Hi

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by Renee in One Light Many Windows

Just wanted to say  hi to all, especially Debbie, who is one of only three people in Gaia on my friend's list.  I was not in the best of places the last time I was... More »

Re: Aikido as a Transformational Path

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by adastra in Robert Augustus Masters

Someone just recommended to me the book The Leadership Dojo by By Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Richard (FRW)  Leider. The google book preview contains the following description: History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how... More »

Re: Avoiding the Void

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Carl in Now I Can See the Moon

ST do you think that once a person has reached enlightenment that death is necessary?  It seems that Boddhitsatva's? i know i butchered that :(  stay behind to teach us if i'm not mistaken on... More »

Re: God and Evolution

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Archipelago

Hi, James, that's a good point.  It's something I hint at in my "Reconsidering Enlightenment" thread, where Wilber defines (vertical) enlightenment as being one with the highest structure to have emerged so far in Kosmic... More »

Re: Your money or your life

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Alan in Fully Engaged

:-D I think the 'enlightened masters' ARE teaching this... but then, as I've expressed, I wonder about anyone calling themselves an 'enlightened master' who isn't designing what they say not to tell people these things,... More »

Re: Your money or your life

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by mike S in Fully Engaged

AND how do you convince people, motivate people to work for the collective - which may not appear to be as immediately profitable (rather than placing the  individual or single corporation first over other individuals and corporations) as... More »

Week 6: V Hierophant

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Ariel in A Journey through the Higher Arcana

Here is the card (energy) we are working on collectively this week. Thid information is taken from Tarot of Transformation by Jasmin Cori & Willow Arlanea V – Hierophant (Spiritual Leaders) - We live in... More »

Re: Shaping Integral Judaism

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by andrew in A Stranger's Torah

yeah, i hear ya! i'm a bit of an eclectic spirit myself:) i've mentioned to albert before that integral probably errs in trying to label people into nice tidy boxes just because it appears to... More »

Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Is: Huh? Just like law and order is a product of the evolutionary structure Amber, so emptiness (the non-finding of independent persons or phenomena) is a product of the evolutionary structures Green-Turquoise. All understandings have a kosmic... More »

Re: Evolution and Enactment 2.

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Tom in Integral Archipelago

Bruce : In your opinion, what is the value of evolutionary and 'energetic'understandings or teachings?  What do these things bring tospirituality that is important? My answer to these questions is: evolution unfixes fixity.  I was... More »

What new ideas are bubbling in you these days?

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Laurie

Teaching a class on simplicity.

What new ideas are bubbling in you these days?

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Susan #1

     Exciting and creative new ways to teach science to 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students are churning within me!  The students had a "greenhorn" for a teacher this year.  Yes, we've all been there, and I... More »

Can abundant thinking be taught? What do you think?

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Sherrilene

I have been thinking about this quite a bit for a few days... A big part of the fear based mindset of those among us that are living in and operating in the capitalist system... More »

What aspects of yourself do you deny or reject?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Marky Mark

As a founding member of the Consciousness Mentoring Institute, which as a primary focus teaches Aspect Psychology, I can NOT stress enough how important this question is. We all have aspects that we deny and... More »

Two Wolves- Our Greatest Teachers

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Marianne

Two wolves- Our greatest teachers There is a Cherokee poem that refers to two teachers- represented by wolf. Wolf is the totem animal for teacher- or a teaching. I always stress that everyone that comes... More »

Girls and Fish and Flies

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Crystal

All our gear was donated, and lunch was free. What a great day put together for us by Disabled American Vets and Project Healing Waters .  

Men's Integral Practice Weekend with Dragon's Den and Marc Gafni

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Marc (Mordechai) Gafni

Dragon's Den: Men's Integral Practice Community What is Dragon's Den? Are you the evolution of man unfolding right now? Are you the embodiment of your fullest expression of what it means to be a man?... More »

The First Step in My 1000-Mile Journey

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Mark Jordan

As you might or might not know, I've been feeling the pressure to make a huge life change. You know, the classic leap of faith into the unknown, and start living my life in greater... More »

In what areas of your life do you feel you're running?

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Jamilah

I don't usually run anymore. That was the younger me, the me who raised six boys while holding down a full-time teaching job, the me who made breakfast, packed lunches, and put dinner in the... More »

Where are you most comfortable?

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by ntexas99

Alone. Away from the influence of the world.  Away from the noise.  Away from the decisions awaiting their turn.  Away from the dangers of life.  Away from it all. Unfortunately, curling up into a ball... More »

Unless the secret of inward peace is also the secret of escape from fear, it does not meet a need I believe is almost the central need of mankind. If it be asked, "Why are so many people in the modern world anxious, worried, nervous, irritable, depressed, bad sleepers, and not quite well?" the answer in most cases is that they are frightened. . . . What, then, is the way to escape from the power of this ever-present enemy? I know none except learning that we are in the keeping of a God who will never desert us. . . . There is no fear where love is, and the love of God is always present. . . . Till we have faced that fact, we are not ready to understand what God does actually for those who trust in Him. But when we have learnt that truth, we may go on to say, "Come what may, we know that He will be with us and therefore need not fear." We may have to suffer in the body, but His sustaining grace will never leave us. We may lose our dear ones and so be wounded in our very hearts, but His grace will give us strength to carry even that cross. We may have to face poverty; but if so, He will do for us what He has done for thousands and teach us how to be poor and yet content. We may have to face hunger of the heart, and no one who knows what that means will ever think lightly of it; but even through that fiery trial, His love will sustain those who turn to Him.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

There was no point of controversy between Jesus and the Jews; Jesus brought no new doctrine unto them. Jesus said, What the masters in Israel teach, what the Pharisees and the Scribes teach, is perfectly correct. There was no dogma which was the cause of controversy between Jesus and the nation; there was no new custom that Jesus introduced: He went into the Temple every day. He observed the ordinances and festivals of Israel. What was the subject of dispute and controversy between Jesus and the Jews? It was no doctrine, it was no innovation, it was Jesus Himself whom they rejected. There was an antipathy in them to the person of Jesus: it was the Lord Himself whom they hated, because they hated the Father. . . . But Jesus knew . . . that it was because He was one with the Father, because He was the express image of His being, because He was the perfect manifestation of the character of God, that they hated Him; and therefore Jesus was pained, not because they hated Him, but because they hated in Him the Father.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Koans are the folk stories of Zen Buddhism, metaphorical narratives that particularize essential nature.

Koan. A presentation of the harmony of the Universal and the Particular; a theme of Zazen to be made clear. A classic Mondo, or a Zen story.

Each koan is a window that show the whole truth but just from a single vantage. It is limited in perspective. One hundred koans give one hundred vantages. When they are enriched with insightful comments and poems, then you have ten thousand vantages. There is no end to this process of enrichment.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art...

But where's the man who counsel can bestow, Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?

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Since giving his famous speech in 1929, in which he declared that truth is a pathless land... More »

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I invite you to learn about and explore the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282), the founder of... More »

Electric Moms: Holistic Parenting

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