Beautifully balanced and coordinated

August 21, 2014

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. ― Rumi

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    MAM M

    August 21, 2014

    Wavo so nice beautiful

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    Sarady Kim

    August 21, 2014

    j'aime  lotus  magnifique  fleur  sacre  pour  mois  j

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    Jendhamuni Sos

    August 21, 2014

    Good morning to all my friends. Been busy. No time to sleep yet!

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    peetala swarna Kumar

    August 21, 2014

    plz..dearest Jendhamuni..take care…sleep is the most vital to life..i am always worrying about your health…plz have sound sleep..sweet dreams wish you ha,ha…..

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    Alicia Calimlim

    August 21, 2014

    Wow it is really wonderful,i do like the combination colour so cool…###

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    Jenny Yee

    August 21, 2014

    Lotus….so pure and gracious in smell and look.

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    Saphon In

    August 21, 2014

    Really not outside the mind . The citta niyaama is one of the five laws of nature ! The harmony within this sustainable thing of human life  ! The balancing sound to vibrate within and without openly ! memoirs and histories  are also in blossom for minding the whole ! Symbol and Peace element !

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    terence williams

    August 21, 2014

    Love your work and have highest regard for your postings Jen – However, must reiterate- mind is 'spiritual energy' dealing with competing interests, not a 'container' of anything at all. But it does stand at the threshold of all that is cosmic and eternal- as spiritual energy, when it is not 'bogged' down, that is, in materialism and 'stuff' of any description, even of physical floral beauty: it is through the flower, and behind it, that lies the beauty 'materialised' and instanced in the flower, and the universal of beauty with which the mind actually then converses- 'beauty'- not the material  instanced in the physical world, the material and stuff of the flower. This is a principle of metaphysics which I believe you already constantly employ with your (very appealing) 'mind', and which I find very appealing. It may well be that we are in the same place by differing route, and I do hope what I say here is not incompatible or uncomfortable in any way for you. Any discovery or learning that may be mine is derived of inference reasoning, to which I am committed, and a good case can be made for these kind of thoughts therefore to be very well-founded.

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    William Seraphin

    August 21, 2014

    Those beautiful flowers make me think of the "Lost Eden". But, let's fight to dwell in the restored one soon and very soon.
    We'll be overjoyed. These are nothing. Let's strive to be there where everything is perfect, holy, and blameless. If in this world they look so beautiful, what about………….?

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    Jenny Yee

    August 21, 2014

    I really enjoy reading what you both wrote,inspiring,intellectual and full of wisdom, thanks to Terence Williams and William Seraphin.

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    Cathy kish

    August 21, 2014

    True my friend, the two can cause alot in somebody mind.

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