Comments - THE art of ZEN ... - Gaia Community2024-03-29T06:38:16Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A313&xn_auth=noZen and the Art of The Long A…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-02-06:5313775:Comment:1327102024-02-06T09:08:31.627ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
Zen and the Art of The Long And Winding Road Maintenance<br />
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In a network, having spent some time in splendid isolation as the sun sets, the next morning, finding a few others along the path, a path turned luminous by joint sauntering.<br />
The Long And Winding Road<br />
Your anguish at the direction of your personal life, as well as a nostalgic looking back at what precious moments you've experienced.…
Zen and the Art of The Long And Winding Road Maintenance<br />
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In a network, having spent some time in splendid isolation as the sun sets, the next morning, finding a few others along the path, a path turned luminous by joint sauntering.<br />
The Long And Winding Road<br />
Your anguish at the direction of your personal life, as well as a nostalgic looking back at what precious moments you've experienced.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/conversationsthatmindandmatter/posts/3171276629847975" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/conversationsthatmindandmatter/posts/3171276629847975</a> A Japanese explanation of the…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2023-10-31:5313775:Comment:1323512023-10-31T10:55:20.653ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
A Japanese explanation of the [FS4D] Art of the Possible...<br />
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.... YOU may ask why Japanese & what pray IS [FS4D] !!!???<br />
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A Japanese explanation of the [FS4D] Art of the Possible...<br />
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.... YOU may ask why Japanese & what pray IS [FS4D] !!!???<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/4253902717971280" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/4253902717971280</a> The degree of absence of thi…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-10:5313775:Comment:112042012-06-10T08:27:28.375ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span class="font-size-3">The <em>degree</em> of <strong><em>absence of thinking</em> IS</strong> the<strong><br></br><br></br></strong><strong>arbiter of ultimate spiritual awareness.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>ZEN</strong> is not a religion, not a dogma, not a creed.…</span><br></br><br></br></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">The <em>degree</em> of <strong><em>absence of thinking</em> IS</strong> the<strong><br/><br/></strong><strong>arbiter of ultimate spiritual awareness.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>ZEN</strong> is not a religion, not a dogma, not a creed.</span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-3"><strong>ZEN</strong> is not even a quest, an inquiry - it IS non-philosophical.</span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-3">The fundemental of the <strong>ZEN</strong> <strong><em><a href="http://www.osho.com/main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Sub1Menu=OshoIntro&Sub2Menu=VisionIndex&Language=English" target="_blank">approach</a> <a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/photos" target="_blank"></a></em></strong>is <strong>ALL IS</strong> <strong><em>as it should be</em></strong>,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>NOTHING is missing</strong>.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">"This very moment <a href="http://www.oshorisk.com/osho.html" target="_blank"><strong>EVERYTHING is perfect.</strong>"</a></span></p>
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<p> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bhagwan-shree-rajneesh" target="_blank">OSHO</a></strong><br/> <a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/1990/1/bhagwan_shree_rajneesh" target="_blank"></a></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>ZEN</strong> is an intertwining of <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/32000-potential-external" target="_blank">TAO</a></strong> and the teaching of Gautam Buddha</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>ZEN</strong> cannot be <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/it-was-his-experience-of-the" target="_blank">ZEN</a> <em>without both of these components</em></strong></span></p>
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</div> "Developing impeccability re…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-02-07:5313775:Comment:104742012-02-07T15:06:01.137ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>"<strong>Developing <em>impeccability</em> requires <em>acting in accordance with</em> Spirit, driving from the heart, being in the moment, being 100% committed to what you are doing, and hassling the details, even when you feel like giving up.</strong></p>
<p>So, the question is, where are you in your spiritual growth process? Are you willing to put forth the effort to tighten up your life? Are you still attached to controlling the outcome? Do you meditate a little every day on your…</p>
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<p>"<strong>Developing <em>impeccability</em> requires <em>acting in accordance with</em> Spirit, driving from the heart, being in the moment, being 100% committed to what you are doing, and hassling the details, even when you feel like giving up.</strong></p>
<p>So, the question is, where are you in your spiritual growth process? Are you willing to put forth the effort to tighten up your life? Are you still attached to controlling the outcome? Do you meditate a little every day on your heart chakra in order to cultivate balance? Do you hassle the details?</p>
<p><strong>If you want to become impeccable, you must clean and polish your being. Clean and polish. Clean and polish. Until it shines like a diamond.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.unplugfromthepatriarchy.com/blog/?p=656" target="_blank">And once it is perfect, you throw it away</a></strong>." <strong>- <a href="http://www.unplugfromthepatriarchy.com/lucia.htm" target="_blank">Luce Rene</a></strong><br/> </p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://spiral-dynamics.wholelifewholeworld.com/2011/01/19/ground-breaking-blog-the-dual-the-non-dual-and-the-big-missing-piece/" target="_blank">PERCEPTION IS</a></strong> <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">indeed</a> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">THE MEDIUM</a></strong></em></p>
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<p>Bridget Riley is about <strong>the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt, sometimes <em>apparently disastrous</em> -</strong> that can take place in <strong>a given situation.</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>situation</strong> is <strong><em>presented in the</em> <a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/2006/6/understanding" target="_blank">simplest possible terms</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><em> John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>One of the most distinctive characteristics of <a href="http://www.mishabittleston.com/artists/bridget_riley/" target="_blank">Bridget Riley's art</a> is that it <strong>"insists"</strong> with such concentration that it changes sensory response into something else. <br/> <br/> The experience which Riley <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n13/schw01_.html" target="_blank">offers</a> is closely related to the expression of emotion or, more exactly, to the creation of visual analogues for sharply particularized states of<br/> mind. <br/> <br/> The very intensity of the assault which her painting makes on the eye drives it, as it were, past the point at which it is merely a matter of optical effect. <br/> <br/> It becomes acute physical sensation, apprehended kinesthetically as mental tension or mental release, anxiety or exhileration, <strong>heightened self-awareness</strong> or <strong>heightened awareness of unfamiliar or even alien states of being.<br/></strong> <br/> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley" target="_blank">Bridget Riley</a> Catalogue introduction - David Thompson<br/></em> <em>Venice Biennale, June 1968</em></strong></p>