Beautiful. Loved the part about the person staring into the Bee hive and communicating with the bee(s)
Awesome video and awesome Synch:
I had the intuition about a year ago to try this on a whim and intuition After learning about the Lions gaze meditation. I wodered what would happen if you stared at your own eyes in the mirror for a Shamatha practice. Had the same results as the people in the study.
Very cool to learn that this practice has ancient roots. Thank you for this Deer Brother!
An interesting discussion.
The journey from Atheism to the new spirituality.
And the shift begins with an ayahuasca trip. And then the spiritual roller coaster ride begins!
Interesting video on Mirror gazing. I have heard of looking in a mirror as a reality check or as a form of meditation before. A book on the topic was published by Tara Well a few years ago but I havenât read it.
Some Ancient texts mention that Socrates recommended people contemplate their appearance in a mirror to improve self-knowledge. And to encourage them to improve their moral character/inner beauty either to match their outer beauty or compensate for a lack of it.
This video is Phenomenal! The best teaching I have seen on the 4 Noble Truths and their depth. Thank you my Friend!
https://www.instagram.com/femalepoetssociety/p/DGOBeogiq0e/?img_index=1
âIf you want to fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you downâ
-TM
Very Wise teaching
This one too:
"âAnger ⊠itâs a paralyzing emotion ⊠you canât get anything done. People sort of think itâs an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling â I donât think itâs any of that â itâs helpless ⊠itâs absence of control â and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ⊠and anger doesnât provide any of that â I have no use for it whatsoever.â 
Amen Brother!
I think it is a far bigger leap forward to move someone from Atheist Beliefs to Spirituality, than to move someone from Spirituality to planting roots in a faith. Both leaps forward are very important, but rescuing someone from the Materialist Hell of Atheism is a true Bodhisattva miracle!
Amen Sister!
Fantastic video about opening peopleâs HeartMinds
@fenwizard I think these 2 clips show just how toxic Blind faith and No faith can be.
South Park - Ms. Garrison Teaches Evolution
Sweet Monkey Love
Agnosticism and Spirituality I think are a far more evolved state than that of blind Dogmatism or fervent Godlessness. Bringing a mind that questions and doubts I think is a very important part of faith exploration.
Great video! I have often wondered if Christ had access to Buddhist teachings.
Love to know where this Buddhist sculpture was found. There is no doubt the figure is almost identical to many Hercules depictions:
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Really cool to see how different faiths âmateâ with eachother and evolve over time. like they are living organisms.
Have had two lucid dreams caused by looking into Mirrors.
I am tempted to see if doing this Mirror meditation for 10min a day for a whole month would cause it to permeat into the dream world.
I think there is something very sacred when it comes to the Light in peoples eyesâŠ
indeed there is 
Re: Greco-Buddhist influences on Jesusâs teachings: There has long been speculation that Jesus traveled to India and was exposed to Buddhist or Hindu yogic teachings. The New Testament gives little information about his life between childhood and the time he began to teach around the age of 30. Perhaps he didnât need to travel to India if these Buddhist teachings were coming into the middle east at that time? However, his teachings donât have the non-theistic quality of Buddhism. Perhaps he was exposed to various schools of Hindu and Buddhist teachings and came up with this own synthesis based on these ideas as well as Jewish and Greek concepts.
Re: Buddhist and Christian ideas of love and detachment. One thing that this video misses is that the New Testament Greek has several words that get translated as the English word âlove.â There is eros, philia and agape. Eros is love as attraction, philia is brotherly or familial love, and agape is a self giving kind of higher love. There is a lot of confusion reflected in this video by not distinguishing between these different meanings of love. And then he implies that Buddhism only teaches about detachment, not about love. But there is much Buddhist teaching about âmettaâ - usually translated as âlovingkindnessâ and âkarunaâ often translated as compassion. In Mahayana Buddhism the two great principles are Wisdom and Compassion. So this idea that Christianity teaches love and Buddhism teaches detachment is way over simplified in my opinion. I think that the Christian virtue of Agape is very close to the Buddhist Lovingkindness or Compassion.
Sharon Salzburg leading a guided Lovingkindness meditation.
Pema Chodron leads Tonglen another Buddhist Compassion based practice based in Lovingkindness.
Thanks for sharing this! Such a wise and hilarious dialog between these two! I love Krishna Dasâs story of the telephone Baba!
Anytime Brother
Thank you for introducing me to Krishna Dasâs fantastic music. I have little doubt a few dozen of his songs, or over a dozen dozen songs will make it on my death playlist 
Amen! Bob definitely knows how to stir the pot in a really good way
