tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.comments2023-09-25T03:01:02.734-07:00Snippets of BeingJustBehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.comBlogger627125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-85025585440425033932013-11-22T21:00:07.890-08:002013-11-22T21:00:07.890-08:00Thanks! I hope to read it also. And I'll be ba...Thanks! I hope to read it also. And I'll be back one day with a re-post of that matrix I promised. :)okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-56428313125075322142013-11-19T17:23:06.943-08:002013-11-19T17:23:06.943-08:00I'm reading her book at the moment, called &qu...I'm reading her book at the moment, called "Endless Energy, the essential guide to energy and health" and so far it is brilliant, providing meditations to try to access the different dimensions of your being, the physical/etheric, emotional, mental and universal body and exercises to optimize your health on all levels, truly important integrative way of looking at things. Concepts in it being funny sounding but instinctively feeling right like you can have an over-weight or under-weight mental or emotional body for example. We have dealt too long with only the one part, which is actually the lowest form of what wonderful beings we are. :)JustBehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-7570471559124647442013-11-09T21:18:24.812-08:002013-11-09T21:18:24.812-08:00Brilliant! And it reminds me of the matrix of idea...Brilliant! And it reminds me of the matrix of ideas I came up with once combining mind-heart-spirit but I realized just this week (reading about the Bhagavad Gita) there was a fourth: body, or physical-etheric. I'll re-post the ideas and post a link later.okeihttp://itsokei.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-47143543892973254152013-09-27T23:56:42.049-07:002013-09-27T23:56:42.049-07:00This has lead me to my personal fascination with k...This has lead me to my personal fascination with knowledge of self and the universe we inhabit. <a href="http://jonathontwiz.com" rel="nofollow"><b>Ayahuasca Retreat</b></a> I share my experiences, opinions, and information I have come across with the world.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15776265621941864397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-13158676392316934692013-06-30T05:00:35.028-07:002013-06-30T05:00:35.028-07:00thank you for sharing!thank you for sharing!Kaseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16461158447533968796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-59350605925181292302012-12-05T05:01:20.593-08:002012-12-05T05:01:20.593-08:00By the way, have you ever sung in dreams? I think ...By the way, have you ever sung in dreams? I think I have, but extremely rarely, only once I really remember. But it was amazingly uplifting to wake up from. In real-life, I almost never sing, not aloud anyway. I listen :)okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-10134611292910917632012-12-05T04:48:52.130-08:002012-12-05T04:48:52.130-08:00I don't appreciate that at all either... when ...I don't appreciate that at all either... when you delete a comment, isn't there a "remove forever" option? I tried deleting my double-post (not the one you deleted, which was asking if you could delete properly...) but it still left a message saying it had been deleted by commenter. It must be possible to delete comments properly, but only admin has the power.okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-76869455391083622792012-12-04T23:44:12.799-08:002012-12-04T23:44:12.799-08:00Its okay to delete but I don't appreciate the ...Its okay to delete but I don't appreciate the note that the administrator has deleted it, as if it was something wrong.. :)<br /><br />Note- this comment was deleted by request of the commentator. <br />JustBehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-73790848913865457872012-12-04T23:33:36.729-08:002012-12-04T23:33:36.729-08:00Arjuna, I learned something from this. Background ...Arjuna, I learned something from this. Background can influence expression in the fore-ground. I had no interest in blogging, for a long time. Then I found this site and a beautiful background, the canvas was so pretty for me that even though I had no intention of blogging then- something opened up, I loved the art of this site, it inspired me to put something there, I started filling the pages. A wonderful lesson- change the background and things you think you do not want to do will suddenly become things inspired! JustBehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-33848341449813206202012-12-04T23:19:20.027-08:002012-12-04T23:19:20.027-08:00It's something not communicable- the importanc...It's something not communicable- the importance of song to Estonians. The facts say we have one of the largest surviving reservoirs of folk songs in the world. The experiential non-measurable reality is- without singing- there is no life for us. I showed the documentary of the singing revolution recently to a brazilian good friend of mine and only this made her go- ok finally now I see why you are like this, why you are going into a trance almost, singing is all at some parties.<br />Music is life! Song is life.JustBehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-25009517331849680852012-12-04T18:15:45.760-08:002012-12-04T18:15:45.760-08:00This reminds me of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar in ...This reminds me of the dream of Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible. It's very hard to find a concise explanation online which hasn't got a "warning about the end-times" agenda to it (including linking the ten toes with the European Union...), so hope you'll excuse the source:<br /><br /><a href="http://untilallhaveheard1.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/reflections-on-the-statute-of-nebuchadnezzars-dream/" rel="nofollow">http://untilallhaveheard1.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/reflections-on-the-statute-of-nebuchadnezzars-dream/</a>okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-35537036611746701642012-12-04T18:11:46.462-08:002012-12-04T18:11:46.462-08:00This painting is so beautiful, and fantastic share...This painting is so beautiful, and fantastic share! I have the book, but still not read it... just good to dip into... like the selections in your blog above.okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-34177895554559870432012-12-04T17:53:19.393-08:002012-12-04T17:53:19.393-08:00“The current of consciousness which is dispersed i...“The current of consciousness which is dispersed in the nine gates of the body and the nine senses must be collected at the tenth gate (the sixth chakra, the third eye, bindu, center between the eyebrows). Therein lies the path for our return. This is the act of leaving the gates of the sense organs and becoming established in the soul. We travel back from the realm of Darkness to the realm of Light, from the Light to divine Sound, and from the realm of Sound to the Soundless State. The Divine Essence permeates all beings yet transcends them.” (Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj)<br /><br /><a href="http://spiritualawakeningradio.com/Yoga_Of_Inner_Light_And_Sound_.pdf" rel="nofollow">Link to Sound Yoga book</a> I've not read it though...<br /><br />Finally, an excellent article by Frithjof Schuon...<br /><a href="http://www.frithjofschuon.info/uploads/pdfs/articles/84.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.frithjofschuon.info/uploads/pdfs/articles/84.pdf</a><br /><br />I'm still hoping to come back to watch that film one day. It sounds fascinating. Thanks for the great share, and the introduction to ayahuasca and ikaros.<br /><br />ßong of Metta :)))okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-50179714406080071942012-12-04T16:12:00.586-08:002012-12-04T16:12:00.586-08:00Loved all these songs!!! (especially the ones with...Loved all these songs!!! (especially the ones with female vocals) Thanks for the introduction to Estonian music!<br /><br />Here's my response to the last one... <a href="http://youtu.be/iuxknrdr0bM" rel="nofollow">Within Temptation (with Black Symphony) - 'Stand my Ground'</a> (whole concert is amazing)okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-84539581075674101492012-12-03T22:28:00.529-08:002012-12-03T22:28:00.529-08:00(The music's very tasteful. Wistful & som...(The music's very tasteful. Wistful & sometimes melancholic, but beautiful).<br /><br />A. R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11774985875038939161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-36069526964115491692012-12-03T22:16:42.893-08:002012-12-03T22:16:42.893-08:00This is a lovely page, you've done really well...This is a lovely page, you've done really well (with it). : )<br /><br />Inspiring, actually. I've not yet up my blogger account, but you've shown the potential of the site.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />A. R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11774985875038939161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-74036148427917817762012-11-24T07:55:46.764-08:002012-11-24T07:55:46.764-08:004fabian said: Yep - have to agree, beautifully wri...4fabian said: Yep - have to agree, beautifully written. <br /><br />One of my favorite things is riding my motorcycle through the high mountains here in Taiwan. It brings one into the moment at the same time as inspiring a feeling of awe and freedom. Yes, it is a bit like meditation.<br /><br />Happy travels and happy meditations to all. <br /><br />FabianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-53698823348874099312012-11-24T07:54:58.656-08:002012-11-24T07:54:58.656-08:00musiqsufi said: Beautiful well-written piece Hille...musiqsufi said: Beautiful well-written piece Hille! One of the circumstances I want to change about my life is the fact I have NEVER traveled outside of the states. It's shameful but true. I must change that, and this blog an inspiration. My souls needs to experience this world via first-hand experience. I am bookmarking this blog and will return to it again and again!<br /><br />Thank you!<br /><br />lilleke80 said: Its you that made me write this blog, so thank yourself Markus! :)<br /><br />musiqsufi said: Wow! The inspiration travel in both directions (((drawing an infinity symbol))).<br /><br />Metta!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-33613721057566370882012-11-24T07:54:16.711-08:002012-11-24T07:54:16.711-08:00This must be one of the most beautiful blogs I'...This must be one of the most beautiful blogs I've ever read.<br /><br />I often wonder<br />how to travel?<br />how to read?<br />is there some trick to it?<br />something to pay particular awareness to?<br /><br />I don't "hold on" to things, rather I "forget" almost everything.<br />So should one journal to better "hold on" to the memory.<br />Telling the story of the Moroccan is after all a kind of journal.<br />Or should one carry a camera wherever one goes,<br />Or rather should one not worry about it and just be?<br /><br />I read a book by Alain de Boton once on the subject<br />but still<br />I do not know<br />can it be known?<br /><br />lilleke80<br />I don't know either- to be a clean slate at all times, completely "zen" constantly? Perhaps that is the right way and I find that my mind is in that state more and more. Yet we all have found treasures in life we don't want to forget, that have made us grow, new lessons that are easy to forget, therefore it seems important to remember and sustain that memory so that we can build on those lessons. Good question. Thanks!okeinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-28040166559468925242012-11-24T07:53:01.159-08:002012-11-24T07:53:01.159-08:00calum33 wrote on Jul 8
Malcolm: Having spent most ...calum33 wrote on Jul 8<br />Malcolm: Having spent most of my career in travel, I would advise that the only way to travel and meditate deeply is to go by ship. There used to a catch phrase attached to many an ad - Relax, Rest and Recuperate.<br /><br />It is not the same on today's Cruise jaunts. There are too many distractions. My longest voyage lasted 5 weeks, but many times I was at sea from three to four weeks. On one voyage there were three long spells out in the landless ocean ranging from 10 to 12 days without sight of land.<br /><br />There is a magic when you stand looking out from the bows or stern at the Silvery surface tinted with the changing colours of the rising or setting sun. There is no way to explain it. There is also the unknown, for your imagination runs wild as you try to picture what lies ahead.<br /><br />I have crossed the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, and skirted the coasts of China and Japan. I have sailed up the Atlantic from the Cape to the stormy swells that caress the Iberian shoreline. Been through the Med many times as also with the Red Sea, and there is something there that is beyond our thoughts. It wells up from the Sea like the momentary flight of a school of Flying Fish, and there is a greater mystery at each end of this 3 to 4 day passage - the soaring barren rocks of Aden and the mysteries of Egypt.<br /><br />It is all gone now. If you are very wealthy then one can still travel on the big liners around the World, but as already said, it just isn't the same.<br /><br />How must it have been for those anxious migrants leaving Europe for ever, never to see their parents or siblings ever again? If they were lucky the voyage would be over in 90 days and the winds would take them safely through the dangerous and often fatal entrance through Port Philip Heads or into the Bay at Sydney. Yet I would have risked all for one opportunity to sail in one of those majestic vessels.<br /><br />lilleke80 wrote today at 1:26 AM<br />Beautiful description, thank you so much! I envy you Malcolm for having had the chance to do that, and I mourn the loss of aeroplanes taking over the sea-travel as well. My first dream as a kid was to be a sailor. But I was told- no, you are a girl and girls don't do that and don't want that. (How ridiculous to be told that when you have just said thats what you dream of). Of course now it is a dying breed anyway. But whenever I have the chance and the time I still will take the boat and ship. The sea is like the desert. To be travelling in both will make you meet nature at its most profound. You are completely at the mercy of the power of natural forces. In awe of it. You see emptiness and the same for weeks at a time. I was completely amazed at the caravan drivers in the desert when I took a trip there. For us the road was completely without any landmarks and we did not understand how they found their way. Yet they knew every tiny bush, every pile of sand, they could read what we couldn't. It is a powerful experience of becoming humble- to be either on the sea or in the desert. <br />I really enjoyed reading your experience, thank you Malcolm!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-48740608330440084522012-11-24T07:52:19.934-08:002012-11-24T07:52:19.934-08:004fabian wrote on Jul 8: Maybe the "old mounta...4fabian wrote on Jul 8: Maybe the "old mountain guide" in Morocco taught you long ago that you do not need to travel to gain happiness and wisdom - but you missed the lesson staring you in the face that day ....<br /><br />Travel is an amazing and rewarding experience, but in the end, the greatest journey, and the most challenging one, and the journey offering the greatest rewards of wisdom and knowledge, is the journey within.<br /><br />lilleke80 wrote on Jul 8: LOL! Yes perhaps he was there to teach me that, and I learned something completely different- the lesson that life itself and everything that surrounds you, is your greatest wealth. Its wonderful to see that each of us can have different lessons from the same experiences. I guess we learn that which is more important to us at that particular time.<br />And I agree with you full-heartedly about the journey within being of greatest value, this is what I treasure most of all in my life and it is my main objective. Never meant to leave an impression in this blog that travel is more important than meditation. Was simply comparing how the two can be similar. Travel and meditation are like 2 lovers in my heart and they work together wonderfully. <br />Thanks Fabian for your deep and wise reply!<br /><br />aspara121 wrote on Jul 8<br />Hi Hille, I enjoyed reading your well-written essay about what travel means to you. I also love to travel, mainly because it changes my perspective and helps me to understand different people and cultures outside of my own small world. The quotes are great too!<br />Namaste!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-9317707702585450062012-11-07T10:33:57.195-08:002012-11-07T10:33:57.195-08:00I just heard the Nina Simone version. I think I...I just heard the Nina Simone version. I think I'd heard it before! And Nina's special, just Cat Power's version sounds like a different song!<br /><br />I actually recorded the Alan Watts lectures myself back in 2010 at the time when I was starting to experiment with reading stuff aloud. (Strange, huh, not done much else, and definitely too busy recently.) I had borrowed "Become what you are" from the library, and was sad to have to return it. For some reason it didn't occur to me that they were radio lectures so I could probably find them somewhere online if I looked for them... and spoken by the man himself. I've still never looked, though of course I've seen several of the YouTube videos.okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-91499536644195520842012-11-07T03:16:06.214-08:002012-11-07T03:16:06.214-08:00I only discovered Cat Power not long ago, this is ...I only discovered Cat Power not long ago, this is a cover of a song that Johnny Mathis, Nina Simone and David Bowie have sung and I can't believe how much better is this version, its as if it was written for Power!<br />Miss coming home to Alan Watts lectures, thanks for the reminder. :)<br />Much Metta!JustBehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-36458855827310953522012-11-06T12:53:56.065-08:002012-11-06T12:53:56.065-08:00Love Cat Power! I've only heard her "The ...Love Cat Power! I've only heard her "The Greatest" album, so this is new to me. And of course, love your interpretation too.<br /><br />And what a story to follow it! It's the kind-of crazy thing that might happen on distant travels, but in a way life is always an adventure for you, even at home, because you let it be.<br /><br />It's a funny thing because last night I went back to some Alan Watts lectures, and the last one was about the finger and the moon - about too much medicine not being a good thing, and this being true about spiritual medicine also - so he ended by saying to go out into the night and look at the moon. So I did - I went out, and then I wrote to you. :^) And you were sky-gazing... love your music.okeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977365975861176505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222652656170220036.post-4215419162811493622012-11-05T14:16:52.709-08:002012-11-05T14:16:52.709-08:00Haunting song. Sitting on the roof-top under the s...Haunting song. Sitting on the roof-top under the sky. With my constant friends- the birds and the wind, the sky and I. There is a thrilling beat of the impersonal, at once never-, and always-changing in this song and I sing, with the birds and through the wind. <br />For wild is the wind.JustBehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11254482040261111059noreply@blogger.com