousness awaken in us all, may we all find eternal peace and repose in communion with our Creator.<br />
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We are free. This life is a blessing.<br />
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So...<br />
How shall we celebrate our freedom together tonight and in every moment?<br />
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Here's a suggestion... Let's imagine our ultimate and ideal future, and let's create it! How? Just imagine it and then allow it to naturally arise. By focusing so intently, Love becomes all we see, Divine perfection becomes all we experience, the awesome beauty of This One Long Now becomes the center of our awareness always. Recognize those blessings which in each inhale are showering upon you, which in each exhale are ripening within existence. Imagine the matrix, the Matrica, the Mother of creation, shimmering with infinite possibility, awaiting our every command-desire, with the sole intention of fulfilling it, so that we may come to recognize the only desire which does not extinguish upon arrival -- the desire to be forever in the bosom of Divinity. Allow Love to be your foundation, let Compassion be your guide. Be freeeee to just be!<br />
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Whatever you want sincerely, you will get. What you are getting now is exactly a result of what you have been wanting in the past. Now is the time, Now is the opportunity, Now is the moment to change the Gestalt. Decide to awaken into a new reality, a closer to Truth reality, the one Reality of the one Long Now. Decide to fight the good fight, to be determined to stay with Love, to be with integrity, to insist upon Beauty and Compassion, to swipe fear to the side and pursue the path of Righteousness, which is the path of Joy.<br />
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We are all saturated in Grace. Let's all wake up and smell those roses. <br />
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Meet me in Love, i'll see you here. :)</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-67325247613187486032012-04-05T20:45:00.000-07:002012-04-05T20:45:54.009-07:00What works?We can only see what we are prepared to see.<br />
So let's practice seeing the blessings all around us. <br />
We choose our own reality, our own heaven or hell. <br />
<br />
My friend Viral Mehta likes to say, "The greater our awareness of our intentions, the greater our freedom to choose."<br />
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As we become increasingly aware of our intentions and desires, we can more consciously choose which of our tools to employ. Thus we become increasingly effective, increasingly prosperous, increasingly blissful. Thus we become increasingly effective learners of what works. <br />
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Let's spend our time here learning and implementing what works.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-92009297979111680082012-03-25T11:33:00.001-07:002012-03-25T11:33:35.889-07:00integrationspiritual practice can become all that we do when we come to see that all we do can be spiritual practice ... // INTEGRATE!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-28881560699701019622012-03-23T23:18:00.001-07:002012-03-23T23:19:10.633-07:00feeling/"dwelling" vs distraction for pain managementwhen a sensitive little girl sees reality and can't handle the pain, she may deal with it through distraction. as soon as she becomes a woman, she let's go of the distraction of distraction, and she learns to experience reality while dealing with the pain... she learns to deal with the pain rather than to distract so *that she may experience reality. <br />
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she feels into it! .... <br />
<br />
truth vs. Truth<br />
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what she needs most is that you allow her to feel how she feels and support her sincerely and completely in feeling how she feels... so *that she feels totally safe and accepted to feel exactly how she feels! no distractions, just the present moment reality.<br />
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my gateway is to feel how i feel.<br />
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and furthermore, to allow myself to feel how i feel.<br />
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amen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-58061436727505789422012-03-21T23:49:00.002-07:002012-03-21T23:49:23.702-07:00a real lesson, learn thisYou've got to motivate, accelerate, never wait, show the way, no escape, take hold and shift shape, live a longer day, elevate, concentrate, get your focus straight, aim, orchestrate fate... ♥<br />
<br />
- Release 1,2,3 ... BlackaliciousUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-84380500672372512652012-03-08T16:03:00.002-08:002012-03-08T16:04:15.117-08:00consciousness and mindso, as we consciously pay attention to moments of our life experience, we surrender those moments to our consciousness. in allowing the consciousness to be in charge, our minds don't need to get involved. <br />
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the mind has little hooks that karma gets stuck to, if we allow it in, whereas the consciousness has no such hooks and allows karma to flow freely on through.<br />
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then, to the extent that we are aware, with consciousness versus mind, the karma doesn't get stuck, and we 1) get to burn through old karma, as well as 2) not-accumulate new karma. <br />
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very win-win!<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-26573588062144321392012-02-27T18:09:00.003-08:002012-02-27T19:26:00.265-08:00jammingmy mom's definition of a musical jamming session...<br />
<font size=+2><blockquote>a potluck dinner of sounds </blockquote></font><br />
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:) !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-16017424515144818392012-02-17T12:33:00.000-08:002012-02-17T12:33:56.285-08:00a new todayOn a day<br />
when the wind is perfect,<br />
the sail just needs to open<br />
and the world is full of beauty.<br />
Today is such a day.<br />
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~ Rumi<br />
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<br />
<br />
I am now officially a Doctor.<br />
(of Information Science!)<br />
<br />
And after my successful defense,<br />
my chair said to me yesterday,<br />
quoting his son in youth,<br />
"You're a doctor now, just not the kind that helps people."<br />
<br />
:)<br />
<br />
The world is that much brighter now. <br />
<br />
Today is a new day. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-85275937077457300082012-02-10T21:04:00.000-08:002012-02-10T21:04:18.481-08:00y por eso te amo cuando te amo.uprising<br />
fists solid arms long<br />
uprising<br />
heart open gaze steady<br />
and strong<br />
<br />
rise up brother<br />
take my hand<br />
we struggle together<br />
rise up<br />
there is fighting still to do<br />
and the day is long<br />
<br />
uprising<br />
watch the sun<br />
his solid beaming gaze<br />
uprising<br />
fall out of the pain<br />
<br />
overcome<br />
come over<br />
we need you now<br />
stay steady<br />
fists open<br />
take my hand<br />
we rise together<br />
rise up<br />
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(jan 13, 2012)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-61306597963653686032012-02-10T20:05:00.001-08:002012-02-10T20:05:53.355-08:00reflections on the experience of loving very very muchUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-56016822694507339792012-02-07T17:58:00.001-08:002012-02-07T17:58:30.535-08:00todaytoday my heart aches for you<br />
and in so aching, my heart remembers the others too<br />
who i have loved and lost<br />
<br />
except that today i don't feel i've lost you<br />
i just ache for your presence<br />
for that laughter we've shared<br />
that silent recognition we've known<br />
that smile that seems to belong to us both<br />
<br />
and in that remembering<br />
my muscles are reliving it<br />
re-experiencing it, that joy<br />
of having found one another<br />
<br />
and nothing is ever lost<br />
if it had ever been<br />
real<br />
<br />
so today, dear far-away one,<br />
i am laughing again with you<br />
our smiles are once again the same<br />
our hearts dance together<br />
even within this vast space<br />
our lives have come to know<br />
<br />
please honor yourself, dear<br />
please hold yourself close<br />
please listen to the silent aching of your heart<br />
let it draw you nearer to that which you love<br />
most<br />
<br />
in our long and dramatic journeys<br />
towards G-d<br />
we are rising up<br />
and bound together by that gravity<br />
so we shall meet again<br />
<br />
and i will still love you<br />
i will always love you<br />
our smiles are still the same<br />
and your key still unlocks something in my heart<br />
may Allah bless us both foreverUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-24435506239744776022011-12-24T12:16:00.000-08:002011-12-24T12:16:51.094-08:00a prayerthy light is revealed in darkness<br />
majestic in silence art thou<br />
in stillness, embrace envelopes me<br />
oh lord, thou art mighty<br />
and awesome thy love.<br />
may i be forever in communion with thee<br />
may i live fully within thy grace.<br />
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amenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-1163093264612522572011-12-01T14:43:00.000-08:002011-12-01T14:43:11.542-08:00on loveif i do love you, then i must love every atom, too, because you are in everything. i must love every space between atoms, because you are also there, and so i must love everything in this reality, and in every alternate reality, and in all of creation, because it is all from you. and then i must love everything outside of creation, because that is where your sunrise shines most brilliantly, the liquid gold beyond stories of this and that, relativity, birth and death. and if i do love you, then i must love each and any piece of experience that floats into my perception, and then i must learn to perceive beyond perception, in order to love also whatever is there, and all that is and ever has been. if i do love you, then i must love you, as fully as fullness itself, and only then will i be alive, will livingness flow through this being, and in that long moment of now, we will seize to maintain identity and --Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-3123881588899339212011-10-26T21:27:00.001-07:002011-10-26T21:27:21.389-07:00Good advice from my dad"The race doesn't end ten meters before the finish line.<br />
One foot in front of the other; just don't give up."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-23472023629963838592011-07-15T01:29:00.000-07:002011-07-15T12:21:49.328-07:00MetaphorFrom Latin metaphora from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphora) <br />
from μεταφέρω (metapherō, “I transfer, apply”) from μετά (meta, “with, across, <br />
after”) + φέρω (pherō, “I bear, carry”) [source: wiktionary.com]<br />
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Metaphor: <br />
to carry across; <br />
through the meta field from one world of perspective <br />
to another; a private/collective meta-portation device <br />
through dimensions. <br />
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To be effective, she who throws a metaphor <br />
must enter the now-world of her audience, <br />
must learn this world’s vocabulary, its grammars, <br />
must taste its desire, respect its fears; <br />
must sneak through existing preconceptions to invade from within, <br />
to attack without warning, with inner boundaries down, <br />
to explode a bomb, call forth an apocalypse of all that's been, <br />
stand her ground;<br />
now transition transport meta. <br />
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Metaphor:<br />
to carry across;<br />
suddenly a new spot, <br />
cleared land, uncover fertile soil, <br />
in new speed, a different vehicle, moving in trajectory <br />
from one world to another, multidimensional <br />
expansion pulling painfully / meta flows / <br />
away the mask, feigned flatness goes. <br />
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ALIVE.<br />
<br />
.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-61624125367632983582011-06-30T16:11:00.000-07:002015-09-01T07:03:01.578-07:00Communication<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've been working with brilliant people on interesting projects.<br />
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Recently I have the opportunity to jump in on a project during a particularly busy week. My role has involved owning a document which is to be delivered to the client within days. As part of this process, I get to talking with one of the inventors whose latest developments will be featured. This particular coworker has an especially diverse background within an environment which epitomizes interdisciplinary teamwork. He conveys to me his frustration at not being able to adequately explain, even to collaborators, the amazing work he is doing. The work will speak for itself once it has been completed, but right now, he needs his teammates to recognize the vision in order to realize it. Enter the writer*.<br />
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After spending some time with Inventor getting up to speed on the issue, I ask to see his brainchild in its current manifestation. Of course, playing with a new technology, even one still in development, offers a much better feel, tangibly, for its capabilities and possibilities. I delve into the experience which I will then try to transmit to others with words, and I want to know where he feels people struggle to grasp this work. Meanwhile, I become aware of an explanation stream starting to form in my mind. When I get back to my computer, it feels alternately like a struggle and like a flow -- the flow of words onto the page and me struggling to arrange them. We go back and forth a few times, testing how well my description matches his reality, and after several iterations, he sends this response -- "I showed it to my teammate and a lightbulb went off in his head! He finally gets it!" Yes! He is psyched to have something which solidly captures his ideas and will garner support for his cause. I am psyched to have played any role in this. Especially because I think his cause is super cool!<br />
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So -- am liking this... Participating in communicating great ideas that simply need a voice; ideas that would surely spread enthusiasm if only they were well-articulated and well-presented. <br />
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* Writing is something I have generally done for fun, and I enjoy applying the label in that context. Writing is also something I'm "forced" to do in the context of research and my ongoing dissertation process. Professional writing has entered my life accidentally; I am making space for it.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-20861715602446546022011-05-22T17:49:00.000-07:002011-05-22T17:49:38.535-07:00The Apparent ParadoxIn acknowledging the paradox of being alive -- that we are at once the omnipresent oneness as well as the experience of a temporary body-mind -- we allow ourselves to relax into the arms of the NOW-moment. <br />
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Ahh... it feels so good..!<br />
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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-18102671270611583322010-08-26T01:18:00.000-07:002013-04-30T01:27:58.408-07:00Change the Gestalt. Make the Paradigm shift.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
originally posted November 11, 2009<br />
<br />
<b>"Change the Gestalt. Make the Paradigm shift."</b><br />
<b>"You are a SOUL which has a body, not a body which has a soul."</b><br />
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<i>In response to a request for clarification on this quote, I’ve attempted here to explain my interpretation of it and warmly welcome feedback and discussion. :)</i><br />
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Gestalt...<br />
This means like, the way we look at something. In any given situation, there are many, many details, some of which we will choose to focus on in trying to understand the situation. Given our limited perception, there will always be more information available than we can actually perceive at one time. The resulting interpretation we come up with is then by definition incomplete, subjective and related to the particular Gestalt we have chosen.<br />
<a href="http://www.gaiehouston.co.uk/intro.htm">http://www.gaiehouston.co.uk/intro.htm</a> [Gestalt demystified]<br />
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This Gestalt concept is nicely illustrated in optical illusions... Depending on which part of an image (or situation) we focus on, we will perceive the whole story differently. Sometimes this is discussed as the play between Foreground & Background, or Figure & Ground. Check out this link for examples... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion</a><br />
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Paradigm...<br />
This means basically, the Gestalt which we have collectively agreed to use. A paradigm refers to what "we" consider to be "true", as based on socially accepted norms. Often the term is used in a scientific context. Depending on the paradigm from which an experimenter is working, the experiment will look very different and will lead to very different types of results.<br />
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A famous example of this is the statement that, "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now." This was said before Einstein came up with his Theory of Relativity, which has literally changed the world. Einstein stepped outside of the socially accepted Gestalt and made a Paradigm shift. ;) In other words, he tried an experiment of asking, what if the Gestalt we are using -- our current Paradigm -- is incomplete? Well, of course it’s incomplete. Then what?<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm</a><br />
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Funny thing is, there is never one "best" Gestalt, as it means simply looking at different *pieces* of the same whole, looking at the same picture from different angles. There is actually an infinite number of Gestalts which we could choose to "use" in our perception of life... The Gestalt we "choose" determines the Paradigm from which we will work. So it is up to us which Paradigm we choose to work from. Then why not experiment? We can be Experimenters in our own lives. If we feel "stuck", what if we try a new Gestalt? If something feels impossible, what happens when we just shift into a different Paradigm? How to do this? Well, as with the optical illusions... we simply shift our focus to a different part of the same picture. Get it?<br />
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So back to the quotes...<br />
<br />
<b>"Change the Gestalt. Make the Paradigm shift." </b><br />
<b>"You are a SOUL which has a body, not a body which has a soul."</b><br />
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I believe this is telling us to refocus our perception of this life experience. Let's experiment with the radical idea that we can actually *choose* to identify ourselves with the immortal Soul, rather than with this body, which will disease, decay and die. The fear of physical death is a huge drive for many people in our modern age -- aging is considered negative, and the appearance of aging, even more so negative. And yet, this body is bound to age. The over-identification with our physical bodies as our True Selves means that we are basing our happiness on something very temporary, which will die. What happens to our experience of this life if we shift to identify our Self with the Soul?<br />
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The Paradigm-shifting which we are currently experiencing as a planet is related to this re-identification with the Soul. It is high time that we align ourselves to this shift. We must unlearn the story we've been told that we ARE this body, that Life is over when this body dies. What will happen when we change the Gestalt and <b><i>shift</i></b>the Paradigm to Realize our Self as immortal Soul? Hmm... :)<br />
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<b>So how to shift this particular Paradigm?</b><br />
How to facilitate this re-identification of Self from body to Soul? ...<br />
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Two answers:<br />
1) <b>BE in the presence of a living Master.</b> TRUE living Masters have a Soul presence which transforms us effortlessly.<br />
2) <b>PRACTICE meditation.</b> Whatever speaks to you and will support you in your soul's eternal quest to Know the Truth of your Self as Soul.<br />
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Happy SELFing!<br />
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Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-29185887300315625472010-06-27T00:50:00.001-07:002013-04-30T01:26:23.766-07:00Beyond Sense-Making<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently came across the term "meaning junkie" via a facebook post by one of these many Very-Intellectual friends whose discovery of this term had recently shook up her world. <br />
<br />
... could we be addicted to assigning meaning? <br />
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I've been reflecting on this possibility over the past few weeks. I've been catching myself in moments where I might be acting from a space of putting in a lot of effort to extract meaning from something which <i>perhaps could be left alone</i>.<br />
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There was a time when I'd written up little reminders for myself on multicolored 3x5 cards and taped them up in places I'd be seeing constantly. My favorite was yellow and contained these three quotes:<br />
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<blockquote>
The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change. - Ishmael, Daniel Quinn<br />
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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased, Polo said. Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it. Or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little. - Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino<br />
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Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. - Nisagardatta</blockquote>
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Today I realized that all three of these quotes are about checking the addiction to making sense of everything. Why? Because when we are caught up in the perspective many of us live in, that it is our task and responsibility to create order, then we tend to lose sight of the beauties which may not fit into our order, and we may limit our appreciation of What-Is by creating a lot of "what should be"...<br />
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My *work* is effectively about making sense where there was none previously. I actually study finding sense in seeming chaos, am writing my PhD dissertation on such things, derive great joy from related challenges... At the same time, when I'm not *working*, I do believe that I am better-served when I can *choose* the times I want to engage in sense-making and when not. I have heard this described as the freedom to use the mind as a tool, rather than to be controlled by the mind.<br />
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How to do this? How to quiet the mind? Meditation.<br />
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Meditation to break the addiction to sense-making.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370444556599678355.post-33566928529926508382010-05-19T23:54:00.000-07:002015-09-01T06:59:23.777-07:00(my) Survival (sedona)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<img align="left" alt="Cathedral Rock from Oak Creek" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/shascita912/CIMG3112-2.jpg" hspace="15" /> Sedona, Arizona will always have a very special place in my heart, because eight years and two months ago, I was hiking at Cathedral Rock when I fell and broke both ankles. It was an experience that completely turned my life around, and for which I am heartfully grateful. At the time of this accident, I was 20 years old and in my first year of grad school. Academic life was full of hope, yet the feeling was recurring that what I really needed was to get out on my own and experience more of Real Life... I kept finding excuses to stick with the status quo, and then on a solo spring break trip in Taos, New Mexico, a series of blessed synchronicities led me to Sedona's otherworldy landscapes and the fate that awaited me there. If you've ever experienced or read about the vortex energies that people claim exist in the Verde Valley area of northern Arizona, then you have an idea of what I'll say next; otherwise, it's worth looking into. One of Sedona's major vortex points is at the base of Cathedral Rock, in an area next to Oak Creek, in Red Rock State Park. All I knew back then is that this spot may be especially beneficial for me, as it specializes in the strengthening of positive female energy. <br />
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I was very very "lucky"... It turns out that mine was the first bike rescue in the valley, part of a newly implemented program. At least seven rescue paramedics appeared -- my saviors on mountain bikes -- after an emergency phone call I'd made from a cell phone which died while I was frantically describing where I might be on the rock. I remember seeing a helicopter circling overhead after the call got cut off, and when it flew away, I cried, thinking that they had given up on rescuing me. Well, I was found, warmly reassured, medicated, strapped onto a stretcher and carried by four guys down the rock, while the other guys carried the extra bikes. On future trips back to Cathedral Rock, I look up and wonder how in the world I ever could have thought it was a good idea to hike up where I did... My fall was about 15-20 feet, a drop which can kill a person. Meanwhile, all that was injured on me was my two ankles -- I had fallen directly onto my feet, where my thighs seem to have absorbed most of the shock, and then I fell onto my butt and gently back onto the ground, padded by my backpack. I remember the way my body performed an automatic status check right after the fall, and I knew I was ok, until I looked down and saw my ankles and reached for my phone.<br />
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It took me about four months to be able to walk again at all. Most of the first six weeks was spent in bed or in a wheelchair. This is where I learned that I was actually capable of staying still -- something that comes in very handy for meditations today! Slowly but surely I graduated to a walker and then to crutches, and finally I could move around again! My mother had been able to take off the rest of her school year to care for me, and needless to say, I was living at home again -- this time gave us the spectacular opportunity to renew our relationship into the beautiful mother-daughter bond that we enjoy today. My lifestyle had changed so dramatically, and so immediately, that I could suddenly entertain ideas of doing something new! ... A good friend was moving to San Francisco, and so as soon as I could walk again with some confidence (five months after the fall!), I packed my car and moved there, too!<br />
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On the way out west, I stopped again at Sedona and hobbled out with my crutches to the spot at Oak Creek where I had crossed over and headed up Cathedral Rock. I remember smearing my feet with the cool red mud typical of the valley, and just staring over at the rock that had already changed my life so much.<br />
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I like to tell the story that moving to SF, I had $1500 in the bank, rent of $750 a month, and no job prospects. :) After a week, and realizing that I couldn't take the kind of foot-intensive job I'd originally wanted (barista!), I applied at a temp agency and within 24 hours was being sent to an office to replace another Sara who was going on maternity leave. Well, this turned out to be the office where I would meet many of the people who are among my best friends today -- including the love of my life, who I recognized as soon as I was introduced to him on my first day. :) Within months, I had started to practice regular meditation and then met a teacher who I studied with, until just in time meeting my current beautiful teacher, who, as becomes increasingly less surprising, has been with me all along.<br />
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Now, eight years, two months, and many adventures later, I am again in Arizona, and with Yaniv. We are on our way back west, moving to Los Angeles -- where I had been headed all that time ago, after some random travelers had sat with me around a map in a Taos hostel in 2002. And we visited the Grand Canyon today, which was my first visit -- auspicious, considering that it had been my Arizona destination on the mapped route to LA back then, when a freak snowstorm rerouted me to Sedona instead...<br />
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A few days ago we went back to Cathedral Rock. I had been commenting that I don't really feel the need to ever climb the rock again, really -- I feel more than satisfied just sitting on the bank of Oak Creek, in the red mud. We'd planned to hike around a bit, on level ground, and soak in the atmosphere. Only on the drive there, reading about the Sedona vortexes, did I realize that the vortex at Cathedral Rock is not on the rock at all -- it is exactly in the spot I'd continually felt so drawn to! -- right there next to the river. :) It was a visit full of blessings, and peaceful, loving messages through time and space. I felt the healing and rejuvenating power of however you call God and Guru. I know that our lives will continue to be full of blessings and love and peace, and I am so grateful to be able to share that, to any extent.<br />
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Thank you all for being a part of this life, of our lives.<br />
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Tomorrow we drive into Los Angeles, city of angels...<br />
to start a new adventure.<br />
Let's see what dreams may come. :)<br />
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Om Namah Shivaya<br />
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<img alt="Sara at Cathedral Rock, 2010" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/shascita912/CIMG3095b-1.jpg" /></div>
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