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Sri Aurobindo: Ripples and Waves

2006-05-23T18:51:00.000-07:00

When the overmind descends, the predominance of the centralizing ego-sense is entirely SUBORDINATED, lost in largeness of being and finally abolished; a wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal self and movement replaces it: many motions that were formerly ego-centric may still continue, but they occur as currents or RIPPLES in the cosmic wideness. Thought, for the most part,

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

2006-03-01T15:01:00.000-07:00

Henry David Thoreau Quotes: "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.Henry David Thoreau "

Aurobindo: pre-echo of Ken Wilber

2006-02-12T11:24:00.000-07:00

An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation, the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms, conflict

Is the Buddha in Hell?

2006-01-31T01:26:00.000-07:00

Is the Buddha in Hell?:A story I heard from a Buddhist Bhante in Bihar, India. 'I sat in a train station waiting for the train and fell asleep. In my dream the train came and the sign said it was going to Heaven. So with delight I got on. When I arrived in Heaven, it was just as I expected Heaven. Soft music, plenty of food, wonderful weather, lots of happy peaceful people. As I walked around, I

Science and religion must go hand in hand

2006-01-12T19:45:00.000-07:00

By Michael Gonsalves, Pune: A science-religion dialogue is key to the future shape of the cosmos and in addressing sensitive issues like cloning and genetic engineering, say scientists attending a global meeting near here."Whether cloning, biotechnology, genetic engineering and genome research will lead to a boom or will spell doom is the million dollar question confronting humanity," Job

Aurobindo and Dwarkoji

2006-01-01T21:09:00.000-07:00

Sri Aurobindo's "Life Divine" p 1025"All being is one and to be fully is to be all that is. To be in the being of all and to include all in one¹s being, to be conscious of the consciousness of all, to be integrated in force with the universal force, to carry all action and experience in oneself and feel it as one¹s own action and experience, to feel all selves as one¹s own self, to feel all

Integral Life Practice

2005-10-04T17:42:00.000-07:00

—Enlarge Cover— Integral Life Practice Starter Kit Practices That Transform Us, All In One Place The Ultimate in Body-Mind-Spirit Cross-Training By Ken Wilber Ken Wilber / Philosophy Description of Integral Life Practice Starter Kit Based on the acclaimed AQAL (All Quadrants, All Levels) map of reality and human potential, Integral Life Practice is

Einstein and spirituality

2005-08-17T18:02:00.000-07:00

This story came via David Heyl, but he is citing an anonymous source. "An ordained Rabbi had written explaining that he had sought to comfort his 19-year-old daughter over the death of her sister, `a sinless, beautiful, 16-year-old child.' The surviving daughter found no comfort `based on traditional religious grounds,' the Rabbi said, but had told her mother that perhaps a scientist could help

How To Stop Terrorism

2005-07-11T02:17:00.000-07:00

"How do we stop terrorism? Renounce every trace of violence in your heart and your life. Adopt the wisdom and practice of active nonviolence, as Gandhi and Dr. King taught. Beg the God of peace for the gift of peace." Read this most compelling narrative by John Dear Rev. John Dear is a Catholic peace, peace activist, and coordinator of Pax Christi New Mexico, a Catholic peace group. He is the

Aurobindo on "surrender of will"

2005-07-06T11:33:00.000-07:00

For a real transformation there must be a direct and unveiled intervention from above; there would be necessary too a total submission and surrender of the lower consciousness, a cessation of its insistence, a will in it for its separate law of action to be completely annulled by transformation and lose all rights over our being. If these two conditions can be achieved even now by a conscious

Unity, mutuality, harmony - Sri Aurobindo

2005-06-21T12:59:00.000-07:00

A spiritual or gnostic being would feel his harmony with the whole gnostic life around him, whatever his position in the whole. According to his place in it he would know how to lead or to rule, but also how to subordinate himself; both would be to him an equal delight: for the spirit¹s freedom, because it is eternal, self-existent and inalienable, can be felt as much in service and willing

Jacob the teacher

2005-06-15T19:16:00.000-07:00

Jacob, almost seventy, was in the midstages of Alzheimer's disease. A clinical psychologist by profession and a meditator for more than twenty years, he was well aware that his faculties were deteriorating. On occasion his mind would go totally blank; he would have no access to words for several minutes and become completely disoriented. He often forgot what he was doing and usually needed

Meditation - visual experiments on monks

2005-06-15T16:50:00.000-07:00

The monks - who carried out 'one-point' meditation, where they focus attention on a single object or thought - were able to focus on one image. Monks who had undergone the longest and most intense meditative training were able to focus their attention on just one of the images for up to 12 minutes. Olivia Carter, of the University of Queensland, said: 'The monks showed they were able to block

Live for Others by Sarah Belle Dougherty

2005-06-05T23:09:00.000-07:00

From "Inducing Altered States" by Sarah Belle Dougherty "The most powerful purifying influence is to live for others, making altruism the basis of life. Hand in hand with this goes finding one's own dharma -- both the overall reason for one's existence and the most immediate duty at any given moment. Performing one's dharma can become a continuous meditation. Our growth as human beings

Lynds: Time's Up, Einstein

2005-06-04T22:00:00.000-07:00

Wired 13.06: Time's Up, Einstein: "1687: Isaac Newton The universe has one absolute clock: • Time and space are independant of the observer. • Time's arrow points forward; events move ahead from the now. 1905: Albert Einstein every observer has his or her own (accurate) clock: • The universe exists in a space-time manifold. • Everyone's 'now' is different. • Acceleration affects time. 2003:

"The Path of the Here and Now" by Bill Dougherty

2005-05-24T23:29:00.000-07:00

"The Path of the Here and Now" by Bill Dougherty: "Yet there is a path of true spiritual development which has been universally recommended by the great teachers of mankind throughout the ages. It is a path which is as wonderful and simple, and as difficult, as each one of us. It tells us to forget entirely our own advancement and instead to begin right here and now to live up to the grand,

On the relationship between Quantum Theory and Relativity Theory

2005-05-21T06:42:00.000-07:00

Link to Article: The metaphor of the ocean and waves is quite an elegant to think about these two theories. - Sri " One of the fundamental problems of modern Physics is that two theories that have been proven correct, Quantum Theory and Relativity Theory, are basically not compatible. If both are correct representations of nature, how can they be so different and even contradictory? Relativity

An Integral Age at the Leading Edge

2005-05-21T04:15:00.000-07:00

Ken WilberAn odd fact about evolution is that species emerge, not just isolated individuals. For example, in bisexual specie, males and females originate; otherwise the specie cannot sustain itself. So another dimension to "specie selection" opens up when we contemplate this. The dimension is that somehow conditions in the environment treat populations or subpopulations together and not just

Mishlove and Keleman - on the body/Soma and spirit

2005-05-18T01:18:00.000-07:00

On Thinking Allowed [Click for full article]Recently Richard Otto and I exchanged a couple of emails on the importance of body consciousness. The theme was that neither the denial of the material world (per pop-Vedantins) nor denial of the realms of Spirit (per pop-Scientism) is right - If we understand modern day Spirituality (for instance Sri Aurobindo) it is honoring both. So read this

Teilhard de Chardin: Truth, Science, Spirituality

2005-05-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

"Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human. These two components are everywhere 'in the air'; generally, however, they are not strong enough, both at the same time, to combine with

Science, Consciousness and God by Peter Russell: science and spirituality are beginning to find common ground.

2005-05-13T02:18:00.000-07:00

Science, Consciousness and God by Peter Russell: science and spirituality are beginning to find common ground.: "A science that included deep mind would be a truly unified science. Such a science would understand the root of all our unnecessary fears, understand why we do not live life to its fullest potential, why we are not at peace inside. The consequence of such a science would be the

How we get "On second thought" (may be?)

2005-04-29T17:52:00.000-07:00

The thalamus and cortex convey information from the environment The thalamus to amygdala pathway carries information rapidly to the amygdala The thalamus to cortex to amygdala pathway is slower but allows the external stimuli to be cognitively appraised. The hippocampus is involved in memory and may store information about the emotional significance of

Intersubjective - collective soul force experiment

2005-04-23T15:03:00.000-07:00

I was part of an experiment during 3 day retreat. On Apr 10th, there were about 15 people. We did a visualization and cleared the energy in the room through collective movement and then sat down. The exercise that followed next was for each of us to link through feeling level with someone in the group. The request was to feel the feeling someone is feeling at that moment. Or connect with a need

Jacques Attali: Four kinds of utopias

2005-03-26T22:03:00.000-07:00

Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us. by Bill Joy: "In his new book Fraternity, Jacques Attali describes how our dreams of utopia have changed over time: 'At the dawn of societies, men saw their passage on Earth as nothing more than a labyrinth of pain, at the end of which stood a door leading, via their death, to the company of gods and to Eternity. With the Hebrews and then the Greeks,

Kabir: Like fish thirsty for water

2005-03-19T20:25:00.000-07:00

When I hear that the fish is thirsty in the water, it makes me laugh! You have a thing in the house but you don't see it; you go to look for it outdoors. The musk is in the deer's navel, but it's searching from forest to forest, all over for it. Without gnosis of the Self, all is false! What good then is the Ka`bah ? What good is Kashi (Benares)? You can go (on pilgrimage) to the Ganges or to the

Sri Aurobindo on Sangha: Spiritual Union

2005-03-17T03:34:00.000-07:00

"An external unity with others must always be an outward joining and association of external lives with a minor inner result; the mind and heart attach their movements to this common life and the beings whom we meet there; but the common external life remains the foundation, - the inward constructed unity, or so much of it as can persist in spite of mutual ignorance and discordant egoisms,

Inventor of laser wins $1.5M spiritual prize - 2005-03-10

2005-03-10T22:41:00.000-07:00

Inventor of laser wins $1.5M spiritual prize - 2005-03-10 "Inventor of laser wins $1.5M spiritual prize Daniel S. Levine A University of California at Berkeley Nobel Laureate won the 2005 Templeton Prize, a $1.5 million award to honor those who advance knowledge in spiritual matters. Physicist Charles Townes won the prize created by global investor and philanthropist John Templeton. Templeton

Sri Aurobindo on future of society: Light not force

2005-02-22T17:06:00.000-07:00

For, long after the individual has become partially free, a moral organism capable of conscious growth, aware of an inward life, eager for spiritual progress, society continues to be mechanical, more intent upon status and aelf-preservation than on growth and self-perfection. The greatest triumph of the thinking and progressive individual over the instinctive and static society has been the power

Krishnamurti on Meditation, Love, Life

2004-12-19T05:37:00.000-07:00

Meditation We all want experiences of some kind —the mystical experience, the religious experience, the sexual experience, the experience of having a great deal of money, power , position, domination. As we grow older we may have finished with the demands of our physical appetites but then we demand wider, deeper and more significant experiences, and we try

Young man's diary - visiting with Dwarkoji

2004-12-11T22:39:00.000-07:00

Some of you knew about Madhu Sudan (age 25) - who left behind his dream of becoming a movie producer in San Francisco - and went to India following his heart. He spent several weeks at Samanway Ashram and will soon be releasing his documentary about Dwarkoji. He spent some time with the Ashram and the children; some time in the villages; he also covered the November eye-camp. I highly recommend

Top down collective Integral Yoga

2004-12-09T22:13:00.000-07:00

THE SPEAKING TREE: Top Down Approach Of Integral Yoga SUDIP TALUKDAR [ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004 12:00:01 AM ] Read the article Integral yoga or the yoga of self-perfection, as the name implies, synthesises the collective potential of traditional disciplines like bhakti, gyan and karma yogas, to reorient human nature into bringing the supramental or the highest octave of

Psychologist speaks of Collective Evolution

2004-11-29T18:44:00.000-07:00

Robert Ornstein is a scientist, psychologist - who has a book out on Consciousness. I thought this blurb from the cover was in itself interesting and apropos of our quest. - Sri We are not a unified 'consciousness' but a phalanx of adaptations to circumstances, many minds shifting in and out of place to filter and respond to incoming stimuli. We are at a critical point in human development, says

Sri Aurobindo on Collective Spiritual evolution

2004-11-29T03:28:00.000-07:00

"It must therefore be emphasized that spirituality is not a high intellectuality, not idealism, not an ethical turn of mind or moral purity and austerity, not religiosity or an ardent and exalted emotional fervour, not even a compound of all these excellent things; a mental belief, creed or faith, an emotional aspiration, a regulation of conduct according to a religious or ethical formula are not

Rejoicing: Good Karma

2004-11-28T22:31:00.000-07:00

Excerpt: The Easiest Way to Creating Good Karma Simply by rejoicing, without the need for extensive preparation or any special effort, you can accumulate incredible merit, incredible good karma. In one second you can accumulate merit infinite as space. If you really practice it honestly, rejoicing in others is the easiest way to accumulate extensive merit and attain ultimate happiness... The

Savitri - immortality

2004-11-20T17:06:00.000-07:00

I wanted to share this passage from the epic poem Savitri by Sri Aurobindo. One of Dwarkoji's six things in Spirituality - was Kingdom of God on earth, Kingdom of God within. Sri Dialogue between Savitri and Yama God of Death, Yama Where matter is all, there Spirit is a dream: If all are the Spirit, matter is a lie,

Spiritualization of daily life - shnning the "communal ego"

2004-10-28T09:00:00.000-07:00

Spiritualization of daily life - shnning the "communal ego" What is necessary is that there should be a turn in humanity felt by some or many towards the vision of this change, a feeling of its imperative need, the sense of its possibility, the will to make it possible in themselves and to find the way. That trend is not absent and it must increase with the tension

Courage: Our November Theme

2004-10-23T17:57:00.000-07:00

I am beginning some reflections on the November theme: Courage and Freedom from Fear. It seems only appropriate to quote Mahatma Gandhi - as he wrote eloquently about the demands a Satyagrahi, practitioner of Ahimsa or nonviolence faces - that of extraordinary courage. - Sri 'Gift of life' is the greatest of all gifts; A man who gives it in reality disarms all hostility. He

God Gene

2004-10-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

At our July retreat with Dwarkoji, Bob Block with one of the breakout groups, came up with the news from the future: “Science proves conclusively the existence of One God. The Kingdom of God arrives on Earth.” We have some news, not that far yet. See excerpt below for the scientist's account of the search for the God gene. - Sri http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/9830033.htm?1c

The Year of Fear

2004-10-20T01:11:00.000-07:00

Op-Ed Columnist: The Year of Fear: "My advice to voters in this political Year of Fear, as well as to journalists and our sources, is from Joshua 1:9: 'Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.' Courage and freedom will win, and the purveyors of panic will lose."

Quantum and Relativity

2004-10-19T22:16:00.000-07:00

In my mind (or to my understanding) Einstein's Theory of Relativity is distinct form Quantum Theory. Firstly, relativity explained particles that travel at high speeds, close to the speed of light. It is rooted in the intuition that speed of light is a constant, relative to the frame of the moving particle. Quantum Theory says energy (in the small) is quantized, that is comes in discrete packets.

The New York Times > Health > Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Past Science's Reach

2004-10-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Past Science's Reach: Read the full article by clicking above - needs registration By BENEDICT CAREY Since we did the retreat on Science and Spirituality, this item came up at New York Times. Science is known to have kept itself values-neutral - which was a virtue for quite a few centuries. Yet as Dwarkoji says in his wonderful analogy of "motor car" which

Meaning in Life

2004-09-26T07:20:00.000-07:00

Meaning in Life: Science and Spirituality Not all writers are sanguine about bringing Science and Spirituality into alignment. From the side of spirituality there are those who anchor themselves in claims that the Truths of spirituality are not mutable and a mutable method of inquiry such as Science can scarcely access such Truths. A defense of spiritual knowledge. Similarly there are

Microscope takes pictures of atoms

2004-09-22T16:49:00.000-07:00

Scientist at Oak Ridge Lab now can image atoms through electron microscope. This picture is that of Silicon Crystal. The red blobs are pairs of Si atoms. Look closely and you can see the linked atoms in each blob. Matter is largely empty space. Science knows a lot about the "figure" and remains ignorant of the "ground" - using the language of figure and ground in the visual arts. The ground that

Sheaths and Cosmic Bodies

2004-09-20T17:37:00.000-07:00

Ancient rishis "saw" our bodies as several sheaths called KOSHAS. Over the millennia we have lost direct knowing of these bodies. Now Space Science comes to help with using instrumental or indirect knowing. See the image of the nebula above. This nebula had a series of what astronmers believe to be periodic "bursts" which then encircled the nebula as dust rings. The nebula in effect has a

Science and Spirituality: Photo

2004-09-14T22:35:00.000-07:00

Einstein went to India and once of the great meetings was with Rabindra Nath Tagore. Tagore is Nobel laureate in literature, great poet, educator, artist, not only a prolific composer of music but initiator of a whole style of singing aptly now called RabindraSangeet. Tagore experimented with new system of education and established a University at his place SantiNiketan (Abode of Peace). Tagore

Robert Kenny: The Science Of Collective Consciousness

2004-09-14T21:32:00.000-07:00

Robert Kenny: The Science Of Collective Consciousness "Just as we can create order in physical systems through focused attention or intention, a number of experiments have suggested that two or more people can create synchronization or coherence between their nervous systems. For example, in research funded by the Institute of Noetic Sciences and others, Marilyn Schlitz and William Braud have

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi site - Book extracts - Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

2004-09-14T20:19:00.000-07:00

Spiritual Force - Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi: "9th June 1936 The path of the intellect leads to understanding. The path of inquiry leads to experience. The path of collective inquiry must lead to shared collective experience. But the intellect keeps intruding cutting into the experience. Dwarkoji admonished us not to be trapped into intellectual pursuits, into "practicing meditation" or just

Science IN spirituality

2004-09-14T18:04:00.000-07:00

Scientific Study of Spiritual experience and truth examined: John Davis (of Denver) writes about methodology - examining how and whether scientific methods can be brought to the study of psychological, social and spiritual realms. Since our next retreat in October has the theme of Science and Spirituality, I felt this article apropos. It looks into one particular way we could bring science and

Team Hopeful in Its Effort to Recreate Primal Life

2004-09-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

The New York Times > Science > Team Hopeful in Its Effort to Recreate Primal Life: "Scientists analyzing the genomes of microbes believe that they have reconstructed the pivotal event that created the one-celled organism from which all animals and plants are descended, including people. The event was the merger of two primitive bacterial-type cells into a eukaryote, the type of cell in all

Buddha tale: Gentle, Gentlier, Gentliest

2004-09-02T22:32:00.000-07:00

I liked the reference in this tale to our charming dynamic of nonviolence - except it is the flip side of it - sharp, sharper, sharpest that is mentioned. Good read! - Sri The Dreamer in the Wood Now the Buddha once upon a time lived alone in the woods, in the ecstasy of meditation. For wild fruits he went no further afield. When fruit grew upon the tree, he ate the fruit; in time of flowers,

Changing Our Reality - humor

2004-08-21T05:47:00.000-07:00

Everywhere you go, it seems, you hear people complaining about their reality. I say if you don't like the current programming, step out from behind the remote. It's time to change the channel and tell a vision. Instead of being just another divisionary taking sides on the latest televised drama, become a visionary who uses the spectacle to help us all see more clearly. If enough of us do this,

Yoga Journal: Ahimsa on self

2004-08-21T00:17:00.000-07:00

Reflection: Yoga Dos and Don'ts Yoga is more than just a physical practice. It is also an ethical code that guides us in every aspect of our lives. So even on days when there is no time to do poses, you can still practice yoga by using its principles to guide you in daily life. Known as "yamas" (or don'ts) and "niyamas" (or "dos)" these "10 Commandments of Yoga" are guidelines for moral

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hungry world 'must eat less meat'

2004-08-19T05:15:00.000-07:00

Hungry world 'must eat less meat': "The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable. Animals need much more water than grain to produce the same amount of food, and ending malnutrition and feeding even more mouths will take still more water. Scientists say the world will have to change its consumption patterns to have any

ML King: .My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence

2004-08-18T23:50:00.000-07:00

My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence: "Prior to reading Gandhi, I had about concluded that the ethics of Jesus were only effective in individual relationship. The 'turn the other cheek' philosophy and the 'love your enemies' philosophy were only valid, I felt, when individuals were in conflict with other individuals; when racial groups and nations were in conflict a more realistic approach seemed

Ganoba explains thought process

2004-08-16T03:48:00.000-07:00

Ganoba just sent something that I find very unique - have not seen it anywhere else yet - truly fascinating. Cognitivists among us should look at this and see how this maps to our western understanding of the thought process. Sri PS:Shariq, this is very spooky - I just had a dinner conversation on this topic - about the fifth time Ganoba is spooking me. Location of Thought Information is

Statement of His Holiness The Dalai Lama

2004-08-14T23:02:00.000-07:00

43rd Anniversary of The Tibetan National Uprising Day We need to research, develop and teach this spirit of non-violence and invest in these efforts as much resources as we do for military defence. Read the full article for a "problem statement". - Sri

Ahimsa - in Jainism

2004-08-14T22:45:00.000-07:00

Ahimsa - Article by Satish Kumar Ahimsa (nonviolence) Mahavir said that nonviolence must begin in the mind. Unless the mind is compassionate, nonviolence is not possible. Unless one is at ease in the inner world, one cannot practise nonviolence in the external world. If the mind is condemning other people yet the tongue speaks sweet words, then that is not nonviolence. The seeds of nonviolence

AUM - Its meaning

2004-08-14T22:03:00.000-07:00

AUM - Its meaning: "According to Sri VinobA BhAve, the Latin word Omne and the Sanskrit word Aum are both derived from the same root meaning all and both words convey the concepts of OMniscience, OMnipresence and OMnipotence. " The letter A symbolises the conscious or waking state (jAgrata-avasthA), the letter U the dream state (svapna-avasthA) and the letter M the dreamless sleep state (

Books of The Times | 'The Invisible Century': Einstein and Freud Go to a Bar, and Freud Says . . .

2004-08-11T23:41:00.000-07:00

The New York Times > 'The Invisible Century': Einstein and Freud Go to a Bar, and Freud Says . . .: "His innovation is a striking thesis about ''invisibility': Einstein and Freud did not revolutionize intellectual history by interpreting evidence as good scientists are supposed to. To start, they barely glanced at the evidence. They discovered their astonishing new truths by running thought

Four Question: Loving things as they are

2004-08-11T06:27:00.000-07:00

Get real, beat the blues By Catherine Lucas Lasting happiness is just four simple questions away, the author Byron Katie tells Link to Byron's website CAN FOUR simple questions change your life? Byron Katie believes they can — and they have transformed her from a clinically depressed woman into a self-taught teacher of happiness — which comes, she says, from “loving what is”. Dwarkoji said:

Spiritual Revolution - HH Dalai Lama

2004-08-10T20:16:00.000-07:00

Our problems, both those we experience externally such as wars, crime and violence and those we experience internally as emotional and psychological suffering will not be solved until we address this underlying neglect of our inner dimension. That is why the great movements of the last hundred years and more--democracy, liberalism, socialism, and Communism--have all failed to deliver the

Society, Government, Spiritual Force

2004-08-06T21:53:00.000-07:00

DWARKO Religion and Policits are outdated. Religion was necessary at one time. Politics also. But just like you put a fence around a tree when it is young; when it grows and gets bigger, you have to take the fence out. Why? The fence will now hurt and impede further growth. Politics and the rule of law brought civilization to an uncivilized people. But now we have to govern through soul force.

Only Spirituality Can Keep The World Sane

2004-08-05T02:16:00.000-07:00

Isha Foundation - Sacred Space for Self Transformation: 'Only Spirituality Can Keep The World Sane.' - Sadhguru"

Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future

2004-08-05T02:01:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com: Books: Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future: " Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers Book Description How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future? This is just one of the questions posed by the

HHDL on Spirituality and Religion

2004-08-04T23:06:00.000-07:00

From BeliefNet I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or hell. Connected with this are religious teachings or dogma,

Aurobindo on Supermind (long post)

2004-08-02T03:18:00.000-07:00

The Ascent Towards SuperMind It is difficult to conceive intellectually what the Super- mind is; and to describe it, another language would be needed than the poor abstract counters of the mind. Read the rest of the book at http://www.mountainman.com.au/auro_7.html The Future Evolution of Man - Sri Aurobindo Conclusion of Chapter 7 - The Ascent Towards SuperMind by P.B. Saint-Hilaire August

Quotes from Dwarkoji

2004-08-01T03:26:00.000-07:00

Look at the things as they are and love them. Spontaneous action through Right understanding. Ashram Prayer (Dwarko recited at the start of the July Retreat) In Hindhi and English Tan Man Vachana Praan-say Khojain Let us search with our body, mind and words and Atma Dharain param satya kaa Dhyaan While holding absolute truth in our minds Pavitra Karain Buddhi say And through

Conversation Samdong Rimpoche, PM of Tibetan Government in Exile

2004-08-01T03:16:00.000-07:00

It was March 2004. We are seated in a meeting hall in the Kashag in Mcleodgunj - with Samdong Rimpoche - a reincarnated lama and high spiritual teacher - in the traditional maroon robes of Tibetan lama, not looking much like a politician - and Kalon Lungrig, Minister of Education. There is an air of informality. The conversation occurs like between two old friends - even though we have just

Stages of Evolution and SuperConsciousness

2004-07-28T22:12:00.000-07:00

Dwarkoji spoke of developing Superconsciousness and doing it collectively. He also mentioned that many great people, in the past and also in this century achieved superconsciousness. The most recent one that I am aware of is Sri Aurobindo of Pondicherry. His writings about developing superconsciousness are prolific. See http://www.mountainman.com.au/auro.html All of the known saints and sages

Stories we tell; Stories that shape us

2004-07-27T18:40:00.000-07:00

Stories shape our lives and our society. The stories we hear as well as the stories we tell. Korten leads us through stories of the American society and invokes us to construct stories of our future. Believing as we do in stories, spirituality, scientific attitude, community - founded on principles of truth, nonviolence, compassion, love and freedom for all - what stories will we tell. - Sri

Spirituality of Diplomat saves his life

2004-07-26T18:10:00.000-07:00

Read more at CNN BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Captors in Iraq released an Egyptian diplomat Monday after declining a large ransom and citing his polite and spiritual personality as the reason for his liberation. The Lion of God Brigades snatched Momdoh Kotb last Thursday as he was leaving a mosque. The abductors did not make any demands, but stated his kidnapping was a response to Egypt's offer to

Theory and Practice

2004-07-24T20:39:00.002-07:00

A short one - Good morning - this came to me this morning by email. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. --Yogi Berra

Matrix Trilogy: Wilber and Wachowski

2004-07-24T20:39:00.001-07:00

Matrix Director Larry Wachowski Grants Writer Ken Wilber First Ever Interview from: PRNewswire 'You make a work of art and you want it to be provocative. You want people to dialogue about it. You don't want to rely on somebody telling them what it is. The whole nature of the [Matrix Trilogy] is exactly that. It seems hypocritical for us to go out and tell everybody

Dwarkoji's basic message

2004-07-24T20:39:00.000-07:00

Pursuit of Truth as the purpose of life Nonviolence as a way of living; living nonviolence is the way to search for truth Science, Spirituality and Mutual Trust Developing Spiritual Power collectively Truth as revealed by searching within; not truth by authority, by books, by majority or consensus. This is the "scientific attitude". Living life with a scientific attitude, on the basis of