There are three classes of states of mind ( Read more... )

1. You can only make a choice for the present moment. If you think you are making a choice for what you did do or will do, you are simply choosing not to do or have something now ( Read more... )

I still believe that if she were different there would be less suffering in my life and less suffering in her life. But even if she were different, even if she never judged me or swore at me or used passive/aggressive techniques to get even with me, I would still be in a state of mind in which I perceive myself to live in the domain of judgment, ( Read more... )

Here is an experience I've found often in my "clearing the mind" meditations:

I look at an ego thought (and it is my goal to go beyond ego thoughts). I respond to it by thinking: There is an experience beyond this thought, which I can grasp if I do not focus on this thought, but go beyond it.But instead of going beyond the ego thought, I merely ( Read more... )

3: I judge, and believe that my judgment benefits me.

2: I judge, but my reasoning tells me the judgment does not benefit me.

1: I judge, but I can see intuitively that the judgment does not benefit me.

0: I do not judge ( Read more... )

After each gladdening experience, there comes a point of complete forgetfulness. Well, I say "complete", but what I mean is that it has become evident to me that the substance of a memory is a record, a transcript, a sentence representing the experience ( Read more... )

1. The first state of mind is preparing, as in when you're getting ready for work or doing something for a deadline ( Read more... )

Reviewing 4 posts back which questioned the importance of human love if we believe God loves us and His love is all-powerful ( Read more... )

So it seems the only thing keeping me from being willing to remove another's pain is the anticipation of receiving pain from them as a result.

A simple resolution to this stalemate is: Allow the other person to cause me pain.First of all, this makes the anticipation of pain moot and allows me to act rationally in the game. As far as this is ( Read more... )

As a mental experiment, I tried recently to ask myself, whenever I encountered another person, "If I had the ability to remove all pain from their life, as easy as I can snap my fingers, would I do it ( Read more... )