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 Topics - Personal Development
 On Love posted by Jiddu Krihsnamurti via sadh, 2012-04-06 14:07:58
The demand to be safe in relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. This seeking for security is inviting insecurity. Have you ever found security in any of your relationships? Have you? Most of us want the security of loving and being loved, but is there love when each one of us is seeking his own security, his own particular path? We are not loved because we don't know how to love. (full story)
personal development / international
  Universal Flux (Kenesis) and the Serpent Power posted by sadh, 2012-04-02 10:56:05
A very quick and sure method of testing the 'credentials' of your yoga teacher is to question him/her on the 'coiled' aspect and 'dormancy' of the kundalini force -- it is described as both coiled and dormant in classical Sanskrit texts. 99.99% of yoga teachers in the world take the classical line, proving they are frauds at worst or misguided (unqualified) at best! (full story)
personal development / international
The Physiology of Mystic Rapture posted by sadh, 2012-02-26 10:06:11
We need to be very clear on a principal issue before proceeding and that is, there is no God outside human experience, in other words ALL knowledge of God or Divine Ecstasy falls within HUMAN experience. We are now ready to explore the human experience of direct communication with 'God' otherwise known as mystic rapture. (full story)
personal development / international
 Mantra posted by sadh, 2011-12-10 09:05:32
the science of sound (full story)
personal development / international
 Essence of Yoga posted by sadh, 2011-10-30 11:24:22
In a world of media induced frenetic mental agitation, which serves to confuse, paralyse and distract the population, nefarious MINORITY interests work tirelessly in the background to realise their ambitions. Today, it has become acceptable – in the absence of appropriate responses -- for (some) nations to OPENLY invade, MURDER/assassinate, TORTURE, plunder and enslave with impunity while those same nations demand that others obey the law and are held accountable for their crimes! The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) currently underway in Australia presents us with a good example of the inverted logic and prevailing lunacy that plagues the western world today. (full story)
personal development / international
 Your Brain on Meditation posted by Andrew Rader via stylus, 2011-10-15 10:28:33
"There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the Earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable. You can see this even in insects and animals and birds. All of us are the same. A much more interesting, kind, adventurous and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet. To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is." - Pema Chodron (full story)
personal development / international
Some Cold Hard Truths about Corporatists posted by may, 2011-03-26 09:23:24
Western 'democracies' today are all but totally under the control of Big Business and Corporatists. So it would be helpful to highlight what we already know about Big Business, Transnationals and the Corporatists that run them. (full story)
personal development / international
The Body-Mind Dichotomy or a single Psychosomatic Entity posted by sadh, 2011-02-12 20:17:32
As sentient human beings we should all be able to appreciate ourselves as physical/mental beings – this is the basis upon which I will endeavour to express a view via discourse. (full story)
personal development / international
Lag Alert! posted by staff report via yarra, 2009-03-05 21:59:06
[We trust this matter will be handled with due diligence by our comrades on the inside.] (full story)
personal development / national
Having a 'Voice' Makes People Happy posted by Frances Moore Lappé via finch, 2009-01-31 22:28:08
"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.” So wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1895.
I’m guessing that many of you would feel uncomfortable embracing this definition of happiness, especially coming from one of history’s most famous curmudgeons. If so, maybe in part it’s because too often we’ve nodded in agreement with Lord Acton’s catchy caveat, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And who would want to risk corruption? (full story)
personal development / international
 The Crisis of Common Sense: Is It So Difficult To Understand The Financial Crisis? posted by Matthias Chang via rialator, 2009-01-01 19:21:44
[We all have a thinking, highly evolved BRAIN that loves nothing more than to do its job -- given half a chance it will serve YOU very well indeed.]
Thinking & Common Sense
God gave us a brain to think, to think naturally and in simple terms, not in convoluted ways.
When we think naturally and use common sense to address problems we are able to arrive at simple and effective solutions. However, our education system tortures us mentally and forces us to think in convoluted, unnecessarily complicated ways. Our teachers, economists, politicians and other so-called 'experts' make mountains out of mole-hills, turning simple truths into complex arguments and theories. (full story)
personal development / international
 Freedom from the Known posted by Jiddu Krishnamurti via sadh, 2008-10-20 10:03:18
FEAR, PLEASURE, SORROW, thought and violence are all interrelated. Most of us take pleasure in violence, in disliking somebody, hating a particular race or group of people, having antagonistic feelings towards others. But in a state of mind in which all violence has come to an end there is a joy which is very different from the pleasure of violence with its conflicts, hatreds and fears. (full story)
personal development / international
 Demystifying Yoga posted by cleaves, 2008-06-07 02:27:47
After forty years study and practise of Yoga and other related disciplines I can confidently say I know less today than I did when I ‘started,’ which, nevertheless, is considerably more than most ochre-robed yoga ‘experts’ who advertise in various new-age publications. (full story)
personal development / international
 In Memory of Albert Hofmann and his discovery – LSD-25 posted by quin, 2008-05-05 10:48:18
Albert Hofmann died last week aged 102; his longevity may be attributed to the ‘acid’ he first synthesised in ’43 -- then again it may not, but it doesn't really matter! Reams could be written on the effects of LSD but in memory and homage to a great man and pioneer we leave the description to him. Following is an excerpt from his book, “LSD - My Problem Child:” (full story)
personal development / international
Violence posted by quin, 2008-02-02 12:11:02
Violence has always been a problematic issue for humankind. The world is characterised by violence from storms/weather to the behaviour of microbes and large carnivores. However, the wanton violence of mankind is in a category all by itself. It is little wonder violence poses a major dilemma for all human societies. (full story)
personal development / international
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