stylised gesture. The body transformed into a hieroglyph, a succession of hieroglyphs, of attitudes modulating from significance to significance, like a poem or a piece of music. Movements of the muscles representing movements of the consciousness ... It's meditation in action; the metaphysics of the Mahayana expressed not in words, but through symbolic movements and gestures.
Aldous Huxley "Island"NO man is an island and turning my own sense of self vision into a reality has always been dependent on a willingness to search for all the component parts, to communicate and collaborate with the multitude of people destined to provide the component parts and then to "glue" the whole together into a cohesive and meaningful solution.
What is required now is nothing less than a leap to global empathic consciousness and in less than a generation if we are to resurrect the global economy and revitalize the biosphere. The question becomes this: what is the mechanism that allows empathic sensitivity to mature and consciousness to expand through history?
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nterest. The system allows them to decide what is good for you.
Conservative, Labour, Liberal, UKIP, BNP, Greens, they will all be able to break their promises once elected. Look at the system not the party. This is why we are still in the EU, no matter who gets in, because it is "good for us"
HOW RIGHT he IS and whenever we, as the voting people, challenge the politicians ACTIONS in this respect, don't they really like to rub our noses into the mud reminding us of this reality.
Gordon Brown our ex-Prime Minister has been the very worst example of this practice for as long as I can remember ...
DO what I tell you to DO boy - NOT what you have asked (voted) me to do for you !…
nterest. The system allows them to decide what is good for you.
Conservative, Labour, Liberal, UKIP, BNP, Greens, they will all be able to break their promises once elected. Look at the system not the party. This is why we are still in the EU, no matter who gets in, because it is "good for us"
HOW RIGHT he IS and whenever we, as the voting people, challenge the politicians ACTIONS in this respect, don't they really like to rub our noses into the mud reminding us of this reality.
Gordon Brown our ex-Prime Minister has been the very worst example of this practice for as long as I can remember ...
DO what I tell you to DO boy - NOT what you have asked (voted) me to do for you !
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eginning and no end. It is what the Buddha called the Unborn. It is an Absolute dimension of reality that is both birthless and deathless. The material universe, on the other hand, is considered to be finite. Even though it is vast in its expanse, it is ultimately relative, because it has a beginning and an end. It was created. However, cosmologists are now making the extraordinary discovery that the material universe is in fact not finite but infinite. And if what these cosmologists are discovering is true, we need to rethink this traditional mystical assumption. If the evolutionary process and everything contained within it are part of an infinite unfolding as they are finding—if it's not merely inconceivably vast but it's literally infinite—then we don't have to close our eyes or even transcend the mind, time, body, and universe in order to discover that which is infinite. All we have to do is behold the universe that we are already an inherent part of. And that opens the doors for a whole new definition of mysticism.
—Andrew Cohen…
nity. The blinders concerning the realities of money, though, must be removed if human civilization is ever to rise beyond wasting our greatest wealth which is all life on our shared planet, and the realization of our oneness with each other and all natural life on our planet. Avarice and the lust for power that emanates from greed is destroying all life on our planet. It we can’t move past our own greed, we will fail our own selves, one another, all creatures, and all life on our planet. Fabricating social and class division drives violence. We are one. Until we understand this basic concept of all violence being against ONE self, we will continue to devolve rather than evolve into higher levels of human knowledge. We are one. Only oneness can save us and our planet. Time is running out for humanity to see their own greatness lies ONLY in realizing oneness.
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e philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
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ublication, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural world-views, and even spirituality.
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be speeding up every day. While many popular forms of contemporary spirituality offer ways to feel better in the face of overwhelming change - to discover greater equanimity, detachment, or compassion - Andrew Cohen says that change is not something to be avoided, or merely tolerated, but an essential aspect of reality that needs to be consciously embraced.
Change is in fact the spiritual essence of life itself and the source of a new enlightenment.
Through Cohen’s five fundamental tenets for living an enlightened life, Evolutionary Enlightenment empowers you to wholeheartedly participate in the process of change as your own spiritual practice. In doing so, you can not only makes deep sense of life today; but you’ll discover how you can play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow.
“Evolutionary Enlightenment shows us how—not in some future time but now—each of us can respond to the evolutionary impulse seeking to emerge in, through, and as every human being, birthing an enlightened society.”
—Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation
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Added by Michael Grove at 22:27 on December 11, 2013