Namaste`my friend ... thank U 4 your nice comment & I`m sorry for my late answer but I`m not often on this page :-) Sending U Love & Light blessing from germany ( Maybe you have a my space account - on myspace my name is : shaktishanti )
Yes they are still with me. I have adopted them. They will stay with me until spring when they have truly become settled and then will buy their own home. I try very hard to recognize the people that I am meant to journey with for awhile and get over the fact that the mother has decided to clean and rearrange my kitchen cupboards. Sometimes it is just better to have to look for things in life.
Irene
He truly is a gift sent from heaven. He once played the role of Gandhi, who was one of his mentors when he was about 10. This was for a farewell we had for a visiting group of professionals from India that had stayed with us. One of the women shaved his head and with his flu that he had at the time he looked and played the part perfectly and the visitors were in awe.
Hello Stromek/Little Tree
I suppose it is ignorance and a lack of parenting skills and it manifests itself in childhood. I have spent the past 18 years immersed in the observations of children and their interactions. I found it extremely interesting as you could invision what most of these children would be like as adults and one day possibly in charge of a nation. I will never forget my son at about 8 crying and when I asked him what was wrong, he told me that he was sad because he thought he was too young to effect change in the world, to make it a better place to live. My response was that he could make a huge difference and when he asked how, I told him that he should start by telling all of his friends his views on what would make the world a better place and that in this way his vision would spread and as he got bigger so would his efforts grow. I am proud to say that he now, at age 18, has quite a following. He was always the smallest in his class but they all look and think of him as the one with the wisdom. I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes with his life. The one thing missing from my children is there really isn't anything they fear which keeps their hearts and minds open to do good things.
At 8:13pm on November 25, 2008, BlueMelusine said…
Dear Stromek,hi,
i discover your message from the 7th of november only today, sorry.
Peabck is free now, let's hope he got directly into a Buddha land, with no more need to come back, hey !
As to what you mention, "all is illusion",it doesn't mean "nothing exist", although this is what is commonly understood (and taught, sometimes).
According to the training "Unity in Duality" we discussed before, it means "the reality unfolds at several levels, some of which very concrete, some others very subtle; the source of this unfolding is, itself, non material, but somehow ends up creating solid matter. Our experience, also, becomes more and more solid depending on the level of perception we're using.
But being aware of the subtlest dimension of reality, doesn't mean at all the rest doesn't exist. As you are experiencing it with the loss of Peaback,and, to a lesser degree, with the loss of your car,the suffering is there, the pain is fucking real !!!! it's no imagination, suffering is also a phenomena taking place in us. Would you say joy is an illusion, when your heart is filled with it ? No. Maybe we can consider that taking an external object as the true source of our happiness or suffering, maybe there lies something wrong.
I hope i can tell you more & better about this view when myself have "digested" all this teaching received during november in Paris.
Welcome your pain as one of the many existing ways to go back to your heart at its most vulnerable,gentle, sensitive space, for in this space, lives your greatest truth, which is also your greatest strengh.
Stromek, thanks for the comments. It all starts at the most basic level. Believe me that if you acknowledge someone by giving them space on the roads of NJ, they take notice (because it so rarely happens). But if you can, watch the other person after you've given them space. They're very likely to change their behavior and then allow someone else to go ahead of them. It's contagious.
Also, please check out my group, Peace Through Acknowledging Others.
Courage, compassion and a clearing for the greatness of others,
Jack
Im so Sorry for your loss...I couldnt imagine my life without a dog or a cat in it.Have always loved animals.I have Three Boston Terriers there the loves of my life.Animals are love in every form...Have a great eveving and Thank you :)
sorry it took me so long to answer your gentle comment, but my web access is pretty irregular theese days.
How is Peaback?
As to me i adopted a little cat who was living in the street, we found him in front of our house with a bloddy leg just broken by a car, took him to the vet, he got a month treatment without moving his leg,now he's free to walk again more or less normally since a few days...
Amazing to observe how animals just go into the experience,adapt themselves to whatever they go through,and instinctly know for sure that time will do its work.A kind of spontaneous confidence in the way things must go...He's like a teacher to me.
To comment on what you write about your attachment to your pet, i really think it's normal, not in the sense "everybody does it so why bother", but in the sense that attachement is one of the many things we actually came to experience on this earth. As a personn who regularly fallows various buddhist teaching, i know they always emphasise on the need to cut all attachment to free your mind,and so on. But even a Karmapa cries when his mother dies,and doesn't want her to die. H.H. The Dalai-Lama said he once lost a dear friend of his who commited suicide, and He never really recovered from that loss. It's even in the Buddha's teachings :
pain is to get what you don't want, and not to get what you want;
pain is to be close to what you hate, and far from what you love.
It's painful.Just painful.
All whe can do is accept we can't do anything about it, and that might even be the most difficult part, more than the actual pain itself...
Maybe there's also a difference to make between letting emotions freely go through ourselves, whatever their nature and their powerfulness, and be attached to them to the point where we refuse to let them come and go.
Oh well, human experience is hard !!!
So i did 2 week-ends training for UD (Unity in Duality) already, for now we are studying the base of the philosophy of different buddhist schools, which sometimes contradict each other; that's interesting for it shows many ways of seeing reality.It's quite scholastic for now, but like learning anatomy when you want to become a doctor, you need that base to understand properly how everything works together. Still we always go through practical exercises since the goal is to experience all that we learn. Within the next years of training it'll become more & more practical,also including an important part of personnal therapy with this approach. Basically, it's a way to understand how we create our own reality, which is not THE reality but that we tend to take it as absolutely true. We study and experience how we create our suffering, so that we learn how to create a more peaceful heart, a happiest mind, to transform deeply our lives.
I'd say the difference with "classic" psychotherapy is this link that is made to the transcendance given by our own awareness.
It's an imperfect way to put it,but it's the best i can express for now.
So dear Stromek, wishing you a happy day today, it'll be a pleasure to read you soon.
Dear Stromek thanks for your comments on my daughter's page. I would like to add you as a friend if you will accept ... may your work committments treat you kindly. peace and compassion to you
Ola*Hello Stromek
Many thks for so long letter.I did apreciate that. Portugal imitates a little from what you are talking about. In other hand its a free-nuclear country till now and we have trying to bet in renewable energies. But many things have to be done.
Abraços
I study Lam-Rim with the Basic Program On-line (BP Ital - http://www.iltk.it/bp/en/L0_S0.htm), Pomaia (Pisa) Italy, Lama Tzong Khapa Institute (http://www.iltk.it/en/L1_homepage.htm).
My tutor is Vania Tessier (she was chosen from Geshe Jampa Gyatso) and every month we have stages at Pomaia with Vania and Lama of Pomaia.
I understang your easy English for me, I read and speak well French but I am not able to write.
I hope to have more time this winter time to study also language.
I am happy too you are a Buddist. For me Compassion is very important to make a change in our mind and so in the world.
Ciao
Luisella
Stromek you write to me but for mistake I cancel your wrote. Sorry for my bad English, is for this that Icannot write in the blog.
I'm studying Lam-Rim at Pomaia (Italy).
Ciao
Luisella
At 4:40pm on September 25, 2008, BlueMelusine said…
Hey,
I just read now about your cat. I do understand how heart-breaking that is.The only thing you can do is be present with as much love as possible, and accept to let go. In this manner you'll truly help your cat, even if you think you're doing nothing special that way.
My heart is with you,with Peaback, & with all suffering,old, sick, lonely beings everywhere in the world...
* OM MANI PEDME HUNG *
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THANKS /// LOVE & LIGHT 4 U :-)
I suppose it is ignorance and a lack of parenting skills and it manifests itself in childhood. I have spent the past 18 years immersed in the observations of children and their interactions. I found it extremely interesting as you could invision what most of these children would be like as adults and one day possibly in charge of a nation. I will never forget my son at about 8 crying and when I asked him what was wrong, he told me that he was sad because he thought he was too young to effect change in the world, to make it a better place to live. My response was that he could make a huge difference and when he asked how, I told him that he should start by telling all of his friends his views on what would make the world a better place and that in this way his vision would spread and as he got bigger so would his efforts grow. I am proud to say that he now, at age 18, has quite a following. He was always the smallest in his class but they all look and think of him as the one with the wisdom. I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes with his life. The one thing missing from my children is there really isn't anything they fear which keeps their hearts and minds open to do good things.
i discover your message from the 7th of november only today, sorry.
Peabck is free now, let's hope he got directly into a Buddha land, with no more need to come back, hey !
As to what you mention, "all is illusion",it doesn't mean "nothing exist", although this is what is commonly understood (and taught, sometimes).
According to the training "Unity in Duality" we discussed before, it means "the reality unfolds at several levels, some of which very concrete, some others very subtle; the source of this unfolding is, itself, non material, but somehow ends up creating solid matter. Our experience, also, becomes more and more solid depending on the level of perception we're using.
But being aware of the subtlest dimension of reality, doesn't mean at all the rest doesn't exist. As you are experiencing it with the loss of Peaback,and, to a lesser degree, with the loss of your car,the suffering is there, the pain is fucking real !!!! it's no imagination, suffering is also a phenomena taking place in us. Would you say joy is an illusion, when your heart is filled with it ? No. Maybe we can consider that taking an external object as the true source of our happiness or suffering, maybe there lies something wrong.
I hope i can tell you more & better about this view when myself have "digested" all this teaching received during november in Paris.
Welcome your pain as one of the many existing ways to go back to your heart at its most vulnerable,gentle, sensitive space, for in this space, lives your greatest truth, which is also your greatest strengh.
May the best come to you. Have a beautiful week.
Also, please check out my group, Peace Through Acknowledging Others.
Courage, compassion and a clearing for the greatness of others,
Jack
sorry it took me so long to answer your gentle comment, but my web access is pretty irregular theese days.
How is Peaback?
As to me i adopted a little cat who was living in the street, we found him in front of our house with a bloddy leg just broken by a car, took him to the vet, he got a month treatment without moving his leg,now he's free to walk again more or less normally since a few days...
Amazing to observe how animals just go into the experience,adapt themselves to whatever they go through,and instinctly know for sure that time will do its work.A kind of spontaneous confidence in the way things must go...He's like a teacher to me.
To comment on what you write about your attachment to your pet, i really think it's normal, not in the sense "everybody does it so why bother", but in the sense that attachement is one of the many things we actually came to experience on this earth. As a personn who regularly fallows various buddhist teaching, i know they always emphasise on the need to cut all attachment to free your mind,and so on. But even a Karmapa cries when his mother dies,and doesn't want her to die. H.H. The Dalai-Lama said he once lost a dear friend of his who commited suicide, and He never really recovered from that loss. It's even in the Buddha's teachings :
pain is to get what you don't want, and not to get what you want;
pain is to be close to what you hate, and far from what you love.
It's painful.Just painful.
All whe can do is accept we can't do anything about it, and that might even be the most difficult part, more than the actual pain itself...
Maybe there's also a difference to make between letting emotions freely go through ourselves, whatever their nature and their powerfulness, and be attached to them to the point where we refuse to let them come and go.
Oh well, human experience is hard !!!
So i did 2 week-ends training for UD (Unity in Duality) already, for now we are studying the base of the philosophy of different buddhist schools, which sometimes contradict each other; that's interesting for it shows many ways of seeing reality.It's quite scholastic for now, but like learning anatomy when you want to become a doctor, you need that base to understand properly how everything works together. Still we always go through practical exercises since the goal is to experience all that we learn. Within the next years of training it'll become more & more practical,also including an important part of personnal therapy with this approach. Basically, it's a way to understand how we create our own reality, which is not THE reality but that we tend to take it as absolutely true. We study and experience how we create our suffering, so that we learn how to create a more peaceful heart, a happiest mind, to transform deeply our lives.
I'd say the difference with "classic" psychotherapy is this link that is made to the transcendance given by our own awareness.
It's an imperfect way to put it,but it's the best i can express for now.
So dear Stromek, wishing you a happy day today, it'll be a pleasure to read you soon.
gordon
Many thks for so long letter.I did apreciate that. Portugal imitates a little from what you are talking about. In other hand its a free-nuclear country till now and we have trying to bet in renewable energies. But many things have to be done.
Abraços
May you be happy.
And may you be well.
And may you be free from suffering.
live peace ~ give peace ~ be peace
Gord
Glad to meet you
Paz***Peace
My tutor is Vania Tessier (she was chosen from Geshe Jampa Gyatso) and every month we have stages at Pomaia with Vania and Lama of Pomaia.
I understang your easy English for me, I read and speak well French but I am not able to write.
I hope to have more time this winter time to study also language.
I am happy too you are a Buddist. For me Compassion is very important to make a change in our mind and so in the world.
Ciao
Luisella
I'm studying Lam-Rim at Pomaia (Italy).
Ciao
Luisella
I just read now about your cat. I do understand how heart-breaking that is.The only thing you can do is be present with as much love as possible, and accept to let go. In this manner you'll truly help your cat, even if you think you're doing nothing special that way.
My heart is with you,with Peaback, & with all suffering,old, sick, lonely beings everywhere in the world...
* OM MANI PEDME HUNG *
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