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Comment on Mind your habit energy by Ed Conley

Ed Conley — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:36:09 +0000

My favorite game is with my hand. (Don’t get the wrong idea). My hand will put my car keys down so it can do something else and neglect to tell my mind where it put them. Then on the way to the car I realize I don’t have my keys.It’s like some strange hand came in and took them out of my pocket…Now the frantic search, and all the time my hand has this little smile hidden in its palm, fingers closed slightly so the mind won’t notice. When the mind finally gives up and relaxes it stressful search, the hand, feeling sorry for its prank, sends a message up the the mind: “Look in the bathroom.”

As the mind now returns to its planned schedule, the hand says to itself, “Maybe someday he’ll pay attention to me. Would it be so much trouble just to listen to the body…to be aware that I exist?”

Comment on Faith and Fear by Nick Eberle

Nick Eberle — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:20:08 +0000

As always Satchidananda tells it how it is strait and simple.

I recently began developing a website that will contain all of Swami Satchidanandas recorded teaching. If you ever need to link his teachings you may find it useful.

Comment on Mind your habit energy by Anne Pemberton

Anne Pemberton — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:50:54 +0000

Ed,

As I was reading this I remembered a visit to the small house you originally lived in, and my asking Tilly how she kept such a small space usful for all of you without tripping, and she said it was your clean habits from the Navy that made you a better husband than most in the matter of keeping clutter from accumulating.

A habit that continues to elude me in approaching old age is that of always putting things back where they belong after using them.

Comment on Death is an awakening! by Ed Conley

Ed Conley — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:17:14 +0000

Thanks for your comment Mark. The question you asked, Must one believe in an afterlife to see death as awakening, give me something to ponder. Buddhism and quantum physics comes to my rescue, and then my own reasoning that says this is true. While I don’t have any skill at understanding and communicating what’s beyond form, the wisdom teachings say that nothing can be destroyed. Energy just changes forms. Just imagine if something were to cease existing, the whole cosmos would collapse. Nothing could exist. Everything is interdependent, a field of energy patterns, so if one thing were to disappear, then the whole network would collapse. Therefore, nothing can cease to exist. The universe is always just here.

So when I look at my own existence, I can’t cease to exist. The energy that is now manifested in my body/brain/mind is going to change forms, but the awareness, the spirit of I AM that is separate from form can’t not exist. Where it will go, what it will witness, who knows, but I know it won’t cease to be. Thanks.

Comment on Death is an awakening! by Mark

Mark — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:31:44 +0000

“But is that all we are?”

Must one believe in an afterlife to see death as an awakening?

I assume my ability to perceive, to choose, and to act will all end when my complex body breaks down and can no longer feed oxygen to my brain. I have imagined that this could feel like a release or a rest. It has not occurred to me to think of this as an awakening.

Thank you for giving me something to ponder…

Comment on The Hidden Garden by Ed Conley

Ed Conley — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:35:52 +0000

Running across the garden is like coming upon this story or a nice comment on my blog. Treasures are always hidden until discovered.

Comment on The Hidden Garden by Liz Lowrance

Liz Lowrance — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:54 +0000

I was looking up info on MMMG and ran across this posting. It is wonderful!! Thank you for the wonderful words you said about the Gardens.

Comment on I lost Buddha! by denise

denise — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:06:08 +0000

I’m so glad you found Buddah but then again… maybe it was Buddah who found you?

Comment on Death is an awakening! by Lee

Lee — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:55:09 +0000

“Either way, we’ll leave what God says up to God.”

Right on.

Comment on Stop chasing the bone by Ed Conley

Ed Conley — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:56:34 +0000

Remember the Seinfield skit where George discovered that if he did the opposite of what he thought he should do it was correct action? This was a very deep program. To bad it’s not that simple. The problem with the mind is that it sees the world in perpestives with the ego’s survival as its reference point; so such a mind can’t act correctly because correct action must consider the whole of a situation and not just a part—the whole play and not just a scene. In the practice of mindful meditation we catch our fragmeneted mind in the act of being selective, and just noticing that selectivity IS correct action. Only the insight of wholeness can transcend the selective perspective. So insight or intuition is the whole mind catching a glimpse of correct action, and no will power is needed. Correct action is our natural state as it contains all our fragments. We just do the right thing and there can be no guilt or second guessing. Only the fragmented mind can feel guilty.