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    Re: Discuss: Lion Contemplation

    Geri, what an amazing insight! This is truly integrating what you are practicing into your life. Talking about joy coming from within and from connection to the happiness of others sounds trite or unbelievable if it is not made real as you have done in sharing this story. Your dedication to your practice...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 04-13-2008
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    Re: Discuss: Self-absorption

    Geri, you mentioned that you wished you could know how the Dalai Lama was responding to events in Tibet. Yesterday I recieved this email, which I will pass along to all in this discussion. The practice of Tonglen which is described here, is clearly a practice for dissolving our self-absorption, and is...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 03-24-2008
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    Discuss : Fear and Fearlessness

    My experience of self-absorption is that it has a tremendous amount to do with my fear of opening up to the huge universe of possiblities. The flip side of that is that when my heart is open to the universe of possiblities, I actually feel joy and not fear! This experience of the choice I have in how...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 02-29-2008
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    Discuss: Garuda Contemplation

    Equanimity is an interesting and wonderful place to live in. I enter it at times, and life seems so easy and joyful. It is a space of possibilities and I am not stopped by seeming problems. Rather, nothing seems like a big deal, and I can be kind and easy with others. This is in distinct contrast to...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 02-29-2008
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    Discuss: Self-absorption

    Every angry or negative response I throw out stems from my self-absorption. At this point in my life and meditation practice, this fact is painfully clear to me. If I do not have a postion or preference to maintain, I cannot not be threatened into reaction by what others say or do. For example, if I...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 02-28-2008
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