A meditation
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- Dana Sheets
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A meditation
May I be filled with loving kindness.
May I be peaceful and at ease.
May I be relaxed.
May I be happy.
Personally I find it works better to replace "May I be" with "I am". But whatever blows your hair back works.
The second stage of the meditation is outward as you focus on the well-being of another. Usually this is easier to do with your lover or child and then work your way outward to other family members, then friends, then strangers, then the world, then the universe (but not all in the first night!)
So it would go something like:
May my daughter be filled with loving kindness
May she be peaceful and at ease
May she be relaxed
May she be happy
And in the act of meditation on your own well being and then the well being of others it becomes easier to have these thoughts throughout the course of your regular life - and as thoughts form the basis of our actions our actions then become more compassionate.
Until that sorry bastard slammed my hand with the door yesterday - which made all my loving kindness flee in the face of my desire to clock him one.
-Dana (still working on all this crap myself) Sheets
May I be peaceful and at ease.
May I be relaxed.
May I be happy.
Personally I find it works better to replace "May I be" with "I am". But whatever blows your hair back works.
The second stage of the meditation is outward as you focus on the well-being of another. Usually this is easier to do with your lover or child and then work your way outward to other family members, then friends, then strangers, then the world, then the universe (but not all in the first night!)
So it would go something like:
May my daughter be filled with loving kindness
May she be peaceful and at ease
May she be relaxed
May she be happy
And in the act of meditation on your own well being and then the well being of others it becomes easier to have these thoughts throughout the course of your regular life - and as thoughts form the basis of our actions our actions then become more compassionate.
Until that sorry bastard slammed my hand with the door yesterday - which made all my loving kindness flee in the face of my desire to clock him one.
-Dana (still working on all this crap myself) Sheets
Did you show compassion today?
Well with Meditation I have a problem with all this loving kindness pullarver .....If you take Buddhism, this only came about much later.all the Tibetan, Japanese (...cept Zen) are later perversions not from the original Indian tradition ( which they tried to be-little )..even now there are distinctions between Mayhana ( all this loving kindness business) and Vipassna....basically what you do is find enlightenment for your self
The enlightenment will make you into a better person .then you can be kind, simple like a block of wood.and all the silly metaphors folks use for this sort of thing.......but until then you are a fluff ball blowing bubbles
I always found breath counting to be very cool ( the most basic, the most simple the most complex..........the beginning and the end .....but I guess you've heard that somewhere else already )
The enlightenment will make you into a better person .then you can be kind, simple like a block of wood.and all the silly metaphors folks use for this sort of thing.......but until then you are a fluff ball blowing bubbles
I always found breath counting to be very cool ( the most basic, the most simple the most complex..........the beginning and the end .....but I guess you've heard that somewhere else already )
- Dana Sheets
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I think that this will get you closer to enlightenment ..but I would really recomend Kronenburg Blanc .....and this to listen to
http://www.ericroche.com/listen.php
smells like teen spirit
I think that this will get you closer to enlightenment ..but I would really recomend Kronenburg Blanc .....and this to listen to
http://www.ericroche.com/listen.php
smells like teen spirit
- Dana Sheets
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Never heard of that before I googled it and it turns out it's made by carthusian monks.
http://www.chartreuse.fr/pa_sommaire_uk.htm
so I guess it would be good for meditation. Personnally I'll stick with the Trappists
http://www.latrappe.nl/
and a favourite
http://www.chimay.be/
the Triple is 9% .a couple of pints of that and you'll end up in ER
http://www.chartreuse.fr/pa_sommaire_uk.htm
so I guess it would be good for meditation. Personnally I'll stick with the Trappists
http://www.latrappe.nl/
and a favourite
http://www.chimay.be/
the Triple is 9% .a couple of pints of that and you'll end up in ER
Belgium beer is probably the best in the world but they drink it like a wine not like good old warm English beer
http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=17
I really like this but again with a religious meditative view or also
http://www.pub-explorer.com/realale/greeneking.htm
http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=17
I really like this but again with a religious meditative view or also
http://www.pub-explorer.com/realale/greeneking.htm
- f.Channell
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Now your talking Jorvik.
Big fan of the Trappist monks.
If you ever find a Shaolin sect making that kind of beer let me know.
Fred
Big fan of the Trappist monks.
If you ever find a Shaolin sect making that kind of beer let me know.
Fred
Sans Peur Ne Obliviscaris
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