This is real meditation

 

You have changed your ideas, you have changed your thought, but thought is always conditioned. Whether it is the thought of Jesus, Buddha, X, Y, or Z, it is still thought, and therefore one thought can be in opposition to another thought; and when there is opposition, a conflict between two thoughts, the result is a modified continuity of thought. In other words, the change is still within the field of thought, and change within the field of thought is no change at all. One idea or set of ideas has merely been substituted for another.Seeing this whole process, is it possible to leave thought and bring about a change outside the field of thought? All consciousness, surely, whether it is of the past, the present, or the future, is within the field of thought; and any change within that field, which sets the boundaries of the mind, is no real change. A radical change can take place only outside the field of thought, not within it, and the mind can leave the field only when it sees the confines, the boundaries of the field, and realizes that any change within the field is no change at all. This is real meditation.

J. Krishnamurti

Benefits of meditation

24x7 meditation - Bloggsíða um hugleiðslu

Maður frá Indlandi bað mig að koma eftirfarandi bloggsíðu á framfæri en hann fann bloggsíðuna mína með google, lítill heimur.

5 Techniques to Help with Physical Pain

It always helps to begin with conscious breathing in which you pay attention to the physical sensation of the breath as it goes in and out of your body. Find a comfortable position—sitting or lying down—and begin to breathe mindfully. Do a quick scan of your body from head to toe. If you feel any muscles that are tight, try to relax them. After a few minutes of this breathing, try these five techniques to see if they help relieve your physical pain. I recommend experimenting with each of them to see which ones work for you. Some of the techniques are adapted from what is called MBSR: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. I like to call it Mindfulness-Based Pain Reduction!

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Reincarnation: The Movie

My Reincarnation, a film about the burden of being told that you’re a reincarnated lama, opens October  28 in New York and Los Angeles,
 before moving nationwide.

My Reincarnation is said to be “an epic, intimate father-son drama wrapped in a spiritual documentary — spanning 20 years and three generations.” It follows renowned reincarnate Tibetan lama Chögyal Namkhai Norbu as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his Italian-born son, Yeshi, who strains against the weight of being recognized as the reincarnation of his father’s uncle.

The film of the latest work by Jennifer Fox, producer of An American Love Story, Learning to Swim, and Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman.

For twenty years, Fox followed Norbu and Yeshi with her camera. The result tells the rare inside story of one of the last reincarnated teachers to be trained in Tibet and his son’s stubborn reluctance to follow in his father’s footsteps.

Norbu Rinpoche escaped Tibet in 1959 and settled in Italy, where he married an Italian woman and had two children, of which Yeshi was the first. As a boy, Yeshi was recognized as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master who died after the Chinese invaded Tibet. But growing up in Italy, Yeshi never wanted to have anything to do with this legacy, not being convinced by the “proofs” and feeling that people knew about him but didn’t know him.

The film follows Yeshi though his spiritual explorations, and one reviewer commented that “Open-minded viewers are likely to be enthralled by interpretations of human existence and systems of belief that never play like a recruitment drive.”

“The film touches on so many topics that people don’t talk about openly in their lives,” Fox explains. “I wanted to use the film’s theatrical launch as an opportunity to create a safe space for people to share their spiritual stories and their stories of transformation, whether it be about a parent or a child, or in relation to a religious experience. I am so excited to see this web dialogue develop and grow. We’ve already had great support from wonderful people such as Robert Thurman and his son, Ganden, who have agreed to be interviewed about their spiritual stories for the site to prompt others to share.”

Earlier this year, My Reincarnation made news by breaking records as hundreds of patrons made it the number one fund-raising film of any completed film on Kickstarter, the popular crowd-funding platform.

My Reincarnation won a Top 20 Audience Award at the International Film Festival of Amsterdam, screened at the Sydney Film Festival, and will soon premiere at the Hamptons Film Festival.

Variety Review praises “the intimate feel of the project,” and Hollywood Report Card says, “The amount of access into the lives of these two men over two decades gives the film an amazing depth.”

Reincarnation

Where are you now?

Where are you now? Where is the goal? What is the distance to be covered? The Self is not somewhere far away to be reached. You are always that. You have only to give up your habit, a long-standing one, of identifying yourself with the non-self. All effort is only for that.

Ramana Maharishi

Zenmeistarinn Taiun Jean-Pierre Faure kemur til landsins

Zenmeistarinn Taiun Jean-Pierre Faure frá Frakklandi kemur til landsins ásamt fimm nemendum sínum. Hann mun leiða Sesshin (í Skálholti dagana 3.-6. nóvember næstkomandi. Þeir sem vilja iðka með okkur þar eru velkomnir. Sesshin er “intense” hugleiðsluiðkun í nokkra daga. Meira um það hér.

 

Hjá Zenhópnum er stunduð dagleg hugleiðsla sem kallast Zazen. Ef þú hefur áhuga á því að læra hugleiðslu og stunda þá ert þú velkomin(n) til okkar. Við erum með Zazen leiðbeiningu fyrir byrjendur fyrsta mánudag í mánuði. Haustdagskráin hjá okkur er fjölbreytt og margt í boði.

 

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To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves

 

To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine; because, however small may be the world we live in, if we can transform ourselves, bring about a radically different point of view in our daily existence, then perhaps we shall affect the world at large, the extended relationship with others.

 

J. Krishnamurti - The Book of Life

... stundum er ég meira ekki-neitt en vanalega

 

Ég kannast orðið við þessi umbrot, einsog eitthvað í mér sé að láta undan, eitthvað að eyðast eða springa, klaki að bráðna. Þegar svoleiðis kom fyrir mig þegar ég var lítill drengur í Svartárdal þá fór ég einförum og vissi ekki hvaðan á mig stóð veðrið. Núorðið kann ég að gera ekki neitt og vera ekki neitt og lofa þessu furðulega X-i, hinni óþekktu stærð að vera til, að brjótast fram í vitundina.

Allt kvöldið gekk ég um einsog ekki-neitt. Raunar er ég alltaf einsog ekki-neitt, en stundum er ég meira ekki-neitt en vanalega.

 

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Dagskrá Lífspekifélagsins: Kynning á Sahaja yoga og Erindi með tóndæmum

 

21. okt Föstudagur kl 20:30 Benedikt Lafleur: „Hinn svali blær“
Kynning á Sahaja Yoga.

 

 

22. okt laugardagur kl 15:30 Halldór Haraldsson, píanóleikari: Erindi með tóndæmum –
200 ár frá fæðingu Franz Liszt

Húsið opnar kl 15:00

 

 

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