Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:09 pm

Everyone can work on the practice of becoming more vigilant, to think thoughts that do no harm.

Use an hourly beeping watch to check your thought process.

If you detect that the mind is indulging in hatred, change the thought.

~ Dr. Pillai
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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby kennynah » Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:21 pm

life.... is short...


just live it.....
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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:49 am

Joy has no motive

Happiness and pleasure you can buy in any market at a price. But bliss you cannot buy for yourself or for another.

Happiness and pleasure are time-binding. Only in total freedom does bliss exist.

Pleasure, like happiness, you can seek, and find, in many ways. But they come, and go.
Bliss that strange sense of joy has no motive.

You cannot possibly seek it. Once it is there, depending on the quality of your mind, it remains timeless, causeless, and a thing that is not measurable by time.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom.

It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Once it is there, conflict has ceased. But the ending of conflict is not necessarily the total freedom. Meditation is a movement of the mind in this freedom. In this explosion of bliss the eyes are made innocent, and love is then benediction.

- J. Krishnamurti Meditations 1969 Part 10

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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:38 am

Why is it important to train the mind with discipline and concentration?

The cart of inner senses must be yoked to the bullocks of intelligence and mind and made to follow their tracks.

But if the bullocks of Intelligence and Mind have no knowledge of the pathways of truth, righteousness, peace, and love and if they have never once trodden that path, then the cart of the inner senses itself might come to grief!

Even if they are prodded to proceed, they will only drag the cart to the familiar post of confusion, injustice, cruelty, indiscipline, and falsehood!

What then of the journey? When is the arrival to be? Therefore, Intelligence and Mind have to be taught the art of pulling the cart and moving steadily along the road.

This has to be done by repetition of the Divine’s Name and Meditation.


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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:33 am

If you only had an hour to live...

"May I ask just one question?" put in one of the others. "In what manner should one live one's daily life?" As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour. "How?"

If you had only one hour to live, what would you do? "I really don't know," he replied anxiously.

Would you not arrange what is necessary outwardly, your affairs, your will, and so on?

Would you not call your family and friends together and ask their forgiveness for the harm that you might have done to them, and forgive them for whatever harm they might have done to you?

Would you not die completely to the things of the mind, to desires and to the world? And if it can be done for an hour then it can also be done for the days and years that may remain.

"Is such a thing really possible, sir?" Try it and you will find out.

- Commentaries On Living Series III, Sorrow From Self-Pity


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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:14 am

Connecting in Spirit and Memory During the Holiday Season
Article provided by the Denver Hospice (www.denverhospice.org)

Holidays are to be spent with those most precious to us. When a loved one dies, we may long for their presence during these times.

“The presence of that absence is everywhere.”
Edna St. Vincent-Millay

Here are some suggestions...ways to connect and remember your loved one during the holiday season:

1) Make a memory box and place it by the holiday table. Provide squares of paper and pens so each person who wishes may share a fond memory. When the box is full, pass it around the table and read the memories aloud.

2) Buy a gift for yourself - something your loved one would have picked out for you. Or try making a card or gift for your loved one.

3) Hang a special symbol, ornament or decoration that invites your loved one’s presence into the room. Play their favorite song. You can do this with others or alone.

4) Give someone else what you wish you could give your loved one. Donate to someone in need.

5) Light a candle by your loved one’s picture and spend some time sharing your hopes, fears, joys and struggles this holiday season. Speak aloud directly to your loved one, or write your thoughts and feelings down.

As you move through the holiday season, acknowledge the fact that you will carry your loved one’s spirit or memory with you. At times the raw and tender beauty of this burden may bring you to your knees.

At other times, it may be the very thing that lifts you up and opens you to moments of connection, appreciation and love.


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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:45 pm

Don't try to convert other people to believe what you believe in.

It is a difficult job and totally useless. Work with people who are at the same wavelength as you are.

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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:27 am

What does it mean to die?

What is death, what does it mean to die? - and that is an absolute certainty that we are all going to die, and what does that mean?

One has continued from childhood till the moment of death - continued with one's thoughts, with one's ideas or new set of ideas, thoughts, trouble, pain, anxieties, loneliness and all the travail of life, that is what we call continuity.

And in that process, time is a factor. And when we die all the Asiatic world believes, at least some of them, majority of them, including India and so on - this continuity will continue after death - which is called rebirth, reincarnation.

That's a very comforting idea! What you sow you reap. If you are not good in this life then in next life you pay for it, or you pay for it now. Right? Cause and effect. Causation separate, as though it was separate from the effect.

We are saying causation has in it inherently effect. It is not two separate things. I wonder if you get all this? This is not philosophy, it is not some kind of exotic nonsense.

You can see one's own life, if you do something ugly, it has its own reward, or its own pain. If you do something correctly, without the self, then that brings about its own goodness.

So continuity is a form of causation, effect and the effect becomes the cause, and so it is a chain. And we are asking what is death?

Biologically, when the brain has not sufficient blood, breath and so on, it decays very rapidly and that is called death, physical death. Either this is brought about by some kind of disease, natural old age or some accident.

We acknowledge that because that is inevitable but we think we have gathered all this experience, all my life I've worked, all my life I have tried to do this and that and what is the good of it all if I come to an end of all that?

Don't you ask these questions? So we have to ask: what is it to end? - to end something in which there is no continuity. You understand? To end.

- J. Krishnamurti Brockwood Park 4th Public Talk 2nd September 1984


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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:11 am

How did Illusion get such overwhelming power to even hide the Glory of the Divine?

Illusion obstructs vision of the Reality. Its nature is to hide the reality and make it appear as the unreal.

Only when you remove it and destroy it, can you have a vision of the Divine. Through this way alone can you attain the Divine.

Illusion makes you feel that the non-existent exists. It shows water in the mirage. It makes you see what is imagined and desired as Truth.

Delusion cannot affect a man if he is able to give up desire, imagination and planning.

If you get this faith firm in yourself, there can be no more desire for external pleasures. Enquire and investigate; you will know this truth.

Without that enquiry, delusion will grow and intellect will be slowly subdued.


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Re: Life 09 (Oct 10 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:29 pm

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

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