His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, wrote a beautifully helpful book, in 2005. It is titled: "How to Expand LOVE Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships". Step by step, through multiple stages of development and awareness, he helps us to develop skills where one can learn to transform negative feelings by cultivating love and compassion. Rather than speak directly, my wonderful teacher, Eve, would point to life experiences, experiences we shared. She had so many stories to share about … [Read more...]
“How to Expand LOVE”
Two quotations from Tibetan Buddhism
It is not very often that I can improve upon other people's writings. I cannot improve upon any of Eve Revere's writings. There are so many quotations, by others, I would like to share. In my extensive reading of Joseph Campbell's works regarding cultures of the world and the influence of the Goddess, and in my subsequent focus on Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism, here are two quotations I would like to initially share: "There is not one migrating being who has not been my mother or father … [Read more...]
The book I didn’t know I was waiting for !
Hello All!, About a month ago I finished an excellent book, by author, Sallie Tisdale, a Zen Priest, somewhere in the U.S.A. This book was published in 2006. It is titled: "Women of the Way - Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom". This is the book I didn't know I was waiting for! Valuable information for anyone who wishes to learn some of the significant and hidden historical contributions that women have made in culture, society, philosophy, etc., that continue to influence the … [Read more...]
Burma-Shave
According to Wikipedia: Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs. Eve Revere, the late, original Yin Mind blogger, spent a lot of years in the United States, where she learned about some interesting incidents. And this is one of her stories: During the Vietnam War, troop trains were stopped, through … [Read more...]
The works of Joseph Campbell
Over the past year, I've studied the works of Joseph Campbell: videos and books, published by The Joseph Campbell Foundation. Campbell extensively references the Goddess culture. One of the books that he writes, along with other writers is titled: "In All Her Names". I have found his works fundamental to my own understanding that the religions and cultures of the world, at least over the last 5,000 years, started out with the same basic mythological story. I … [Read more...]
The Context !
Any image which we register, either as a sensation or as an impulse through other than what we regard as our senses, is subject to perception, processing of, by and for the consciousness (also by other than the consciousness). One mode of perception involves identification: an object-like "what" is registered as a fit, a make. We respond with an orientation that could be expressed by the words, "Oh, I know "what" that is. "What" is the fit of … [Read more...]
Contentment and Hope / The Past and The Future
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Contentment and Hope The Past and The Future [transcription of a meditation session] What is a state of mind or consciousness? If we understand the question, by means of subjective reference or reflection, which is the very capacity of consciousness, how consciousness situates at the point of tension between stasis and flow, we can see how our posture of consciousness affects the … [Read more...]
Contemplation and Meditation
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Contemplation and Meditation EXTENSIONS co domains of the mind the knowing in that which we experience manipulation of the substances of the reality provides an explicit report of the interactions by means of which we may revise and refine the efforts we make. The tree of life, the 10 stations, Pineal, KETHER TIPHARETH Pituitary Thymus Leydig, MALKUTH from which arises … [Read more...]
Consequences
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Consequences There is a flow of consequences. Consequences: that which follows with sequence. But there is more than one line of events in sequence. There are branching complexities. There is even an event reflection back through the agents of force and motion. Were we to diagram what has been stated so far: second agent of force and motion first agent of force and motion … [Read more...]
Consider the Value . . .
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Consider the Value . . . Consider the value of having children who progressively control themselves, not because of the pursuit of a reward or the avoidance of a punishment which their parents or society may conjure, but out of simple regard for consequences they understand. What will the process of helping them understand the consequences of their actions and neglect be like? Let us … [Read more...]
Consciousness Situates at the Point of Tension . . .
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Consciousness Situates at the Point of Tension Between Stasis (form and substance) and Flow (continuity and connection) When and as consciousness turns towards stasis, the mind nourishes, constellates with and imparts a delay in consequences, free will, form and substance. When the mind turns in the direction of stasis, there is the data reduction, the statistical combination, the … [Read more...]
Connection, Its Means
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Connection, Its Means One source of understanding of connection is from The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, by Jacob Bronowski. The text is the Silliman Lectures, given at Yale University, in 1967, but not published until 1978. This book was a key reference in the thesis I submitted in 1986. The subject about which I read was: connection. On pages 58, 59 and 69, Bronowski develops the … [Read more...]
Connection to the Whole
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Connection to the Whole Connection to the whole can only occur when and as resonant and reverberant relationships exist. Resonant and reverberant relationships are the being and doing responses. We model this with the motion of mass or substance and the coupling of vibrational harmonies. copyright 2011, 2014, ECOhealth / Eve Revere … [Read more...]
Provisional Elegance
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Provisional Elegance [please see yesterday's posting for a related article] Why does nature exhibit elegance, promote diversity and unfold complementary order? Because of the nature of oneness, wholeness or unity. First, remember how we view elegance: maximum diversity with minimum inventory. The promotion of diversity isn't the promotion of any and all diversity. The promotion of … [Read more...]
Conditioned Responses (Pavlov) are Correlational Assignments
The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Conditioned Responses (Pavlov) are Correlational Assignments Mast Cells Mast cells are part of the immune system. Mast cells combat multicellular parasites (e.g. nematode worms). Mast cells can cause allergies, when they attack substances such as pollen or food. Chemical Mediators and Antigen Triggers Mast cells contain chemical mediators. These chemical mediators are released in … [Read more...]