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New movement aims to foster peace and progress globally

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Happy Science's "Fourfold Path to Enlightenment"-- Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Progress -- has come to the United States through a program of guided meditations, fellowship discussions and more, in New York City, and in centers based in Atlanta, Tampa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Based on the Buddhist principles of Enlightenment, Happy Science's new model is designed for the unique challenges in our modern world, with the goal of helping to achieve greater world peace, one … [Read more...]

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Books, disc & apps for the soul

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BOOKS SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions, by Rainn Wilson, Devon Gundry, Golriz Lucina and Shabnam Mogharabi (Hyperion), 224 pages, $19.99 Can men and women really be " just friends? If you only had one hour left to live, how would you spend it? What paralyzes your creativity? What fuels it? Somewhere over the course of history, chewing on Life's Big Questions lost its cool factor. Fortunately for mankind, Rainn Wilson (best known for playing Dwight Schrute on NBC's "The Office") and … [Read more...]

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Meditation workshop to slow you down

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Meditation. Is it calling you, but you can't figure out how to do it "right?" Do have a hard time sorting through all the options? If you're mystified by what this "meditation thing" is all about and you want to learn more, set aside a Saturday morning for the workshop, "Meditation for You: What...Why...How," presented by Lynne Olson. The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 at the Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave. (adjacent to the College of St. Catherine) in St. … [Read more...]

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Meditating with Your Pet

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Keta, my beloved Yorkshire Terrier, has been assisting me in meditation for eight years and has consistently helped with my healing and energy work for more than four years. What can your beloved pet do for your meditations? They can help ground you. They can help hold the energy space if you need to move in and out of it. If you go elsewhere in your work, your pet's warm body next to you helps you maintain a connection with your body. Their physical presence can help bring you back … [Read more...]

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Finding Your Buffalo

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There is a story about a farmer who owns a buffalo. Not knowing that the buffalo is in its stable, the farmer goes off to search for it, thinking it has strayed from home. Starting off on his search, he sees many different buffalo footprints outside his yard. The footprints of buffalo are everywhere! The farmer then thinks, "Which way did my buffalo go?" He decides to follow one set of tracks and they lead him up into the high mountains, but he doesn't find his buffalo there. Then he follows … [Read more...]

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Clarity of each moment, for only that moment

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In the pre-dawn light of early morning, I stood at my post, observing as the doshi bowed, bowing just as he always does and as he has done more than a thousand times before. Suddenly, I was struck by a sensation of ease and opening within myself as I experienced a sense of profound clarity. I could see completely, and simply how the bow was merely itself, without significance or import; I saw how each movement was unremarkable, not representative of anything. Yet, in the moment, the act was … [Read more...]

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Releasing the Heart to Get to the Heart of the Matter

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An animal will know hours before a storm comes or an earthquake erupts. It is aware of the shifts in its environment, and it follows the optimal course of action. It knows where it needs to go and when. But most humans who are making decisions based on their minds or hearts will be so deeply connected to their own agendas, they will not realize there is a storm until the sky is black. They will not realize there is an earthquake until the ground is shaking. They will not know when they need … [Read more...]

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Meditation: What is It?

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RESOURCES Meditation Community Page | featuring members of our community who teach and share information on Meditation Meditation: A Brief History Meditation: The Experience Meditation is fairly loosely applied to a number of practices and is often taken to imply concerted thought upon a subject, often philosophical in nature. However, it is most commonly applied to the practice of clearing one's mind and by focusing on breathing, mantras or spiritual questions, incidences and figures … [Read more...]

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Meditation: A Brief History

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RESOURCES Meditation Community Page | featuring members of our community who teach and share information on Meditation Meditation: An Experience What is Meditation? It is highly conceivable that meditation was discovered by one of our ancient relatives, who after a long day hunting and gathering, sat down and slipped into an altered state of consciousness while staring at the flames of a fire. Some may argue that the experience of spending time in dark caves also could lead the mind to … [Read more...]

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Meditation: The Experience

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RESOURCES Meditation Community Page | featuring members of our community who teach and share information on Meditation Meditation: A Brief History What is Meditation? The four basic elements involved in most meditative techniques are: a quiet place to meditate, a comfortable or poised posture, an object to focus on and a passive attitude. A Quiet Place -- It's important for you to find a place that will let you be completely relaxed. Try to eliminate as many noises and distractions … [Read more...]

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The Art of Meditation: How to Listen to God

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Let's face it: the current state of your mind is most likely a mess. If you're honest, your mind is probably a rapid succession of scenes displayed in your cortex like so many commercials on television. You might enjoy experiencing time moving along as you are lulled to sleep by the drone of images that inundate you every second. But if you are tired of following the endless hop-scotching of your thoughts, it is time to meditate. For those of you who want to stop the nonsense that goes on … [Read more...]

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Meditation & Yoga

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Our featured Holistic Community - business resources - for the month of February 2012 Ancient technology to connect us to the deepest and most sacred part of ourselves is just as effective centuries ago as it is today. Meditation and Yoga offer more than peace of mind. True wellness. The following businesses and individuals offer Meditation & Yoga services in the Upper Midwest…and beyond: All About…Me! Massage & Yoga, Lorrie Jacobson, 2910 Upper 55th St., Inver Grove Heights, … [Read more...]

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Maharishi Invincibility Center events

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The Twin Cities Maharishi Invincibility Center is located at 399 N. Ruth St. in St. Paul. For more information, call 651.714.0254 or visit www.twincitiestm.org

The following events are upcoming at the Maharishi Invincibility Center in St. Paul: • Open House: Maharishi Invincibility Center - architectural tour and lectures on TM program and Maharishi Ayurveda, October 24 and November 7, 1-4 p.m. • Introduction to the new Maharishi Light Therapy with Gems: free lecture October 15, 7 p.m., private sessions October 16-18 by appointment, email mlg@tm.org • Medication or Meditation: Good News for Children and Adults with ADHD, free, October … [Read more...]

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Inside the Twin Cities Maharishi Invincibility Center

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"Because the individual is cosmic, everything about individual life should be in full harmony with cosmic life. Maharishi Vedic Architecture gives dimensions, formulas and orientations to the buildings that will provide cosmic harmony and support to the individual for his peace, prosperity and good health - daily life in accord with natural law, daily life in the evolutionary direction." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Invincibility. That is the hallmark of the new Maharishi Invincibility … [Read more...]

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Practicing Surrender: Meditation in the Sky

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When you lack control over your circumstances, due to health issues or other unforeseen external factors, there is only one thing you can control; your inner climate. This can be done through the practice of meditation. While much of life isn't actually within our control, there is one place where all illusion of control tends to vanish. That place is on a commercial airplane, miles above the earth's surface. Indeed, control seems to be lost the minute you've passed barefoot under a metal … [Read more...]

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