Shake up

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

Feel like Christmas yet ? Listen…..

Shake up Christmas

Ho Ho Ho
Shake up the Happiness
Wake up the Happiness
Shake up the happiness
Its Christmastime…

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Be still and the answers will come

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

 

 

Be still and the answers will come.

This is true every time and has replaced the obsessive thinking and scouring the brain for solutions, just to make the expectations fit – not the situation at hand. The answers are sometimes astonishing, but nevertheless clear directions. We always know what to do. We just sometimes don’t want to know about it.

It is a little bit like swearing at the lock because the key won’t fit. Maybe I have been using the wrong key…

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To end suffering

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now.

Eckhart Tolle
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Biology of Zen

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michaela

This

Zen Biology Lesson for Enlightenment

is really neat.

Enjoy….

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Can’t you see the mighty warrior ?

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michaela

How often you ask,
What is my path?
What is my cure?
He has made you a seeker of Unity,
isn’t that enough?

All your sorrow exists for one reason –
that you may end sorrow forever.
The desire to know your own soul
will end all other desires.

The smell of bread has reached you –
if that aroma fills you with delight
what need is there for bread?
If you have fallen in love,
that love is proof enough;
If you have not fallen in love,
what good is all your proof?

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All is fair in love and war

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michaela

Pallas Athena - Goddess of War

The archetypal warrior is often mentioned in relation to the spiritual path. Did you ever ask yourself why that is ?

The spiritual path is not for the faint-hearted. The truth about who we really are is about nothing or all. I cannot see light and pretend to live in the shadows any longer. Everything will be revealed, all will come to light, nothing remains hidden. Truth is what strips me of myself and leaves me vulnerable, naked and defenseless. This is where the power lies – and the peace.

A true warrior possesses three things – courage, loyalty and tenacity. It takes courage to stand up for oneself or protect others, requires loyalty to be true to oneself and live an authentic life, and it calls for persistence not to get discouraged or disheartened by set backs or defeats.

Warriors do not fight for themselves – they serve and their tool is the sword. But warriors are also leaders – they do not wait for opinions, they go out and get the job done and the end justifies the means. But they will always be aware of what is right.

Warriors are not afraid. And this is the analogy to the battle that is raging in all of us. The classic warrior virtues of heroism, stoicism and self-sacrifice are to be called on conquering the ego.

Time to discover the mystical warrior in ourselves.

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Peaceful Warrior quote

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Glerikud

A good warrior is not perfect. Doesn’t win always. Not invunerable. The good warrior is very vunerable. That is what makes him brave.

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Be ahead of all parting

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michaela

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive.

Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise
into the seamless life proclaimed in your song.
Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days,
be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin,
the infinite source of your own most intense vibration,
so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb
creatures in the world’s full reserve, the unsayable sums,
joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.

Rainer M. Rilke Sonnets of Orpheus XIII
Adapted by Stephen Michell

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Just too painful…

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Michaela

In the past few years I have had several encounters with people who showed symptoms of Hysteria.

Hysteria is not a disease, much rather it is a state of mind, signified by uncontrollable emotional excess. To be “hysteric” in the common sense, means losing it, throwing a temper tantrum or being overwhelmed by fear.

Modern medicine and psychology have given up the use of the word hysteria in favour of  “somatisation disorder” or “conversion syndrome”. However, I will continue to use the original term, because there are some important pointers, that may also help us to identify symptoms in ourselves, that may resemble this raging war between the cool, rational  mind and the raging emotions underneath.

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Hadrah

Posted on December 12, 2010 by dreamfable

My wife sometimes calls it Issawiyya. I do not know the deeper meaning of the hadrah. literally it means presence though. For me they are like religious songs. Songs about the Prophets, famous religious people or simply the star shinning in the sky. I have seen some of these performances over the years. Some were more like commercial shows for television, some were private gatherings. Only accessible if you know. The private meetings are much more intense. Some people are sensitive to the rhythm and get in some kind of trance, leaving them with a terrible headache afterwards.

I find hard to describe the impression these gathering make on me. Especially when you start to understand some of what is said and when you are able to participate. Intense joy is the only description I can think of. It lifts you up in a way.

The clips below are from, maybe, 15 years ago. Nothing like the private meetings but in a way it gives one an impression.

youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imIZqUK-Wmo

youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUwDAW5TOb0

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