These images represent the following sentence taken from the home page of www.ahalmaas.com –
The Diamond Approach is a path of wisdom, an approach to the investigation of Reality and a method of working on oneself that leads to human maturity and liberation.
…and interpreted in images by phrasr. See the show here
What do you think? I like it. I’m going to open The Soul’s Compass to a random page and do one from it – next post.
It’s been quite a while since i was memed, but today Resonant Engima tagged me.
Here is the meme guide:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
Since I am still reading – Your Soul’s Compass – I grabbed it.
5th Sentence:
It’s a statement of faith.
Next 3 sentences:
When you say, ‘What’s the most important prayer in Judaism?’ it’s Ana Adonai hoshiya na -‘Please God help us.’ It’s like Kyrie Eleison – ‘Lord have mercy.’ Reb Zalman’s explanation struck a very personal chord for me (Joan Borysenko).
Compare that to this (the other book close at hand – ProBlogger):
5th sentence:
One of my favorite monetization strategies is that anything that alows you to charge a subscription rather than a one-time payment.
Next 3 sentences:
Make a sale but get paid over and over. It’s the gym membership model. Some blogs do this with private forums, others with online training courses.
In reading A. Decker’s profile, we see the list of favorite movies is: King Kong(both), O Brother Where Art Thou?, Brick, Crouching Tiger…(Ang Lee-Chinese-not dubbed English).
May we suggest – Vitus, Baghdad Cafe, and Being There?
Who to Tag????
And now back to working on my Tuesday presentation for Experience Unlimited – 8 Simple Tools to Market YOU.
Timelessness is NOW. Timelessness includes no time and all time. It is the moment that is always now.
The ordinary meaning of being in the now usually means pay attention to what is happening in this moment of time and space. It is usually directed at the content of one’s experience.
Most of us probably had parents who harangued us at times to pay attention, to be here now. But those moments probably did not contain the sense of timelessnes – being beyond time. In fact, they most likely bound us more to the sense of time.
Mystics and saints talk of timelessness, of how being in the now or the present moment transcends time. What’s interesting is that being in the now, in the timeless state, does not stop the dynamic movement of the universe or the phenomena of time. Things continue to happen in time and space, but one’s experience is more fundamental than time.
Timelessness includes time. Time is of timelessness. Time and events are happening within timelessness, from timelessness.
Many people, in fact, probably most of us, have experiences of timelessness, but we rarely stop to explore the experience in the moment – to really get curious about what is happening. If we do, our conditioning will automatically engage the linear mind in the exploration which brings us back into the realm of time.
To explore timelessness, we need to be able to observe and perceive with awareness and presence without thinking, without engaging the content in a conceptual manner. This means engaging in a direct phenomenological exploration – what is happening right now without interpretation from the past.
The reified mind operates in the world on self-images and the conceptional. The true artist is able to step into another dimension to produce a true self-portrait.
I came across this post while looking into disidentification. The post, in part, has an exercise in disidentification. There are a lot of “I” statements in the exercise and then this paragraph:
Through the process of disidentification you become more and more your own manager. You find yourself becoming more free from concerns about the expectations or judgments of other people. The self is the inner director.
There is little in this exercise, as I see it, that involves disidentification. In fact, just the opposite it increases identification with an idealized self.
Disidentification is a natural result of open-ended inquiry into the nature of the self. Who am I? What am I? Exploring my beliefs, attitudes and convictions is part of the process of disidentification.
The process of disidentification often begins with a situation in which we are totally charged, reactive and identified with some self-image from the past. These processes are psychodynamic slices of a larger overall process for the seeker of true nature.
This manager and director of the self mentioned above is the central identification. The deeper implications of disidentification are clearly seen in the Buddha’s questioning of the existence of self.
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From an email that has probably been forwarded to millions…
These two guys reared this lion from a baby in England but the authorities would not allow them to keep it once it reached maturity so they were forced to give it up.
They took it back to Africa and placed it in a wildlife sanctuary.
A year later they went to see it and were told it would not remember them …
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