Peace @ MindSay 
The personification of God's passion for comeliness . . .
A creature made from love . . .
born to love . . .
and be loved .
My tastes are eclectic . . . I am, or am not, easily owned . . . I'm inclined to give of myself freely and completely, depending on the company I'm in, the direction I'm going and my needs at the moment . . .
my friend says, "that was then, this is now." . . .
I say what it took yesterday will not necessarily be what it takes today!
"Trust is fluid" . . . loyalty is not.
Creative sensitivity, spiritual evolution and depth of awareness have an exacting price . . . the higher the proclivity toward some level of genius, the greater the tendency toward a sense of a l o n e n e s s . . . my desire to be only with me .
Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out . . . to bring you where I am requires me coming to where you are and that becomes exhausting.
So little of this world's offering is able to fulfill my insatiable appetite for truth and purity . . . when I look to the world for what I already know cannot satisfy, I'm often left depleted and off course . . . only someone of like kind could begin to understand . . . someone like the man I just hurt with my goodbye .
My days are consumed with thoughts of him . . .
missing him has become my solitary preoccupation . . .
you can't see me but I'm smiling . . .
because
from inside I hear my self softly say, " it's only temporary . . . "
(remember, "trust is fluid". . . trust in flesh is fluid as well ) . . .
and when it doesn't serve me anymore . . . when there is nothing left to expiate . . .
I'll let it go and return to a higher state of being . . .
lovespirit
OCTOBER 2-3, 7:30-9:30 PM - Meet renowned spiritual teacher and author Lama Christie McNally as she returns to Los Angeles to introduce her newest book, The Tibetan Book of Meditation, and shares two days of rare and beautiful teachings on how these profound practices can transform the mind and open the heart.
ABOUT LAMA CHRISTIE MCNALLY - Lama Christie is a professor of spiritual studies and a translator of Tibetan and Sanskrit classical monastic texts. She co-authored The Essential Yoga Sutra, How Yoga Works and The Eastern Path to Heaven. She is an accomplished practitioner who has spent six years of her life in silent deep meditation and is one of the first American women to be recognized as a lama. Lama Christie trained in India and Nepal and has received extensive instruction in all the texts required for a Geshe degree (traditionally a 20-year course of study). She is co-founder of Diamond Mountain University, a revolutionary effort to provide a classical monastic education to Westerners from all walks of life, free of charge. In 2003, she completed a traditional three-year silent meditation retreat with her spiritual partner, Geshe Michael Roach.
DATE/TIME: October 2-3, 2009, 7:30-9:30 PM
LOCATION: Mahasukha Center, ACI-LA (Asian Classics Institute of L.A.)
ADDRESS: 6512 Arizona Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045
The Tibetan Book of Meditation is a synthesis of all the great Tibetan commentaries on meditation. It is a comprehensive guide to transforming one’s meditation practice from ordinary to extraordinary. The book begins with wisdom from a profound ancient teacher, Master Kamalashila, and continues with teachings carried through by a long lineage of Tibetan masters, right up to the great modern day Lamas. Lama Christie combines her own insights and experience together with ancient wisdom, to teach today’s practitioners how to transform their meditations into a practice that can bring them ultimate happiness.
ABOUT THE MAHASUKHA CENTER
Mahasukha (Sanskrit for “great bliss") is the home of the Asian Classics Institute of Los Angeles (ACI-LA). The Center provides a wide range of courses, including guided meditations, Buddha dharma, teachings on spiritual partners, workshops by nationally known yoga teachers and informal talks on a variety of subjects. The Center is a place for people to connect through study, practice and events such as Dharma Flicks evenings, debate nights, dinners and more. All classes and events are open to the public and offered on a donation basis. All are welcomeSee aci-la.org for events and pod-casts
TO LEARN MORE about the Asian Classics Institute of Los Angeles, Lama Christie McNally, The Tibetan Book of Meditation and Diamond Mountain University, and for information about events or downloadable podcasts, please visit the following links:
aci-la.org
aci-la.org/mg -podcasts.html
DiamondMountain.org
TibetanBookofMeditation.org
I must be crazy. I lost my job two weeks ago, and yet I am the picture of calm and happiness. I'm finding the stress that I faced at work is gone, and it was more horrendous than I ever realized.
Picture this - I was on Cymbalta for anxiety. As soon as I lost my job, I stopped the med cold turkey. Granted, that wasn't the wisest thing I could do, but I no longer had health insurance to continue them or visit my doctor to slowly wean myself off.
It was a rough ten days. Someone referred to the withdrawal symptoms as "brain zaps", which I think fit perfectly. Kind of like my neuro-connectors weren't connected, and were reaching out to find the right one to connect to. Weird feeling. But, now that the zaps are gone, and meds are out of my system, I am so relaxed, happy, content, busy - all of the good things I haven't been for the past year.
Sure - I'm worried about money and finding a job. But I find small victories where I can (thank you, Stephen). The freebies or next-to-freebies I've picked up off of craigslist. The volunteering I do at the animal shelter. The impromptu dinners at a friend's house. Watching my cats play and enjoying their company.
I'd like to ride this attitude for a while. Find things that simply make me happy. Hopefully I will lose some weight and take better care of myself. And even better - find a job that satisfies me. One where I can do some good or make a difference to someone or something - human, animal, Earth.
Want to hire someone who wants to help save the world?
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