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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Thing

There are many problems in life, kind of like endless itches and glitches that need scratched and resolved. If we're poor, we have to struggle to support ourselves because there is . . . never enough money. If we're rich, then we have the typical problems of rich people - trying not only to tenaciously hold onto our wealth, but increase it as much as possible because there is . . . never enough money. If we are married, we have married people's problems - control and disagreements. If we are single, we have single people's problems - loneliness and insecurity.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

What Is Our Soul?

Ask anyone about the soul and more often than not, you will get a blank stare, or the soul might be explained as a spirit, a part of God, our basic being, or our true essence. But there has never been a good, logical explanation. So here goes! Although according to Buddhism the soul does not ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Christianity Declining in Texas

USA TODAY reports that "Despite population growth and immigration adding nearly 50 million more adults, almost all denominations have lost ground since the first ARIS data was released in 1990. The 2008 results, released today, April 25th, are based on 54,000 interviews with a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5%." On their interactive map, data that was collected over 18 years from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) is available state by state.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Give Up Religion And Get Peaceful?

I have a strange feeling that many times our religions produce the opposite effects than what we assume they should. For example, Buddhism stresses three things; discipline, compassion, and wisdom; and Christian communities stress renunciation of violence, forgiveness, and unconditional love. ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) — Chapter 3: Broken Wings (Part 5)

"What do you mean, ‘mistaken identity?' Was Maradin lying about who she was?" "In an indirect way, yes, she was lying without knowing it. You see; it was not Maradin that you were in love with; the real object of your affection was something deep inside of her cleverly disguised as Maradin. ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

A Day in the Life of a Buddhist Forest Monk (Afte oon)

It's four p.m. I have been napping and doing walking meditation since the morning meal. My hut is deep in the forest, situated on the upper end of a massive, flat rock, with large, flat rocks on both sides and deep ravines separating them (havens for cobras). Surrounding everything is dense ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Spiraling Toward Oblivion

Have you noticed, as you get older, that the months have turned into weeks, and the years into months? Time passes relentlessly, and as we look back on all the things that we have done, where is the significance? I was watching the white tailed deer that frequent our meditation center here in Texas, the bucks, does and fawns come and eat the corn that we put out for them during the dry spells in the heat of summer when there is no grass to eat.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Sociopathic Relationships

Although you may never know it, people you look up to, love, and respect could easily be sociopaths. They give themselves away by exhibiting strange combinations of controlling behaviors, such as being charismatic, calculating, extremely confident, while warmly embracing those who fall under ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) — Chapter 2: Ariya (Part 4)

A few weeks passed by with no further sign of Ariya, as I continued this strange quest for a mystical key. I didn't know where I was going, or perhaps I did. At any rate, one morning while I was wading through a flooded area after a heavy thunderstorm, I found myself sinking. The more I ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Looking in All the Wrong Places

Just about everything we actively do is on the conscious level. While this is happening on the surface, our body and all its organs are subconsciously being given instructions and messages so that they can function. Not only the body, but the mind is working subconsciously as well, as it filters ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Why People Lie to Us

Lying is a kind of "get out of jail free" card. We can do bad things, lie about them, and we're off the hook. Or it seems that we are. But really, we're just setting the hook deeper as we begin to believe that we can get away with almost anything, and our conduct becomes increasingly ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

How To Find Yourself (How To Look Within)

Understanding oneself, one's drives, one's emotions, the way in which one's mind works, is the minimum requirement for successful relationships. Without this understanding of oneself, without taking the time to learn about oneself, relationships can be merely a tug of war between two independent ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Heart of the Anger Problem

Life can be a beautiful thing, but if we don’t understand life, we might end up fighting it. More often than not, it’s you and I against the world. Making a living, holding on to our relationships, to our wealth, our political and spiritual beliefs, these can become monumental struggles. Worry ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

An Article About Nothing

This article is about nothing. Therefore, after you read it, you won't know anything more than you did before reading it; it will be a total waste of your time because I have nothing to say. I mean, what can be said about mountains so high that the snow never leaves their peaks, and as we gaze ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) — Chapter 2: Ariya (Part 3)

My admiration for Ariya was growing; this diminutive being that took me under her wing. And as I listened to her strange voice that appeared in my mind, her words became even stranger. She said that some believe that when life ends, there is nothing, just an unconscious, ete al sleep. Others ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) - Chapter 7: A Step Above Oblivion (Part 4)

This I didn't want to hear. But knowing that it was best to follow a John's advice, I made my way to the cliff and carefully peered over the edge staying as far back as I could. There, one hundred feet below were teeth-like jagged rocks that would impale anyone unfortunate enough to fall from ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Five Roadblocks to Meditation, and How They Apply to Westerners

The first hindrance to meditation is desire for sense stimulation. This can range from obsessive sexual lust, to compulsive socializing, to addictive intellectual pursuits. In the West, we tend toward the addictive intellectual pursuits because we have usually disciplined ourselves regarding ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

How to Stop Worrying in Ten Minutes!

1 st Minute: Define exactly what it is that is worrying you. Write it down. Worry is simmering fear. In the old days, we would just run like hell when we were scared, but nowadays, we bubble away in our little pots of worry. So, the first thing to do is face what it is that worries us, and ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Constant Flow of Change

"All is impermanent." What a depressing thought, but only to an untrained, worldly mind. Impermanence is never lost, just a flow of change; a flow of change that is an ultimate truth and therefore an ultimate security. What is it that we instead depend upon for our security? When I was a young man I depended upon my strong body and mind to excel in sports, earn an athletic scholarship, attend college, and then go on to establish a career and raise a family. The family is now grown, middle aged themselves, and the body is becoming creaky. The mind is not as sharp as it once was.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Global Swarming

Global swarming is a phenomenon far more impending than greenhouse gasses; global swarming involves the very fabric of our lives. Therefore, how we handle global swarming will determine the quality of our future here on earth. In the past, we have ignored global swarming as if it doesn't exist, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

2012 A.D. - The End?

I was talking to some friends the other day who just returned to Florida. They have a home down here as well as one in Philadelphia, and when I asked why they came back so early, they said that they just had to get away from their relatives! They went on to tell me about their daughters tragic ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) Chapter 13 — When The Dust Blows Away? (Part 2)

The routine in the community was delightful, and I immediately felt comfortable with these men and their shaved heads. Conqueror roamed freely among the key seekers who took an immediate liking to the crippled, old horse, spoiling him with rice and honey cakes they saved from their meals, which ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Freedom Is What We Already Are

When we strive to be free, when we try to release ourselves from the burdens that we have laid upon ourselves, we miss the point: we are already free. We simply forget that we are free. We forget by becoming bogged down in our difficulties, by pitting ourselves against others, and fighting for ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Most Discouraging Things In The World

A glass half-empty is discouraging, but not as discouraging as how misled people can be when a glass half-full is perceived as brimming over the top. War is discouraging, too, especially wars that seem to go on forever. It's as if the countries involved grow to believe that everything is ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Can We Save Our Democracy?

We are a democratic people who believe in democracy, which means equality, due process, freedom, privacy, consent and dissent, toleration, and the common good. We believe in it so adamantly that we advocate it for the world. This is because in the past, democracy has worked well for our country. But within the last decade, problems have arisen that threaten our democracy's very existence. One of the main tenants of a democracy is bringing people of common thought and goals together. It requires a country with like-minded people and defined borders, both of which have deteriorated.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Buddhism - Too Real For Americans?

Similar to Christianity, Buddhism has many branches. The original doctrine that the Buddha taught his monks is called the Theravada or the Teaching of the Elders, but this very deep teaching may be too strange and frightening for everyday Americans. This unpopularity is not unusual when we consider the deeper teachings of many religions, such as Kabbalah in Judaism and Orison in Christianity. People usually talk a good story about God, but don't want to really go there, opting instead for earthly glories such as sex, money, power, security and entertainment. Familiar things.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Scientists Create Life, not God!

Dateline May 21, 2010. Scientists Create First 'Synthetic' Cells - Researchers Imbue Cell With Engineered DNA.rn - by MICHAEL SMITH MedPage Today Staff Writer. "In a development that seems likely to stir a firestorm of controversy, researchers said Thursday that they have used genes made in the lab to create a synthetic species of bacteria. . . . The new species, Venter said, started with researchers digitizing the genetic code for the new species on computers, then assembling the nucleotides using "four bottles of chemicals" into sections of DNA.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Who Wants To Be A Coward?

No one wants to be a coward, so if we know what it takes to be a coward, perhaps we can avoid becoming one! When we read books or articles on how we can improve, or self-help books that tell us how we can help ourselves, we are in a twilight zone of assumptions and speculation. To get real, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Living Life Unconsciously

Do you feel at times that you are just going through the motions, living life unconsciously? Did you know that this feeling is actually close to spirituality, more so than being entirely and endlessly enthralled with life? Now, there is a difference between living life unconsciously and loving life. Living life unconsciously can be a result of just boredom, or dumbing out from a lack of creativity and energy, where actually loving life can be a result of some good karma that won't quit!

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

A Tear Drops

She finds herself at a McDonald's late one night, sipping black coffee from a plastic cup. The place is empty, except for a small night crew, half asleep. She finishes her coffee and looks around, and realizes that no longer is there anywhere to go. She waves to a worker cleaning the floor, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Eat When You Are Hungry, Sleep When You Are Tired

This old Zen saying describes the way in which a trainee practices Zen; no striving, no ambition (to become enlightened), no goals . . . only sitting quietly. As a matter of fact, Zen considers goal making a disease of the mind! Quite a contrast from modern life where without goals we would be ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Resolving Conflict

What we extend outward toward others, we internalize. Whether the emotions we extend are negative, such as hatred, animosity, and anger; or positive, such as love, forgiveness, and peace, these feelings seep inside of us and affect us deeply. You can feel the physical difference between, on one ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Martial Arts Training - Balancing Mind and Body

A very special kind of training is critical in martial arts because martial arts is about life and death. In one split second, your life will be either spared or taken, and that outcome depends entirely upon your preparation. The adversary you face will be stronger, faster, better trained, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

A Glimpse of Ete ity

Sometimes we can catch a fleeting glimpse of ete ity in a wood, where the pungent odor of wet pine and a timeless stillness calms our troubled minds, for just a while. Or in a wondrous sunset, where we lose the burden of ourselves, for a precious moment. Or when something happens so suddenly ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Defining Good And Evil

There are good people everywhere, but how do we define good? Pope Sixtus IV loved Tomas de Torquemada (arguably the most evil man that has ever lived)! Good and evil seem entwined with society’s expectations. Behavior can be considered good by some, bad by others, and volumes are written on this ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Running While Standing Still

What is it that we run from? What is it that takes up almost all of our waking moments? It must be very important, otherwise we wouldn't devote an entire lifetime trying to escape it. The interesting, and at the same time depressing, thing is that all the running in the world won't distance ourselves from this incorrigible anomaly that permeates our lives like water seeps into a sponge.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Somethin's Gotta Give

Working at a third world job and trying to survive in the wealthiest economy in the world just isn't working out. A friend of mine works part-time in a book store, spending the rest of her time living with and helping ill parents who are barely making ends meet because of all the confusion and ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Hope Of Humankind

If a star is originally only gasses that are compressed into a burning sun, then someday that star will become only gas again. If the universe was at one time pure energy, then all the stars and planets will become pure energy again; dust to dust so to speak. And this constant change, I ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) Goodbye, My Son — Chapter 11: (Part 4)

Miraculously, I was still alive when I woke up, having slept well. I lit my lamp to see what the monster was up to, and could see the beast slowly licking some tiger bones. It was carefully watching me out of the corner of its eye, and it was perplexed. Last night brought up things that were ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Profiles In Truth

What is truth? We are told what we should believe by advertisers depicting beautiful bodies, and we are told to believe it is truth. We are told what truth is by our modern Gods, and we believe it, and repeat it like parrots. But is this truth? Are our bodies beautiful? Or should we look more ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

How Do You Escape?

If we don't like our job, our house, or if we are generally unhappy about our position in life, we naturally try to change our circumstances. When we are uncomfortable with any situation, we instinctively attempt to escape from it. We might feel angry inside, or frustrated thinking that ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Key (A Fairytale) — Chapter 3: Broken Wings (Part 1)

Several weeks after the meeting with Ariya, we were making our way across a meadow when we unexpectedly ran across the most charming yellow cottage one could imagine. Nestled in the wood line behind a gorgeous flower garden with carefully tended vegetable patches on both sides, the cottage ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

You’re Not Alone

People who are truly spiritual tend toward quietness. Not too many saints and prophets of old were the life of the party with a lampshade on their inebriated heads! You might instead find them out in nature somewhere, on a mountain trail, at the ocean, or in a forest, quietly reflecting on the deeper meanings of life. Or unselfishly caring for sick kids in India. They sacrifice everything they are or could be for that loftiest of goals - direct communication and merging with the absolute.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Meditation Practice – Managing the Insights and Energy

A common mistake made by new and intermediate meditators is the frittering away of the insights and energy that result naturally from meditation practice. Unless a meditator knows how to manage this energy and insight, he or she will fall into the trap of a premature re-embracing of the world. ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Edible Bible

Years ago, I thought of manufacturing and selling edible Bibles. The book would be condensed, including only the most frequently quoted scriptures with pages made of a thin, wafer material similar to Catholic Holy Communion hosts. The idea was to cut out your favorite scripture and then eat it, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Get a Grip On Yourself!

Okay, don't get a grip if you don't want to! You can wait until your life partner leaves you, your career goes down in flames, or your health goes south. But then it might be too late to get a grip; and you might end up going completely bonkers! Things untoward happen to everyone, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Going Around In Circles

Janet and I were taking our three-mile walk around the neighborhood this morning when we met another couple walking in the opposite direction. The woman smiled and said in passing, "Ever feel that youre going around in circles?" I looked back over my shoulder and quipped, "That's life!" Then I ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

How to Change the World - You and I

We are the world. You and I. How we treat each other; with respect or hatred, how we work things out together and compromise, this will determine the future of humankind. Can you see this? We are the world. Humankind so far hasn't been doing too well. *"huge numbers of Eastern Orthodox ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Christian Meditation — Phase Two

Contemporary Christians are discovering the deeper aspects of meditation. Previously, many Christians who have experimented with meditation misunderstood the real benefits of meditation by mistakenly believing that meditation is simply a relaxation technique, or a way to think about and worship ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Life - The Secret to Success

Can life be pigeonholed into a viable model for success? Can a methodology or system be relied upon to give us the results or achievements that we desire? Can a formula for winning ever work with such an unpredictable thing such as life? If we read all self help, psychological, philosophical and religious books on life, we’ll get dizzy. Do this, do that, don’t do this, don’t do that, be careful with this, embrace that - it’s all ultimately a waste of time and energy because we eventually find ourselves again faced with the enclosed system called our personal life.

Primary topic: Meditation

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