Oneness Means Being a Divine Mirror to Each Other & Our Selves!

If you look at every human as a Divine Mirror, you will know yourself and understand life. Sherif Baba

First we must look at Our Divine Self in the mirror, & Love the Divine Inside.
Mereana Taki: The quickest way to end outer suffering is ...to create a climate of undying Love and Devotion within your own BEing. Our Soul's are naturally rejuvenating ecstatic Spiritual expansion. Give yourself the gift of perfect peace. Give yourself the Love that you are searching for and know ...like unto itself attracts.

When we begin to accept ourselves exactly as we are, experiencing the full content of each moment without conflict or resistance,and join together around the world with others whose hearts are flowering, the Light of Infinite Love will flood the Earth! - M.M.(Michael Milner, Oneness Florida)

(Mystical Spiritual Art Network on Architects of a New Dawn Created by Merina Rael)

Looking as everybody as a Divine Mirror as worked miracles for me lately. Being & Seeing Divine transcends any "self-esteem, self-worth" issues! "What you see is what you get." Flip Wilson

Science of Mind magazine: "The life fully lived is filled with self-confidence. It is one in which we know that the intelligence and love of the universe are within us, and we place ourselves in right relationship with the world around us -a relationship of respect and creativity.
As we attune ourselves to the creative flow of Spirit's presence in our relationships and in our expressions of life, we will become self-assertive without being egotistical. But it takes a sense of trust in the invisible laws of the universe and a deep knowledge that there is a spiritual essence within everything. It takes faith." (From Rev. Dr. Linda McNamar's daily guides,.)

Teach only love for that is what you are. ACIM

Patricia Gianniou: Well, the week after my Mom passed away, I was driving down a lonely highway, thinking about her and how at the funeral home, there was such a wave of love that passed through that night. People stood around with their arms around each other telling loving stories about her and how much she loved everyone. Well, as I was thinking about this, I heard, for the first time, a voice in my head that said, "Love is All there Is". I knew that was Spirit telling me the truth ... (tears in my eyes right now as I remember that moment). And, as I thought about it, I realized for the first time that if God is Love, Love is God and Love (God) is all there is ... All is God. So my most sacred phrase is "Love is All there is".

Divine Mirrors from "64 Oneness Blessings" - very deep powerful process as opposed to heightening effect of Muhkti Deeksha at Awakening to Oneness. Probably you need to experience one in order to experience the depth of the other:

Awakening - very inspirational video!

Thanks to Laurie who sent me this: very inspirational hopeful video - Oprah interviewing Eckhart, Jim Carrey is quite a motivator to Awakening with his personal experience, and starts with "Moonshine" a young man who has dedicated his life to "Does God Really Exists?' Many other testimonies to Spiritual Awakening.

">

More At Pristine Isle Of Light and on Sacred Lands nearby - Pink Orbs?

"Pink Orbs" at Isle of Light?



Diaphanous Angel Wings held by Prayer Healer, Psychic Maria:

Full Moon with reflection in creek and orbs - big one at tip of land:

Christi, Joanna, & April on dock where I took full moon photos:

Orange full moon with reflections and orbs off dock:

Full Moon through the trees (Orbs = Devas?)

The previous weekend where Joanna noticed benevolent Spirit while in Hammock:
Orb between Yucca plants where Joanna sensed benevolent Spirit:


Joanna in hammock with marsh creeks & Isle of Light in background:

Joanna in Hammock with grove of Live Oaks in background:


Orb above Yucca Plants nearby where Joanna sensed benevolent Spirit in hammock:

Winter, Sally, Sarah & Jean - Hammock (previous weekend):


Let there be Light: Gifted Prayer Healer/ Psychic Maria on beach at Isle of Light:


Maria's message (from "water angels")to me at this blessed time at Isle of Light: "That I was a Navaho in a previous life, and that I taught about "Pristine (Pure)" Nature, and that I was to do this again - especially for the "kids who come here and stay in the highrises). Well, I am a retired capt. who used to teach Marine Science under sail, so maybe the reading (Maria did not know that) had to do with that "teaching of kids"?

Letting Go of Attachment to Being Right

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Marston

Reply by Ron Alexander
Yes letting go to all kinds of attachment has helped me so much in my life lately - attachment to being right, attachment to outcome, attachment to things and especially attachment to being in control!

More Views of the Sacred Lands @ & near the Isle of Light

Free Will to Love or hate?

Free Will to love or hate? I think this is Isaac Bailey piece is vitally important to our country and our world:


Issac Bailey: A majority of Americans for the first time say gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable. I believe that means we are moving in the right direction, towards more equality. That's a ...good thing, especially in light of the recent visits to Myrtle Beach by Westboro Baptist Church, which preaches God hates gays (and the rest of us).A Different World
blogs.myrtlebeachonline.com
An interesting note: Gallup for the first timefound that a majority of Americans believe that gayand lesbian relationshipsare morally acceptable. I find it interesting in light of the recent visits...
You, Patti Knapp and 3 others like this.
Ron Alexander: Great comment, Isaac, I think you ought to go after National Syndication as a columnist. This country needs to read and heed your compassionate views! thanks, ron ·
Ron Alexander: "I have discovered that the highest good is love. This principle is at the center of the cosmos. It is the great unifying force of life. God is love. One who loves has discovered the clue to the meaning of ultimate reality; one who hates stands in the immediate candidacy for nonbeing."
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from STRENGTH TO LOVE - one of the most inspirational books ever written.
Melinda Waldrop: Amen, Mr. Alexander!
Chris Tina: Amen to Isaac's comment and all the others as well!
Laurie Marinelli: I am still shocked by the audacity of any group to claim to know what God hates...God created each and everyone of us, He wants the best for us. The best does not includee hatred.
Cheryl Carvalho-Case: What is even sadder is that we have like minded churches here who proudly display those messages on their signs. The world needs all religions and spiritual people that teach kindness , tolerance and forgiveness while also teaching people that they also have a moral duty to their fellow humans and must take responsibility for their actions.
I feel if Dr. King's books were a part of required reading in schools and homes, this country would be a much better place.
The Rev. Kings, Mother Teresas and Bishop Tutus are the rarest of the rare.
Love never claims, it ever gives; love never
suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there
is life; hatred leads to destruction.~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Whale Communicators: "None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in." from the Handbook for the Heart - Original Writing on Love
Christi,i I asked "Whale Communicators" and:
"Hi there Ron Alexander - We have an awesome 2nd handstore on the island called Grannys - I picked this book up yesterday - It is called Handbook for the Heart - Original Writings on Love by Richard Clarlson and Benjamin Shield fist published back in 1998"
Jeanne commented: Perhaps it could be said that love is the energy of the Divine Oneness.
I do believe Love is the most powerful healing medicine. Yes, Love is the energy for Divine Oneness ... Love is all there is .... You are Divine Love Precious One ... You are Sweetness itself ... .
Dear Patricia, I am getting some t-shirts made (already made a deposit). On the back is "We are created to love and be loved." Mother Teresa. And that is a done deal. However, on the front pocket (I like pockets) will be Divine Mirror (my favorite so far), We are One, God is love, One Love, Love & Be Loved...what Sacred Phrase would you use? We are One in Love, ron .
"Teach only Love for that is what you are." A Course in Miracles

Patricia Gianniou Well, the week after my Mom passed away, I was driving down a lonely highway, thinking about her and how at the funeral home, there was such a wave of love that passed through that night. People stood around with their arms around each other telling loving stories about her and how much she loved everyone. Well, as I was thinking about this, I heard, for the first time, a voice in my head that said, "Love is All there Is". I knew that was Spirit telling me the truth ... (tears in my eyes right now as I remember that moment). And, as I thought about it, I realized for the first time that if God is Love, Love is God and Love (God) is all there is ... All is God. So my most sacred phrase is "Love is All there is".

One can love life with the right attitude.

Watching Nick here with tears of joy, help me realize I can love life, with the right attitude.


"/a>

Whale Communicators: "None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in." from the Handbook for the Heart - Original Writing on Love
Christi,i I asked "Whale Communicators" and:
"Hi there Ron Alexander - We have an awesome 2nd handstore on the island called Grannys - I picked this book up yesterday - It is called Handbook for the Heart - Original Writings on Love by Richard Clarlson and Benjamin Shield fist published back in 1998"

Is Divine Love the Bridge Between all Religions, Metaphysics, & Theologies?

"Perhaps love is the energy of the Divine Oneness."
Jeanne from Crone to the Bone
I do believe Love is the most powerful healing medicine. Yes, Love is the energy for Divine Oneness ... Love is all there is .... You are Divine Love Precious One ... You are Sweetness itself ... .
Dear Patricia, I am getting some t-shirts made (already made a deposit). On the back is "We are created to love and be loved." Mother Teresa. And that is a done deal. However, on the front pocket (I like pockets) will be Divine Mirror (my favorite so far), We are One, God is love, One Love, Love & Be Loved...what Sacred Phrase would you use? We are One in Love, ron .
"Teach only Love for that is what you are." A Course in Miracles

What bridges the Oneness Movement and Vipassana Meditation, both of which I am so passionate about? And Unity, Science of Mind, Jesus, Buddha,..
Pure Love - what is left when the "I" , the "self" is out of the way.
Ron Alexander - One Love
Denise Langlois Smith - One heart
Let's get together and feel alright.
Patricia Gianniou - Divine Love ... Agape' Love ...
Ron Alexander - The Essence of our being is love. ACIM
God is love. Jesus
Loving Kindness is my religion. His Holiness The Dalai Lama
We were created to love and be loved. Mother Teresa
Love is the Essence of our Being. Ernest Holmes (Science of Mind)
"I have discovered that the highest good is love. This principle is at the center of the cosmos. It is the great unifying force of life. God is love. One who loves has discovered the clue to the meaning of ultimate reality; one who hates stands in the immediate candidacy for nonbeing."
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from STRENGTH TO LOVE - one of the most inspirational books ever written
S. N. Goenka our Vipassana Meditation primary teacher was asked "what would you say is the purpose of life"? "To come out of misery. A human being has the wonderful ability to go deep inside, observe reality, and come out of suffering. Not to use this ability is to waste one's life. Use it to live a really healthy, happy life."
Another question to Goenka: "You speak of being overpowered by negativity. How about being overpowered by positivity, for example, by love?"
"What you call 'positivity' is the real nature of the mind, it is always full of love-pure love-and you feel peaceful and happy. If you remove the negativity, then positivity remains, purity remains. Let the entire world be overwhelmed by this positivity."
Love is all we came here for, nobody could offer you more. Elton John
Whale Communicators: "None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in." from the Handbook for the Heart - Original Writing on Love
Christi,i I asked "Whale Communicators" and:
"Hi there Ron Alexander - We have an awesome 2nd handstore on the island called Grannys - I picked this book up yesterday - It is called Handbook for the Heart - Original Writings on Love by Richard Clarlson and Benjamin Shield fist published back in 1998"
Daily Word Magazine Today's Word is Intention ~ I fulfill my purpose as I share love with the
world.Mother Teresa once said, "It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters." What a beautiful illustration of the power of right intention and the blessing of acting in love.

Balancing The Divine Masculine and Feminine Energies

"It is beautiful to acknowledge the Oneness of all energies."

Comment by Ron Alexander on May 18, 2010
Yes, as a Male, I know we need more Yin - Divine Feminine Energy to balance out the Yang Patriarchal energy that has dominated our world for so long. We need Balance not matriarchy. in Loving Oneness, ron

Comment by Olivia Kachman: Thank-you for your authenticity, Ron. The divine feminine is a shift for us all on this Earth- males and females alike. It is all about balance. Both energies are beautiful and necessary and one is not to be dominant over the other. It is beautiful to acknowledge the Oneness of all energies. .

These comments are on Kahu Kahealani group "Honoring the Divine Feminine..." on the
World Oneness Community.com site.

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana & The Dhamma Brothers

Ron Alexander: The Dhamma Brothers Documentary is why I went to ten day silent retreat to study Vipassan Meditation. After watching the amazing transformations of mostly convicted murderers in the worst prison in Alabama, I decided that it could work for me too. Besides, I have a nephew who may be facing a long term here in S.C., and... I will try to get this ten day retreat in prisons in this state also. This is a short trailer, but if you can get ahold of it - watch it! This second silent retreat that I have just returned from, I watched an even more dramatic (with over 1000 prisoners) in India - "Doing Time Doing Vipassana"! I have not located the you-tube trailer on it yet.See More

The Dhamma Brothers (Bullfrog Films)
www.youtube.com
Directed by Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein and Andrew Kukura Produced by Jenny Phillips and Anne Marie Stein An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed....http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Jenny-Phillips-on-Oprahs-Soul-Series-Webcast
Jenny Phillips is the amazing filmmaker, therapist, Vipassana Meditator who, courageously, went into the Alabama prison to document The Dhamma Brothers film. Like all long time Vipassana Meditators, Jenny has this wonderful Peaceful Loving Presence that even awes Oprah
DOING TIME, DOING VIPASSANA
Winner of the Golden Spire Award at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival, this extraordinary documentary takes viewers into India's largest prison - known as one of the toughest in the world - and shows the dramatic change brought about by the introduction of Vipassana meditation. In giving Doing Time, ... See MoreDoing Vipassana its top honour, the jury stated that:
"it was moved by this insightful and poignant exposition on Vipassana. The teaching of this meditation as a transformation device has many implications for people everywhere, providing the cultural, social and political institutions can embrace and support its liberating possibility." karunafilms.com
___________
Winner of the 1998 NCCD Pass Awards of the American National Council on Crime and Delinquency. A distinguished panel of experts found Doing Time, Doing Vipassana to be worthy of recognition and deserving of special acclaim:


Ten Days of Silence for Peace Of Mind Ron Alexander

After I returned from a ten day silent Vipassana Retreat, I have been asked "Why would you even want to be in silence for ten days?" That was a good question. I would have thought it crazy, if I had not seen the "Dhamma Brothers" documentary, about the amazing transformation of lifer prisoners (some convicted murderers), after they spent ten days of silent Vipassana Meditation.

Vipassana means to see things as they really are, and was started by Gautama Buddha 2600 years ago. "...Buddha taught: an art of living. He never established or taught any religion, any 'ism'. He never instructed those who came to him to practice any rituals, any empty formalities. Instead, he taught them just to observe nature as it is, by observing the reality inside. Out of ignorance we keep reacting in ways which harm ourselves and others. But when the wisdom arises-the wisdom of observing reality as it is-this habit of reacting falls away. When we cease to react blindly, then we are capable of real action-action proceeding from a balanced mind, a mind which sees and understands the truth. Such action can only be positive, creative, helpful to ourselves and to others." S.N. Goenka "The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation".

Science also supports the premise behind the Buddha’s meditation, as can be read about in Tolle’s books –specifically identifying with inner space (formlessness) instead of form.

Daily eleven hours of meditating was not easy, many times I felt like just bolting. However, I am glad I didn’t. I am meditating more and more effectively experiencing much more peace and joy.

Goenka advises practice – “persistence, and you will succeed." Also, we are to end each sitting with a ‘Metta’ (Loving Kindness) prayer:
May all beings be happy, be peaceful and be free!”



Reply by Jeanne o

I was thinking about how often people think that 'bolting' sankara as an expression of freedom... and yet, we can see that it is actually a reaction to trying to maintain the status quo,,, it is resisting change and growth.

taking on the yoke of discipline seems to be the way toward freedom... toward liberation. whereas bolting, escaping, running away, avoiding... are all part of maintaining the chains of enslavement to ignorance.

The other day someone said they couldn't see the benefit of sitting still and not moving a muscle... the old me might have tried to explain or persuade... but with vipassana... I've come to learn that if the seed of interest is there, if the karma of that person is ready, they will respond with interest. So I simply agreed that the daily zen is life itself.

My initial reaction upon hearing about the 10 days of silence necessary to fulfill a vipassana course was "whoa! ...you people are really serious". My meditation experience prior to vipassana consisted of driving long distances through city traffic to go and sit in someone's living room, meditate, break bread and share community. It gave the worthwhile lift I sought, but only touched the surface of my wounded soul.

Vipassana cut through to the roots of the wounds... and they were able to dissolve and float away... good-bye little fears and phobias, your work is done.

In the Great Spirit of One Love

Native Wisdom from Chief White Cloud. Music ... Promentory by Clannad

Ron Alexander: Awesomely Inspirational, I am so grateful Patricia, and I know you will not mind me passing around too! In the Great Spirit of One Love, ron
Rosaria Carrasquero is the friend who Patricia borrowed this magnificent Great Spirit Wisdom and brilliant old photos with appropriate Spirit Music documentary from. I am so grateful to Rosaria, Patricia, the video makers, the musicians and especially the Great Spirit Warriors pictured here.

Below are comments after the video as shown on You Tube:
This is good, but it would be even better with a more Native American sound track. It sounds Irish. And if you can make the text go under the face instead of on top of them then it would be award winning. Keep up the good work.
busydio Kokomikeis

busydio Osiyo ... The music is from the film 'The Last of the Mohicans' from the scene chasing 'Magua' to rescue Munroe's daughter. Thanks for your comments ... i will hope to improve in future - this was my first!
Mitakuye Oyasin!
Kokomikeis 1 w

Watch Your Thoughts and Your Body

"If you realized how powerful
your thoughts are,
...you would never think a negative thought."
Peace Pilgrim

Buddha said that "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
He goes on and says these thoughts create our suffering. Then he learned in his meditation, that they also go into our bodies as toxin. He learned that to let go of the thoughts we have to know about impermanence and not to attach to even pleasurable ones. Buddha realized that by sensory awareness of our bodies, he could let them go quickly just by observing them, and become purified and liberated." His meditation is called Vipassana (Insight) and he never meant to create a religion called "Buddhism". So Vipassana meditation is taught as Universal Truth in a non-secular way.
And to end in a "Metta" prayer: "May all beings be happy, peaceful and free."

"
Jennifer Sullivan: The most violent element in society is ignorance. ~Emma
Goldman

Ron Alexander: "If we put an end to ignorance of the law of karma (cause and effect), then there will be no blind reactions that bring in their wake all manner of suffering. And if there is no suffering, then we shall experience real peace, real happiness. The wheel of suffering can change into a wheel of liberation.
By yourself committing wrong
you defile yourself.
By yourself not doing wrong
you purify yourself." Siddhattha Gotama (who became a Buddha, as we all can)

Becoming our True Reality - Pure Love

Well today (Friday) is "tomorrow". I got here a day early "accidently", and thank Love, there are no "accidents"! The staff make me feel right at home, they teach metta (loving kindness) and practice it very well. There is even a meeting for the "servers" after the day is done called 'Metta", and it reminds me of a "Prayer for forgiveness" meeting. "I am sorry if I offended anyone today in any way, please forgive me...thank you, I love you."
In addition, I enjoyed joining them in their happy service, and in their daily sittings (meditation). It appears that the more these beings hang out here at the patapa, the more joyous light shine from them - great role models!
S. N. Goenka our primary teacher was asked "what would you say is the purpose of life"? "To come out of misery. A human being has the wonderful ability to go deep inside, observe reality, and come out of suffering. Not to use this ability is to waste one's life. Use it to live a really healthy, happy life."
Another question to Goenka: "You speak of being overpowered by negativity. How about being overpowered by positivity, for example, by love?"
"What you call 'positivity' is the real nature of the mind, it is always full of love-pure love-and you feel peaceful and happy. If you remove the negativity, then positivity remains, purity remains. Let the entire world be overwhelmed by this positivity."

Similar to Thich Nhat Hanh below, His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes Vipassana as the "second-level training" of meditation practice. "...it is not adequate simply to have a focused mind. We must acquire the skill of probing the nature and characteristics of the object of our observation with as much precision as possible. This second level training is known in the Buddhist literature as insight (vipassana in Sanskrit). In tranquil abiding the emphasis on holding one's focus without distraction, and single-pointedness is the key quality being sought. In vipassana (insight), the emphasis is on discerning investigation and analysis while maintaining one-pointedness without distraction." (THE UNIVERSE IN A SINGLE ATOM).




Be still, and know." Psalm 46:10
"'Be still" means to become peaceful and concentrated. The Buddhist term is 'samatha' (stopping, calming). 'Know' means to acquire wisdom or understanding. The Buddhist term is 'vispassana' (insight, or looking deeply). When we are still, looking deeply, and touching the source of our true wisdom, we touch the living Buddha and the living Christ in ourselves and in each person we meet." Thich Nhat Hanh

"There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.
There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
There is a sense of holiness in you that the thought of sin has never touched.
All this today you will remember." A Course in Miracles


Jay Bieber: Go placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.- Desiderata

'Let every voice but God's be still in me. In deepest silence, would I come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive your Word." A Course In Miracles (lesson 254)

"In the silence of listening,
you can know yourself in everyone,
the unseen singing softly to itself
and to you.
Rachel Naomi Remen

"In the stillness of the quiet,
if we listen, we can hear
the whisper of the heart
giving strength to weakness,
courage to fear, hope to despair."

Howard Thurman

"If you love truth, be a lover of silence.
Silence, like the sunlight will
illuminate you in God."
St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk

From my Vipassana (Crone to the Bone) friend Jeanne:"
I hadn't heard from you in awhile and thought you might be at a retreat... so cool that you're doing another. its incredible, the sensations we become aware of when exploring energy fields... so good that vipassana disciplines us to remain in a detached state of observation... so we can separate ourself from the the intensity of various energies. i don't do anything with the kundalini... other than observe it. In my 20's, I went too far, too fast, with it and other practices... and then backed off for many years. But there again... vipassana puts it in perspective.
I've become such a hermit... that just going out in public is like leaving a retreat... and I'm a walking nerve, not in a bad way, like nervous, but in a way of being attuned and sensitized - and the energies are so wild and untamed out there... at the wilds of the grocery store and on the street.
Funny how it was only a few short decades ago and I was raring to be in the fray of it all. Now... I'm grateful to be out. I once read that the losses of old age are not what we lose, but what we leave. I think I understand. And crone-wise... I'm just a young-in...
But what we gain or change in perspective... when we slow down... after we've let go of much, is magnificent. And I especially love the seniors I see at vipassana courses, with their good posture and sparkly eyes. I'm happy that my senior years hold such promise.
metta,
Jeanne "


God created all of us to love and to be loved. Mother Teresa

I do believe Love is the most powerful healing medicine. Yes, Love is the energy for Divine Oneness ... Love is all there is .... You are Divine Love Precious One ... You are Sweetness itself ... .
Dear Patricia, I am getting some t-shirts made (already made a deposit). On the back is "We are created to love and be loved." Mother Teresa. And that is a done deal. However, on the front pocket (I like pockets) will be Divine Mirror (my favorite so far), We are One, God is love, One Love, Love & Be Loved...what Sacred Phrase would you use? We are One in Love, ron .
"Teach only Love for that is what you are." A Course in Miracles

Happy Mother Earth Mother's Day Weekend

Dancing with duality

Mother Earth with earth mother
Sacred with sensual
Spirit with hedonism
Kundalini with testosterone
Ecstasy with addiction
Communing with escapism
Soothing with numbing
Clarity with confusion
Security with anxiety
Boldness with shyness
Me with Maya the illusion
Moi with Mara the enticer
Bliss with Mania
Joy with sadness
Happiness with pleasure
Conviction with trials
High with depression
Touch with tantra
Kiss with sweet lips
Grope with carnal tongue
Innocence with manipulator
Wonder with jaded
Nothing with no thing
Now Here with nowhere
Mellow with drama
Mind with no mind
Reality with reality
Art with artist
Folk art with Fine Art
Light with dark
Sun with shadow
Love with anger
Hope with despair
Healing with wounding
Divinity with judgement
Wisdom with knowledge
Knowledge with ignorance
Giving with non-receiving
Receiving with non-giving
Hippie with Flower Child
Sharing with greed
Unselfish with selfish
Being with doing
Depth with shallow
Consciousness with unconsciousness
Infinite with the finite
Oneness with division
Humble with arrogance
Gratitude with indifference
Joyous with expectation -
God with Goddess


What I have learned from these amazing four days is that I am very weary of this dualistic dance. I much prefer the non-dualistic Sacred Place within and around me. I am happy to be going into silent Vipassana retreat this Thursday with this absolute certainty. I am a co-creator of my life with God like this Artist Karen Cohen (karen@kelisegallery.com) pictured here. I have observed people cry for joy at seeing her Art. She captures the Sacred Light in her portraits.
May all Beings be truly Happy! Metta, ron






Joy Pleasure Happiness
Joy - Infinite & Eternal -
"Joy is the realization of our oneness, our soul's oneness with the supreme love." Rabindrath Tagore


"Joy is what happens to us when we
allow ourselves to recognize how
good things really are."
Marianne Williamson

Pleasure - short-lasting - ephemeral
- addictive

Joy - from Being
"Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this from deep within you." Eckhart Tolle

Pleasure - to escape, numb


For happiness one needs security,
but joy can spring like a flower
even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy." James 1:2
Posted by captron at 8:13 PM

Treating your Anger (& your ego) like a Mother would her baby:

Ram Dass interviews Thicht Nhat Hanh
www.youtube.com
Comment by Cherie Blackfeather: "I like this image of holding anger like a mother holds a baby. I know the experience of holding a very distressed infant in my arms. My instinct is to soothe and rock and bounce that baby and so acknowledge the baby's emotion and to reassure the baby's sense of safety and being cared for. I will practice with myself and with others as well. This is self-soothing. Tenderness toward discomfort. Thank you for this."

Kahu Kahealani Kawaiolamanaloa Satchitananda:
Great Information inner mastery: one part of us taking good care of another part of us....loving kindness taking care of anger like a mother cares for her baby....just energy....mindful awareness....breathing out taking good care of irritations and anger....creates transfor...mation.....anger kind of flower needs mindful. anger can be transformed into compassion and understanding for social change that would not carry destructive results. very important information.!!!

Ron Alexander:
Wow! Kahu, you are so Good! I hope and expect that you had a great Mother's Day! This information is so good, and I add that we treat our much maligned "ego" in the same way as a "Mother takes care of her baby"! What a fantastic Mother's Day gift to us all. I am going to add this to my site, as I know you want to get it out to as many people as possible!

Anger is energy that wants to change something - Jeanne commented - 'Treat Your Anger as a Mother Would her Baby (Another Mother's Day Gift)'Thank-you Ron, for posting this... I'm a long admirer of Thich and especially love this message. ...and the concept of recognizing the potential energy in all things, even anger.

There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.

Science of Mind magazine: In...ancient days, people believed the sound of God's voice was like raging waters, lightning, and thunder. At God's rebuke, mountains fled and hills melted. Elijah was to learn that the guiding power of God's voice was small and quiet. The only way we can hear the divine voice is through stillness and meditation.

In the quiet, we can learn to focus on hidden matters, see what our physical eyes cannot see, and hear what our human ears cannot hear. (From Dr. Rocco Errico's column "Light from the Language of Jesus," SOM
Charlene Heaton: "Its best to remain silent and be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt".--Abe Lincoln

Ron Alexander: Thanks Charlene, I am collecting quotes like this to help prepare me for Silent Vipassana Meditation retreat I am returning to next week. Anybody else have a good quote about keeping your mouth shut? Love Yourself:
Sometimes... "Silence" speaks louder than Words. Breathe ~in stillness ~ Exhale ~ Silence ~ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Lesta Sue Hardee Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu
1 True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius
Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle
Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arab Proverb

Don Johnson http://thinkexist.com/quotations/silence/
.Jennifer Sullivan Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
· .Christi L Spivey A closed mouth catches no flies.

"There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.
There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
There is a sense of holiness in you that the thought of sin has never touched.
All this today you will remember." A Course in Miracles

"Silence is a virtue."
Let this be a gift that you give your self today. Get into a comfortable postion, close your eyes and let your mind settle down. Get behind the mind stream. This is where the real power can be found. It is found in the silence of the vastness that lies within.
"True Intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity & solutions to problems are found.

Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner resistance to to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness."
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks.

"All things of value are given and received in silence." Meher Baba

"As I silently listen to Spirit within me and think of Its perfection,I know that I am being born into joy, hope & gladness, born into love, faith & assurance.
Silently, I release every negative thought from my mind, I release it and let it go. And I too, pray 'that they may all be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us.'" Ernest Holmes

"Stop the words now, and open the window in your heart
And let the spirits fly in and out out and in...." Peter Makena

"Just one look into your eyes
Now I'm forever falling into the silence inside." Peter Makena

"Be still, and know." Psalm 46:10

'Let every voice but God's be still in me. In deepest silence, would I come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive your Word." A Course In Miracles (lesson 254)

WORD FOR THE DAY (gratefulness.org)
Saturday, Jul. 18

In the silence of listening,
you can know yourself in everyone,
the unseen singing softly to itself
and to you.


Rachel Naomi Remen

Listen, listen


In the stillness of the quiet,
if we listen, we can hear
the whisper of the heart
giving strength to weakness,
courage to fear, hope to despair.

Howard Thurman

Love Truth, Love Silence

If you love truth, be a lover of silence.
Silence, like the sunlight will
illuminate you in God.

St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk

from my Vipassana (Crone to the Bone) friend Jeanne
I hadn't heard from you in awhile and thought you might be at a retreat... so cool that you're doing another.

its incredible, the sensations we become aware of when exploring energy fields... so good that vipassana disciplines us to remain in a detached state of observation... so we can separate ourself from the the intensity of various energies. i don't do anything with the kundalini... other than observe it. In my 20's, I went too far, too fast, with it and other practices... and then backed off for many years. But there again... vipassana puts it in perspective.

I've become such a hermit... that just going out in public is like leaving a retreat... and I'm a walking nerve, not in a bad way, like nervous, but in a way of being attuned and sensitized - and the energies are so wild and untamed out there... at the wilds of the grocery store and on the street.

Funny how it was only a few short decades ago and I was raring to be in the fray of it all. Now... I'm grateful to be out. I once read that the losses of old age are not what we lose, but what we leave. I think I understand. And crone-wise... I'm just a young-in...

But what we gain or change in perspective... when we slow down... after we've let go of much, is magnificent. And I especially love the seniors I see at vipassana courses, with their good posture and sparkly eyes. I'm happy that my senior years hold such promise.

metta,
Jeanne

Acceptance & Forgiveness Are the Answers to All My Blessings

Acceptance & forgiveness are the answers to all my blessings. When anyone or anything disturbs me, I send Oneness Blessing together with the Ho'Oponopono prayer: "I am sorry, please forgive me...thank you. I love you."
I accept that I am responsible for all my disturbances, since We are One, I forgive and accept Us.




"When we begin to accept ourselves exactly as we are,
experiencing the full content of each moment without conflict or resistance,and join together around the world with others whose hearts are flowering, the Light of Infinite Love will flood the Earth! - M.M.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves,
the circle of compassion for others -- what
and whom we can work with, and how --
becomes wider.

...Pema Chodron


Danny Dummitt: Accepting something does not mean refusing to change it. In fact, the opposite is true. You cannot change that which you do not accept - in yourself especially, and outside of yourself as well.
Ron Alexander: good thinking, Danny - thanks - kinda like icing on the cake to my writing about acceptance

"Many Believe Orbs to be Angels"

The above picture illustrates a pole blocking one edge of the orb behind it. Many believe these orbs to be angels.

Some of them look like "mandalas" to me - One person who has studied them say they are "departed ancestors coming back to visit in spirit form"
"Perhaps as our heightened awareness of our oneness increases we are able to see the translucence of their spirit. I like to think so anyway." Rev. Ruth (see her email below)

Ron, these orbs are amazing beyond words! I've never seen so many in a picture before. How could One ever again entertain the possibility of being alone?? Can't happen! See you tonight. Dance on...... J.)
And here is a email from Rev. Ruth Looper of Pendleton Unity Church of Practical Christianity:Ron,

My brother and I have observed many family pictures to have "orbs" in them especially at family gatherings.

My Mother passed away in Dec of 2008 and orbs were very noticeable in the pictures at the in-house hospice facility and in the family gathering room at the mortuary. There have been others since that time at holiday time especially one's with the children in them - orbs nearby as they unwrapped their presents.

Since we began observing them and sharing information with friends and they with us, there are more and more orb appearances.

There is an orb movie release that I would like to obtain and show at the church.

Perhaps as our heightened awareness of our oneness increases we are able to see the translucence of their spirit. I like to think so anyway.

Interesting isn't it?

Love & Blessings,
Ruth


(What a magnificent orb on our own Angel on Earth - Susan)



I do believe this a form that spirits take I got the spirit in the photograph above in different forms as a apparition and orb . Comment by Theresa F. Koch

Thanks, Ron, for such a great story. I love to hear about the orbs. A fairly large orb of light actually came into my bedroom (very visible!) in Columbia in the late 1990's. The same (at least by description) orb visited a friend of mine during the same period. She and her husband own a plantation there where they did civil war reinactments. She showed me several pictures where there were translucent figures among and above the participants.
Beth

The Paradox of Freedom - Why Meditate?

To Be Truly Free Requires Self-Control.


In preparation for the Oneness Blessing, that I have been writing about, it is imperative to quiet the mind. To stop most of the chattering going on that we are so used to. There are many ways to meditate, and I enjoy them - mantra, pranayama (heavy breathing),chanting sacred words,sutras(sacred movements of the hands and fingers mostly) closely watching a sunset, a candle or another physical object, walking in complete awareness, etc. Most meditations have a combination of several of them.

In my search from freedom - mostly from my self-critical inner voice and outer restrictions, I have rebelled from authority, becoming a "peace, love and flower child", from there to a pot-smoking "hippie" rebel. After my dear younger brother was killed in Viet Nam, I sailed away for geographical freedom. All of these were escapist-type hedonistic attempts at freedom, with still serious efforts to be free of that self-abuser inside - my Dad's voice - "you will never be any good, worthless.", my Mother's voice - "Ronnie is my little doctor. & that is one, two..." (at "three", I would be subject to my Father's belt-beating).

In the Oneness Movement, emphasis is rightly put on self-acceptance - "love must begin with loving yourself."(Sri. Bhagavan"). In my attempts to accept myself, I have found that Vipassana Meditation has been the best for me. I became enamored with Vipassana by watching a documentary of these prisoners for life in a Alabama prison. They experienced a Ten Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat, the first step for Vipassana students. It is called "The Dhamma Brothers". Dhamma is the Pali (Buddha's language) word for the Sanskrit "Dharma". I would recommend, at least, looking up the trailor of the film on Google or You Tube. After ten hard days, these prisoners became some of the freest men I have ever seen. I was very impressed by the teachers, who were locked up with the prisoners for the 11 days (ten full days of silent meditation and instruction). So I decided that I wanted to experience these ten days also.

So I went on line and was delighted to find a new Vipassana "Retreat" in Jesup Georgia. And to top it all off, it was free. At that time, it filled the bill for my desperate attempt at real freedom from my negative thinking. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." Buddha

And here is where "the paradox of freedom" comes in. I kept wanting to leave the strict pure silence (no form of communication allowed except for a few minutes with the teacher a day, and to ask for something essential from a volunteer server), the ten to eleven hours of meditation per day - holding your body as still as possible. You are closely watched by the teachers for any signs of disturbance in your sitting. To end the long day (awakened at 4 AM) there is a two hour discourse by the teacher on the meaning of Vipassana Meditation. It would seem that with "freedom", I could just get up and leave, however my goal is to "free my mind of the tensions and prejudices that disturb the flow of everyday life." Of the self-abusing critic & other-abusing judge in my mind. So the paradox is that to find True Freedom - 'freedom of all suffering, purity of mind and enlightenment" - I needed discipline, self-control. As a youth I had rebelled against the type of abusive belt-beating "discipline" administered by my ex-marine Dad. Then in my spiritual seeking, I realized the root word of discipline is "disciple". Now I am a disciple of Goenka, the recognized Master Teacher of Vispassana and all of his teachers who he has appointed. To make a long story shorter, I am going back to a Silent Vipassana Retreat to realize more "True Freedom" and resultantly experience more "True Oneness." Metta (May All Beings Be Happy)!

Comment by Dr. Sohiniben Shukla Dear Ron,
You know much more about the subject but I just suggest you that if we go within then all the ques. are lost and we will be contented !
Everything, all sciences and their roots are within us !
Just we have to connect our higher self with the Source and that will be O.K.

We can get every thing, every answer from within !!!
Sohiniben.

Thanks Dr. Sohiniben, I think you are right - "no thoughts" - "no mind" = peace, right? ron