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What if God asks you...

What if after you die God asks you "How was…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 22, 2015 at 9:40am — No Comments

6 Lessons the Sick can Teach the Healthy

What can you learn from the sick? Well, here's 6 lessons from a chronically ill person who is also a law professor and gifted writer. Here's what Toni Bernhard, JD has to offer:

1. Less is more - clean out the stuff you've accumulated

2. Ruminating about the past and worrying about the future <makes> me unhappy.

3. Rushing to judgment about…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 22, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Nelson Mandela - Thoughts from Shmal

This photo is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic…
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Added by Michael Levin on December 18, 2013 at 10:58am — No Comments

Bringing the Mind Home

I was told that the chapter on Training the Mind in Sogyal Rinpoche's "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" was a great intro to meditation. The nice thing is that you can read a lot of it on the web here at Google Books.…

Added by Michael Levin on October 10, 2012 at 1:31pm — No Comments

A New Day

Note: The video works now!



Rhiannon Hull and running are synonymous. If you like the idea of pushing yourself to the limits and reaching some, this story will take you there. Read the story first, then…

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Added by Michael Levin on March 30, 2012 at 10:30am — 10 Comments

Steps Toward Inner Peace

Peace Pilgrim on Twitpic

 

 

I was walking in the garden the other day and I found a little booklet in the grass. It's called "Steps Toward Inner Peace", by Peace Pilgrim. I found several aspects of the booklet interesting. For one thing, it's written by a contemporary woman who says making money was easy for her. She chose to give up a conventional material pursuit in favor of a life spent trying to be happy and…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 12, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

I'll Fly Away...an article about the music and spirit of Lauris Vidal

I just wrote an article for Elephant Journal about my new friend and musician Lauris Vidal. Click here to read it and please let me know what you think - either here or on the Ele article as a comment. That would make my day!…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 2, 2012 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Hanh's Tangerines

Elephant Journal has provided us with a link to a wonderful talk by…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2012 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Think Differently

Think Differently!

Day 1: 

Feel. Try this: Have a glass of warm water when you wake up rather than your usual cuppa…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 10, 2012 at 6:30am — No Comments

Chi Gung is the Alphabet

Chi Gung is a form of exercise that I learned about here in Seaside, OR at the Seaside Hostel. Trung, the instructor, said Chi Gung is the alphabet, Tai Chi is the language. Nice!

Added by Michael Levin on December 1, 2011 at 8:45am — No Comments

Wherever You Go There You Are {Book Review}

Wherever You Go There You Are

Wherever You Go There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn is a good book explaining one man’s view of meditation…

{Note: this article was originally published here on Elephant Journal}

 

 Meditation can be as simple as you like. Basically, we know meditation is all about clearing our mind for a time. It’s hard to not think about…

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Added by Michael Levin on June 5, 2011 at 3:20pm — 3 Comments

Amazing Sunset

Sunset at Lake Sybelia

Yesterday I had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. I often cycle to one of many lakes near sunset. This evening there were surprises in store! Firstly, the sunset itself was amazing.

 

 

And, if… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on May 29, 2011 at 10:37pm — No Comments

Patience

"The Dalai Lama shows no anger toward the Chinese, even though the policy of the Chinese government for years has been to practice genocide toward Tibetans, culturicide toward their institutions, beliefs, everything they hold dear, and geocode toward the very land they live on. When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an incredulous reporter…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 25, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Be present in the here and now.

(Photo of two otters playing at Alexander Springs, FL taken by Michael Levin 2/19/11)

 

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around, it comes to you. When it comes to you, stretch out your hand gently, take a portion of it politely, but pass it on. Or, it has not come to you yet. Do not…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 23, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

Free Meditatics DVD and other stuff

This is a free download.
Lots of good stuff on it.
Watch the video entitled "Monks in the Laboratory" about brain scans of Buddhist monks. Truly fascinating.
http://www.meditactics.com/

Also watch: Words of My Perfect Teacher (Not a great film, but a great…
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Added by Michael Levin on February 13, 2011 at 2:32pm — No Comments

JANIS JOPLIN AND ME: 40 YEARS OF MUSIC AND MAGIC



JANIS JOPLIN AND ME: 40 YEARS OF MUSIC AND MAGIC

 

A NEW E-BOOK BY FLASH SILVERMOON



Musician and Shaman, Flash Silvermoon shares the never before told story of her deep connection with Janis Joplin in life and even more importantly, in death! After 40 years and many many fascinating phenomenal experiences, Flash knows that it is time to tell the real story about Janis' life…

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Added by Flash Silvermoon on February 11, 2011 at 1:01pm — 2 Comments

Mind, Body and Spirit...especially Yoga!



That's Ibrahim doing water yoga. Those of you who follow the Zoobird reading lists will notice four new links: the first one is about the series of moves called the Sun Salutation, which Sh'mal just taught me this week and I love already. There's also a link to a video…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 3, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Sandlewood and Porcelain

A Great Day at the Garden



Another sleepless night

A concrete paradise

Sirens screaming in the heat

Neon cuts the eye

As the jester sighs

At the world beneath his feet



It's a gutter ballet

Just a menagerie

Still the orchestra plays

On a dark and lonely night

To a…
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Added by Michael Levin on October 18, 2010 at 4:59pm — 3 Comments

Alan Watts: Leaves Are Not Green

Added by Michael Levin on October 15, 2010 at 11:24am — No Comments

Heart Attack





When I lived in Ireland, I woke up one morning and coughed, clutching

my chest. My wife's a cardiologist and she said "That's it. Come on,

we're going to the hospital." And, off we went to merry St. Vincent's in

Ballsbridge.



We checked in at the Emergency Ward and my wife casually mentioned that

she was a doctor, hoping that her status would grease the skids, as it

were.



They wheeled me into the… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on October 15, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

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