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it's all dhamma.: On Spiritual Friendship
I resonate with you very much. It feels like I have only made any significant headway in meditation practice when I have recognized in my heart that I am there for a larger shared purpose.
On Spiritual Friendship
by Zoketsu Norman Fischer
“Some of the people you know now, who you are practicing with now, are going to be, and are already becoming, your close spiritual friends. These people are the most precious thing in the world to you. These relationships in spiritual practice are unique. They are not the same as other relationships. There is a quality to them that touches the absolute. It touches something beyond our personalities. This is not the case with ordinary human interaction and relationships. In spiritual practice we know that we are doing that together. We know that we are touching one another at that level. People who have that interaction and that relationship with one another move each other so much that your life is never the same.
So that is already there in your lives now. Maybe it takes forty years to realize, “Oh, we have done that together. We’ve had that precious time together.” You don’t realize it until it is over. But it is there now in you, so think of that. Think of who those people are for you and remember how precious they are.
I always tell people that you think you are going to the meditation hall for yourself. No. You are going there because of the other people there meditating. That is why you need to go. Don’t go for yourself. That only goes so far. If you are going for yourself, you won’t last very long, because there are too many other things that you want to do for yourself that will be more compelling. But if you are going there because you know that these other people sitting in the hall with you are the treasures of your life, then you are going there in a way that will really transform your life and will transform your heart forever and ever.”
Yes! Thank you, sharanam.
Discovering an Evolutionary Impulse at the Heart of London
I’ve been flying around the Kosmos again looking for Powerful Ideas that really matter. Do you know what I mean? Ideas that can really make a change. I think ideas like that really start with a shift of mind or put another way a shift in our philosophical outlooks. I have been reading a little about Evolutionary Spirituality for 4 or 5 years now and it is reaaallly cooool!! It is a relatively young philosophy and yet its full of riches. The post above is by no means a deep inquiry into Evolutionary Spirituality but it gives me a powerful sense of how it can make changes in the way ‘we’ as individuals in ‘postmodern’ times can begin to think in new, creative and collective ways.
For more about evolutionary spirituality here is an awesome article to get you started on a journey of profound revelation!
A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality by Tom Huston - In which three centuries of progressive thinkers reveal that evolution has always been a fundamentally spiritual concept.
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Idea Champions
Mitch Ditkoff has just been brought to my awareness yesterday via Twitter and I wanted to share with you his inspiring and truly powerful blog. Check out his many ideas on empowering spirit within organizations. As described on his website/blog ideachampions.com:
“Idea Champions is a consulting and training company dedicated to awakening and nurturing the spirit of innovation. We help individuals, teams and entire organizations tap into their innate ability to create, develop and implement ideas that make a difference.”
Check it out for personal and collective inspiration!
Check out their ideas and read the book by clicking on the Photo! A Very Powerful Piece of Work
Our Goal: A million people investing 1% of their assets in local food systems… within the decade.
Check out all the latest Powerful Media I have retrieved from the Omnicentric Ideosphere’ I love tweeting about this….http://goo.gl/3VCFk
Harmony - A New Way Of Looking At Our World
On my travels through the ideosphere I have encountered many books that are inspirational and visionary. Harmony is one of these books that I just had to let you know about, if you weren’t aware of it already..
The press aren’t overly kind to the HRH Prince of Wales and in austere times I have to say, that part of me that is not to keen on the idea of monarchy comes to the fore. Despite this sentiment felt both culturally and personally, if those in the seats of power use their influence like Charles has done for so long I think we will all be very pleased or at least a little less cynical!
As one reviewer on Amazon states “I believe he is the best product of the British monarchy to emerge in the past two hundred years.”
and another perfectly states: “I wish everyone thought like him, we would have such a better world, not just physically, but in terms of understanding and perception and cooperation with Earth. He really sees the connections that are so important to not only surviving but thriving for our ecology and world, in many aspects, from animals to plants to architecture to spirituality.”
Check it out here it truly is powerful…
The Power of Unreasonable People
I bought this book a while back and it is jam packed with real people taking on the business of effecting change in the world through the power of social entrepreneurship. It is an excellent and inspiring book that easily deserves to be classed as ‘Powerful Media’… if you are even just a little bit interested you must check it out!
Here is a little taster which sets the tone for this book…
‘George Bernard Shaw once said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” By this definition, some of today’s leading entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable - and a fair few have…’
Examples of such entrepreneurs include:
The Aravind Eye Care System in India
The Social Stock Exchange in Brazil
The Marine Stewardship Council in the United Kingdom
One Laptop per child in the United States
And the list goes on and on and on and on!!
To get your copy of this Powerful book click depending on your location either:
Amazon.co.uk - UK:
Or,
Amazon.com - United States:
Blossoming through shared suffering: Examples from Japan
“Mixed in with the disturbing images coming out of Japan is a flower seen by a woman in Tokyo as she walked home from work after the earth shook and the waters poured in. Yuka Saionji saw a little flower and thought, “all of us can now try to run away from radiation, but what of this flower? I bent down to the flower and just felt moved to say, ‘I’m sorry…’ ”
—Jane Brunette.
A remarkable blog post on practice and prayer in a time of great suffering. Thank you, Jane.
From: parabola-magazine.
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