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I have been initiated into the secret ‘Highest Yoga Tantra’ tradition of Tibetan Buddhism where I swore never to reveal the secrets they shared with me but here I go again, as I did in Revealing the Secrets of Inner Fire Meditation 
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Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh is continuing to receive treatment at a medical center in San Francisco he was flown to in July after experiencing a severe brain hemorrhage last year. The renowned spiritual
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"I became enamored of [Buddhism] when I realized its basic tenet began by saying, essentially, 'Life sucks and then you die, so what’s that all about?' This was the religion for me. This was a framework I could use to examine my actual experience. Far from the promise of pie-in-a-big-sky afterlife, this was about dealing with the fear that comes when you realize nothing is going to save your ass". —Patricia Anderson
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Envy is “universal,” assert the authors of the HBR article, psychologist Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson, a management professor. And psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers for the most part agree: envy is a standard-issue human emotion, albeit the one we are least likely to admit to, even to ourselves
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Think you aren't envious or jealous of others? Shakespeare knew otherwise. What envy is and how to deal with it from a Buddhist perspective, and how these realisations help our spiritual progress...
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There is little doubt that the UFO phenomena are real. But the nature of the phenomena are not easily understood or explained. In this article psychic researcher Dr Dean Radin examines three world views, and argues that UFO's are evidence of the M3 hypothesis, where consciousness is primary, and matter and energy are emergent properties of consciousness...
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A secular Buddhist, recoiling from the ills of both theism and atheism, suggests that we move beyond both
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"If we allow religion to be identified exclusively with a particular form that it took in the past, something that will always be inadequate to the present, we fail to take our own moment in time seriously and surrender the opportunity for renewal and reform." —Dale S. Wright
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The paradox of our practice is that the most effective way of transformation is to leave ourselves alone. The more we let everything be just what it is, the more we relax into an open, attentive awareness of one moment after anothe
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It is the split between who we are and who we think we should be is the greatest barrier to awakening. Paradoxically, there is nothing to attain... #mindfulness #meditation #spirituality
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The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. The group reversed Wheeler's original experiment, and used helium atoms scattered by light.
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A recent experiment at the ANU confirms yet again that reality doesn't exist until it is measured. "It proves that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it," said Associate Professor Andrew Truscott from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.
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A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.
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According to the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, when the Buddha passed away, the king deity Sakka uttered the following: “Impermanent are all component things. They arise and cease, that is their nature: They come into being and pass away.” We should not “attach” to things in this world, say the Buddhists, because all things are temporary and will soon pass away. All suffering, say the Buddhists, arises from attachment.
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A French genetic scientist may seem like an unusual person to hold the title – but Matthieu Ricard is the world’s happiest man, according to researchers. The 66-year-old turned his back on Parisian intellectual life 40 years ago and moved to India to study Buddhism. He is now a close confidante of the Dalai Lama and respected western scholar of religion.
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Excellent tips from a man whose brainwave patterns have been studied, revealing an unusually high level of gamma waves. These are produced during Buddhist "metta" (compassion) meditation. He has been deemed "the world's happiest man". It's not rocket science. It just requires consistency, focus and practice... #happiness #meditation #mindfulness
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Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most influential religious leaders of the last 100 years. A friend and contemporary of Martin Luther King, he had a huge impact on the anti-war movement of the 1960s and ‘70s and continues to speak out against violence in all its forms, as Kerry Stewart writes.
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Thich Nhat Hanh, known as "Thay" to his followers, coined the term "engaged Buddhism". He encouraged people to get off their meditation cushions and help others. He has been involved in social movements through the decades, always preaching non-violent solutions. Now 88, he is slowly recovering from a brain haemorrhage, and the thoughts of millions are with him...
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By: Josh Richardson, Everything exists in the present moment and it’s a fundamental principle of the Universe that many of our scientists…
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Your brain might hurt when you read this, but stick with it - it's worth it. There is nothing but now and time is an illusion, probably conjured by consciousness: that's my idea! Everything exists at once in a realm that Plato would understand. Think of your life as a worm stretching from womb to tomb. Now is just where your consciousness slices it...
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2015 is going to be an astonishing and magical year on Planet Earth. The Energy that is the Guardian and Keeper of this year is that of the Dragonfly. Dragonfly is the Keeper of the Portals of Magic, Dreams and Mystery. It is a fitting energy to guide our emergence into the Sixth Dimension of Magic and Dream manifestation.
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Meditation on the dragonfly is about transformation...
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Revealing the Secrets of Tibetan Inner Fire Meditation. The benefits of inner fire meditation and how to practise it.
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Find out how the yogis of Tibet stay warm with hardly any clothes in the freezing conditions of the Himalayas. In this article Chad Foreman reveals the amazing benefits and a step by step guide on how to practice Inner Fire Meditation. "Practising inner Fire Meditation connects the practitioner with the power centre of the second chakra which in yoga is associated with physical power, sexuality and creativity. It helps to focus and use nervous energy in a positive way to help build confidence and dispel confusion. In martial arts this is the centre where martial artist’s draw their strength from to perform amazing feats of balance, strength and busting through cement blocks with their strikes."
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One of the most popular Buddhist teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area these days is not a Tibetan lama or a traditional Zen master but an unconventional, an American-born lay teacher named Adyashanti. His public talks and dialogues (which he calls satsangs, a term borrowed from India’s Advaita, or "nondual," tradition) attract hundreds of seekers, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
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"Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it." —Adyashanti
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Meditation is rest, absolute rest, a full stop to all activity - physical, mental, emotional. The key word is rest, relaxation. Never go against rest and relaxation.
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"But remember, the key word is rest, relaxation. Never go against rest and relaxation. Arrange your life in such a way, drop all futile activity because ninety per cent is futile; it is just for killing time and remaining occupied. Do only the essential and devote your energies more and more to the inner journey. Then that miracle happens when you can remain at rest and in action together, simultaneously." - Osho
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“Knowing how much is enough when eating.” It sounds so simple. Yet how often the matter of “enough” trips us up. For much of the world, getting enough to eat is the problem. Here in America we eat too much. Two-thirds of the population is overweight, nearly a third clinically obese; meanwhile, our ideal of physical beauty keeps getting thinner and thinner.
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The thought manifests as the word; - Dhammapada, the Buddha
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If you believe synchronicity is simply coincidence, then you haven’t read any of the top experts in the field. The famous psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung coined the term synchronicity in the 1920s to reference the alignment of universal forces with a person’s experiences. These forces have been sought out for centuries in many spiritual traditions as a means of aligning with the “flow". By Guest Writer Robert Torres
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Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner to the observer. To be true synchronicity the odds of these events occurring by chance should be extremely unlikely - if not astronomical. I have had many such experiences in my life, usually at times of great focus and associated with spiritual practice...
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This makes a lot of sense. The Israelites used to combine two plants in religious ceremonies that had almost identical properties to Ayahuasca. Moses' contact with God bears strong resemblance to DMT experiences...
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It's already too late to save humanity... our mass extinction is inescapable, says prominent scientist... population out of control
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Nearly all the economic models underpinning human civilization are based on the fraudulent concept of limitless growth and expansion. Is it already too late to save humanity as a species? Maybe not, if six billion people disappear tomorrow...
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Fear is what happens when reality collides with our personal fiction. Our practice is based on expectations—expectations about who we are, why we are practicing, and what our practice should be.
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Meditation brings us face to face to face with the difficult reality of being a human being. We are forced to confront our fantasies and illusions about who we are and what we want to become...but of course this is what we need to work through...
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Astronomer Chris Impey examines the possibilities of the universe in his new book Beyond. "I like the idea that the universe — the boundless possibility of 20 billion habitable worlds — has led to things that we can barely imagine," he says.
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Otherwise we do it or we perish people! it's as simple as that...
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With evidence growing that training the mind or inducing certain modes of consciousness can have positive health effects, researchers have sought to
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Paradoxically, to take control of our lives and reach our full potential - including influencing our genetic potential - we have to relinquish control. Mindfulness practice and meditation is the key.... It is the power of the subconscious, not the conscious mind, that we need to harness. That is why "positive thinking" doesn't work...
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Everything is naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern. These patterns are vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment; yet there is no significance to attach to such meanings beyond the moment in which they present themselves
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There is no need to correct or attain anything. When we sit to meditate we are only witnessing. There is no need to think "now I am meditating". "It should not become a specialised or formal event, bloated with seriousness and solemnity..."
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A couple of years ago, researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center discovered a thruster system which actually generates thrust, despite requiring absolutely zero propellant. The implications of this discovery are far-reaching; applications for space flight and other technologies which require propulsion could one day become far cheaper, allowing space exploration to expand exponentially. The existence of this […]
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The very fabric of the universe - of "empty" space - is energy, infinite energy! We are close to harnessing that. In fact there is ample evidence that many have done it before and have been bought out or "silenced". That also opens the possibility of "warp drive" for space vehicles. This means the possibility of almost instantaneous travel between the stars - bypassing the light speed limit by moving space and time around the vehicle instead of moving the vehicle itself. If the human race is to survive, therein lies our destiny...
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"Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe unmanifest. Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home." - Padmasambhava