Category Archives: Wisdom & Method

Whatever works

One day

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Michaela

This heart will one day find you a sweetheart this soul will one day take you to the beloved seize your pain as a blessing your pain will one day lead you to healing. From: Rumi ” Dancing the Flame” … Continue reading →

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Choices & Doing Not-Doing

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Michaela

Giovanni Bellini ” Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane” (1465) National Gallery, London 6 The Tao is called the Great Mother empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds. It is always present within you. You can use it … Continue reading →

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The Small Print

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Michaela

Did I really sign up for all that ? I love Adyashanti’s clarity in terms of explaining what enlightenment really is about. The part of losing the center is confusingly awesome and as far as I am concerned, I much … Continue reading →

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Stay in the Centre

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Michaela

Verse 33 Knowing others is intelligence: knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power  . If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich. if you stay in the center and embrace death … Continue reading →

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The Buddhist View

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Michaela

HH the Dalai Lama on Buddhist science, Buddhist view and Buddhist philosophy and the difficulty and confusion of bridging tradition, religion and faith. Question and Answer Session in Dharamsala, Mar 19th 2011: 

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Finding answers within

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Michaela

Guided meditation session with Kim Eng      

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Karmapa Khyenno

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Michaela

His Holiness, the Karmapa on the technology of the heart:

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The illusion of crescendo

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Michaela

Daniel Barenboim on the difference between sound and music.  A spiritual teaching

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Caught in a Rip Tide

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Michaela

78 Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few … Continue reading →

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What Am I ?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Michaela

With all of these many faced I’s and we’s, What sort of “I” am I? Listen, take your hand off my mouth and let me rave I am already lost. Don’t lay shattered glass in my path; I’ll crush whatever … Continue reading →

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