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In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, we are all
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Featured
Books of the Month - October 2001
"Anger
- Wisdom for Cooling the Flames"
by Thich
Nhat Hanh
It was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago
that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were
the source of all our unhappiness: ignorance, obsessive desire,
and anger. All are equally difficult, but in one instant of anger,
lives can be ruined, and our spiritual development can be
destroyed. Twenty-five hundred years after the Buddha's
enlightenment, medical science tells us that the Buddha was right:
anger can also ruin our health. It is one of the most powerful
emotions and one of the most difficult to change.
Thich Nhat Hanh offers a fresh perspective on taking care of our
anger as we would take care of a crying baby-picking it up,
talking quietly to it, probing for what is making the baby cry.
Laced with stories and techniques, Anger offers a wise and loving
look at transforming anger into peace and for bringing harmony and
healing to all the areas and relationships in our lives that have
been affected by anger.
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more...
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directly from Amazon.com
"The
Book of Miracles - The Meaning of Miracle Stories in
Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam"
by
Kenneth L. Woodward
For the first time in a single volume, Kenneth Woodward presents both
the familiar and more obscure miracle stories of the great saints,
sages, and spiritual masters of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism,
Hinduism, and Islam -- and explains their meaning in the context of
the sacred scriptures of each tradition. The
Book of Miracles charts a journey from ancient to modern -- from
the Prophet Muhammad's healing of the sick and the workings of Moses,
Elijah, and Elisha to those of the Lubavitcher rebbe Menachem Mendel
Schneerson and the female Hindu sat guru Ammachi. In bringing
together stories of the Talmudic wonder-workers, the first Christian
hermits, early Sufi mystics, Muslim ascetics and martyrs, and the most
revered Hindu and Buddhist saints, Woodward illuminates both the
striking similarities and significant differences in each tradition's
understanding of the miraculous.
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more...
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"Nostradamus
and the Millennium - What May be Coming"
by
Perry Kane
It
is Summer 2002. Iran has troops overrunning the Middle-east;
chemical weapons are exploding in Paris, and a nuclear bomb is
detonated at New York's Kennedy Airport. All this was predicted by
Sixteenth century French prophet Michel de Nostradamus. The book
opens with a brief review of Nostradamus' successful past
predictions: the arrival of the first two "antichrists,"
Napoleon and Hitler; the assassinations of John and Robert
Kennedy, and recent events including AIDS, the Gulf War, and the
death of Princess Diana.
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How
to Handle the Current World Situation
By
Hale Dwoskin
President, Sedona
Training Associates
Dear
Friend,
Our
hearts and minds here at Sedona Training Associates go out to all
those who have suffered or will be effected in any way by this
world-changing event. We continue to be dedicated, as we have always
been, to ending suffering worldwide and will be doing what we can to
help.
My
wife Amy and I have just returned form a healing retreat in South
India. That is where we were when we got the shocking news about the
terrorist attacks on our country. Being in India we got to see it from
their perspective as well as our own. Based on the reactions we
witnessed there and the other countries we traveled through on the way
home, it was truly a world event as opposed to just an event that
rocked America.
As
soon as it happened I knew that I wanted to give you some suggestions
as to how you can maintain your equilibrium during this trying period.
Here are some suggestions and perspectives that we hope will help you
to make it through this or any challenging time.
Remember
to release:
The
most powerful thing you can do to aid yourself and the world is to let
go of the feelings that this whole situation is bringing up in you.
Lester Levenson often said “even the most impossible would become
completely possible when you were fully released on it.” And when
you release for the highest good the whole universe moves to support
you. Take out your materials and review them or take out your tapes
and start listening to them again. If you have a friend that also
knows the Method call them up or get together with them and support
each other in releasing. If you are in an area that has free support
groups, now would be a good time to attend one. As best you can,
surround yourself with others who are letting go.
Reach
out and help:
Even
if you are in a spin yourself, the best way you can help yourself is
by doing something to help another. Even if it is just reaching out to
a friend who is more upset than you are, this will cause you at least
temporarily to forget yourself. You can do simple things like call a
friend in need and be an open friendly listener, donate blood, make a
donation no matter how small or get involved in some kind of community
action. Find some way to reach out and be part of the solution not the
problem.
Turn
off the television:
It
is good
to be informed, but watching and re-watching the events as they unfold
will only pull you into fear, worry, anxiety, depression and possibly
overwhelm. If you find it hard to turn off the TV, then start weaning
yourself until you are only watching the updates for a half hour or
less a day.
Every
time you feel inclined to turn on the TV you can ask yourself: “Is
worrying about these events going to make them any better?” Of
course the obvious answer is “no.” You can then ask yourself:
“Would I rather worry about this situation or hold in mind that it
will all work out for everyone’s highest good?” When we worry
about anything we are holding in mind the worst and thereby
reinforcing the very problem that we are trying to solve.
Relax
and go about your life:
As
an extension of turning off the TV, it will be very helpful for you to
go on with your life as best you can. Unless you are part of the
police or military that need to be involved in solving this situation,
the best thing you can do is do your best to carry on.
Every
time you think about the events or their potential consequences, you
can check to see how they make you feel inside and then ask yourself
this simple question: “Can I let go of this feeling?” If you ask
this question honestly with an open mind and heart, you will see that
it is just a feeling and you can let it go. As you do this you will
find that it will be easier and easier to go about your life and allow
the events to unfold as they do.
Hold
in mind the best for the world:
When anything
happens that we don’t like, we tend to obsess and worry about it. If
we do that we are holding the problem in mind and thereby
subconsciously adding to the problem. Allow yourself to send love to
all world leaders as best you can and hold in mind that their actions
will be for the highest and best good for the world. You can even set
this up as a goal. “I allow the leaders of the world to make the
decisions at this time that are for the world’s highest and best
good.” Use this goal to release any feelings to the contrary.
Love
is the Answer
Even
though these events may bring up strong feelings to the opposite, the
most powerful force for good in the universe is love. We have it
within our power to change any feeling to love, no matter how hateful.
In so doing we are liberating ourselves from the heaviness of hate. We
are also adding positive energy to the situation and we can still
encourage those involved to take the appropriate action, but from a
place of clarity instead of reactivity.
The
following is a quote from the upcoming series of books “Happiness is
Free.” It will help you to begin to let go of your non-love
feelings.
“Lester
used to suggest a technique that he called ‘Square All with Love.’
To experience this technique in your life, do the following: Allow
yourself to begin the process of changing all your non-love feelings
to love. Remember these feelings only appear to cover over your true
loving nature, and as you release, the natural love that you are will
come shining through more and more. Simply ask yourself, whenever you
have a non-love feeling that you want to release: ‘Could I change
this feeling to love?’
Letting
go is always merely a choice. If you allow yourself to make this
choice, the non-love feeling that is appearing on the surface will
dissolve, revealing the love that is always right in the background
waiting to be uncovered. It is an invitation for love to dissolve
whatever other feeling is on the surface.
Since
love has infinite power there is no feeling that love cannot dissolve.
Keep working with the same feeling until you feel only love in that
situation, not the feeling with which you started out. This may seem
like it will take awhile to accomplish, and sometimes it will take a
few releases before it is all gone. But if you are persistent in
practicing this technique you will find it goes much faster and gets
much easier to do.
Start
by experimenting in this exercise with feelings that are less intense
and ingrained. As you practice this on the easier feelings, you will
find that even your deepest hurts and disappointments can be easily
released in this way.”
For
those of you who are familiar with our Holistic Releasing Process you
may want to work with the following polarities:
I
allow myself to feel as much hate as I do. –
I allow myself to feel as much love as I do.
I
allow myself to feel as much fear as I do. –
I allow myself to feel as much peace as I do.
I
hope that we all use this situation to further our freedom and
understanding.
Much
love,
Hale
Hale
Dwoskin
President
Sedona
Training Associates
Transforming Minds, Transforming Lives, Worldwide
I imagine virtue to be both something else and something
nobler than the propensity towards goodness that is born in
us. The well-disposed and naturally well-controlled mind
follows the same course as the virtuous, and presents the same
appearance in its actions.
But virtue
sounds like some greater and more active thing than merely to
let oneself be led by a happy disposition quietly and
peaceably along the path of reason.
One who out
of natural mildness and good-nature overlooks injuries
received performs a very fine and praiseworthy action; but
another who, though provoked and stung to anger by an insult,
takes up the weapons of reason against his furious desire for
revenge, and after hard battle finally masters it, is
undoubtedly doing a great deal more.
The first man
is behaving well, the second virtuously; the first action
might be called goodness, the second virtue. For the word
virtue, I think, presupposes difficulty and struggle, and
something that cannot be practiced without an adversary. This
is perhaps why we call God good, mighty, liberal, and just,
but do not call him virtuous; His workings are all natural and
effortless.
Michel
de Montaigne
(1533-1592)
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