Dear friends and family. I would love to invite your to join me on Twitter at Miguel12345 in order for us to gather more followers. I found IPeace by accident and I am so very grateful that I did. I have made many friends and have spread the word about our work, making a peaceful world. I would ask you to join me in my cause which is to turn the close to 1000 followers I have to IPeace family members. I make daily affirmations and would like to talk about IPeace on my Twitter account. The more followers I have the more I can invite. I am only interested in the followers that are spiritual in nature and dedicated to peaceful living amongst our world family. I have followers from all over the world and would like to add more. My ambition is to gather a large family that will enable me to ask others to join us in our quest for peace. My Twitter account is Miguel12345 I have a large platform on there and other sites now. The Twitter account is almost 1000 followers. You can read some of my postings and see that they are mostly spiritual and peace seeking. If you would care to join the steps are easy. Just go to Twitter.com and sign up and then add me as a friend on Miguel12345 that is my account. I make nothing from this but the satisfaction of knowing I did my best to spread the word of peace to as many folks as I can. It is a great platform for a devotion such as ours. If you don't have the desire, no problem, I know that we are all very busy. I happen to make time for the spiritual leanings and peace devotion for my life's ambition. I am devoted and will always be. So I would appreciate it if you join and if you don't I understand. Blessings to you all and have a marvelous weekend and keep us in a state of peace as much as possible. Love, light and Namaste, Miguel
I welcome your friendship in peace, love and light and welcome dear friend to join my social network for questions about Islam and Quran if u are interested.
Opening our heart centers allows us to both give and receive unlimited amounts of love. Even though there are times when we might be afraid to expose ourselves to others, if we are receptive to the warmth that surrounds us, it is as if we are bathed in a light of unconditional and undying tenderness. Becoming more open to the form of energy help us not only give of ourselves but also to receive, since it is the ability to do both equally that makes our love for one another true. By letting unconditional love grow from our heart center, your relationships will become stronger, dearer, and more loving.
-Unknown
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
-D.H. Lawrance
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The continual stream of new discovery, revelation and
inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity.
Adam Lambert has The Voice for the 21st Century! This song, "TIME FOR MIRACLES," has the perfect message for the times in which we live. As the forces of delusion attempt to convince us that there is no Bright Tomorrow, remember this : The New Day has already dawned. And, the Coming Of Light is arriving, HERE & NOW, within us all. Follow The Light! BE The Light!
W
hen leaving port in Mexico, we always toasted the voyage on the bow. We drank Napoleon Cognac, the best in the world, for if the sea stirred up we would have in our mouths the taste of heaven.
We stood watch every four hours and tried to sleep for four. As we hoisted the main and slowly took to the wind, I had second watch and went to the bow to get my fill of the sea air on my face before sleeping fitfully. It was then I saw grace approach. A pair of young dolphins had swum through the iridescent plankton and the moon hung full like a Chinese gong reflecting off their backs. The waves were the only song lapping the bow. The lines whistled in the wind and the mainsail luffed a beat like a conga drum. The halyard clanged gently as if bells were ringing.
The dolphins peered up into my eyes. I felt the evolution of the sea to the shore and keeping God in all of this I knew that it was our choice where we came from and where we were headed as did the dolphins. The lovely luminosity of emerald that covered them was so elegant and disturbing at the same time. An enigma at sea. Are we always trying to swim to become dolphins again or are they trying to tell us of their carefree life reminding us of the free choice that was given us? We choose to be man, troubled, at war with ourselves and others, never satisfied, unfaithful to those we love, and they so pure. Yes, we had free will and we choose the uncertain path, the hard and long way home.
The dolphins looked my way one more time, saw the salt in my eyes from the sea and took to the waves towards home. It was exactly where they were, and we were always searching for the place that we can call that. Considering that conundrum, I headed for the decanter of Napoleon and drank myself into a dolphin.
Michael, thank you!
I dream of a world without hunger and without violence in families, more dignity and love
iPeace has a good energy of unity and love
love, love,love
Namaste
Just sitting means just that. That “just” endlessly goes against the grain of our need to fix, transform, and improve ourselves. 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 another. Just sitting leaves everything just as it is.
–Barry Magid, from “Leave yourself alone!”
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.
~The Buddha
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All Together Now
The more you can come to see everyone as yourself, the more you will be able to use everything around you to learn about who you are, and the more you will be able to transform yourself and be an occasion for everyone else's transformation. We are all sentient beings, and we are all capable of experiencing one another's salvation. If you are only involved in protecting your small self, you are in constant peril!
–Michael Wenger, from “Competing with the incomparable,”
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If we have 'interesting experiences' either during or after
meditation we should avoid making anything special of them. To spend time
thinking about experiences is simply a distraction and an attempt to become
unnatural. These experiences are simply signs of practice and should be
regarded as transient events. We should not attempt to re-experience them
because to do so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity of Mind.
All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique and entirely
free from all concepts of past, present and future. They are experienced in
timelessness.
Find more music like this on iPeace Just sharing a bit of my music with you. (Feel free to delete it if it doesn't work well with what you have upon your page) Love Is All ~ Warren
Our practice should be without effort, without strain,
without attempts to control or force and without trying to become 'peaceful'. If
we find that we are disturbing ourselves in any of these ways, we stop
meditating and simply rest or relax for a while. Then we resume our
meditation.
-Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
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Looking at Suffering
In Buddhist practice, we investigate the nature of suffering. One of the first things we may notice is our relationship to it. We may discover how we tolerate, avoid, or accept suffering in unhealthy ways. We may notice our aversion to suffering, which creates even more suffering.We may also notice how suffering functions in our lives. We might be using it as proof of or justification for inappropriate judgments about ourselves: e.g., that we are blameworthy, inadequate, or incapable. Identifying strongly with our suffering can become our orientation to the world. Occasionally people hang on to the identity “I'm a victim,” and want to be treated by others as a victim. We can use our suffering to get other people to respond to us in ways that may not be healthy.
However, being willing to investigate suffering and to look at it closely and nonreactively changes our relationship to it. We bring a healthy part of our psyche to the experience of suffering. Instead of being wrapped up in our suffering, lost in aversion to it, or shut off from it, we simply ask: “What is this?”
- Gil Fronsdal, "Living Two Traditions,"
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~The Buddha
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Our internal experiences need not to be taken too seriously, our experiences are just a play of past memories, thoughts and conditioning in the field of pure awareness. We can naturally Allow feelings and thoughts to come and go with out getting caught up in them or needing to change anything. This is freedom, just this.
Aristotle said that in order for people to become virtuous, we need role models—others who have developed their capacities for courage, self-control, wisdom, and justice. We may emphasize different sets of virtues or ideas about what makes a proper role model, but Buddhism also asserts that, as we are all connected and interdependent, none of us can do it all on our own.
Acknowledging this dependency is the first step of real emotional work within relationships. Our ambivalence about our own needs and dependency gets stirred up in all kinds of relationships. We cannot escape our feelings and needs and desires if we are going to be in relationships with others. To be in relationships is to feel our vulnerability in relation to other people who are unpredictable, and in circumstances that are intrinsically uncontrollable and unreliable.
- Barry Magid, "No Gain,"
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
~The Buddha
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We can realize that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and nonliberation.
Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
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Opening our heart centers allows us to both give and receive unlimited amounts of love. Even though there are times when we might be afraid to expose ourselves to others, if we are receptive to the warmth that surrounds us, it is as if we are bathed in a light of unconditional and undying tenderness. Becoming more open to the form of energy help us not only give of ourselves but also to receive, since it is the ability to do both equally that makes our love for one another true. By letting unconditional love grow from our heart center, your relationships will become stronger, dearer, and more loving.
-Unknown
-------------------------------------------
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
-D.H. Lawrance
-------------------------------------------
The continual stream of new discovery, revelation and
inspiration which arises at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity.
-Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
Namaste, my dearest family, Miguel
Dolphins Swimming Home
W
hen leaving port in Mexico, we always toasted the voyage on the bow. We drank Napoleon Cognac, the best in the world, for if the sea stirred up we would have in our mouths the taste of heaven.
We stood watch every four hours and tried to sleep for four. As we hoisted the main and slowly took to the wind, I had second watch and went to the bow to get my fill of the sea air on my face before sleeping fitfully. It was then I saw grace approach. A pair of young dolphins had swum through the iridescent plankton and the moon hung full like a Chinese gong reflecting off their backs. The waves were the only song lapping the bow. The lines whistled in the wind and the mainsail luffed a beat like a conga drum. The halyard clanged gently as if bells were ringing.
The dolphins peered up into my eyes. I felt the evolution of the sea to the shore and keeping God in all of this I knew that it was our choice where we came from and where we were headed as did the dolphins. The lovely luminosity of emerald that covered them was so elegant and disturbing at the same time. An enigma at sea. Are we always trying to swim to become dolphins again or are they trying to tell us of their carefree life reminding us of the free choice that was given us? We choose to be man, troubled, at war with ourselves and others, never satisfied, unfaithful to those we love, and they so pure. Yes, we had free will and we choose the uncertain path, the hard and long way home.
The dolphins looked my way one more time, saw the salt in my eyes from the sea and took to the waves towards home. It was exactly where they were, and we were always searching for the place that we can call that. Considering that conundrum, I headed for the decanter of Napoleon and drank myself into a dolphin.
Written by Michael (Miguel) Forbus
I dream of a world without hunger and without violence in families, more dignity and love
iPeace has a good energy of unity and love
love, love,love
Namaste
Namaste
Just sitting means just that. That “just” endlessly goes against the grain of our need to fix, transform, and improve ourselves. 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 another. Just sitting leaves everything just as it is.
–Barry Magid, from “Leave yourself alone!”
-----------------------------------------
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.
~The Buddha
-----------------------------------------
All Together Now
The more you can come to see everyone as yourself, the more you will be able to use everything around you to learn about who you are, and the more you will be able to transform yourself and be an occasion for everyone else's transformation. We are all sentient beings, and we are all capable of experiencing one another's salvation. If you are only involved in protecting your small self, you are in constant peril!
–Michael Wenger, from “Competing with the incomparable,”
-----------------------------------------
If we have 'interesting experiences' either during or after
meditation we should avoid making anything special of them. To spend time
thinking about experiences is simply a distraction and an attempt to become
unnatural. These experiences are simply signs of practice and should be
regarded as transient events. We should not attempt to re-experience them
because to do so only serves to distort the natural spontaneity of Mind.
All phenomena are completely new and fresh, absolutely unique and entirely
free from all concepts of past, present and future. They are experienced in
timelessness.
-Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
"Still having Fun"
Are You that good? LOL I'm an Aries, Fire sign and I can't swim, but I do have "Peace & Love in My Heart" like a Dolphin.
"Especially for the World"
"Happy Trails" & "Happy Swimming" Love & Peace, AlFind more music like this on iPeace
Just sharing a bit of my music with you. (Feel free to delete it if it doesn't work well with what you have upon your page) Love Is All ~ Warren
THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU ~ Warren
Thank you Michael! Peace, love, love, loveNamaste
without attempts to control or force and without trying to become 'peaceful'. If
we find that we are disturbing ourselves in any of these ways, we stop
meditating and simply rest or relax for a while. Then we resume our
meditation.
-Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
--------------------------------------
Looking at Suffering
In Buddhist practice, we investigate the nature of suffering. One of the first things we may notice is our relationship to it. We may discover how we tolerate, avoid, or accept suffering in unhealthy ways. We may notice our aversion to suffering, which creates even more suffering.We may also notice how suffering functions in our lives. We might be using it as proof of or justification for inappropriate judgments about ourselves: e.g., that we are blameworthy, inadequate, or incapable. Identifying strongly with our suffering can become our orientation to the world. Occasionally people hang on to the identity “I'm a victim,” and want to be treated by others as a victim. We can use our suffering to get other people to respond to us in ways that may not be healthy.
However, being willing to investigate suffering and to look at it closely and nonreactively changes our relationship to it. We bring a healthy part of our psyche to the experience of suffering. Instead of being wrapped up in our suffering, lost in aversion to it, or shut off from it, we simply ask: “What is this?”
- Gil Fronsdal, "Living Two Traditions,"
-----------------------------------
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~The Buddha
-----------------------------------
Our internal experiences need not to be taken too seriously, our experiences are just a play of past memories, thoughts and conditioning in the field of pure awareness. We can naturally Allow feelings and thoughts to come and go with out getting caught up in them or needing to change anything. This is freedom, just this.
With Metta, Namaste, Miguel
Aristotle said that in order for people to become virtuous, we need role models—others who have developed their capacities for courage, self-control, wisdom, and justice. We may emphasize different sets of virtues or ideas about what makes a proper role model, but Buddhism also asserts that, as we are all connected and interdependent, none of us can do it all on our own.
Acknowledging this dependency is the first step of real emotional work within relationships. Our ambivalence about our own needs and dependency gets stirred up in all kinds of relationships. We cannot escape our feelings and needs and desires if we are going to be in relationships with others. To be in relationships is to feel our vulnerability in relation to other people who are unpredictable, and in circumstances that are intrinsically uncontrollable and unreliable.
- Barry Magid, "No Gain,"
-------------------------------------
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
~The Buddha
------------------------------------
We can realize that meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and nonliberation.
Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche
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