Mind activities of a Stone boy

I always feel that it is really amazing to turn a two dimensional object into a three dimensional one. Here is really a useful one for all those printed paper that hang around in the house. http://www.netflixorigami.com/tray.htm There are tons of other origami examples out on the web. It is so easy to learn new stuff these days thanks to the web...

The triune brain model was proposed by Dr. Paul MacLean in the 1950s. It states that humans don't just have one brain, but rather a layer of 3 brains that have each evolved on top of the other over the course of years: reptilian brain, mammalian brain, and primate brain. The Reptilian Brain This brain is the first to be developed. It is responsible for autonomic bodily functions such as heartbeat, breathing, and temperature control. It is also responsible for the most important human needs, such as survival, feeding and mating. This brain is part of your subconscious mind. It has a set of pre-programmed instructions that it will always execute. This brain cannot change or learn from past experiences. It only understands images, and does not understand language. Some of the traits associated with the reptilian brain are: aggression, dominance, obsessiveness, compulsiveness, fear, worship, submission, greed, sex, and seeking a mate. The Mammalian Brain This is

It is a good chart to illustrate the stage of addictive mind. May I be aware of this chain. May the clarity shine spot light on this. May I be free from it.

This is one of my favorite five mindfulness trainings in the tradition of Thay. "Aware of the suffering caused by exploitation, social injustice, stealing, and oppression, I am committed to practicing generosity in my thinking, speaking, and acting. I am determined not to steal and not to possess anything that should belong to others; and I will share my time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. I will practice looking deeply to see that the happiness and suffering of others are not separate from my own happiness and suffering; that true happiness is not possible without understanding and compassion; and that seeking wealth, fame, power and sensual pleasures can bring much suffering and despair. I am aware that happiness depends on my mental attitude and not on external conditions, and that I can live happily in the present moment simply by remembering that I already have more than enough conditions to be happy. I am committed to working in a way that I ca

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky Narrated by Brandon Lee

Attributes of a Personal Myth. Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. A Personal Myth (PM) is  A loom on which I weave the raw materials of daily experience into a coherent story (Feinstein and Krippner)  What organizes my experiences of the world and determines or influences by what categories I will engage the world’s matters.  What draws me to what I imagine to be true.  What frames the “als ob” or “as if” quality of my life. The “as if” quality of my days comprises the mythic principles I live by.  Always evolving and continually assessing what is working and no longer working for me in my self-definition.  What can harden or calcify from an organic living quality into a rigid dogmatism that is closer to a cadaver than to a vital life principle.  What reveals what I believe about myself and the world; it will influence what I believe to be true.  Related intimately to my organic bodily being and emanates in part from my incarnated presence in the world.  An inner guide, an inner g

Never give up No matter what is going on Never give up Develop the heart Too much energy in your country Is spent developing the mind Instead of the heart Develop the heart Be compassionate Not just with your friends But with everyone Be compassionate Work for peace In your heart And in the world Work for peace And I say again Never give up No matter what is going on around you Never give up

It is the beginning of the year and I am very inspired Amor Fati and Nietzsche could not summarize it more beautifully... "I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer." -Nietzsche