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Suryacitta: Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:53 AM
There is never enough
As we sit in meditation we begin to see all the stories the mind conjures up to distract usfrom being present with life as it is.
The ego mind hatesbeing with life as it is, because the egoisthe resistance to how life is in this present moment. If there is no struggle then this allows us to see the ego for what it is - a belief in a separate self that seems to exist somewhere inside the body and needs to keep churning out stories about how life should be, used to be and could be. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:38 PM
Thought for the day There is lot
of talk nowadays about happiness – the government has its happiness index and even
film stars such as Goldie Hawn are encouraging us to think in terms of happiness
and mindfulness.
It seems to
me that for many of us life has become a problem rather than a joy. The media
often focus on what is wrong in the world and it’s so very easy to get caught
up thinking about our problems. We appear to be a culture that is problem
oriented.
But are some
of our problems really problems. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:29 PM
I am asked many questions about mindfulness on the courses I run, but all who ask are really asking the same question, perhaps in different ways - will meditation help me feel better? We all, no matter who it is want to feel good. My response to that question is - it's up to you. What I mean is that we need to know what it is that makes us feel good. If we think that feeling good means never being sad and afraid then no it won't help us feel good. If our attitude is to keep anything uncomfortable out of awareness then again mindfulness will not help us feel better. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 1:34 PM
A few weeks ago I had a bout of flu and of course the sore throat that seems to accompany it. My chest felt like there was a wet blanket laid on my lungs - it was all quite uncomfortable. I woke up this particular morning did the bathroom bit and went as usual to my meditation Kuti and noticed my mind making excuses not to reach it. "take the dog for a walk," "have a cup of tea first," and of course the obligatory "you should reply to that email before they change their mind. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 12:07 PM
This is a copy of my latest Thought for the dayon Radio Leicester Whenever I
turn on the news or read a newspaper I am reminded again and again of the
current financial crisis facing us all. But is it
just a financial crisis? Everything has a cause, so what is the cause of this
so called economic crisis? I wonder if we would be nearer the truth if we called
it anemotional crisis. It seems
that for most of us our emotions in the form of desires are out of control. We seem to
be endlessly wanting - wanting more money - wanting latest designer clothes -
wanting the latest gadgets - wanting more power - even wanting to be special. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Friday, January 13, 2012 3:48 PM
 THOUGHTS AS SCAFFOLDING: When I was living in the retreat centre in North Wales there was a large house about a mile away which had scaffolding holding up its "west wing" as it was leaning badly. The scaffolding as I remember had been there for many years and had done its job of holding it altogether. Recently in meditation the image of that building and scaffolding popped into my mind and I knew instantly the meaning of this.
Thoughts are like scaffolding, they hold things together. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Monday, December 26, 2011 1:02 PM
Dear all, the demand for what I am doing has been increasing over recent months, particularly I think since the launch of the book. I have been interviewed on Radio Leicester about Buddhism, silence and happiness recently as well as doing somethoughts for the day.
I have also been teaching mindfulness meditation in schools. In Huntingdon I have been working with teachers and have been approached about doing some work at Regents College in Leicester.
I have a six week Buddhism course starting in January and a mindfulness and compassion meditation course starting next month too. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:12 PM
 EMPTY SPACE IS FULL OF HAPPINESS. If we ever think of space at all we tend to dismiss it as irrelevant - we are more interested in the objects in space. However, without space these objects would not exist. When I say objects I am talking about everything. Space contains, the Sun, Earth and cars. It contains the internet, cheese sandwiches and love. It also contains ideas, wind, war, peace and your own body. Now space doesn't object to any of these events not even to war and hatred, it just allows them to come and to go. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 12:12 PM
Imagine there is a room with two doors. One door is always
open the other is normally closed. Imagine also there is a line of people at
the open door entering into the room. The people here never stop entering and
as you can see at some point it starts to get over crowded. At some point it
gets very claustrophobic and sooner or later even the walls come under strain.
I wonder what happens next in your scenario?
As you may have guessed the room represents ourselves. The
open door represents life and life never stops happening that is why the people
never cease entering the room. |
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Suryacitta: Posted on Monday, October 31, 2011 1:59 PM
Meditation is finding out who we are, not about floating of into
some imaginary pink cloud.
As we
bring awareness to our lives we notice that
this sense of self which is always needing something is actually a mental construct that exists only in
our heads. It is the belief in this
self that makes us feel separate from life and so we endeavour desperately to find meaning in it as
compensation.
Whilst we are trying to find meaning to our life, we miss life. We turn from the wonder of life in all its
glory to worrying about it because it's
not going as we expect it to from the viewpoint of our own personal fears and desires. We try desperately to get
life to give us meaning and happiness,
when actually our life must be be an expression of meaning, and an expression of our happiness. |
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