Author: Jeff Kober

30 Jun

Posted at 20:40h in Daily Thoughts

So: How can you surrender the ego to god? First become acquainted with what is the ego. It's the persistence of the animal instinct, but now elaborated through mind, the intellect, and given authenticity by the mutual agreement of society. Paying attention to current events--what you see is every ego mechanism played...

29 Jun

Posted at 21:56h in Daily Thoughts

If we really understand what the universe is about, we need never fear letting go of anything. We live in an infinite universe that continually is evolving. This is all that nature knows how to do: evolve. We are nature. As individual expressions of nature, this is all we truly...

28 Jun

Posted at 19:48h in Daily Thoughts

If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: 'He who lives by the sword will perish by the...

27 Jun

Posted at 18:42h in Daily Thoughts

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,  Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand  And Eternity in an hour. William Blake, from Auguries of Innocence One day a few years ago, I took a friend's photo. They wanted "something outdoors, with...

26 Jun

Posted at 20:44h in Daily Thoughts

Sayadaw U Pandita came to Barre to teach a three-month retreat when I first met him. As a student, I diligently wrote down brief notes after each period of sitting and walking meditation. I wanted to describe my experiences clearly in our interviews.  When I began relating my experiences,...

25 Jun

Posted at 20:19h in Daily Thoughts

When your mind is filled with love, send it in one direction, then a second, a third, and a fourth, then above, and then below. Identify with everything, without hatred, resentment, anger, or enmity. This mind of love is very wide. It grows immeasurably and eventually is able...

24 Jun

Posted at 21:54h in Daily Thoughts

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. Alfred Korzybski  Most of us have at least something we do that doesn't fit in with who we'd like to be, the way we'd like to be seen by the world, the way we'd like to be...

23 Jun

Posted at 21:17h in Daily Thoughts

Attending to Our Thoughts The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings. As the shadow follows the...

22 Jun

Posted at 20:29h in Daily Thoughts

All you need is already within you, you must only approach yourself with reverence and love. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That  People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson Though many men and women have had the experience of spontaneous enlightenment--Sri Ramana Maharshi, Eckhart Tolle, J. Krishnamurti, to...

21 Jun

Posted at 20:01h in Daily Thoughts

Enlightenment can be defined as the clear and deep intuitive perception or intuitive understanding (not just belief or intellectual comprehension) of the entire situation, that is, of the unity of Consciousness and of the absence of the 'me' or 'I' as a separate, autonomous entity. Dr. Nitin Trasi, The Science of...