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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself. A Wabi-sabi: Finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay A We’re all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass A "Would you be able," my wife asked, "to fix your attention on what The Tibetan Book of the Dead calls the Clear Light?" A   A A “… when you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying “You’re too this, or I’m too this.” That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.” — Ram Dass, On Self Judgment A Such experiences of enlarged consciousness can occur in a variety of ways: sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation, religious or aesthetic ecstasies, or spontaneously. Most recently they have become available to anyone through the ingestion of psychedelicS A At any given moment, everyone around us is a completely unique specimen, never before seen in existence in their present incarnation and never to be seen again. Something completely inimitable. A When we step into this awareness, we can “snap out” of judging and fault-finding mode and instead simply accept and appreciate people just as they are. We can love them in their idiosyncratic humanity. a The Buddha faced the challenge of discovering how the human mind works without the knowledge we possess today in physiology or neuroscience. Therefore, the language he used was symbolic, ambiguous, and sometimes cryptic. For that reason it can be incredibly valuable to illuminate the Satipatthana Sutta – the Buddha’s discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness – in the context of contemporary neuroscience, psychology. The result is a powerful new path to mindfulness and happiness for Buddhist meditators at all levels. a fast dth to slo dth  There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. —B D T a Devotional Expression: Jagannath Ashtakam is a beautiful expression of devotion, capturing the essence of the devotee's love and surrender to Bhagavan Jagannath. The hymn is filled with deep emotional and spiritual sentiments, reflecting the devotee's yearning for the divine. a If trauma dominated the nighttime, our days belonged to patients with vascular disease, GI disease, and especially cancer. a