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Comment on Bow in gratitude. by Robert

Robert — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:34:44 +0000

Thank you Perry_/\_ This is my wish too. All the best from Me, Tanya, Arlo, Tooney, Crucita and Missus Mousey.

Comment on Bow in gratitude. by kam75

kam75 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:18:12 +0000

very special podcast..you are very welcome _/\_ gassho… we interact over many miles and by a “web” but it seens like just next door and my wish is for the world to find this “place” and be at home here with us..everyone…in this web of understanding and mindfulness…………………………..

Comment on Success is in the eye of the beholder. by Brenda Freeman

Brenda Freeman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:32:27 +0000

Good article. Success can only be measured from within. There are many “successful” people in our society who are depressed and miserable even though society believes they have achieved the pinnacle of achieving. Thanks for the reminder

Comment on Success is in the eye of the beholder. by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:32:15 +0000

Hi Robert-
I started listening to your podcasts a few months ago, around the time I started getting interested in Buddhism. Just wanted to let you know I enjoy them a great deal and get a lot out of them. I have gone back to listen to older casts. I find them to be thought-provoking, inspirational and educational. Thanks so much.

Comment on Forgive and forget by whitney

whitney — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:03:18 +0000

I have a problem where I hold grudges because I get upset with people and I stray from people. I isolate myself. How can I detox myself and create make myself stop dwelling on the past. What kind of meditations, etc. will help me?
Thank you.

Comment on Success is in the eye of the beholder. by Neil

Neil — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:38:51 +0000

This was a very insightful podcast as it really got me thinking about things that given me the most spiritual fulfillment in this life. Success once sounded like some sort of pre-determined destination that I was supposed to decide upon with very strict standards in which it is judged. Thinking more on it, I’d like to keep my journey always pointed in a positive direction, regardless of all of the uncontrollable variables, and whatever destination that brings me to, must be a success in some regard.

I have been meaning to send you a note for a while. You have been a very strong and positive influence in my life since I first became aware of your work and I want to extend my most heartfelt gratitude. You have an incredible gift and I appreciate every bit of spirit that you put into your creations.

Kind Regards,

Neil

Comment on Success is in the eye of the beholder. by Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:20:36 +0000

In the environment I was raised, the accepted tacit notion of success was very simple and straightforward. I grew up believing my only success (and happiness) in life would depend on those standards. Unfortunately (?), destiny didn’t want me to be successful as per those standards. I remember the day it was clear to me that I had “failed”. You feel you have no more purpose in this life and just wait to die in the next hour. I remember spontaneously going to sit for about half an hour on that bench by the river, quietly looking at the water, doing nothing, then I somehow knew everything would be alright…. And I wasn’t wrong.
This is an episode of my life, I will *never* forget. I wasn’t an “active” spiritual person at that time, but when looking back, I am still amazed at my expression of letting go and surrender in that particular moment that looked to me as a difficult and hopeless situation.
Nowadays, I can easily say, my *primary* goal in life is just to be happy with myself and in my relationships with others. Be loving and forgiving… Material things are good for what they are, but to me, they cannot replace the feeling one experiences when loving, sharing, caring, forgiving or being loved, cared for or forgiven…. This is not an easy thing to say in this world, but I know I can express it here.

Comment on iPad meditation app will be out soon! by Robert

Robert — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:16:23 +0000

Hi Marguerite!

Thanks for your warm comments and support of the blog and podcasts. It was a pleasure meeting you at Wisdom 2.0 and it would be nice to stay in touch. I’m very impressed with the work you are doing with your blog http://minddeep.blogspot.com/ and Zen Hospice. You are an inspiration to me. Gassho _/\_

Comment on iPad meditation app will be out soon! by Marguerite Manteau-Rao

Marguerite Manteau-Rao — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:41:23 +0000

Hello Robert,

We met at Wisdom 2.0, and also on Twitter . . . I just discovered your site, and would like to thank you for your thought provoking articles and podcasts.

May you be well, and deep bow to you!

marguerite

Comment on Success is in the eye of the beholder. by Robert

Robert — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:40:12 +0000

It has been a wonderful life and I wouldn’t change a thing. Thank you my friend for everything.

Comment on Success is in the eye of the beholder. by kam75

kam75 — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:23:40 +0000

“see George Baily you really did have a wonderful” A fine journey you both have had.
The small things add up along the way and can be tasted long after…the big things are consumed quickly,rust or break down and that flavor is forgotten and replaced soon by the next “big thing”. When we are gone..it is better to be the small thing..remembered..always..success achieved………………

Comment on iPad meditation app will be out soon! by sawmill

sawmill — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:54:49 +0000

sounds like a bunch of” tweet my face book”……….ya know…”make meditation easier”………………. just sit……..thats all……

Comment on A guided meditation for facing our fears by Gerard

Gerard — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:15:45 +0000

Hi Robert,

Your podcasts are great.
Today I was listening to facing our fears.

I think it is quite true that fear can be programmed into us.

This happens from a very early age, when children are taught about the world. As a parent myself, I have to be very careful not to project my own fears and insecurities onto my children, while at the same time teaching them common-sense about avoiding danger (e.g, crossing the road, being careful with electricity, and so on).

In the poem Desiderata I read that fears can also arise out of loneliness or frustration, and this is so true.

Anyway, thanks for all the great work

Comment on iPad meditation app will be out soon! by Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:06:07 +0000

Hello,
I too have debated the use of technology, especially concerning the attachment it creates. I am a NYC HS teacher and see the effect of this everyday as students clutch their cell phones and ipods like life vests. I myself got my first cell phone only 2 years ago at the age of 29, and although I was given an ipod as a gift, I hardly used it. However, I recently decided to look for a meditation timer, and discovered many apps on the ipod/iphone that work quite well and am finding the bell and chime tones help to keep my attention and center my focus within. Also, since with a timer I don’t have to constantly check my clock to see if I’m late for work in the morning, I’m able to focus even better and be absorbed by the moment. So it really depends how you use the technology, and make sure that it doesn’t use you, if you know what I mean.
I recently decided to purchase an ipad to replace my cell phone (I can’t stand the companies, contracts and fees–the ipad with 2 free apps now lets me send and receive texts and calls for free when I need to) and to make my work a little bit easier. So I’m looking for a good meditation app for it, and this brings me to my question, Robert: when can we expect to see the release of your program? I’m excited for it and am curious what it will be like, although from the one image that you have posted, it looks good. Will it include a simple timer? Please tell me any details that you can.

Thanks for your time, and take care.

Jordan

Comment on iPad meditation app will be out soon! by Robert

Robert — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:40:08 +0000

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your thoughts on this and I do believe that you have some valid points here that I hope to address. First I wonder if you listened to the last podcast “Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace,” were I go into exactly what your concerns are about the overuse of technology and gadgets as a method to distract us. So I ‘m well aware of the concerns that you have brought up in your comment.The concept here is not to capitalize on the iPad fad, or make it into the news as much as it is an attempt to use technology to introduce people to meditation who would never consider it. I work in this field and see first hand the suffering that is caused by to many gadgets, to much time in front of a computer and overwork. This is my attempt to turn some of those people into meditation practitioners using something that is familiar to them such as the iPad. My purpose it to ease some of their suffering and pain. Another motivation is to help many of my listeners that can’t meditate in the conventional manner IE sitting meditation focused on the breath. Some of my listeners are on breathing machines, in wheelchairs and unable to sit up, or go outside. Hopefully this app can fill some of those gaps for them and make meditation easier. And finally The podcast itself is conveyed via the web and listened to on devices such as the iPhone, iPod, the iPad, computers etc, and A Quiet Mind would not even be here if it wasn’t for technology. As in most things the key is the way something is used by the operator. We are really working hard to create something in the vain of service and not in the vain of capitalism, or subversive hype, we genuinely want to help others ease their suffering in any way, shape or form that is available to us within reason. I just attended the Wisdom 2.0 conference in Mountain View, Ca. The topic of the conference was how do we merge technology and wisdom teachings in a thoughtful and wise way. I talked with people from Google, Twitter and Facebook and found that some of them understand that what they have created causes distraction and may even keep people from socializing in the conventional manner. I was pleased to see that they have this awareness and some want to help change it for the better. I’m on that page and I’m sticking my neck out there, trying my best to deliver something positive with the tools we have been given. So many wonderful and heartfelt communications have come my way via Twitter, Facebook and A Quiet MInd, it would take many pages to fill all the positive things that have transpired between myself and the community here. Maybe I should communicate more on that in future. It’s a mixed blessing technology but I believe if we work together to use it wisely, it can be one of the tools that can bring mindfulness to the masses and free many from suffering. We all need to wake up and I’m passionate about facilitating that process. I’m hoping that others are as well and remember it starts with us right now in this moment.

Comment on iPad meditation app will be out soon! by Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:13:13 +0000

Hi Robert,
I don’t often leave comments on the web but because I have been an active listener and silent participant of your meditation community, I will make an exception.

I have mixed feeling about these meditation apps. On one hand I thinks the use of technology is great if the principle is to expand the reach of meditation practice. On another hand, technology, phones and other devices are part of the reason why people can’t stop and watch/listen. I am actually struggling to understand how I could meditate staring at an iphone/ipad….

While I respect your decision to use technology, I hope it isn’t driven by a marketing drive to make the news together with the new ipad fad.

Simplicity is key to peace of mind and sometimes technology, when used inappropriately goes against it.

thanks for being there

Tom

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by Paul DesRosiers

Paul DesRosiers — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:41:52 +0000

I was listening to the 3/16/08 podcast Transformation Part 1 when our Host quoted:

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name than can be named
is not the eternal name

The Nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of 10,000 things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.

These two spring from the same Source, but differ in name.
This appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkenss
The gate to all Mystery.

This first Verse of Tao De Ching is corroborated by the Sorcerer don Juan Matus in Carlos Castaneda’s 8th book “the Power of Silence” where he describes inadequately in words “Silent Knowledge” which is a human ability to know without using words or names. Also the “Dark Sea of Awareness”

In Tao verse 2 it says:
Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and verse 3 concludes:
Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

Don Juan teaches us that ” not-Doing” will “Stop the World”.
That doing is a habit of perception. And not-doing is a Sorcerey technique of perceiving without naming. The reality of the Tao is that perception ( sight,hearing,touch, taste and smell) are not simply afferent functions - they are afferent and efferent. When we perceive we assemble consciousness into solid objects. The rational idea that we perceive objects through our senses and interpret them in the brain to form consciouness is only a description of reality.
The Sorcerer’s decription is that consciousness comes to us from infinity as zillions of tiny energetic aware threads, that we assemble by perception into a solid world.

If you are interested, there are some MP3 online to listen to at:
http://www.prismagems.com/castaneda/

I am definitely going to renew my aquaintence with the Tao De Ching. Thanks alot!

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by steve Palmer

steve Palmer — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:48:00 +0000

huh

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by steve Palmer

steve Palmer — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:47:10 +0000

Hi Rob,
two things that spring to mind `
1) through technology the world is a lot more accessible
2)As mentioned its also displayed a wider picture of trauma
as if we cant help being on a path of implosion”.
But even a candle is bright enough to light up even the darkest of rooms……

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Greg Alario

Greg Alario — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:56:15 +0000

Isn’t this the essence of what all the great ones have said and what we all know in our heart if we can open the portal to it. The need for momentum, in individuals, taking responsibility for their own mindset is paramount. The arrogant busy mind, that assumes the ability to control life, always is directed in attempting to fix actions created by the mindset of many. The ignorant futility of attempting to control is, unfortunately, in one way or another, the legend of many lives. Robert, so eloquently and currently, supports what all the beautiful one’s have been saying since before man’s word’s have been documented.

There has never been and there never can never be enough wonderful voices like Robert’s encouraging all that he touches, that they are beautiful and great one’s, that need to live a life benefited by the cultivation of the quiet mind and, if so inclined, share their beliefs with those they connect with through action and/or word. Man’s misunderstanding that they are not worthy has kept too many separated from their ability to listen to themselves and know that all the sacred truth in life is their, if they so choose to seek it.

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by Greg Alario

Greg Alario — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:34:36 +0000

Thank you, Robert. The need and benefit of quiet time seems to be a rare tool in many contemporary lives.

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by ruud

ruud — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:48:27 +0000

just a little message from the netherlands. I embrase the thought of not being always ‘connected’ to the phone or email. I reduced watching tv, not to get disconnected, but to calm my thoughts. And often I stay silened for a few hours. Do your laundry, housekeeping, or daily business at your work in silence. To do that you wil have to shut your phone It is sometimes difficult but rewarding! grtz ruud

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by TeeTee

TeeTee — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:56:47 +0000

I’m so glad you are still podcasting…I was just about to text my friends to tell them all…

thanks for this

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by myspace chips

myspace chips — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:03:16 +0000

i was starting to presume i would possibly be the sole student whom cared about this, at the very least at present i find out im not mad i will make sure to see a handful of different threads when i get a tad of caffeine in me, it is actually tough to read without having my coffee, I was until the wee hours of the morning last night practicing zynga poker and after polishing off a few ales i finished up losing all my facebook poker chips cheers

Comment on Tweet my Facebook status on MySpace by kam75

kam75 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:45:35 +0000

no phone here,just a little Twitter on the PC..thats it.I’m still present =) Living out in the “bush” these networks have opened up a few new friends to me actually..a good thing.I suffer a bit more now cause of the stories of others I read on networks.The world is opened wide by all these and it is a troubled place..but there is hope too…some..
“It is in our nature to destroy ourselves”
Great to hear you and being back on the path…gassho _/\_

Comment on Accept your own death now. by seth

seth — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:40:58 +0000

Thanks, I’m healthy at the moment but for some reason the last two weeks I have thought I had pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer, stomach cancer, Parkinson’s disease………to name a few. It started with the death of my wife’s sister at 32 years of age two weeks ago. I’m going to live without fear and enjoy the time I have left in this world.

To the other people who have posted, it sounds like your fears are more legitimate and I wish you strength to get through this life.

Thanks again.

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Jewel Misumi

Jewel Misumi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:30:17 +0000

I found your post while I was researching details on kitchen appliances. Whilst it’s not what I was interested in, I liked reading your post. Will bookmark to return and read at a later date. Funny how Yahoo works…

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by insanity

insanity — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:39:18 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Padma

Padma — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:25:44 +0000

Robert…
Happy Valentines! Caught the wind in DC…Life has completely changed!
You are blessed and divine…I Totally enjoy the mix of styles. Watching for your break in silence and pray all well for You, T and the dogs!
Keep pluggin and sharin…no one’s judging you that has two ears and one mouth!
Thanks again.

Comment on Mindfulness by Save Taxes

Save Taxes — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:10:30 +0000

Geez, this blog makes me jealous! I want mine this good…keep it up!

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by The Owl

The Owl — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:01:19 +0000

A little while ago Nobantu and I had a wonderful conversation. She inspired some thoughts and gave me some reading to do. I am also playing with a novel and there is a main character in the book called Ralph. A combination of his creation and where the inspiration from the conversation with Nobantu took me lead Ralph to think the following……..

‘Understanding deeply who and what I am is not determined by others around me or the environment has given me a great strength. Seeing the inner core of me and the beauty of life as a flame burning in me takes away all my anxiety and enables me to be. No longer do I have to win external approval by acquiring more or achieving goals I think others want me to strive for. I can now inhabit the island of me as a rich place of retreat with everything I need to be at ease with myself and the world around me. Every moment is filled with a joy of being and I need to travel no further than myself to experience it to the full.
To the normal person these ideas sound crazy or belonging to weird religious or spiritual sects. Since moving away from the merged state with mother the normal person is constantly seeking a return through judgment, approval, chasing a state others can give them or following those who appear to have got there. The break with mother is so devastatingly traumatic that a normal person can spend a lifetime using all the energy they have to put it all back together again. But all the kings horses and all the kings men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.
It is not easy to give up on this task of reconstruction. Our minds say if this, then that so we believe we must do this for that. Challenging that our minds might be wrong or that there are other ways is unnatural. Our minds have thought it so how do we get the same mind to unthink it. Curious people will find a way as they question, think, reflect, challenge and test how things fit together in their lives. Late in life a light may go on and insight rise to the surface. Others will get there through interventions that enter their lives or that they seek in their journey. Interventions from individuals who have taken generations of learning and are able to guide pupils to insight.
Imagine you are confronted with a wall you cannot pass through in front of you. It is made of steel reinforced concrete and extends forever in both directions. You notice a toothpick on the ground and believe this is the only tool you have to break through the wall to find the purpose of your life on the other side. You spend your whole life using the toothpick in all sorts of ingenious ways to get through the wall. Then one day you look behind you or someone makes the suggestion. There is no wall there and with no toothpick work to do life is suddenly filled with the pleasure of experiencing who and where you are. Now those in the know understand there is nothing worth having beyond the wall. Nothing. It was always a mirage you will never reach. It kept you busy with purpose but distracted you from seeing all along that everything you ever wanted was right there within you. Open your eyes and you will see.’

Now I am intrigued to know more about Ralph’s thoughts as they unfold…..but that is for another day. Nobantu….thankyou for the conversation and inspiration.

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:21:49 +0000

Thank you Robert for all you share with us! I have been listening to your podcasts and they have provided me with rememberence of what is real and acceptance for what is now. Please keep the podcasts coming.
Much Love to you.

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by TreV

TreV — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:13:15 +0000

My blog to Robert

Its the time we find to make time, which plays in our lives…Busy they may be, so to stop and take time out is perfect in its self! I so love your website and the info you give it always leaves me with a feeling everything is OK NOW!!
2010………………….the now
…I feel that the down time has come to me in the new year, everything in my life is not rosy…..
Rant time:
I had a very good job Trucking in the uk as a tanker driver, it was a contract but I was law attracting for a full time position, it did hot happen!!
My Farther has cancer and he has been in hospital now for 4 months and seeing my dad dieing has really effected me in a sad way,
My car is on its last legs and with no money ie no job I don’t know where to turn for help?
My soul has had a kicking.
But its life and even tho all the black clouds surround me I still feel great in an inner way!! I know its making me stronger to just be and let go even more when times are hard.
I hope this helps others as we all have our bit falls in life….
Overal my vocation is out of sink and I am so wanting it to change! as the pattern of life seems to repeat over again………funny that;;;;;life is trying to tell me something?
Thanx again robert for just being you
TreV
trevbeats@hotmail.co.uk

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Trevbeats77

Trevbeats77 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:30:46 +0000

2010………………….the now
…I feel that the down time has come to me in the new year, everything in my life is not rosy…..

Rant time:
I had a very good job Trucking in the uk as a tanker driver, it was a contract but I was law attracting for a full time position, it did hot happen!!
My Farther has cancer and he has been in hospital now for 4 months and seeing my dad dieing has really effected me in a sad way,
My car is on its last legs and with no money ie no job I don’t know where to turn for help?
My soul has had a kicking.
But its life and even tho all the black clouds surround me I still feel great in an inner way!! I know its making me stronger to just be and let go even more when times are hard.
I hope this helps others as we all have our bit falls in life….
Overal my vocation is out of sink and I am so wanting it to change! as the pattern of life seems to repeat over again………funny that;;;;;life is trying to tell me something?

Thanx again robert for just being you

TreV
trevbeats@hotmail.co.uk

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by hobo

hobo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:39:45 +0000

Its always a bonus when you listen to something out of the blue which talks about exactly the issue that is current for you. I have become aware of late that there is a field of peace always there - the same way as in the ocean, if you go deep its always still and you can even look up and see the waves crashing away. So when I sit I hold that field of peace in attention and can observe how it is interwoven into even the most dense of painful feelings.Those painful feelings may not dissolve but peace can be found in their midst - I can even be grateful for the pain because without it I would never know the field of peace. And then what is pain anyway? That’s an interesting question. Very associated with the mind made sense of self and the resistance that brings. So Robert thanks for the confirmation. As in Zen… nothing to gain…and isn’t it wonderful that all the struggle is just a way of teaching us that struggling is in vain…there is real hope in that truth because it means I don’t have to succeed at anything …yay!!!! I just have to get out of my own way…not always easy…but then again so easy…woohoo let it ride!!!!

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:21:26 +0000

Hi,
I would really like to see and hear more content… Looking forward to more podcasts.

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by JJ

JJ — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:55:37 +0000

This is a conundrum; but, it’s all about getting off the wheel. I so appreciate AQM - more than I can ever express.

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by jane tighe

jane tighe — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:32 +0000

Despite finding the AQM utterly rewarding, full of inspiration & comfort for over two years now, seeing me through some dreadful times I have never commented previously. - It’s has been supportive to know I am not alone.

When I read the previous comment by ‘Simon Fellows’ I was upset as it seemed so heartless, so cold, as if Simon was in pain himself and certainly not benefiting (in any sense) from ‘wisdom’ from his own spiritual studies. I would just like to extend love to him and let him know he is not alone in the world.

Sadly, whilst some of the facts of his comment are rational; in truth, even evolutionary-biologists suffer from their own darker-emotions at different times in their lives. Robert’s personal-wisdom & steadying hand is most welcome at those times & that’s why he is loved by so many people around the world. I just hope Simon stays with us long enough for Roberts ‘touch’ to lift his sprits, guide his thoughts and thaw his coldness!

Thank you Robert for everything you’ve done for us all! - you are a star!

Jane x x x

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Buy Insanity

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Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Simon Fellows

Simon Fellows — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:55:20 +0000

PEACE CAN BE ASSUREDLY OBTAINED canny be guaranteed but if ones knows eough about evolution and biology and how the brain works its not so difficult to set the conditions so that a quiter mind occurs a greater percentile of the time.
And despite spending a few years in both Buddhist(Thera and Zen) and Benedictine onasteries One doesnt need to know about the perennial wisdom(self ascribed i assume ?!) to have the quieter mind

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by dad

dad — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:23:08 +0000

now is all we will ever have,accept it.love it.be happy!dad.

Comment on Accept your own death now. by Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:44:28 +0000

It seems the last 5 years life has been such a struggle, dealing with breast cancer, being alone, taking care of my adult son. And just when I think that things are going to get better. I am informed that I have a bone marrow problem. I have not received all the information yet, but it appears to be pre-leukemia.

Comment on The true essence of mind by obshestvo conmaporing

obshestvo conmaporing — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:01:02 +0000

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Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by marka

marka — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:04:08 +0000

Robert,

As always your view is amazing… You are incredibly incisive in your dissection of the human condition, but what makes your work so wonderful is the fact it is nurtured, crafted and cultivated in the real-world… and not from the ‘walled-garden’ of monastic-bliss… I just love the fact that you pause for as long as it takes to drill-down to the core rather than skim the surface.

Personally, my view of ‘peace’ is somewhat like that of ‘happiness’ in that neither can EVER be found! – we must simply stop looking for them… like it was a lost pen behind the sofa or like when we are scouring the classifieds in the local-paper for a second-hand car.

As the years have passed I have learnt, that my own ‘happiness’ is the result of (or a response too) a sense of honest-contentment, which is drawn from accepting an imperfect world. As rarely, if ever will ‘my own true happiness’ be present in an unadulterated form (like some illusion of Paradise, Nirvana or Heaven)… because no matter how hard I work for it, or how long I might wait, or how diligently I search, or even how much I’ve tried to save-up, seldom will everything be perfect.

I desperately try to draw reasonable satisfactions from the ‘NOW’… Satisfaction with a job done the best I can… Satisfaction from meaningful relationships… Satisfaction from enjoyable experiences… Satisfaction from having positive attitudes!!! – I have adjusted & learnt to deeply accept ‘our’ imperfect world, and therefore to be content, with things as they are NOW…

For sure any of us can strive for a warmer home… a more dependable car… or rewarding job… even improvements in our own health, but whatever we do, we must never put-off our contentment until those things arrive!!!!

For me, it used to be my ‘delaying’ or ‘waiting’ for a different tomorrow that caused my own ‘unease’… rather than just the absence of something better.

Love & affection

marka

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by kam75

kam75 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:30:15 +0000

states of mind..self…coexist…now…

Comment on Peace can’t be obtained by Eric

Eric — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:22:05 +0000

Thank you Robert for taking the time to share this with us.
Listening to you, I have to think of one of Allen Carr’s self-help book I read about 7-8 years ago on how to stop smoking. According to him, the one that craves for a smoke is not us, but something else within ourselves that he called the “little beast”…
On another note, I think I understand this recent tweet of yours a little bit more… “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”

Take care.

Comment on The true essence of mind by olga

olga — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:22:27 +0000

Thank you, Robert! Love your podcasts!

Comment on The true essence of mind by Robert

Robert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:10:45 +0000

I’ve been thorugh some interesting stuff, that I will be sharing very soon.

Thanks,

Comment on The true essence of mind by Tomek

Tomek — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:21:07 +0000

what happened to the podcast friend?

your podcast is soooo helpful, thank you always

Comment on Going into the pain, heartache and loss. by Denise

Denise — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:40:45 +0000

I have been a listener only for a short time, but these poscasts are a true sanctuary for my hectic life. I know many people who will benefit from the topics. Thank you Robert!