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Shifting the gears of the Mind

Dissolving the aggregated Self

Walt Whitman - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Your own, personal, revelation

finding an active voice in my journal

#ralphwaldoemerson we are not children of time #transcendentalism

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(Emerson) We Are Not Children of Time

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There is an interaction of ideas that transcends the boundaries of our metabolism. Even deeper, there’s a real sense where we are sensate beings in communication across time. I talked about this a bit in an earlier video on Walt Whitman’s poem ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ ([ruclips.net/video/fxNDdGgvSsA/видео.html)](ruclips.net/video/fxNDdGgvSsA/видео.html) Emerson has the same experience in his r...

Shifting the gears of the Mind

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What part of my awareness knows enough to change the behavior that otherwise seems to have been determined by my previous actions. We are the loops - positive or negative, unwholesome or wholesome, skillful or unskillful - that accumulate from our previous actions. ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ig...

Dissolving the aggregated Self

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In the Tibetan Chod practice we visualize the aggregate of self transformed into a beautiful nectar. ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better understanding of the human experience. Buy Me a Coffee to support my plans for The Kaiser Ensemble www.buymeacoffee.com/andrewdkaiser Buy my book On Mo...

Walt Whitman - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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Walt Whitman is an avatar who can cross time and space - - and bring us along with him ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better understanding of the human experience. Buy Me a Coffee to support my plans for The Kaiser Ensemble www.buymeacoffee.com/andrewdkaiser Buy my book On Mortality and th...

Your own, personal, revelation

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Emerson wrote “Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe”. This gets at what I think may be my own definition of the spiritual life - - and maybe even what it is to be political creatures. Those are….. 1. To understand the nature of the self, the nature of the Mystery, and the interaction between the two 2. How best to promote the flourishing of the broadest humanity. Wi...

finding an active voice in my journal

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Emerson maintained an extraordinary journal over decades and it is made me think again about what I think of as my own journalling practice. Three kinds ( mirrored ; behavioral; active…..Morning Pages; Aurelius; Emerson). I’m certain that if you watch these videos, you also have a journal. Let me know what you think about how you use it. ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the interse...

Emerson, Inner Worlds, and Poetic Ooze

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As Emerson worked on his great collection ‘Nature’, he was reading and journalling about the inner world. I also read a bit from my own collection of essays where I talk about ‘poetic ooze’. ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better understanding of the human experience. Buy Me a Coffee to sup...

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

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Untaken decisions follow us through life like chemtrails ( poetic effluvia). ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better understanding of the human experience. Buy Me a Coffee to support my plans for The Kaiser Ensemble www.buymeacoffee.com/andrewdkaiser Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Im...

Meditating when you feel ill

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We can learn a lot about the practice when we sit while not feeling well. I’ve had a cold for the last few days and that groggy tired feeling really calls into relief some of the important teachings about posture, sensation, form feeling and mental characteristics. ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ig...

What is Refuge in our practice?

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As Buddhist practitioners, we find refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. Can we extend the idea of Dharma to include experiences, artefacts and ideas cultivated in our everyday life? ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better understanding of the human experience. Buy Me a Coffee to ...

may the peace of the season be with you

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I was really moved by the reading during the lighting of the 4th advent candle in church last week. Here it is copied from the Bulletin of the First United Methodist Church, Pittsburgh ":Spirit of Life and Love, we have disconnected - from generosity, from joy from one another, from creation. Sometimes we fell so alone And yet you bring us to community, to find and to give love immeasurable wit...

Meditation, Impermanence and Joy

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I read and talk about the poem 'City Limits' by A.R. Ammons. poets.org/poem/city-limits Buy Me a Coffee to support my plans for The Kaiser Ensemble www.buymeacoffee.com/andrewdkaiser Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Imagination (www.amazon.com/mortality-human-imagination-Andrew-Kaiser/dp/168818676X/ref=sr\_1\_1?dchild=1&keywords=kaiser mortality and the human imagination&qid=1605609759&sr...

readily apprehensible experience of impermanence

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As the seasons change (it's early October in Pittsburgh as I record this) we can easily register the intellectual idea of Impermanence and changing process. But how to narrow that down to the most granular level of our awareness during meditation? ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better unde...

what is pointed out in pointing out instructions?

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Meditation instructions help identify aspects of awareness that are already there - - we don't need to change anything or perform any occult acts. WE just need to recognize, stabilize and cultivate. ./ This channel is an exploration of ideas at the intersection of creativity and the teachings of the dharma. Each day I hope to ignite a better understanding of the human experience. Buy Me a Coffe...

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