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Comment by Ron Alexander on October 15, 2009 at 5:26pm

Vipassana coming to Carolina:

In November, Dr. Paul R. Fleischman M.D., psychiatrist, author, and Vipassana Meditation Teacher under the guidance of S.N. Goenka, will be in Asheville to share a talk on The Scientific World View and Vipassana Meditation and will conduct a number of group sittings.


Lecture in Asheville, NC

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When: Saturday - November 7, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Where: University of North Carolina, Asheville - Reuter Center, The Manheimer Room
Attendance: Free and open to the public. All are invited to attend whether they have sat a 10-day course or not. Please invite your friends.
Flyer: A copy of the flyer may be obtained by clicking the following link: download flyer
Directions: From downtown Asheville:
240W to 19-23 N toward Weaverville. Take 2nd exit for UNCA. Turn right at bottom of the ramp onto Broadway. Turn left at 1st light onto Campus Drive. Follow to the top and turn left at the stop sign. Reuter Center will be on the right.

Group Sitting in Asheville, NC

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When: Saturday - November 7, 2009 from 5:00-6:00 PM (Prior to the lecture)
Where: University of North Carolina, Asheville – Reuter Center, The Manheimer Room

Attendance: Group Sittings are open to Old Students. An Old Student is one who has completed at least one 10-day meditation course with S.N Goenka or his assistant teachers. Bring your cushions.
Flyer: A copy of the flyer may be obtained by clicking the following link: download flyer
Directions: From downtown Asheville:
240W to 19-23 N toward Weaverville. Take 2nd exit for UNCA. Turn right at bottom of the ramp onto Broadway. Turn left at 1st light onto Campus Drive. Follow to the top and turn left at the stop sign. Reuter Center will be on the right.


Group Sitting/One-Day Sitting in Black Mountain, NC

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When: Sunday - November 8, 2009 from 9:00-10:00 AM and One-Day Sitting from 10:15AM - 5:15PM (Paul and Susan Fleischman will conduct the first hour.)
Where: Miles' Residence - 115 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain, NC 28711

Attendance: Group Sittings are open to Old Students. An Old Student is one who has completed at least one 10-day meditation course with S.N Goenka or his assistant teachers. Bring your cushions.

More information about this lecture series may be found at www.vipassanatalk.org

May all beings be happy and peaceful,

Comment by Nadine C. Patrice on October 15, 2009 at 12:57pm

Ron thanks for sharing this wonderful quote with us. Forgiveness is the key to peace of mind.

Comment by Ron Alexander on October 14, 2009 at 4:45pm

Thanks for adding your wisdom to Ho'oponopono! dear Silja, The words "I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you" taken into my loving kindness meditation is really helping me heal alot of old wounds.

"There is no more of a sacred place than where ancient wounds are turned into a present love." (ACIM)

Comment by Silja Saareoks-Kaldre on October 14, 2009 at 1:42pm

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Comment by Silja Saareoks-Kaldre on October 14, 2009 at 11:47am

It is better if we can feel what we say, otherwise it is just words without much meaning behind of it.
Just can't get over of talking about Ho'oponopono.
So, if we say: " I love you," we should really take the time to feel it inside. (Me personally I'd prefer "us all" to word "you", even if it is being done for someone personally. It is just that I prefer seeing everything as the whole.)
When saying "thank you," we should really feel gratitude and think of what we're
being grateful for.
When saying "I'm sorry and please forgive me," it would be useful to get so deep that we could also let go and forgive all the pain. It is just that we can't get without giving it first. So we need to forgive ourselves and all the others for carrying or causing the pain. So we also need to forgive before asking to be forgiven, but also understand the reasons that has caused it all.

The whole creation was not intended to cause any of the suffering and that's how it was before, but this information is erased from our history books. But as the human civilization we have gone pretty far from it... Kind a difficult to make a good face and not to see what we have done. I'm really deeply sorry for all of it, that I'd rather not want to see. I'm sorry for all the pain that I'm still causing and what I have caused before because not being aware enough or brave enough to make the better choices. I'm sorry whenever being unhappy and sad... I am grateful for being happy and for making someone feel happier. I'm happy for all of the life we still have here, for the love and joy.

You can say just one word with all the meaning by feeling it all that you say.
With love, -Silja

Comment by Ron Alexander on October 8, 2009 at 5:43pm

Meditate on this - it is the beginning -
To Love so much:

May all beings be free:

The Rinpoche (Thuksey) speaking:
Many people say they want to receive teachings and all they are saying is : I want a little more knowledge so that I can impress people. What is the use of that? Many people say they want to learn about Buddhism, but their way of learning is an escape from the truth and not an approach to it. So it is important that you understand that what is necessary is the true motivation, the true approach. If you do not have that, everything you learn will be of no use to you.

He paused , with his eyes still closed. To come to the Teachings in the right spirit you must know and feel many things. You must understand, not merely in your mind but in your heart and spirit the impermanence and transience of all phenomena. You must understand that all things are suffering - that love without awareness is suffering, that desire without awareness is suffering. You must understand the nature of suffering so deeply that you see all the world is in pain, that all Being is suffering. The Buddha said the whole world is on fire. Even those words will burn you if you do not hear them with the right purity.
You must understand the nature of suffering, to transcend it to leave the world of fire and enter Nirvana, to overcome the torment of desire and live in calm and love.

He put his hands to his forehead, In the Hinayana they say the end of discipline is to escape suffering. This is not what we say in Tibet,in the Mayahana. We cannot bear to escape ourselves while we see the rest of creation is in pain; we could not endure to be free while the rest of the world is in prison. And so you must not only want to attain Nirvana for yourself , you must also want with all your heart that the whole of Being should attain Nirvana, should enter into bliss. And if you truly love all things, you will renounce your own salvation for the joy of continually working for the liberation of others. This is the ideal of the Bodhisatva. The heart of the Bodhisatva is so great that it cannot be content until the whole of creation, even the small insects and the blades of grass, have entered into Nirvana.

To be a Bodhisatva is to be free of all delusions of selfhood, to have finally realized that all things arise contingently and have no separate absolute existence, to be free of the falsity of the notion of personality, The Bodhisatva does not act for his own benefit; he acts in full awareness of emptiness, the emptiness of all things, in full awareness of the emptiness of all his actions, in full awareness, even, of the emptiness of his compassion. And yet his whole being is compassion. Everything he does is dedicated to others, every action,
every thought, every ectasy, every meditation - given effortlessly, dedicated without for the "Self" that gives.

This is the true motivation, this is the true feeling - to love all things so much that you wish to bring them into Nirvana, to love all created things so much that you want to become perfect, so that you can be of help to them. You should meditate on this. It is the beginning.

A Journey In Ladakh (p. 152-153) Andrew Harvey

Comment by Silja Saareoks-Kaldre on September 23, 2009 at 3:46pm

Creating the circle around the place we live in.
I really do like it. First to do some inner cleaning of the thoughts and feelings. Using the Ho'oponopono can give the great results in this.
This is not like a usual mediation, maybe it is closest to walking meditation. Anyway for the first what we need is the feeling of oneness with everything. Just the thought or understanding is simply not good enough, what we do need is to really feel it inside and around. Walking in the nature or watching the stars at night does work for good too. Then to go jogging to activate the body and the breathing system (it can be just for ten minutes:-). While jogging keep the focus on positive thoughts or affirmations and keep the feeling. After a little time to relax we can make a circle by walking around our piece of land, house, the block or whatever is the place that we live in. While making this circle, use the active breathing with imagining the light to breathe in and out. Also feel the connection with the nature, hug the trees or do what you feel right for you. The choices can be really personal. Feel the connection with the whole planet and the Universe.
With love for you all and thank you!

Comment by Jesse Andrews on September 19, 2009 at 2:51pm

One of the goals is to be the observer. To become one with the inner self that is in balance with all, yet only a observer, a witness to the reality we interact with. When we observe ourselves "just being", when we allow ourselve's to "just be" all else falls to the wayside. That is my understanding and action of meditation. When you are just being, you are being your true self. All the programming from day one is set aside, observed, noticed, yet not acted upon because the ego is no longer needed to make decisions, or for mind to analyze it all. Just being is the hardest act the human mind can do, yet it is the easiest act to 'just do'. It is difficult due to the social programming. It is easy to just breath, to just smell, to just feel, it is easy to just be. Meditation to me is learning what the programming is, and delete it with love for oneself. Knowing that what you are deleteting is not you, it is the programming. There is no programming for the "just be" persona. How can there be? When we say, I am teaching myself to just be who I am, we are creating a program that ego is creating. You don't have to learn anything to just be. You are he inner buddha observeing all that transpire's in your life. It is not about what you are doing, it is how you are dealing with what you are doing. Meditation helps create that awareness. The enlightenment comes when one can say, I don't have to be this, or that, all I have to do is just be.

Comment by Silja Saareoks-Kaldre on September 19, 2009 at 10:59am

Thank you Mike!
There is no judgement. We have all been part of it making it all to become the way it is. Sometimes doing nothing is not the solution either, as it allows to exist the behavior that causes the suffering. But there is gonna be no judgement. On the moment we start to realize more, without any shuttering - that is the hard part. Our choice is if we start seeing more while being in the body or after it. But there is still no judging and there's never gonna be. Wish I could put it into the words, so that it could be simply understood. I do love and I do care. But yet there is no I that does it, and yet it is in many forms. What we truly are, we really are everywhere and we have always been and are gonna be.
What would it be, for example if one good day I would start thinking that what I am is just one cell inside of my body and forget about everything else. How long would I be able to live this way? Not even mentioning there is the whole humankind, the whole planet and so on... And this one cell starts to fight, just because there is another cell that it sees being next to it. Kinda stupid, isn't it? What we are waiting for is all of us to wake up from this illusion. That is what's gonna happen and the whole planet will be restored in full beauty as well. The Earth is alive and has the feelings and so is the whole cosmical system and micro-cosmos inside of us. It is all whole and there is no separation. We are unity, we are harmony, we are harmony, even if we choose to feel less. Growth should be choosing more. The feelings are very huge amount of information, that is why we are who we are. The compressed information can be opened up and can be understood and even be explained somehow with the words. That is why there is so much difference when something comes straight from the heart and when someone is just making the words without any feelings behind of it. Intuitively we can feel it.
With love, -Silja

Comment by drmike on September 19, 2009 at 8:02am

Silja,
You are a very passionate and compassionate person. Why are we here? Who knows. But we are here. Time has changed society, and many of us here realize it IS NOT for the better. I know of people who argue the value of all these material possessions, and everything it took to get it--even the slavery, and genocide that existed say here on American soil. But, as you do, I can only TRY to accept them as they are. It will be what it is, irrespective of my viewpoint.

I'm sure I speak on behalf of many, who thank you for being concerned and speaking your truth. I think it would be great if more people would do the same, no matter whether it really counts or not. God is the final judge. For the people that matter don't judge, and those that do don' t matter.

Best,
Mike

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