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14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 12 replies · +1 points

PN Tribe. This is my farewell post, and rather than simply disappear I wanted to say THANK YOU as well as goodbye. I'll continue enjoying all 100 of the books, but I'm letting go of comments and replies on the Intense Debate message board. I wish you all well on life's journey.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Jeepers, Tom. If you mean my posts, the furthest thought from my mind is ever offering "HELP" to anyone. The intent is to share a thought, as in "sharing a breath." Yesterday I did pick up that I had put my foot in my mouth in regard to something in my first reply. I never meant for it to hurt you. I apologize for having given the impression of trying to help. I grovel with humiliation at your having perceived it this way. Oh yes, another perspective.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Stephanie, thanks! I did not know about this, though I've long been a fan of David Lynch and his little book of big ideas, "Catching the Big Fish." I'm going to recommend this site to a friend of mine whose child, I think, would love becoming involved.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 3 replies · +1 points

Angela, for years even the in-crowd has been saying "my body is a temple." In truth, though, as we are seeing more and more clearly from the 50-Day Challenge, our very lives are temples. Our every act has spiritual significance.

This makes me think of an Emily Dickinson poem

Some keep the Sabbath going to the Church —
I keep it, staying at Home —
With a Bobolink for a Chorister —
And an Orchard, for a Dome —

Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice —
I just wear my Wings —
And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church,
Our little Sexton — sings.

God preaches, a noted Clergyman —
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last —
I'm going, all along.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Katin, your point #1, very nicely put, especially this : "As an instant reframe, though,'as if the whole world were a monastery' is a really nice sampling point."

I've noticed that others with a western orientation, especially Caroline Myss, are saying the same things about the whole world becoming the convent and the monastery. No longer a separation. (And the all life is infintely better for it.)

Also, I think this 50-Day experience is proving to be a magnificant cauldron (or even crucible) teaching us to use everything in life, everything that happens every day, as opportunities for practice.

These days I'm viewing everything from a re-frame!

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 4 replies · +1 points

Sounds good to me. Write that letter to yourself and actually mail it.** Once, in a workshop, we wrote letters to ourselves about what we wanted to create. The leader collected them, held them for six months, then mailed them to us. What an amazing shock!

A letter from one of the many voices inside Maxine, to the Maxine who's in charge of her life, could be not only a support, but a real delight.

On another note: I don't let what others say or expect about Valentine's Day -- expectations from the crowd -- influence what I myself am actually feeling any year when Valentine's Day rolls around. Commercial pressure is there, too, trying to make people feel "left out" if they don't go to expensive restaurant with a partner, if they don't send expensive roses, etc, etc.

How do YOU really feel right now, this year?

**I have multiple email addresses. Sometimes I send myself an email to my primary inbox from one of my other addresses. Surprise!

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Stephanie, you make strong, good observations here. Yes, let go of being "right" and the whole world will change. You're getting there.

On meditating when the child asks questions: maybe -- speaking here without real experience -- you could teach her that she is like the mind (the small mind) when you are meditating. As you know, while meditating, thoughts come up, but we do not deal with them. We thank them and let them go. (Or, with Wayne Dyer, just say NEXT).

In a separate lesson apart from mediation, maybe you could find a story way of teaching her that not all questions are heard during meditation. If she forgets and speaks them, you will gently let them go. Ask her to remember her own questions (make a note) and remind you after mediation.

It may take several applications. Just wondering. What if you tried something like this? Or something better?

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Hear! Hear! Stephanie, you did not even need to put quotation marks around that. As I read I can truly believe this is you, your special and unique self.

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Stephanie, you show us all tremendous hope for the world. When 7-year-olds are meditating, the joyful world we envision cannot be so far away!

14 years ago @ FinerMinds - Big Mind-Big Heart By ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Maxine, I hear you on listening graciously to other's opinions and then having the illusion that you have no opinion of our own. It isn't true, you know, but I've had that happen to me, too. Some people can be so quick and loud with their opinions, that they seem to blast our own thoughts out of the atmosphere.

Let the hot air die down before deciding you don't have an opinion. When the dust settles you'll know what you, your unique self, truly thinks. (And we know we never have to worry about what those others think of our opinions, because, with Carnegie, they care more for their own slight headaches than for our deaths.)

I'm hoping that here in the 50-Day Tribe you are gaining great confidence in your opinions!

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