Podcasts from Five Changes . Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki
Two key principlesThere are a multitude of details for how you achieve success, but here are two important principles, which when you apply them, puts success, however you choose to measure it, within your grasp.
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The fox who understands how to get rid of problems that bother her — by breathing, slowing down, and going deeper …
A hidden agendaA talk given by Caitriona Reed on a three day retreat at Manzanita Village near Warner Springs in Southern California,
“I have to warn you that the teachers have hidden agenda … to change your mind.”
“I must also warn you that many things that we will be telling you on this retreat will be untrue, including, perhaps, this statement.”
The Buddha suggested we question and check everything before we accept it as truth.
How deep can you go with this?
Dharma Talk by Michele from the Labor Day weekend retreat at Manzanita Village.
You may have heard this on our home page. www.manzanitavillage.org
“Do you have any idea how many people walk around kicking themselves everyday because they don’t meet their own best standards?”
“We can help you fix that!
“Picture a world in which the voices you hear inside your own head are expressing words of appreciation and inspiration, and you are feeling great about what you do.”
The brighted the light the darker the shadows. Western culture projects fantasies on the real and imagined world.Vampires, Human Sacrifice, Martyrdom
The simple truth is more along the lines of our longing for connection with the life of the world that we have so alienated ourselves from.
A short talk by Caitriona Reed
A solstice meditation on the cycles of life. inter-connection, and love.
By Michele Benzamin-Miki – with our dog Bashu – doing some heavy breathing at the window tat the end of the recording, (in case you wondered what that sound was)..
The pattern printed in my breathing here
Has not been seen before.
Let the moment’s condensation vanish without trace:
The cherished pattern no one can efface. Osip Mandelstam
In Buddhist teaching impermanence (anicca) is one of the three universal characteristics, sometimes referred to as the Three Marks of Existence, along with no-self (anata) and suffering (dukkha).
It is important to remember that the Buddha emphasized practical tools for change, and steered away from metaphysics and theoretical speculation. “I teach one thing.” he said, “suffering and freedom from suffering.” In addition, he recommended that we question and test received beliefs and teachings—including the ones that came from him.
In the West, however, we are not used to challenging beliefs, especially in a religious context. Despite many signs to the contrary, we have a deeply conformist tendency. Challenging authority is still associated with heresy. So teachings that are intended as practical instructions become inadvertently turned into fixed principles.
This distinction may seem subtle, but it is an important one. It is not hard to understand that everything does indeed change, and that everything is impermanent. But when you turn Impermanence into a fixed principle you limit your ability to actually assess your experience of impermanence, and you miss some important distinctions.
The article from which this is taken can be found at
http://www.sweepingzen.com/Article_by_Caitriona_Reed.html
The pattern printed in my breathing here
Has not been seen before.
Let the moment’s condensation vanish without trace:
The cherished pattern no one can efface.
Osip Mandelstam
In Buddhist teaching impermanence (anicca) is one of the three universal characteristics, sometimes referred to as the Three Marks of Existence, along with no-self (anata) and suffering (dukkha).
It is important to remember that the Buddha emphasized practical tools for change, and steered away from metaphysics and theoretical speculation. “I teach one thing.” he said, “suffering and freedom from suffering.” In addition, he recommended that we question and test received beliefs and teachings—including the ones that came from him.
In the West, however, we are not used to challenging beliefs, especially in a religious context. Despite many signs to the contrary, we have a deeply conformist tendency. Challenging authority is still associated with heresy. So teachings that are intended as practical instructions become inadvertently turned into fixed principles.
This distinction may seem subtle, but it is an important one. It is not hard to understand that everything does indeed change, and that everything is impermanent. But when you turn Impermanence into a fixed principle you limit your ability to actually assess your experience of impermanence, and you miss some important distinctions.
