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I got this video in my inbox this morning. It comes from KarmaTube and here’s what they say:
Breathing Oceans
What if our oceans, rivers, lakes and streams could breath? As the power of vessels and equipment to exploit marine life has come to far outweigh nature’s ability to maintain it, this video by Greenpeace serves as an apt reminder of how easy it is interrupt–perhaps permanently–the rhythms of life.
But they DO breathe and it’s so beautiful… Weighing this against an eBay high… for me, this wins out every time.
“So inquiry requires that we dive into experience but continue to be aware and present while in the middle of it.
… For there to be a personal inquiry, the witnessing must occur in the middle of experience – in contact with it – not outside it. We continue to witness, but we’re in the middle of it. Our witnessing is embodied.
Why would the soul strip herself, expose her beauty and her richness, if we’re not completely and personally interested in her revealing her full truth, if we are inquiring with a prejudice or an aim in mind? Real inquiry coincides with a passionate involvement with one’s process, with one’s realization, with one’s life. That way it becomes the core that goes through all our life. All our life then feeds into it and is an expression of it.”
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“Everyone has his or her own ideas and perceptions, but to have one’s own passion, one’s own involvement, one’s own interest, one’s own excitement about the truth and the process of investigation – that is autonomy of inquiry. This autonomy is what invites the guidance of Being.”
from the chapter ‘Personal Inquiry’, in Spacecruiser Inquiry, True Guidance for the Inner Journey, by A.H. Almas.
And while finding those links, I found this quote too:
“Playfulness not only brings in a sense of lightness; it also makes things move, makes thing fluid, keeps things from getting fixed, which is necessary to avoid getting stuck in rigidities. To play is to experiment with a light heart. And experimentation is nothing but a disciplined form of play. So experimentation-such as doing trial runs or trying one thing after another-is a valid approach to inquiry. If you’re experiencing something and you don’t know what it is, it’s okay to make a hypothesis or theory and then check it out to discover if it’s the truth. That’s the way scientists inquire.” (pg. 256)
And in finding the quotes in the first place, I found a twentypound note in another of my Almas books.
It was in the chapter on Holy Love and falling asleep to reality.
