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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Dont Fall For These Three Fallacious Debating Tactics

These are three of the most common underhanded tactics used in debates.They come into play as an attempted deflection from the main argument that your opponent is usually losing and can no longer argue intelligently. If you watch out for them and keep bringing your opponent back to the original premise of the debate, your opponent will have no choice but to discuss the actual facts of the argument instead of trying to wiggle out of them. 1. Red Herring (Changing the subject) Example: "I should not be prosecuted for stealing songs off the internet.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

2 Steps to a Lazy Man’s Diet

Who has time to count calories, shop for exotic, low calorie, super foods, or sign up for all the latest fad diets? I know that I certainly don’t. I remember times in my life when dieting was not a problem. Playing football and burning up five or six thousand calories a day made weight control easy. As a matter of fact, I had to conscientiously try to gain weight! (Tons of milkshakes and ice cream). As Buddhist monk in Thailand, my food intake consisted of one meal a day at 10:00 am all mixed together in one bowl.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Why Do We Get Angry When Someone Disagrees With Us?

Let's say that one person loves the president, Bush or Obama, and another hates him. Then, anything that one would write positively about the president would be hated and disbelieved by the other, regardless of whether it was true or not.

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

What Represents Truth to You?

Truth is not what we believe truth to be. Whatever we see, whatever we hear, whatever we think, whatever we believe is not truth. Truth manifests beyond that. We might say that our religion is truth, but our religions are no more than a set of beliefs, and beliefs can never be truth, only conventional wisdom based on something that we read or heard, or our own past experience. Belief can never be truth, just as reading about something and repeating it can never capture the experience, and even religious experiences always seems to follow our heritage and culture; our conditioning.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Dieting -- The Monk Diet

When I was living as a Buddhist monk in the backwater jungles of Thailand, I learned many important lessons that have made my life much easier. One of them was how to handle food. The rules of a Theravada monk include eating only once a day, and that is in the morning. Typically, we would walk ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Lazy Person’s Two Step Diet (Easy)!

Who has time to count calories? Or shop for exotic, low calorie, super foods, (acai berries?) or sign up for all the latest fad diets? I certainly know that I don't. I remember times in my life when dieting was not a problem. Playing football and burning up three or four thousand calories a day made weight control easy. As a matter of fact, I had to conscientiously try to gain weight! (Tons of Big Macs and milkshakes). As a Buddhist monk in Thailand, my food intake consisted of one meal a day at 9:00 am all mixed together in one bowl. I got down to my optimum weight in no time.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Ladder of Your Life - Which Rung are You on?

If a ladder represents our life, the rungs of our ladder represent our breakthroughs. Have you had one lately? Sometimes we think that we have arrived at the top rung of our ladder. Nothing else needs to be done. All we have to do is hold on and hope no sudden wind blows us off. And sometimes we become scared of the heights and want so much to climb down! But when we look below, all our old rungs have disappeared. Oh no.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

A True Story of Lust and Seduction - With a Twist!

A True Story of Lust and Seduction - with a Twist! Twenty-six hundred years ago, Subbha the Buddhist nun was walking through a mango grove when a lustful young man blocked her path. Subbha the Nun: “What wrong have I done you that you stand in my way? It’s not proper my friend that a man should touch a woman gone forth (Buddhist nun who has dedicated her life to finding enlightenment). I respect the (Buddha’s) message, the training pointed out by the one well gone, I am pure, without blemish; why do you stand in my way?

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Long Sleep

We look in the mirror and notice a new wrinkle. Oh my God! I'm getting old! But I'm only forty-four! Let's see, Americans live to an average age of seventy seven. That gives me thirty-four more years! Wait a minute, Japanese live to be eighty one! I do eat a lot of fish. Maybe I have thirty seven years left. Wait another minute - I quit smoking! That has to add a few. Of course mom and dad died in their fifties (probably because of me), hmm, but I guess that doesn't help my longevity too much. Of course, I've always been lucky.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Cutting the Umbilical Chord

It's obvious that only after young adults leave home do they find their own potential and blossom in their own way. The bittersweet acknowledgement of this reflects a mature relationship with parent and child. This is a cutting of the umbilical chord with our children, offering them a chance of individual development, and freedom to explore their new world on their terms. Freedom: Are there other umbilical chords that can be cut that offer freedom for ourselves?

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Freedom FROM Religion?

Once the Buddha was asked if anyone can become enlightened, even if they were not a follower of the Buddha. His answer - a resounding; "Of course!" He even went further than that. He warned about becoming attached to the religion itself, and suggested that one only use Buddhism as a raft to cross over from delusion to enlightenment. Then, just as one who has crossed a river in a raft gets out of the raft on the far shore and leaves it behind, so an enlightened person should do the same with Buddhism.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

H.B.I.T.S. Syndrome - The Silent Killer

H.B.I.T.S. is more widespread than originally thought, mainly because it goes unreported. The reason for this is that on the surface, it doesn't seem to be all that serious. But as a matter of record, H.B.I.T.S. could be called the silent killer. One of the major symptoms of H.B.I.T.S. is a sudden and drastic lapse of intelligence that becomes problematic when this lapse turns into a chronic disorder.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Alte atives for Millennium Kids

A good friend of mind recently commented that his own kids and their friends are a lot less materialistic than our generations were, and that numerous surveys show that Millennials don't want their jobs to interfere with their family or social life. He went on to say that, "Some say this is laziness, I tend to believe that Millennials have their priorities a little better aligned than their parents and grandparents." These kids, I believe, are smart, and cognizant of their challenge in America.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

I’m Right - You’re Wrong

It's obvious that other people, when they disagree with us, are just plain wrong. And when we confront these kinds of people, our only alte ative is to let them know in no uncertain terms that they are not only wrong, but apparently stupid for disagreeing with us about something so obviously apparent. It's unbelievable that people can be so messed up. Of course, the other person feels the exact same way about us! It's not that they somehow realize that they are stupid and forge ahead anyway.

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

Jesus is the SON OF GOD! The Buddha was, ho hum, merely a man

There have been occasions when I have been told that “Jesus is the Son of God and the Buddha was just a man, therefore, the Buddha is a false prophet.” Okay, I respect everybody’s freedom to voice their opinion. I also know how views and opinions are formed, and why they become so entrenched. We are, after all, merely a product of our experiences, environment, heritage, culture, intelligence, upbringing, education . . . and in Buddhism, our past lives and karma!

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Like Mosquitoes Biting an Iron Ball

This world is an amazing place. Never-ending things to experience. Long ago this was not the case . Other than a change of seasons, nothing much happened. But today with the internet, we can be worldwide travelers while sitting in our media rooms. We can be authors and write articles, or political pundits and create blogs. We can even shop the world for everything from a nice camera to a good-looking wife. Who would want or could imagine any more than this?

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

How to Recognize a Saint if You Meet One On the Street

Saints have fourteen unforgettable characteristics that distinguish them, and when even just one of these traits are observed in someone, that observation prompts us to exclaim, "He/She is a saint!" As we read about these fourteen traits, we might think that we can become saintly too by simply practicing what saints do, however, it never quite works out that way. Mimicking secondhand or academic information never leads to an authentic shift in our basic behavior.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Dawning of Depression

If we at least had enough to live on and make expenses, that would be enough. And enough to pay off the house, which isn't worth much anymore. Oh, and maybe provide for our healthcare, which is going to get very expensive in the very near future, and we better pay it or they will take our house! Oh, and enough in the bank for emergencies, home repairs, vehicle replacements; and maybe some investments to stave off inflation, and maybe enough to help out our kids, and help our grandchildren with college, and an occasional holiday or vacation.

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

The Religious Versus Seekers of Truth

Humanity has always looked to the transcendent, a human trait pursued in many ways. And who can really say which way is right or wrong regarding an inherent desire to transcend this earthly life when our time is up. The religious insist that they are right, and spiritual seekers say likewise. So in order to solve this spiritual conundrum, I came up with thirty distinguishing features (and counting) of both groups, so that you may make a judgment. Please do not infer that these features are all right or all wrong, they are only different ways to approach a most interesting subject.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Creating Bullies

The first thing you want to do is scream at your kids. That makes them afraid and teaches them to become pushy themselves, connecting verbal abuse with authority and influence. (Never use compassion or loving kindness - that will make girlie men out of them). If you are dead, so to speak, serious about raising a world class bully, then maltreat them as often as possible. The more maltreatment they learn to endure, the better bully they become.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Silent Prayer: Part 2 - What Silent Prayer Is, and Isn't

When we think about prayer, what comes to mind is some kind of request or solicitation of God . Maybe we are ill and ask to get better, or ask forgiveness, or maybe a little help with the lottery. These are the kinds of prayers that we mostly engage in. We might also repeat a mantra, for example, the "Our Father," or Hail Mary" as an act of devotion or contrition. Then there are the holy thoughts about God, heaven, the saints and Jesus as we sit quietly. Or, we might thank God for something good that has happened to us and ask for protection from the bad.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Essence of Buddhism

“Growing Old is Not for Sissies!” I remember this great bumper sticker making the rounds a few years ago. Unless life ends tragically, suddenly, we will all experience old age and the result of old age, which is death. If we live long enough, on the way to death via old age, we begin losing things. Perhaps our mobility, our health, our energy, our memory, our parents, our friends and spouses, our brothers and sisters, and maybe even some of our children who die before we do.

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

A Key to Enlightenment

Dependent Origination, the direct transcendent knowledge and understanding of which the Buddha proclaimed to be the lynchpin of enlightenment, is an area far removed from physical reality in many ways In many other ways, Dependent Origination is the best intellectual explanation of the entirety of life as we know and experience it. The cause and effect of life, the beginnings as well as the continuance of physical reality from the standpoint of bodies and minds revolving in a spiritual realm beyond the six common senses which we rely upon for all of our current knowledge.

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

You Can Talk the Talk, But Can You Walk the Walk?

There are two faces of religion; that which we profess, and that which we project. Our professed religion follows our scriptures and our beliefs and are what we declare to be our truths, our ideals. It's the talk we talk. Our projection of our religion is how we act, what we say, how we say it, and what and how we think. It's the walk we walk. For example, we might profess love, but project (openly or surreptitiously) hatefulness if someone disagrees with our religion.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

How Long Does itTake to Become Enlightened?

Enlightenment can take a long time, perhaps as long as it takes to wear a granite mountain down to the ground by a fine veil brushing its top once every hundred years, or perhaps as long as a lifetime, or a year, or perhaps in only a week, as the Buddha proclaims, if you can maintain perfect ...

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 (Morning)

It's two-thirty a.m. I light a small candle, hang up my mosquito net, and put on my robes. The forest is quiet now in this backwater rural area of northeast Thailand. I have been meditating since 10:00 p.m. in my tiny hut. The narrow, half-mile trail through the forest is about 930 steps, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

What’s Your Pleasure?

Take a look at your life and see if it's not true that the pursuit of pleasure and happiness involves just about everything you do. From watching TV or playing on the internet, to working at a career in order to make money - so that you can spend it and be happy with the resulting pleasure or save it and be happy with the resulting pleasure of security. To pursuing sensual sights, wonderful smells, sensual sensations, great food, great sex, warm family interactions, self expression . . .

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Satisfaction of Living Simply

Years ago I lived a complicated life. I had a Porsche, a beautiful wife, three kids, a Tudor home in a posh Cleveland suburb and all the bills and headaches to go with it. And even though I had it made, something always seemed to be missing no matter how good it got. Within two years after living this American dream for eighteen years, I found myself in sweltering 1981 Southeast Asia in the middle of the jungle in a 6’ by 6’ unfu ished hut (just a bare floor) surrounded by snakes, scorpions, and all kinds of mean critters that thought I was lunch.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Are You Living in the Past?

There’s an old saying how a young man has no past so he drives fast cars to catch his future - and an old man has no future so he sits in his rocking chair trying to hold onto his past. This has some truth to it. There comes a time when we get beyond the stage of reliving our past in actuality, and only relive it in memoirs. We either lack the energy, the money, or the interest to actually do it all over again, so we sit back and remember the good times. It’s amazing how the mind erases the bad ones.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Test Your Faith (Take the Quiz)

Score your answers as follows: Strongly agree -- 1 Agree -- 2 Disagree -- 3 Strongly disagree -- 4 At the end of the quiz, add up your score and check the results. Good luck! 1. My God is the only true God. 2. I would defend my religion to the death. 3. Only my faith insures salvation; ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Living Mechanically

A machine does what it is programmed to do until it eventually breaks down. Until then, it repeats its limited, repetitive actions endlessly. As human beings we are programmed as well, by our culture, our traditions, our education, but most importantly by our minds. There is usually very little that is unique about any of us. Some of us raise families, some live alone. Some will kill, others will heal.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Stress Relief - Free!

Although the usual suspects of stress may be our jobs, financial difficulties, illness, political and religious arguments, family, personal problems, etc., if you look into each one of these in depth, you will find within them all a common thread. If only we could identify that common thread, then stress relief would be immensely simplified. So let's take a look at the mechanism of our stress in general. Let's say, for example, we are arguing with someone about politics which has gone past the point of civil discussion and now has reached levels of personal attacks.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Dateline: Los Angeles May 15, 2030 - U.S. Government Cancelled

By a narrow margin, both houses of congress agreed to cancel the Government of the United States. After years of struggle, President Polin has finally fulfilled her mother's dream; the total end of government control. On the streets of L.A. can be heard the celebratory exclamations this morning: "No more payroll taxes! Yay! No more Social Security or Medicare taxes! Yay! No more military expenses (Yay!) No more post offices or schools! Yay! No more costly VA.

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

Is Your Religion Working for You? Really? (A Fresh Approach )

How about a fresh approach to religion? What if we observed life as it truly is? What if we tried to see the truth of life without preconceived ideas about life, without the filter of our past conditioning and entrenched beliefs? Is there an approach to life that plainly, logically, and clearly appeals to common sense? A philosophical, psychological approach that people can relate to? If such an approach existed, it surely would have a universal appeal.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Four Noble Truths

The Buddha would have made a great CEO. He was all bottom line, and the bottom line was freedom, or enlightenment. If something didn't contribute to this directly, then he didn't teach it. One day he was in a forest with his monks, and he said to them, "Which is more, monks, the few leaves ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Silent Prayer: Part 3 - How to Pray Silently

While we are praying silently, we are going to let go of all the baggage we carry on our shoulders regarding the past and future.

Primary topic: Meditation

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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.

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

The Story Of A Tree

Once there was a little tree. It had a special place all to itself in a beautiful forest, and with the warm winds and gentle rains, the seedling began to grow. Soon, a few small leaves appeared, and the little tree spent the long summer days opening itself to the sun. For some reason, however, ...

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Insight - Extraordinary, Yet Very Ordinary

A direct experience of spiritual insight will change your life, a fact which is irrefutable and well documented.

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

What Step are You On? Evolution of Religion - Six Steps

These six major steps weave in and around each other, and there are many others, all revealing a transition between materiality consciousness and heightened consciousness, or between an outward emphasis (thinking, remembering, body and mind), and an inward emphasis (the replacing of thought and memory by a spiritual fullness devoid of body and mind). Therefore, the materially minded, dependent upon thinking and memory, and believing strongly in body and mind, will not be able to relate, from an experiential standpoint, to the heightened mind.

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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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

What is the Most Important Thing in a Romantic Relationship?

There's gotta be a millions of articles about relationships. Books, too. If you are thinking about writing a book, put "relationship" in the title and you will have agents beating down your door!

Primary topic: Meditation

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Playing Racquetball, Playing Life

In order to get good "court sense," a beginning racquetball player must put up with the difficulties of learning how the ball bounces; only then will they understand the ball's nature and become relaxed and proficient. The player must face the problems through practice, however.

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By E. (anagarika eddie) Raymond RockRecently published1 topic

Waking Up By Yourself

We know when it's not working; it's like a slap in the face. We thought that it was working but then something happens to remind us that nothing has fundamentally changed at all, and we find ourselves back at square one after all these years. We were smug for awhile, even bragging to friends about what we found and how wonderful it was, but now we see that it was only an act and we were actually better off before we became so smug and self assured.

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