" VALENTINE'S Contemplation-Words of The Heart " ~ Some Sweet Readin'

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~ Teilhard de Chardin 

(1881-1955)  French paleontologist
and philosopher of the Avant Garde

The day will come when,
after harnessing the winds,
the tides and gravitation -
we shall harness for ourselves
the energies of Love. And on that day,
for the second time
in the history of the world,
we will have discovered fire.

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" Valentine's
 Contemplation-Words
of The Heart "
Gathered Like Leaves
by an Old Recluse
Ragged Rogue Monk

Here's Some Savvy Sweet Readin' ~ 
  
This little document bundle of scattered leaves has secreted within it, residing within it, the Greatest Words on Love, that I ever gathered up under one old Bo Tree - and that Indian Holy Tree is still passionately growing. I dug up some of these ancient posts, so please pardon the choppy look, as this site's old format is shot to shit - sorry bout 'dat.

This rich variety of emotional stylizations of actual humans having 'Living Experiences' of Love, has been repeated and reported to be true. People are capable of having Love. Word crafting of Loving Words always offer us a basic opportunity ( positive or negative ) for an almost immediate intimacy of writer and reader --  touching treasures of infrequent feeling for all of us, if we allow it.


" Your task is not to 'seek' for Love -
but merely to seek and find all
the 'barriers' within yourself,
that you have built against Love."   ~ Rumi
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What is better,
being Madly in Love or
Mad that you are not in Love? ‏
My Aggressivity, My Passivity,
My Rigidity, My Flexibility,
My Confusion, My Lucidity   
Like the Rumi words say --
Like your 'Life' itself says --
Contributing Factors included
" Ya still gotta Love it All,
somehow "... it's the only
noble thing to do
" LOVING WHAT IS "
 Like Byron Katie says -- 
simply loving 'the what is'
( the what isn't
hasn't manifested yet )  
-- And That's It. 
And just work on it,
and just work with it...
...That's It ?
That's It.
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What are 'Contemplation-Words' ? 
Here's All What you'll ever need to know about Love ( Loving ) in the profoundest, yet most simplistic sense - When you say to an Other, "Would you like me to read you a Rumi poem" ? - and they get that 'other' look you kinda' like, well... Loving needs you to try'in be open and stay open to it. Stay Open. Stay in Loving. Stay with Loving. Hang around with Love.

So actively engage with the words, enjoy 'em by being quiet somewhere quiet and then very slowly read them -- or better, even mumble the words softly, audibly aloud -- even roll the words around on your tongue, savor the words, and come to understand them like old friends from way back when. Speak well of Love. Use the words of Love properly for they are truly sacred. Harvest the words of Love carefully from this page here, for your own message sending to someone there.... Hey, and keep a copy on your phone for yourself where you save the really loving good stuff. Where? - In your Heart !

Mo' Betta Metta... I Love You All...
P.S. my health is sorta' good... ~A~

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• Any Day's Good For A Pretend Valentine's Day

Hey, Saint Valentine's always coming !

 

February 14th, usually everywhere ~
Here it's also called The Buddhist 'Saint Metta' Day

In contrast --
 
" The typical Buddhist
notable absence of attention
to relationship-type 'attachment' -
is not necessarily at all, in any way,
the absence of profound, profound loving."

~ Sri Ananda Maitreya
                        

                       

"A Flower

is a Leaf 

gone mad

with Love !!!"  ~ Max Lucado
 

"Love and Compassion
are Necessities -
Not luxuries.
Without them
Humanity
Cannot Survive."  ~ The Dalai Lama
 

 
"When I see I am Nothing - that is Wisdom.
When I see I am Everything - that is Love.
And between these two, my life flows."   ~ Sri Nisargadatta 
 

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Happy Valentine's Day !  ~ a poem

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One thing is certain:

Life as we know it, ends.

So brief, this tender journey.

In the midst of all life's struggles,

'Practice' moistens the hardened heart.

In time, buds of kindness form ~

gentleness sprouts

like the new green of spring.

We may find our self laughing . . .

We may find our self loving . . .

We may find our self forgiving . . . 

We may find our self fully seen

in the knowing gaze of Bodhisattvas.

Yes, at times we complain too much

and even fall into a black hole !

But then Wakeful Awareness
brushes our face,

and we return to our self, here, now.

This wild and wonderful journey we are on ~

how mysterious !

~ Egyoko Roshi, ZCLA
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LOVE is...

" Love exists only in the Friendship. 
Love is Friendship set on Fire."    ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
 

"  Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."    ~ Adida

" Love is the difficult realization
that something other than oneself is real."   ~ Iris Murdoch

" Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others,
and the delight in the recognition."     ~ Alexander Smith 

" Love doesn't just sit there like a stone -
it has to be made, like bread,
remade all the time, made new."     ~ Ursula K. LeGuin

" A spiritual-awakening
which does not awaken the sleeper
to Love, has roused them in vain."   ~ Jessamen West

" The best relationship is the one
in which your love for each other 
exceeds your need for each other."  ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1926 )

 

Na'maste ~ 
The main everyday greeting in India,
is profoundly saying ~ 

" I Directly See and Meet In You - 
That Which Sees Into and Meets In Me "

We, in our Separateness,
in our Dividedness --
We Are ALL the very same,
same ONE Consciousness.
We all share our Un-togetherness
and our Wholeness simultaneously
as we are The Wholeness Itself,
the very same Universal
ALL ONE Consciousness,
The ALL at ONCE Consciousness
One-Time: BANG. One Time Only:
ONCE around: That/This WAS It.
It's Still Banging.
The ALL at Once Energy Field
IS the Only One-Wholeness.
The Only One there is. ONE.
That Wholeness - It's ALL Right Here Now. 
Most 'Religions' call it inexpressible G_D.
ALL world-teachings seem to agree on "IT"

It's the same as
Adoni Elo'hanu Adoni E'hud ~
Different Words for the same ONE.

" Hey, is That THAT " !    
" Yup, That's THAT " !

Sure, there are many 'thought particle pixels'
zipping around in my head as 'Content' Items -
but The Big 'CONTEXT' ~ The Big THIS, that is 
the All One Whole Universal Consciousness.
Notice all these 'words' all mean the same thing.
So I say Na'maste and greet EveryOne at Once !
When I Greet You, I greet the Whole Universe at Once ! At-One-Moment. At-One-Ment.

Always mind-boggling to me ! 
Shalom Everyone ...

Kewl, huh ....
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Loaded Love-related Idea-words we'd do well
to explore and learn about: Your Life depends on it.

LOVE: Abandonment, Absence, Addiction, Adoration, 

Affection, Attachment, Caring, Compassion, Concern, Craving, Dependency, Devotion, Divine Callings, Empathy, Enchantment, Feeling, Fixation, Fondness, Forgiveness, Friendship, Grief, Given Up, Hiding Out, Infatuation, Kindness, Loneliness, Longing,

Loss, Love, Marriage, Need, Naivety, Obsession, Passion, Sympathy, Resentment, Responsiveness, Romance, Solitude, Submission, Tenderness & Uncompromised Creativity.... and many, many more of your own loaded words. 

" You come to Love not by finding the 'perfect' person,

   but by seeing an 'imperfect' person perfectly."    ~ Sam Keen 

... and the wounds -- in us, in the world  

We're greatly encouraged by Buddha's relaxed, intimate non-attachment practice

towards love instead of a protective, aloof spiritual indifference or obsessive co-dependency...

" Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."  ~ St. Augustine

" Talk not of wasted affection, my friend - affection never was wasted. 

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist." 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 " There is more hunger for Love and Appreciation in this world than for bread.  

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible. 

We can do no great things - only small things with great love."  ~ Mother Teresa

"On reflection, one of the things I really needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

  And to love myself."  ~ Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, The Quaker Reader

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."  ~ William Shakespeare 

" Just as a mother would give her own life to protect an only child, cultivate the same boundless love towards all of life. So long as you draw breath, find ways to cultivate the quality of Loving-Kindness - this tender quality of mind, which of all qualities is said to most accurately reflect the truth of who you are. Let go forever of the idea you are in any way separate from the web of all living beings. Let everything you do be informed by the understanding that all things are interconnected. Find ways to relinquish the obsessions and excess you have used as a substitute for love. Accept in their place this gift - the infinite pleasure of joy in your boundless

heart of kindness." ~ From the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's Discourse on Loving Kindness

" Kindness and Generosity are more important than Wisdom,
   and the recognition of this - is the beginning of Wisdom. " ~ Theodore Issac Rubin

" Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries.

   Without them humanity just cannot survive."    ~ The Dalai Lama

" The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound."  ~ Maureen Duffy 

" If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever be polished? "   ~ Rumi

" To be free of the desire and attachment

    to being free of desire and attachment! "    ~ Ram Dass 

“The real accomplishment in life is the Art of Being a ‘Spiritual Warrior’ -

a ‘spiritual warrior’ is the only way to balance the terror of being Human

with the wonder of being Human.”   ~ Carlos Castaneda

"Certainly the Buddha taught some people the

teachings of being skillful in everyday 'duality'

that helped them avoid mistakes

and acquire spiritual merit.
To others he taught ultimate 'non-duality' - 

that some find profoundly frightening."  ~ Milarepa 

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the always difficult stuff ....

"All philosophies are mental fabrications.

There has never been a single doctrine

by which one could enter the true essence of things."  ~ Nagarjuna 

" Buddhist Meditation has 'nothing'  to offer you

other than what is in This very moment.

Gods, goddesses, religion & the ego can

certainly tempt you with so much more! "  ~ Henri Van Zeyst

 

If you don't understand that 'whatever'

arises and appears IS meditation - 

is already an object of meditation -

what can you achieve by applying

a divine or 'spiritual' antidote?

Conceptions and thoughts 

are not abandoned by discarding them -- 

but are spontaneously freed by themselves

when recognized & realized as only an 'illusion'.  ~ Dakini Niguma

"Enlightenment does not come from

some spiritual shakti pat on the head.

You might still be an un-informed dummy.

Enlightenment comes only

through compassion-based Understanding.

When you understand fully, insightfully,

what you painfully didn't understand -

You simply 'Get It' - spontaneously! 

What you didn't understand falls away,

'obsoletes' and you are free of it.

Now keep applying that to every thing -

and you'll be free of it all.

And it'll all still be here for you to enjoy 'it',  

but not be obsessively attached to it."    ~ Bhante Ananda Maitreya

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French - Nous oublions aisément nos fautes lorsqu'elles ne sont sues que de nous!
English - We forget our faults so easily - when they are known only to ourselves alone!

 ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Short of being a full blown Buddha ~

You will always have to have consistent  

ongoing meditation "practice-support" -- 

or your meditation just falls apart.  

Ploop!"                                                  ~ Ka-Ching

"After a few years of meditation practice

we can even learn how to

occasionally ignore ourselves.

And what relief that can be!"        ~ Wes Nisker

Kindness in Words creates Confidence.
Kindness in Thinking creates Profoundness.
Kindness in Giving creates Love.    ~ Lao Tzu

"To be loved, be lovable."   ~ Ovid

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" be of love

a little more careful

than of anything else "
~ e e cummings

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"A spiritual-awakening which does not

awaken the sleeper to Love,

has roused him in vain"

~ Jessamyn West ( 1902 –1984 ) American Quaker author,

   notably The Friendly Persuasion ( 1945 )     

~ Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926)

the world-renown German existential philosopher, poet and author

of "On Love & Other Difficulties" and "Letters to a Young Poet"

  

Highly mature, sobering letters and poems on love - show Rilke's profound understanding

of men and women and his ardent spirituality.  His radical books, were written over ninety

years ago in the avant-garde' bohemian Paris of Picasso. Rilke introduces the contradictory

concept of solitude as a blessing. He seems to have this way of reaching into your inner-

soul and grabbing ahold of 'your reality' and making you face it, in a tone of controlled urgency,

in a passionate sort of way. Experimental openness to experience, on comprehending

what is most difficult - and turning what is most alien into that which we can most trust. .... 

~ Akasa Levi

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from "ON LOVE & OTHER DIFFICULTIES" (1908) by Rainer Rilke

some deep comprehension-reading ~ certainly not for lovers of the naive ...

" The point of marital or any relationship is not to create a quick commonality

by tearing down all boundaries - on the contrary, a good relationship is one

in which each partner anoints the other to be the guardian of their solitude,

and in this they show each other the greatest possible trust. This I hold to be

the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard

over the solitude of the other. 

For, since it lies in the nature of indifference or insecurity of the common crowd

to recognize no solitude – then love and friendship are specifically there for

the purpose of continually providing the ‘opportunity’ for solitude.

And only love and friendship are the “true sharings” which do rhythmically

interrupt our individual periods of deep solitary emotion.  _________________

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A merging, a true and absolute togetherness between two people is an impossibility –

and where it does seem to exist nevertheless – it IS still a narrowing, a hemming-in,

a mutually-compromised-consent – that really does limit one party or both of their

fullest freedom and development.

But once the realization is accepted - that even between the closest people,

infinite distance continues to exist – a wonderful living side-by-side can then grow up

for them - IF they succeed in loving the expanse, loving the distance between them –

which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole being

before an immense wide sky ! "

"On Love & Other Difficulties" ~ the above was adapted, added to, and edited by Akasa Levi

from Translations and Considerations of Rainier Maria Rilke by John Mood; W.W. Norton, 1975

and The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Stephen Mitchell & Robert Hass; Vintage, 1989

- both as translated from Rilke’s original German editions.

~ and most famously - Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet" (1903-1908) " Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your own heart. Try to love the 'Questions' themselves - like locked rooms and like books that are written in a foreign language. Do not right now seek for the Answers. The 'Answers' which cannot now be given to you - because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything - Experiencing everything ! At present, you need to live the Questions. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, live along some distant day into the true Answer. Your answer."

Of course –– If you want some more Rilke – read on ~

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."  ~ Erich Fromm

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...more Rilke on personal Solitude

       and Love being so difficult.

         Immature Expectations

                    =equal=

    Discouraging Disappointments

   ~ from Rilke's Letters To A Young Poet ( 1903-1908 )

<> People have, with the help of naive common 'conventions',

totally oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward

the easiest side of the easy - but it is clear that we must relate

to what is difficult.  It is good to be solitary, alone - for solitude

is enrichingly difficult.  That something is difficult must be

a reason the more for us to do it.  

<> To Love is Good - Love being so difficult. For one human being

to love another - that is perhaps the most difficult of all our life-tasks –

the 'Ultimate Work' for which all other work is but preparation. For this

reason young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet

'know' love: they have to learn it. To practice it. With their whole being,

with all their vital forces, gathered close in around their lonely, timid,

upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But 'learning-time' is

also always a long, secluded alone-time.

So being 'loving' is solitude itself - for a long while ahead and far into life –

it is an intensified and deepened loving-aloneness for she or he who Loves.

<> Love is at first not anything that means 'merging', giving over and uniting

with another - for what would an authentic ‘union’ be of something unclarified

and unfinished?  Love is a high inducement to the individual to fully ripen,

to become 'whole' for themselves for another's sake. Love is a great exacting

claim upon you, something that chooses you out and calls you to vast things.

Only by the task of working on themselves - might young people use the love

that is given them. Merging, surrendering and every kind of communion is

not yet for them - who must save and gather-in for a long, long time still.

<> Whoever looks seriously at 'Love', finds that love & other difficulties 

of the heart, haven't any explanation, any solution, any hint of a ‘way’ yet 

to be discerned. Love is a ‘problem’ that we carry wrapped up & hand on

without opening - and as beginners we are not up to it. Instead of losing

ourselves in love, in all the light and frivolous play - behind which people

have hidden from their existences - but instead, we must hold off and take

this Love upon us as an apprenticeship.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke 

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Rilke in 1905, an early 'feminist-male', went on to say ~

. . . But this is what 'young people' are so often and so disastrously wrong in doing –

they ( who by their very nature are impatient ) fling themselves at each other when

love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness,

disorder, bewilderment. . . And what can happen then?  What can life do with this heap

of half-broken things that they call their 'communion' and that they would like to call

their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? 

. . . And so each of them loses himself or herself for the sake of the 'other' person –

and loses the other, and then many others who still wanted to come.  And loses

the vast distances & possibilities, gives up the approaching and fleeing of gentle,

prescient Things in exchange for an unfruitful confusion, out of which nothing more

can come. Nothing but a bit of disgust, disappointment, and poverty, and the escape

into one of the many 'conventions' that have been put up in great numbers like public

shelters on this most dangerous road. No area of human experience is so extensively

provided with conventions as this one is: there are 'live-preservers' of the most varied

invention, boats and water wings. Society has been able to create refuges of every sort

-- for since it preferred to take the "Love-Life" as an amusement – it also had to give it

an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as popular public amusements are. ( Britney, Paris )

It is true that many young people who "love falsely" for instance – simply surrendering

themselves and giving up their solitude. The average person will of course, always

go on doing that. And feel oppressed by their own failure and want to make the situation

they have landed in livable and fruitful in their own, personal way.  For their nature tells

them that the Questions of 'Love' - even more than everything else that is important –

cannot be resolved publicly and according to this or that agreement.

That they are 'Questions', intimate questions from one human being to another - which

in any case require a new, special, wholly personal answer.  But How can they, who

have already flung themselves together - and can no longer tell whose outlines are whose?

Who thus no longer possess anything of their own.

How can they find a way 'out of themselves', out of the depths of their already buried solitude?

They act out of 'mutual helplessness', and then if, whit the best of intentions, they try to escape

the 'conventions' that are approaching them ( marriage, for example ), they fall into the clutches

of some less obvious but just as deadly conventional solution. For then, everything around them

~ is convention. Wherever people act out of a prematurely fused, muddy communion, every 'action'

is conventional. Every 'relation' that such confusion leads to - has its own convention, however

unusual in the ordinary sense of immoral it may be. Even 'separating' would be a conventional step,

an impersonal, accidental decision without strength and without fruit.

Whoever looks seriously will find that ~ neither for 'Death', which is difficult, nor for 'Difficult Love' ~

has any clarification, any solution, any hint of a Path been perceived. And for both these tasks –

which we carry wrapped up and hand-on without opening, there is not a general, agreed-upon rule

that can be discovered.  But in the same measure in which we begin to test Life as 'individuals' –

these great Things will come to meet us, the individuals, with greater intimacy.  The claims that the

"Difficult Work of Love" makes 'upon our development are greater than life' - and we, as beginners,

are just not equal to them. But if we nevertheless Endure and take this love upon us as 'Burden' and

'Apprenticeship' - instead of losing ourselves in the whole easy and frivolous game behind which

people have hidden from the most solemn solemnity of their Being. Then "a small advance" and a

"lightening" will perhaps be perceptible to those who come long after us. That would be much.

We are only just now beginning to consider the relation of One Individual to a Second Individual

'objectively' and without prejudice.  And our attempts to "live such relationships" have no model

before them. And yet in the changes that Time has brought about - there are already many things

that can now help our timid novitiate.

The Girl and the Woman, in their new, individual unfolding - will only in passing be imitators of male

behavior and misbehavior and repeaters of male professions. After the 'uncertainty' of such transitions,

it will become obvious that women were going through the abundance and variation of those - often

ridiculous – 'disguises' just so that they could purify their own essential nature and wash out the

deforming influences of the male-sex. Women, in whom "Life" itself lingers and dwells more immediately,

more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths

than light, easy-going 'Man'.  'Man' who is not pulled down beneath the surface of Life by the weight

of any bodily fruit and who, arrogant and hasty, undervalues what he thinks he loves.

This "Humanity of Woman" - carried in her womb through all her suffering and humiliation –

will come to light when she has stripped off the conventions of mere femaleness in the transformations

of her outward status - and those men who do not yet feel it approaching will be astonished by it.

Someday, and even now, especially in the countries of northern Europe, trustworthy signs are already

speaking and shining. Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the

mere opposite of the male, but something in itself - something that makes one think not of any mere

'complement' and limit, but only Life and Reality ~ The Female Human Being.

This "Advance" - at first very much against the will of the outdistanced men - will transform

'The Love-Experience', which is now still filled with error - will change it from the ground up,

and reshape it into a 'Relationship' that is meant to be between one human being and another,

no longer just one that flows from the man to the woman.  And this more 'Human Love' - which

will fulfill itself with infinite consideration and gentleness, and kindness and clarity in binding

and releasing - will resemble what we are now preparing painfully and with great struggle –

the Love that consists in this: the 'Two Solitudes' protect and border and greet each other.

And one more thing: Don't think that the Great Love which was once granted to you, when you

were a child, has been lost - how can you know whether vast and generous wishes didn't ripen

in you at that time, and Purposes by which you are still living today?  I believe that that true Love

remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the

first inner-work that you did on your life.

–– All good wishes to you !   Yours, Rainer Maria Rilke

The real voyage of Discovery consists

not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.

~ The Tao

~ Jelaluddin Rumi  (1207-1273)

Sufi mystic poet from eastern Persia in what is now Afghanistan
 

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover in you just be.

Your task is not to seek for Love –

but merely to seek and find all the 'barriers'

within yourself that you have built against Love.

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of Love.

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~ Teilhard de Chardin 

(1881-1955)  French paleontologist
and philosopher of the avant garde

The day will come when,
after harnessing the winds,
the tides and gravitation -

we shall harness for ourselves
the energies of Love.

And on that day,

for the second time
in the history of the world,

we will have discovered fire.

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Remember to Contemplate Your Words 

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Love WHAT ? ~ Love 'LIFE' itself - Caring about Living Beings.The phenomenon of 'Life' on the planet itself as The Container, and all The STUFF that Life is made of as memories, tragedies, and endless stuff from Bed Bath and Beyond, food, gas and lodging, cars clothing houses and trophies and torn up stories and trash and people and possums too, they too are All Content. 

Our task is to shift over from being a stuck being in the Content - and trying to not try to work on it so frustratingly. My Lama said to Not Try To Fix It - BUT DO some thing entirely else instead, altogether: develop your meditation skills, develop your Dharma psychology wisdom understanding instead, for now just practice Mindfulness, just meditate instead... Come back to the Dilemma later... ~A~

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Love is our natural state. It never leaves us, but we regularly leave it. For most of us, even though we say we want to experience more love, intimacy, and authenticity in our lives, we are also terrified of these things. The mind of separation continually talks us out of real connection and into the trap of separate self. This day-long retreat is an opportunity to deepen our embodiment of intimacy - with ourselves, one another, and our planet. Join us for an illuminating, restorative, and down-to-earth day of practice involving meditation and dharma talks, relational mindfulness, and facilitated group discussion. This retreat is appropriate for both experienced meditators and those who are new to practice. ~ Deborah Eden Tull

Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives. She is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, public speaker, author, activist, and sustainability consultant. She spent 7 years as a Buddhist monk at a silent monastery and teaches engaged dharma practice nationally. See more at www.deborahedentull.com  


'CONTEXT'
The Big One THIS
'CONTENT'

We, in our Separateness, in our Dividedness -- 
We Are ALL the very same, same ONE Consciousness,  

We all share our Un-togetherness and our Wholeness simultaneously as we are The Wholeness Itself, the very same Universal ALL ONE Consciousness,
The ALL at ONCE Consciousness One-Time: BANG. One Time Only: ONCE - This WAS It. It's Still Banging.
The ALL at Once Energy Field in there IS the Only One-Wholeness. That Wholeness - It's ALL Right Here Now. 
Most 'Religions' call it inexpressible G_D.
ALL world-teachings seem to agree on that.
the very same Universal ALL ONE Consciousness,
The ALL at ONCE Consciousness One-Time: BANG. One Time Only: This WAS It. It's Still Banging. 
The ALL at Once Energy Field in there IS Only One-Wholeness. That Wholeness - It's ALL Right Here Now.  

Most 'Religions' call it inexpressible G_D. 

ALL world-teachings seem to agree on that. 

Sure, there are many 'thought particle pixels'

zipping around in my head as 'Content' Items - 

but the Big 'CONTEXT' ~ The Big THIS, that is  

the All One Whole Universal Consciousness.

Notice all these 'words' all mean the same thing. 
So I say Na'maste and greet EveryOne at Once !

When I Greet You, I greet the Whole Universe at Once ! At-One-Ment.

Always mind-boggling to me ! 
Shalom Everyone:
BTW:
It's the same as Adoni Elo'hanu Adoni E'hud - Different Words for the same ONE.

Kewl, huh ....

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