http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/ Daily meditations based on TS Eliot' still point, the Tao te Ching, and the poetry of Rumi Wed, 20 May 2009 20:17:31 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1162 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1162 I'm putting up a fence in the back yard. I just put the posts in the holes and they are leaning at an angle waiting to be tamped up straight and then concreted Mon, 18 May 2009 15:13:19 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1161 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1161 Good and evil reside within us, what we call good and evil. But it depends on whose ox is being gored. The theory of relativity becomes universal. Everything Sun, 17 May 2009 15:17:37 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1160 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1160 Honesty is the great unrecognized, dishonored virtue. The truth, politically speaking is seen as almost irrelevant. In fact, telling the truth is generally Sat, 16 May 2009 11:21:24 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1159 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1159 Thoughts form, coalesce into words, expressions. But the words cannot really contain all of the thought. It spills over the words, spreads into other nearby Wed, 13 May 2009 12:49:10 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1158 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1158 It's wonderful not to be driven, not to be seeking perfection, not to worry if everything isn't exactly right. I like to relax and let the beautiful unfold. I Tue, 12 May 2009 13:44:28 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1157 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1157 The labyrinth in the back yard is becoming something very special. When we moved into the house it was December. Everything was gray and leafless. Well, not Mon, 11 May 2009 12:04:48 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1156 Ah, the mind manipulation, the prized behavior of the person who is out to win at all costs. And costs there are. To see mind manipulation in action it is best Sun, 10 May 2009 13:53:56 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1155 The other day I saw a film starring Jimmy Stewart as Carbine Williams, the man who invented the Carbine rifle. Carbine's early life had a rather bad beginning Sat, 09 May 2009 07:09:56 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1154 I just heard a commercial blaming progress for our ills. The commercial doesn't matter, really. But the notion that progress is somehow responsible for the Fri, 08 May 2009 13:38:32 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1153 Tree has no distinguishing characteristics that make it a particularly noble and beautiful tree. It stands outside my window standing tall and green like any Thu, 07 May 2009 13:25:00 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1152 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1152 A loved child has many names. And everything I say or do is in some way a child of my consciousness. And so I surround you with names, free you from the one Thu, 07 May 2009 04:38:39 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1151 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1151 Again the window beckons. Any meditation device builds its own associations, triggers the contemplative sense. The more you do it the deeper it gets. My window Tue, 05 May 2009 11:08:00 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1150 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1150 There is a desire to be freed from all desire. It shows the limitation of words. We could argue in circles forever about the desirability of desire. Buddha Mon, 04 May 2009 12:47:52 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1149 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1149 There is a form of thoughtlessness that is careless, ill informed, inconsiderate, what we call ignorant, stoopid. But there is another thoughtlessness which is Sun, 03 May 2009 18:42:42 GMT John MacEnulty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1148 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eman8tions/message/1148 My morning meditation is staring out the bedroom window. I think it's a variation of chop wood and carry water. I don't really seem to have any issues right