Meditation: no mind 4, familiarizing

An explanation of nondual foreground-background is followed by our meditation. Thank you, Kathy, for telling me I was muted for the first few seconds.

 

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Meditation: no mind 3, foreground-background

Stick with it! The foreground of all that is being experienced is happening on a background, like a painting is on a canvas, like fish swim in a sea or river. Both are present all the time simultaneously. Notice and discover the non-two, the nondual nature of your every moment.

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Meditation: no mind, be patient

We repeat the same technique used for the first time on Tuesday. It takes time to ease into a new meditation technique. Please be patient with yourself. The observer can, all too quickly, become an authoritarian! Rather, soft and open to the freshness of this over experience and the technique.

“Mind; no mind; mind is luminous.”

 

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Meditation: no mind 1

I forgot to undo “full screen” showing the image of Buddha while recapping and setting the stage for this new cycle of meditations on “no mind.” My apologies. (talk about no mind!) The group that was live online could see me, but the webcast only shows the Buddha full screen.

Having said that, the first several minutes of this podcast importantly restate essential points about meditation and set the intention and method that we will initially use for our exploration/vipashyana of “no mind.” Enjoy and may your explorations be illumining!

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Vandana Shiva on Real Food, Real Farming

To all my friends,

Everyone I know is concerned about their personal health, the health of those around them, the planet’s health, and ongoing well-being as well as how to attend to these in ways available to each of us.
All my friends are actively wondering ‘what more can I do” to be part of the solutions needed now in the world and stop being unhappy participants in the many serious issues that confront life on our planet.
Few people synthesize the information necessary to know more ably than Vandana Shiva. You might know of her pioneering work in her home country of India speaking out against the lies of the big agri-business companies as they, years ago, brought GMO seeds and pesticides to India under the deceit of fuller yield and a healthier population. Her work spans decades.
This podcast entitled, Real Food, Real Farming, covers the gamut of what any sane person wants know about fake food and real food. Real food, she explains, is how our bodies communicate with the soil. If the soil is depleted, the body will be unhealthy. If the soil is a healthy, thriving bio-diverse ecosystem, the body and all life forms will thrive.
I hope you will listen to this fully engaging talk.
More on Vandana Shiva
She’s a physicist, scholar and social activist. She is a founder of Navdanya and Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi. She is the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize. She is the author of many books including Water WarsEarth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, and Oneness vs the 1%. Her latest book is Terra Viva.
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