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I am seriously considering teaching meditation to my teenage students, with parent permission, of course. Has anyone successfully taught teenagers how to meditate, if so, how?
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Wow, all of the above is very profound and spelled out from each one's own experience! From my experience, I look at "enlightenment" as being in the NOW! If you are in the NOW, you are enlightened! Does that make sense? The problem I have is stay…
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Carl I am in total agreement with "I have ‘understood’ the issue all along, yet I find that I only truly understand the issue in proportion to my depth of interest. In an odd way, understanding is a living thing, and depth of interest is its lif…
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Wow! To know contentment in today's world is no easy task. I think one must experience when enough is enough! I guess some of us never reach that point in our lives, that is a very sad situation.
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We have to blame somebody.
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I do not think we have free will. I think we have a sort of pseudo-free will. We are influenced by our environment, by our culture, by our friends, cause & effects, education etc. Can we really be absolutely free from any external or internal…
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I guess I am lookimg at it as saying all we have is suffering. There is no mention of joy in our lives.
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"The Second Noble Truth is the cause of suffering. The cause of suffering is lust. The surrounding world affects sensation and begets a craving thirst that clamors for immediate satisfaction. The illusion of self originates and manifests itself in a…
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Hi Joe, Perhaps the following may be helpful. This is what I try to do when working with teenagers on a one to one basis: 1. Treating them as an equal is very important, 2. Show respect, patience and above all believe in them, and 3. Do not ju…
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When I was reading " My dad doesn't care to know me. I find this unnatural and strange. ", it struck a cord for me. The first thing I thought that it must have really hurt when you made the effort to meet him and try to start a realationship. I th…
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I have read everyone's comments and this is what came to mind a quote from the Gospel of Thomas: "His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?" "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!'…
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I stand under your comments Carl! Thank you for your input.
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This reminds me of something that might be effective (ha ha). When you leave the gate open the cow does not want to leave the pasture (ha ha) Hence, leave the gate open. In all serious try to get kids to like math and science. I am volunteer …
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I love it! We are doomed! Words are our main way of communicating, words are concepts, hence we are always in an illusion! I like your reinforcing loop better, illusion leads to illusion PS: I have one big problem, how do I get teenagers ready …
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The bottom line is "just be"!
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I am in total agreement with you Joe! Be in the NOW! We have to keep practicing it, till it becomes a habit, a reflex memory worth having.
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Joe you brought up two very interesting and challenging points. "Mainly from the basic point of each of us having our thoughts about whatever experience happens in life. We all have myriad thoughts about life, but the thoughts are not life. Where i…
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Lynn you said "I would change one thing: add the word "practice" to "accept change". I am in total agreement with you. Boy I need to keep practicing , but isn't that the fun of life. Lynn in my opinion you where right on with the dots or point…
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Carl if I am understanding what you are saying, what drive us is the need for pleasure, comfort and security, and we fear pain and loss. If I am making any sense I would propose the following for consideration: 1. Accept change, nothing stays c…
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Lynn I love your analogy of the straight line and the dots. " Mr. Sweeney said that a straight line is just a series of individual dots." If you take any two dots next to each other, there is still an infinite number of dots between them, wow! Wh…
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Wow, this is getting more interesting as we dicuss it. Perhaps this web site will be somewhat helpful See http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/What is Time.htm Cheers, Allandnone
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Sorry about the confusion about time. I think time is a concept that we use to try to understand reality, such as. past, present and future. The older I get the more I think time does not exist. If you really try to define "time" good luck. If I…
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Sorry it took so long to get back. I have to admit, I just randomly picked 10,000 years ago. It was a broad brush approach. The scary part is that today, I do not think our brain has evolved to the point were we can really intelligently and pract…
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"....perhaps words are life-rafts of consciousness, and we're terrified to let go." This is an interesting point, if we go back about 10,000 years ago we did not have so many fancy words to represent reality, we were just in the NOW, and it surely …
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"...just reminds me of this problem we all have with words and the thoughts that ensue." This brings up a very important point about "words". Words are like a sharp knife seperating the flesh from the bone, the flesh and bone being reality. "Word…
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"The irony is that as long as we hang onto our (belief) in good and evil, we can never return to our destiny... the 'Eden' of our original nature. " This reminds me of what the psychologist Dr. C. G. Jung said "If a union is to take place between …
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"It only blossoms through personal experience - not through analytical and intellectual nit picking. Thus, the Tao Te Ching does not teach us anything... in reading it, we simply see our own minds." Wow, I can really relate to this! Most of my e…
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"Short term pain, long term pleasure -- versus -- short term pleasure, long term pain." I can relate to this one. Excellent suggestion Carl. Thank you.
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"Thus, waiting is perhaps the greatest virtue of all; only through patience am I able to follow the way and the way only. " I look at happiness as patience and love. I need to work at patience.
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Hi Carl, it is nice to back on your web-site. Free will, wow! Philosphers today are still arguing about free-will. I am thinking about the young man that just killed over 30 people and wounded many others. Did he have Free Will? He shoot ma…