Healing Well Meditation Society of Blackstone
Creating a support community for those who seek inner peace through self inquiry and meditation 7 p.m. every Thursday
Meditations on Eckhart Tolle
We all want to be Jesus
Tuesday with Eckhart Tolle: "Surrender is inner acceptance of what is without any reservations. If you have lived long enough, you will know that things "go wrong" quite often. It is precisely at those … [Read More...]
The Minotaur has no horns
Friday with Eckhart Tolle: "Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take our attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and … [Read More...]
Create the conditions for joy
Saturday with Eckhart Tolle: "With practice of present moment awareness, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen. In fact, there is no end to its depth. You will also feed a subtle emanation of joy … [Read More...]
Meditations on Chogyam Trunpa
INEXHAUSTIBLE WEALTH
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn’t mean that you should punish yourself, but you … [Read from beginning below..]
ACCEPTING HIDDEN NEUROSIS
"In meditation practice, finally, we are exposed. We hoped that we wouldn’t have to go through the embarrassment of exposing ourselves; we hoped to bypass … [Read from beginning below..]
NO POINT IN PICKING AND CHOOSING
Question all the time. However, a critical attitude doesn’t mean being hateful of yourself. All your polarities are equally valid, whether weakness or … [Read from beginning below..]
Masks of God
Follow your bliss
Excerpts from The Power of Myth: Bill Moyers interview with Joseph Campbell: MOYERS: Can Westerners grasp the mystical experience that leaves theology behind? If you're locked in the image of God in … [Read More...]
The Meaning of the Cross
From The Power of Myth: Billy Moyers and Joseph Campbell interview. MOYERS: So when Jesus says, "Love thye neighbor as thyself," he is saying in effect, "Love thy neighbor because he is yourself." CAMPBELL: … [Read More...]
The Guardians at the Gate
Excerpts from The Power of Myth, a PBS Bill Moyers interview with Joseph Campbell: MOYERS: What is the truth to which the rituals point? CAMPBELL: The nature of life itself has to be realized … [Read More...]
MEDITATIONS ON BLACKSTONE
The Last Butcher
This Blackstone Chronicles story is about the last butcher of Blackstone, and a way of life that might have gone back thousands of years to when the priest, dressed in white robes smeared with blood, … [Read More...]
MILLER’S SON NEVER FORGOT LESSONS OF THE MILLSTONE
I'm meditating on the Touch this morning, and how powerful our metaphors are that keep us connected, like the Mill in this story. I pass on Rt 153 the ruins of the old mill that burned down there some … [Read More...]
FIND YOUR IMMOVEABLE SPOT
Blackstone Chronicles p.s. As I transcribed this story from the newspaper clipping this morning, I realized that when I wrote this I was also writing about myself and my discovery when I began the feature … [Read More...]
CONSTANCE WYNN LOVES A PARADE
Blackstone Chronicles As I read this story during transcription this morning I was particularly moved by the ordinariness and specialness of our small town Blackstone, for it was here on this amateur's … [Read More...]
We are all Buddhas
Blackstone Chronicles As I transcribed this story yesterday from the newspaper clipping I realized that Lisa's story was the story of the Buddha when he as a prince left his castle of No Problem (where … [Read More...]
THE LABYRINTH
Here’s a Silver Thread…grab it
A Facebook Dialogue: The kingdom of righteous must be a kingdom without judgment, and what is judgment but believing in certainty of form, applying truth to form or experience. But Buddha said life … [Read More...]
We all Git Mo Time
My students at VCBR (which I call Gitmo because these sex offenders are being held after they complete their sentence for "mo fixin.") told me:"Prison is better then this because at least you know exactly … [Read More...]
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Last night at my meditation class at VCBR (where sex offenders are kept after they serve their time) one of my students said he was being released, that he had a family member who was providing a place … [Read More...]
We all live in Gitmo
The one thing we all get in Gitmo is we git mo time. In fact, we want more time: time to get things done, time to relax, time to love, time to get away from time, time to be still, time to get moving, … [Read More...]
I’M OUT OF TIME!
I've been thinking about the Labyrinth of VCBR where sex offenders are imprisoned in Time. I find this interesting. Prison is metaphorically a Timeless Place where all your desires and plans in time are … [Read More...]
Threads by Ed Conley
Julie and Julia
With French creamy vanilla ice cream (with fat) and wine we watched Julie and Julia last night, and it was a great feast, a metaphor of delight. While Julia Child was about the joy of cooking and … [Read More...]
What is Sanity?
Sanity must be discovered and it is good. What drives us to discovery sanity? All discoveries of sanity must be made alone, and they are driven by the pain and confusion and frustration that comes from … [Read More...]
YOU DON’T NEED MR. COFFEE
The guided inquiry of iRest that I share in classes and workshops is very powerful and is quite deceptive to the innocent western mind that had never ventured into the labyrinth of his/her own mind … [Read More...]
WE’RE ON THE TITANIC.
Lets look at some facts about this Health Care, folks before we get wet. It as been calculated that only about 2 percent will have to pay a fee for not buying Obamacare insurance. There are many subsidies … [Read More...]