OUR CLAN ANIMAL     our clan animal song

 

our theme song?

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our inspirations

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but  sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech

 

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

     

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MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY:

"A Zen-inspired blend of meditation, breathing exercises and focus techniques are in vogue in corporate America—championed by blue-chip employers like Google Inc. and General Mills Inc. as a simple but potent mind-sharpening tool." Gershman, Jacob. "

"Lawyers Go Zen, With Few Objections." WSJ. June 18, 2015.

Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A

Lovingkindness is a form of meditation designed to cultivate feelings of warmth and kindness to all people, including oneself, the researchers said. Practicing the technique may activate a soothing-caring regulation system that is probably deficient in chronic self-critics, they suggest [that] this practice may...... help in breaking down perfectionist tendencies. I know that at least for me, if I choose to allow myself forgiveness, encouragement, and grace, then I will be happier and more peaceful. The harshest of "self-critics" can use this meditation to learn how to better handle their self-judging nature. When we are less demanding of ourselves, we can in turn, be less demanding of others.

Lukits, Ann. "After Meditation, Self-Critical People Ease Up." WSJ. August 13, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A.

Dass Guided Imagery

COSMIC ENERGY GUIDED IMAGERY

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ASIAN IDEALS OF COMPASSION 10-6 TO 22,

EARTHLINGS COMPASSION TEST 10-29 AND 11-3

GLOBAL CULTURE AND ETHICS FLAGS

10-27 DASS 3 MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS OR -10;"Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet; "how to deal with suffering"

required: final third of How Can I Help? 149-243 Thich Nhat Hanh "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet Thich Nhat Hanh - On Letting Go Thich Nhat Hanh Shows Us How Eating Mindfully Can Nourish More Than Just Your Body

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/thich-nhat-hanh-how-to-eat_n_7115222.html

"Call Me by My True Names" by Thich Nhat Hanh;his quotes; biography; his books

+ review 685-6, 857-883

   

     

 

LOOKING AHEAD:

P2

10-28 EXTRA OFFICE HOURS

10-29 + 11-3 compassion test: Earthlings cf.

DFW There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?" . . . .The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious,
important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about." This course in three fish images:

 

or in these prison images

  

 

11-7 EVENING DIWALI  EXTRA CREDIT   6:30-midnight?FOR GLOBAL CULTURES AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY FLAGS AND FOR UNDERSTANDING SIDDHARTHA  AND HOW CAN I HELP?Radha Madhav Dam   400 Barsana Road, Austin, TX, 78737

11-12 7-10 PM Hindu Student Association Diwali

 

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 CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Your Head and Your Heart

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