Podcasts about great wisdom

Reverend Jon Turner: "Shin Reader: Great Faith, Great Wisdom"

Source always speaks to us through our hearts. The greatest wisdom comes through the heart, not the mind or brain. Join Rev. Kathleen as she takes us through a meditation using Heart Brain Coherence. Kathleen Caputo is an ordained interfaith minister who focuses on providing positive and life affirming resources to children and families of all cultures, religions and backgrounds. Following a 30-year career as a business executive, Kathleen turned her attention to her true calling – teaching children and adults that they have the power to transform life's challenges into more positive experiences. She published her children's book, Hado Bear's Secret, and founded Hado Bear, Inc., and a nonprofit organization, Source of Guidance, Inc., to help children and families facing crisis and serious illness. Hado Bear is a child's guide to a positive life. Kathleen has led more than 100 programs for children. She also taught workshops on creativity and guided imagery for the New York City School System, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and City University of New York. Kathleen studied with Dr. Masaru Emoto, New York Times best-selling author of The Hidden Messages in Water and is one of his Certified Hado Instructors. https://www.Hadobear.com and www.sourceofguidance.org Please set the intention to receive then relax and enjoy! Enlightened World Network is your guide to inspirational online programs about the spiritual divinity, angels, energy work, chakras, past lives, or soul. Learn about spiritually transformative authors, musicians and healers. From motivational learning to inner guidance, you will find the best program for you. Check out our website featuring over 200 spirit-inspired lightworkers specializing in meditation, energy work and angel channeling www.enlightenedworld.online Enjoy inspirational and educational shows at http://www.youtube.com/c/EnlightenedWorldNetwork To sign up for a newsletter to stay up on EWN programs and events, sign up here:https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/FBoFQef/web Enlightened World Network is now available on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Podbean, Spotify, and Amazon Music. Link to EWN's disclaimer: https://enlightenedworld.online/disclaimer/ #Angelicguidance #Spiritualcommunity #archangels #Christconsciousness #spiritualevents #spiritualwellbeing #heartbraincoherrence

A reading of excerpts taken from Chapter 1 of The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra - translated by Suzuki and Goddard. The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra was first translated into Chinese in the 5th century and has been the subject of many treatises and commentaries. It is a distinctive and influential philosophical discourse in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The sutra recounts a teaching primarily between Gautama Buddha and a bodhisattva named Mahāmati ("Great Wisdom"). The sūtra is set in mythical Laṅkā, ruled by Rāvaṇa, the king of the rākṣasas. The Laṅkāvatāra discusses numerous Mahayana topics, such as Yogācāra philosophy of mind-only (cittamātra) and the three natures, the ālayavijñāna (store-house consciousness), the inner "disposition" (gotra), the buddha-nature, the luminous mind (prabhāsvaracitta), emptiness (śūnyatā) and vegetarianism. It is also notably an important sūtra in Zen Buddhism, as it discusses the key issue of "sudden enlightenment".

Acts 6:1-15 This chapter illustrates how the new church grew in numbers and added ministries such as a soup kitchen. The apostles did not want to neglect their main purpose of sharing the gospel in order to take care of this ministry, so they chose seven men to oversee it. One of those men was Stephen, who was known for his great wisdom, being full of the Spirit, and having a good reputation. He even performed signs and wonders because of his strong faith in God. It's important to note that the disciples were not only the 12 initially selected by Jesus, but included all those who believed in Jesus as the apostles spoke to them. The main point of this chapter is that God is the source of all wisdom. While a person may have a good understanding, wisdom and full discernment of this world and God's word come from God. All who believe in Jesus have wisdom and discernment because it comes through the power of the Holy Spirit. Today, I encourage you to come to Jesus to gain the discernment that can only be found in Him through His Holy Spirit. He desires to give it to all who come to Him. This wisdom and discernment are not just for the first church and men like Stephen, but for all of us.

It was Sok Ga Mo Ni Buddha's birthday recently and we celebrated it at the Lotus Buddhist Monastery. At the same time, it was the inauguration of the Great Wisdom and Prosperity Buddha, the largest seated Buddha in the Western world.Today I would like to read you two Daily Reminders from the Buddhist Dharma teacher Supreme Matriarch Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim, which are about the birthday of Sok Ga Mo Ni Buddha and the inauguration of the great Buddha, among other things.Thank You very much, Ji Kwang Dae Poep Sa Nim. Hapchang,Gak Duk

Elder Lee Aase - Scripture: Psalm 127

A little foolishness can under-mine the sinner's recognition of God's great Wisdom.--1. Wisdom Accepted.-2. Wisdom Ignored.-3. Wisdom Corrupted.

A little foolishness can under-mine the sinner's recognition of God's great Wisdom.1. Wisdom Accepted.2. Wisdom Ignored.3. Wisdom Corrupted.

We continue our series on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, hearing from Dr Luke Wisley.

Most of us have spent our lives learning how to suppress our symptoms Have a headache? Take some tylenol Cramps? Here's some Midol. Constipated? Here's a laxative Heartburn? Take a tums Tired? Grab some caffeine As we age that strategy goes into overdrive: While I absolutely recognize that we are SO lucky to live in a day and age when we do have so many resources available to us - the problem is we're not actually doing anything to figure out what is causing our symptoms. We're just stomping them down and hoping that will do the trick.  Let's talk about how we stop that pattern and start listening to what our bodies are trying to tell us. The Energy Restoration Project is now open more info here Schedule a free call here Come join me on Instagram @shelleyswapp

Pastor Brandon begins a deep dive into the book of James, a book of Genuine Faith, Good Deeds, and Great Wisdom.

In Your Heart Treasure Jesus'1. Great Wisdom (vv. 46-47)2. Ultimate Father (vv. 48-49)3. True Home (vv. 49-51)

Kevin McCarthy (no, not the former speaker of the house) is well known for his sage advice to businesses and individuals, helping them find their "two-word purpose." His books are popular, and his viewpoints are not only spot on, they are downright entertaining as well. In this episode, Kevin discusses what he calls "Living Water Conversations."

Grace Grace For Great Wisdom - Rev Sam Oye

Elayna QUITS, Jamie hosts a horrible dinner party, and Mariana finds Ratatouille 2 behind her fridge. Does Hollywood (and us all) have mommy issues? Can Mariana's sage advice help us? Find out on this week's Cancel Culture.

On todays episode, I dive into some fantastic books on anxiety and personal development that will change the way you think. The first book, Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Pittman and Karle is about the two brain pathways that lead to anxiety and how to use them to lessen anxiety. The next, 12 More Rules for Life by Dr. Peterson, I read a passage from the chapter: Work as hard as possible at one thing and see what happens. Then, I read from Your Brain on Porn by Gary Wilson on how super stimuli's like pornography can impact relationships and connection.   Great Knowledge I Learned from Books | Pt.3 - TAPP# 170 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_aeD3c1tEc   —The Anxiety Recovery Program— https://unpluganxiety.com/my-program/ —1 on 1 Coaching— https://unpluganxiety.com/1-on-1-coaching/ —The Website— https://unpluganxiety.com

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Very often we attribute spiritual wisdom to number 7 or number 9, but not very often to number 3. In fact number 3 is often perceived as childlike and simplistic. In this episode we'll explore the spiritual wisdom of number 3 and its great gifts to us on a spiritual teaching level. Would you like to pursue Numerology as a full time career?  Check out my complete Numerology Certification Program, from beginner to Expert.  https://tom-eckert.com/numerology-courses/in-depth-studies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/numerology/support

A disclaimer on pre-marital counseling: training before we start our jobs, training before we drive a gasoline propelled 1500 lbs metal vehicle down the road at an average of 40+ miles and hour. But pre-marital training is often scoffed at by the world. 1. A Principle Proclaimed (v25-28) 25 Now concerning…

No matter what boxes you tick for Tuesday's census, I'm fairly confident of one thing we all have in common. We can be differentiated in the Census by where we live, our gender identity, ethnicity, marital status, and work. But every last one of us, from new-born babies right through to centenarians and even Harry Styles... every one of us is aging. Today is March 04, 2023. Thirty-six years since I was born at Christchurch Women's Hospital, I will be spending my birthday, birth hour and birth minute with you. There's no need to text or email. I'm neither a birthday grinch nor someone who feels they need to be showered in gifts and bland Facebook posts, although the sentimentalist in me does find himself dwelling on the date. What's special about March 4th? Nothing really. Except the date I'm supposed on be gorging on cake just happens to coincide with World Obesity Day. A coincidence, probably, although given my ridiculous sweet tooth I can't help but wonder if some higher power isn't having a bit of fun. And what's special about thirty-six? You might say it's just a number. But this year, I will be twice as old as I was at eighteen. I will have been legally able to vote and purchase booze for more than half of my life. I'm closer to forty than thirty. Closer to fifty than twenty. At thirty-six, barring any catastrophic event or a brain-drain unlike we've ever experienced, this is the last year in which I can say I'm in the younger half of New Zealand men. The median age in New Zealand – the age by which half the population is younger, and half is older – is 38.2 years. But for men, the median age is two years younger than that of women. 37. That means by May next year, I will be older than half of Kiwi blokes. I notice my body aging. You might scoff, but I notice the wrinkles just starting to set in my face, the hair on the back of my shoulders. I notice how I wake up sore sometimes and how I favour one knee just a little more than the other. I notice myself taking a keener interest in my grandparents' and parents' medical histories. I notice my opinions slowly changing. I notice myself feeling increasingly different in some ways to teenagers and people in their twenties. When I was born, my Dad was considered a relatively old first-time father. He was a year younger than I am today. I don't have kids, although I'd like them. I've never married, although I'm more than twice the age of my grandma when she tied the knot. I remember on my thirtieth birthday, I felt a bit like my youth was over. I wasn't all mopey and upset about it, I just felt like I had to enter a more settled stage of life. I look back now, of course, and I can see how silly that is. ‘Thirty?! You're a child!' I imagine telling my old (well, young) self. ‘Just wait until you're older than the median age!' I know in five years' time I'll look back at me today and feel exactly the same. I think age is giving me a little more wisdom. One of the things I've come to observe is how some friendships in life ebb and flow and come and go. You can have really strong friendships, really intense, meaningful relationships, and over time, you might still slowly drift apart from people. It just happens. Knowing and accepting that old friends and old connections are still important to you and that your shared history doesn't disappear is a valuable thing. And the other side to the coin is that any day your path might cross with someone completely randomly, and you'll forge a new, meaningful friendship. That potential is one of life's wonders. I have so much to be grateful for. An awesome family. A loving girlfriend. My mates. My health. My job. But for me, thirty-six is a time when I notice myself no longer taking aging for granted. I've lost more friends and family in the last few years, than in all of the first thirty-three or thirty-four years of my life. That's the thing about growing older. The great wisdom of aging comes in realising that ultimately it's a privilege.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

" Great Wisdom" Supporting Verses: Matthew 12:42, James 1:5, Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 16:16 Go Deeper: Proverbs 2:6, Psalm 111:10, James 3:17,Ecclesiastes 7:12 Bible Verse of the Day: Galatians 5:16 GodSexandLove.com Support Us! https://anchor.fm/godsexandlove/support --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/godsexandlove/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/godsexandlove/support

Are you in your 40's and 50's and feeling the shifts in your cycle? Are you feeling disconnect and overwhelmed in this stage of your life? Well you are not alone! So many women enter perimenopause and feel at war with their body. There can be a rise in emotions that you were not prepared for and physical changes that you are lost in how to navigate. In this conversation with Dana Atkinson, we will explore the power of perimenopause and how being curious about your body can help you come home to feeling connected and inspired by your body's wisdom. In this episode, we will look at: - Danna's move from being an RN to a Menstrual Cycle Coach - The way she was able to re-connect with her body in a healing way when she was told birth control or anti-depressants were her only options - How perimenopause is a 2nd spring time and a time of great potency This weeks tip on living a womb-led life ➡️ Get curious about your body's messages and chart them so you have a reference point of shifts happening in your cycle. Want to follow Danna ➡️ click here to follow on instagram To grab your Free Charting Journal & Cycle Chart Ebook, click here Learn more about the Shee Sisterhood Membership, click here Join us in the Facebook Group The Aligned Womb, Aligned You Podcast After Hours - click here

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial. According to Swami Adiswarananda, "Rabindranath Tagore's philosophical and spiritual thoughts transcend all limits of language, culture, and nationality. In his writings, the poet and mystic takes us on a spiritual quest and gives us a glimpse of the infinite in the midst of the finite, unity at the heart of all diversity, and the Divine in all beings and things of the universe."

“DID I LIVE?” “DID I LOVE?” “DID I MATTER?”Those are the questions BRENDON BURCHARD asked himself after surviving a horrific car accident when he was 19.  He has spent the last 26 years searching for those ANSWERS.  Those are also a few of the questions we'll try to answer on this week's show.  Brendon's been on before, and so many of you made it one of the most watched episodes ever that I knew it was only a matter of time before I had to have him back.  Since the accident, Brendon has become a 3-time New York Times best-selling author and a thriving online teaching pioneer with videos that have racked up 400 MILLION VIEWS and earned hundreds of well-deserved accolades.To CHANGE means to GROW!In this episode we're going to dive deep into the NATURE OF CHANGE and how factors like AMBITION, DESIRE, NECESSITY, and ESTEEM can drive YOU to change… or not.  He reveals the single GREATEST integrated personal development environment I've ever seen…AND no conversation with Brendon would be complete unless we talk about HIGH PERFORMANCE HABITS and EFFORTS OF IMPACT.  It's GREAT WISDOM…simply great wisdom.Here's a huge takeaway from this week's episode.The QUALITY OF THE QUESTIONS we ask ourselves determines the quality of the LIFE we end up living.Start by seeking answers to the questions Brendon asks, and then KEEP ASKING other questions that matter most to you.

Ecclesiasticus Chapter 1

"LUKE 10:1-11 REFLECTION" Kids Ministry Coffee Break 48: A life of a minister can be tricky. Jesus' instructions to the 72 disciples offers us great wisdom in discerning how we serve our people. I hope you have found some treasure in the passage we are focusing on this week. It's tough to know what to do with these passages at times because they are SO demanding and, seemingly, irrelevant to our own day and practice. But… Some context. For much of Luke's middle portion, Jesus is establishing the parameters for what it is to be a disciple. Jesus has begun the famous Lukan journey to Jerusalem—after the Transfiguration, he sets his sight on Jerusalem and the reminder to the reader that he is ultimately headed there is repeated again and again. Jesus has a task. Jesus is set on completing that task. Along the way he reveals part of the ultimate plan of creating a new Israel, by calling 12 disciples to match the 12 tribes of Israel. He then gives them a new set of instructions on the Sermon on the Plain. Then Jesus encounters religious leader after religious leader. Maybe Pharisees, maybe Bible experts (legal experts/scribes), and even Sadducees. He is always juxtaposing how the life of a disciple is different than the religious leaders they are used to looking up to. As Jesus sends the 72 out, he gives them instructions that are all about NOT benefiting from the work. They can receive a place to stay and food to eat, for a worker deserves their pay, BUT…they are not to be picky. Whoever receives them in a town, they are to stay there and eat the food they prepare. If a more affluent person with better lodging and food offers them a place to stay on day 2, they are NOT to take it. Jesus doesn't want them to be confused with the religious leaders of the day who often expected pay for their presence and work. The work is about offering peace and healing to those who will receive it. If they won't receive it, then move on. How often do we all get caught up in the benefits of our work? Yes, most of the time we shoulder great burdens in ministry, but there are always people who want to offer us benefits beyond the expected. Yes, some people will not receive your peace and healing…because you may not bring what they expected. Yes, we can sometimes be tempted to play games and reap bigger rewards and blessings for what we do. Ministry is tricky. It's wonderful…but it's tricky. Any time we work with people, things have the potential to get more complicated than they have to. Some days you may feel like a lamb among wolves… Others you may feel like a well-attended to disciple of Jesus Christ… No matter what you are feeling and experiencing today in your ministry, trust that you are working for the Kingdom of God which comes to us and through us to those whom we serve. What happens from there is hardly in our control…except how we choose to respond. If you are facing trial today, brush off your feet the unnecessary burdens you may feel drawn to carry due the issues others are trying to place upon you. If you are struggling to discern what issues are yours vs. theirs, seek out help from colleagues and mentors. If you are witnessing blessing today, revel in the joy of serving Christ…and know that this too shall pass. Be blessed my friends. Trust in Jesus and serve the Kingdom no matter what…because the harvest is bigger than we can imagine… and the workers are few. Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford). Music by The Muse Maker

Jeff and Chris are a couple of guys who like to talk about the Bible in simple and practical ways. You can grow as much as you want to grow. Use this daily devotional podcast as a tool to help you grow a little more every day. Jeff Forester and Chris Zarbaugh are both teaching pastors at Heritage Church in southeast Michigan. To hear more from them check out the media archives at heritagechurch.com.

Roger Walsh MD, Ph.D. DHL, is professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology at the University of California. His research focuses on topics such as meditation, psychological wellbeing, wisdom, and our global crises. An early pioneer in the field of Transpersonal Psychology, he is a student, researcher, and teacher of contemplative traditions, and an authorized lama in Tibetan Buddhism. His research and writings have received over twenty national and international awards, and his books include Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices; The World of Shamanism; and The World's Great Wisdom. With John Dupuy, he cohosts the podcast Deep Transformation: Self-Society-Spirit, which is among the top 5% of English language podcasts and has listeners in over 100 countries. Among his more curious careers have been circus acrobat and “an extremely brief and unsuccessful career as a standup comedian.” In this, his second interview on Spirit Matters, we spoke about his podcast, the status of research on spirituality and consciousness, and the relevance of contemplative practice for today's collective challenges. Learn more about Roger Walsh here: www.drrogerwalsh.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Today I want to share with you some wisdom from the late and great, Oswald Chambers. If you haven't read My Utmost for My Highest before, it is a treasure trove of wisdom. I can't totally explain how good the book is, but I do feel like there is so much goodness in it. The question we are pondering today is, do we idealize our habits? Does our relationship with God become stale because we are too focused on “doing” what we should be doing to be a “good Christian?” Now I think that as the Bible tells us, there is balance here. Our walk with God is ultimately going to be a walk of faith (in which works strengthen our commitment to our faith), but we need to be cognizant of when one or the other gets out of balance and pulls us out of God's will. In Oswald's reading, he directly says “Love means that there is no habit visible, you have come to the place where the habit is lost, and by practice you do the thing unconsciously.” What I think is interesting here is that to actually form a habit, you need to get to the point where it really does become second nature. It's not something you have to think about and ruminate over - or something you have to dread. It becomes so ingrained in you. But, in relation to our walk with God, how many times do we get stuck in the “should” instead of just walking with God out of LOVE? I think what Oswald is trying to share with us is, how often do our habits get in the way of actually living in relationship with God? How often do they stop us from being present? I know I have felt like reading a morning devotional was more work than it was a relationship - and while those times that I have grown immensely in my faith, knowledge and relationship with the Lord I have held firm to those habits, I think that we ultimately have to adapt to the seasons. For example, morning devotionals look a lot different with three little kiddos in the home - in fact, time with the Lord might be more about choosing patience and joy with your kids that morning than sitting down to read your Bible for 20 minutes at 6:00 AM. Once again - a total balance, but the perspective is so eye opening in terms of breaking off religion and stepping into relationship. It makes you think how much we complicate our faith, and all we need to do is be present in relationship with God regardless of what it looks like that day. Do you have a desire to build a business that honors what God is calling you to do, but are scared that you won't be profitable or thrive unless you do "what the world does?" If so, the Selah Collective is for you. You will be able to Wildly Create, Launch + Scale your faith-based signature program so you can boldly hit consistent $10k months while staying in courageous alignment with your God-given calling. Applications are open, but there are only 5 spots, so apply now! EPISODE LINKS Don't wait to apply for the Selah Collective! There are only 5 openings this month, we don't want you to miss out. As a Christian Business coach, I have created an amazing community of faith-based entrepreneurs. Check out my free community! Follow Ashley June Co. on Instagram Subscribe and leave a review on Apple & email me a screenshot at team@wildandradiant.com to get a FREE COFFEE

The Book Of The Kings: 1st Kings 3-4 - The Great Wisdom of King Solomon by Shawn Ozbun

Please enjoy this podcast on the subject topic: Use Wisdom! I'm sure after listening to this Podcast, we can agree that Wisdom is so very necessary. In my study time, I've often thought about how God describes wisdom. I laugh because He has mentioned wisdom like a tall, strikingly beautiful, dressed to the nine's woman with a crown of glory on her head. What a remarkable sight to behold. We can look to God to obtain the presence from this beauty for a lifetime to allow her to promote us if we embrace her. We can't deal with relationships without wisdom. We're all on a journey in life, this journey requires wisdom so that we don't get shipwrecked or sidelined. Listen intently and be intentional about asking God for wisdom. Be sure to get an understanding in all your getting in life. Remember that God is available to lead and guide you with His Holy Spirit. Endeavor to reach new heights of wisdom as you age in life and don't for the One who is able to give you Great Wisdom to use. Thanks for tuning in. Tune in every Thursday for Heart Talks and the inspirational message. God Bless and keep you is my prayer. Grace and Peace. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shelly-lockett/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shelly-lockett/support

Jampal Norbu takes a look at the importance of gratitude in life, including gratitude for challenging events and people. The thirteenth verse of lojong, “Meditate upon gratitude towards all”, builds on the twelfth verse which focuses on taking responsibility for one's mind. Adopting a practice of gratitude and responsibility, cultivates a healthy attitude for practice in a volatile world. Theme music by Matt Quentin.

Episode 54: You Can Have An Ultimate Life (Great Wisdom Shared) with Kellan FluckigerClick here to listen to the full episode: www.podbio.me/thebeautifullybrokenmeIn this episode of The Beautifully Broken Me Podcast, I sat down with an amazing guest. He is a highly sort after transformational, business and executive coach. Kellan and I had an amazingly insightful conversation on how to create an ultimate life; its road maps and pathways. Kellan shared some deep truth from his great wealth of wisdom and some of his personal life struggles. This episode will expose you to the deeper truths where you would come to the awareness that you can have an ultimate life if you intentionally choose to.Kellan gave an incredible analogy using rocks as integral part of growth. He said and I quote: "Rocks can be stumbling blocks, or they can be stepping stones and sometimes they're both. Life is a road with bumps and rocks. There are times where these stumbling rocks might lead us to fall, but most of the time, they serve as our stepping stones. In life, there is no such thing as failure. Rather, it is a lesson learned. Never be afraid of the rocks in our lives. For eventually, these rocks will lead us to growth and success". About Kellan:Kellan Fluckiger is a C-Suite Executive Board Member, a Speaker, an ultimate catalyst for personal transformation. He is a Leadership Mentor, a Life and Business Coach, 8-times number 1 Amazon Best Selling Author. Kellan Fluckiger is the host of the Ultimate Life podcast. An incredible podcast with way over 600 podcast episodes and 100s of thousand listeners across the world, whose lives has transformed just by Kellan's incredible message of love, motivation and transformation. Kellan has worked with the State Governors, Senators, Ministers, CEOs, BMI music award winners, Super Bowl winners, Hollywood actresses, philanthropists, policymakers at the highest levels, and those seeking to crack the code to ultimate performance.Kellan is also a Musician, a Producer and a lover of people. Coming through decades of depression, addictions, life-threatening illness and a near-death experience, Kellan has become the ultimate catalyst to help motivate people melt barriers, move mountains and mobilize their superpowers to achieve their truest desires. He has featured in CBS, LA talk radio, Chase Enterprise, The Canada institute, NBC, ABC, Fox news, Maimi Heralds, Huffpost, to mention but a few.Connect With Kellan On:Personal Website: kellanfluckiger.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoachKellanFluckigerWebsite: https://www.kellanfluckiger.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellanfluckiger/Podcast :https://your-ultimate-life-by-kellan-fluckiger.simplecast.com/episodesTwitter: https://twitter.com/KellanFluckigerInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/kellan.fluckiger/Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC08xIdPRo1ZHfyXtnJv1JDAAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kellan-Fluckiger/e/B009EFGGT6%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_sharePodcast called "Your Ultimate Life " with over 600 episodes and counting Connect With Us And All Our Services At:www.podbio.me/thebeautifullybrokenme

It's not that simple.But it helps to simplify —at least in your mind.* * *Before leaving the discussion of systems and analysis modeling, and its application to daily life and Zen practice, it may be worthwhile to delve a bit more deeply into applying the tetrad to both. This exercise, which may feel a bit awkward in the beginning, may help you answer the question as to not what may be wrong with your approach — as we maintain, you cannot really do Zen wrong — but what may not be working as well as it could be, and where that lies within the components and connections of your personal practice. Take a look at the semantic model presented here. We have suggested that the four components of zazen as a method may be defined as posture, breath, attention, and thee. Using the analytical propensity of the intellect may help you clarify the connection between posture and breath as well as breath and attention, et cetera, fostering a more comprehensive grasp of zazen.This entails eliminating the conceptual divide that we usually wedge between creativity and the discriminating mind. But thinking is not the enemy of creativity. Analysis can provide the prompts needed to consider alternative approaches and ways of thinking about zazen or anything else for that matter. The main attitude adjustment is that we drop the typical interpretation that there is a right way to meditate, or to raise children, or to wash the dishes, or make art or music, and that we must learn that way or we will never succeed. Again, reasonable parameters for practice in any field are reasonable, not right as opposed to wrong.Stressing the senses is a common aspect of many of the Buddhist teachings, beginning with the “Heart of Great Wisdom” sutra, in which the Six Senses of ancient Buddhist physiology are listed right up front, following the Five Aggregates, in the context of the principle of emptiness (S. shunyatta):Given emptiness [there is] no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no thinking.Note that the listing of the organs is followed by their experiential functions, indicating that both their physical and experiential manifestation are equally empty of substantial reality. That is, all such differentiated percepts, as well as their receptive mechanisms, are devoid of self-existence, as well as being impermanent and imperfect. But I digress.This traditional sequence arranges the senses from higher to lower levels of the electromagnetic spectrum, but note that mind, the ostensibly highest faculty, comes last, as a kind of catch-all. As I speculate in The Original Frontier, this is probably owing to the fact that the degree of resistance to settling into stillness is at its highest in the monkey mind, followed closely by the body, whereas the other senses tend to be more accommodating to sensory adaptation, given the moderated level of stimulation in meditation.Another pertinent reference to the senses is found in Sekito Kisen's Ch'an poem “Harmony of Sameness and Difference” (J. Sandokai):All the objects of the senses interact and yet do notInteracting they are linked togetherNot interacting each keeps its placeSights vary in quality and formSounds differ as pleasing or harshAnd later a briefer reference to the connection between the sense organs and their objects:Eye and sights, ear and sounds, nose and smells, tongue and tastesZen teaching often simply belabors the obvious. But we take for granted and overlook the wisdom that is inherent in the most seemingly mundane aspects of our experience, such as the six senses. When in actual fact, they are as miraculous as it gets. But again I digress. Getting back to the model, we can look more deeply into the connections between the four major sense realms under observation.Consider the most common of these in the vernacular of philosophy and science, the so-called body-mind duality. In zazen, however, the connection of mind to body, #1–4 in our model, is not at all dualistic in nature. Body and mind are naturally complementary. Mind arises from body, the conventional precedent, which some adherents of spiritualist philosophy might dispute, claiming that the mind exists separately from the body as the ostensible true self, or soul, of theism. But in Zen, body also arises from mind. This assessment is validated by the holistic view of health, in which mental disorders can have a devastating impact on the body, and vice-versa. In this context, zazen appears therapeutic.In zazen, we undergo a kind of sensory adaptation process, which becomes all-encompassing in the long run. But the different senses adapt at different rates, which is why I lump smell and taste, the functions of the nose and tongue, in with the tactile sensations of the body, in this model. Both smell and taste are engaged chemically with ingestion and digestion of food and drink, and the inspiration of breath and its accompanying odors and fragrances. This leaves a simpler model of four main senses as confronted in intensive meditation: feeling, hearing, seeing, and thinking. Remember that thinking, the function of the brain, is considered a sense-realm in Zen, largely automatic, like the others.Thus the mind's function of thinking is given the #1 position in this example, seeing as #2, hearing as #3, and feeling as #4. This sequence proceeds from the most complex but least tangible and most diaphanous realm of thought, through the next most complex, sight; then hearing, then the most tangible and gross level of sensation represented as touch, including the body, mouth and nose. This leads to examining the connections between the four creatively, suggesting implications in zazen:1-2 Thinking that seeing is believing but also incomplete and ever-changing.2-1 Examining vision and visualizing data through pattern recognition and grasping meaning.1-3 Registering sound as “pleasing or harsh,” but also as threatening or comforting.3-1 Surrounding sound fostering or interfering with concentration and assimilation.1-4 Discriminating tactile feelings as pleasurable, painful, neutral or numb, or life-threatening.4-1 Posture affecting alertness and acuity in discerning movement, proprioception, et cetera.2-3 Seeing the image of sound — closing your eyes at the symphony.3-2 Hearing the sounds of sight — watching 4th of July fireworks.2-4 Seeing through touch — finding your keys in the dark.4-2 Feeling with the eyes — sun blindness.3-4 Hearing the sounds of the body — listening to your heartbeat.4-3 Feeling the touch of sound — attending a rock concert.I will leave you with another image to consider, using sight to channel data directly into the mind without passing Go, and not collecting $200. I call this the zazen scaffold, as it visualizes the biological matrix upon which our meditation depends. While zazen reduces action to its most immediate and simplest method — just sit still enough long enough — it does not ignore the context of, for example, karmic consequences over the Three Times; nor does it discount the complexity of what is actually happening all unknown to our consciousness. In the next section we will continue along these lines with yet another variation on the tetrad theme. Meanwhile please put your whole self into zazen. You will gain the power to put your whole self into everything that you do.* * *Elliston Roshi is guiding teacher of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and abbot of the Silent Thunder Order. He is also a gallery-represented fine artist expressing his Zen through visual poetry, or “music to the eyes.”UnMind is a production of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the Silent Thunder Order. You can support these teachings by PayPal to donate@STorder.org. Gassho.Producer: Kyōsaku Jon Mitchell

FEAR…dressed in the guise of safety. From Vaccines to news, how does the world use our emotions, namely fear, to sell us a product or narrative? In this episode, we discuss the concept of fear by using wisdom from three sources: the T.V. show Ice Pilots, and two books, World War Z and A Great Awakening Is Coming! Listen as we dive into a must hear story speaking of a similar thing we have all been living through, known to us as the Covid-19 pandemic, but known to the survivors of WWZ as the rabies pandemic. What wisdoms can we learn from these unlikely sources? NOTES: This podcast uses these sounds from freesound: sounds 1 by deleted_user_96253 (https://freesound.org/s/351304/) Intro/Outro Bumper Music: Evening Melodrama Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 The Wisdom of Dad Joke Music: The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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“The shepherd needs great wisdom and a thousand eyes,” wrote the beloved church father John Chrysostom, “to examine the soul’s condition from every angle.” Chrysostom wrote these words as part of a discussion on the complexity of caring well for others spiritually. Since it’s impossible to force anyone to heal, he emphasized, reaching others’ hearts requires great empathy and compassion. But that doesn’t mean never causing pain, Chrysostom cautioned, because “if you behave too leniently to one who needs deep surgery, and do not make a deep incision in one who requires it, you mutilate yet miss the cancer. But if you make the needed incision without mercy, often the patient, in despair at his sufferings, throws all aside . . . and promptly throws himself over a cliff.” There’s a similar complexity in how Jude describes responding to those led astray by false teachers, whose behavior he describes starkly (1:12–13, 18–19). Yet when Jude turns to how to respond to such grave threats, he doesn’t suggest reacting with harsh anger. Instead, he taught that believers should respond to threats by rooting themselves even more deeply in God’s love (vv. 20–21). For it’s only when we’re deeply anchored in God’s unchanging love that we can find the wisdom to help others with appropriate urgency, humility, and compassion (vv. 22–23)—the way most likely to help them find healing and rest in God’s boundless love.

Don't you love it when you get a package on your step or in your mailbox? Even if it's something I ordered and I know is coming, I still get excited to open it when it arrives! Let's open a small package of wisdom today! I know – that was cheesy, wasn't it? There is joy, even excitement in opening the book of Proverbs when you realize how much meat is in Proverbs for daily life! It's amazing how a book that was written more than 2500 years ago is so helpful for daily life NOW! Tune in for 14 minutes of hope! __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Help us Bring HOPE and Encouragement to Others Texting the word GIVE to 833-713-1591 Website https://www.hopeisheretoday.org/donate Shopping on Amazon, select HOPE is Here as your favorite charity (EIN: 83-0522555) Login through this link > https://smile.amazon.com/ch/83-0522555   

Let's open up another small package of great wisdom from the book of Proverbs today! There are so many practical verses filled with advice for daily living in this book! Racism? It's in here. Posting on social media? Yep, that, too! You didn't know that these things are addressed in Proverbs? Join Greg today as we dig into one of the most practical books of the Bible. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Help us Bring HOPE and Encouragement to Others Texting the word GIVE to 833-713-1591 Website https://www.hopeisheretoday.org/donate Shopping on Amazon, select HOPE is Here as your favorite charity (EIN: 83-0522555) Login through this link > https://smile.amazon.com/ch/83-0522555 

Rev. Dr. Temple Hayes grew up in South Carolina and spent the earlier part of her career as a business owner. Having served three years of military service in the United States Army Reserves, Temple became a Science of Mind minister in 1991 and an ordained Unity Minister in 2007. Described as a prophet and mystic for our times and the new spiritual leader the world needs today, Temple Hayes is a Difference Maker, Spiritual Leader, Author, International Motivational Speaker, Humanitarian, Life Rights Advocate, Shamanic Practitioner, and President and Founder of life changing non-profit organizations.For more information, visit www.templehayes.com. Join Temple weekly on her popular radio show, The Intentional Spirit, with listeners all over the world at: www.unity.fm/program/TheIntentionalSpiritVideo  www.youtube.com/user/TempleHayeshttps://www.facebook.com/TempleHayeshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/temple-hayeshttps://twitter.com/templehayeshttps://www.instagram.com/templehayes/Contact Denise: denise@denisedesimone.com978-407-8107Download helpful PDF's and more - please visitwww.somuchmorethancancer.comSign up for Denise's email at www.somuchmorethancancer.comPurchase Denise's book and CDs, FROM STAGE IV TO CENTER STAGE: at the Books & Pages tab at www.somuchmorethancancer.comFollow Denise:Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeniseDeSimoneInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/desimone1955/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reverend2009 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-desimone-061819b/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-dltxzD_8ZWzEkhDuTGMwQWebsites: www.denisedesimone.com - www.somuchmorethancancer.com 

In “Deciding” Rev. Clairissa looks at The Scripture of Great Wisdom (also known as the Prajñaparamita or Heart Sutra), which points us toward the heart of Buddhism. She considers how this scripture's teaching can help us in making the difficult choices inherent in living, finding our refuge in the Great Wisdom beyond our habitual human ways of thinking.

This Sunday is both the Festival of Manjusri Bodhisattva and the 18th anniversary of the death of Reverend Master Daizui MacPhillamy. In “Great Wisdom From Within” Rev. Clairissa considers the bright mind of meditation, as reflected in the figure of Manjusri (embodiment of Great Wisdom), together with a tribute to the example and teaching of Rev. Master Daizui, who offered so many of us the benefit of his own bright mind and heart. 

Moving during the pandemic can be stressful and these transitions can lead to feelings of loss. Geoffrey Friberg (age11) shares his story of how connecting with friends helped him through this obstacle. In this episode you will learn these “totally rad” tips: How leaning into friendship can help during tough times How knowing your strengths (at any age) can help you through challenges. How being kind to others creates a ripple effect.

Moving during the pandemic can be stressful and these transitions can lead to feelings of loss. Geoffrey Friberg (age11) shares his story of how connecting with friends helped him through this obstacle. In this episode you will learn these “totally rad” tips: How leaning into friendship can help during tough times How knowing your strengths (at any age) can help you through challenges. How being kind to others creates a ripple effect.

Join Andrew Holecek and Roger Walsh MD, PH.D as they discuss a wide range of provocative topics that circumambulate the lucidity principle. They begin with a deep dive into some of the shadow elements that accompany lucid dreaming, and spiritual practice altogether, including spiritual bypassing, nihilism, cosmological dualism, and the “fundamental flaw fallacy.” Roger shares his experience as a psychiatrist and meditation instructor, and the traps that he fell into – and how he got out. Lucid dreaming, the practice of illusory form, and spirituality in general can easily slip into devaluing form, instead of transcending but including form.Dr. Walsh then turns to addiction, stating that we're “addicts by nature,” which dovetails into our unconscious addiction to non-lucidity. The conversation then turns to the extraordinary power of diurnal and nocturnal meditation, and the “trim tab” phenomenon of working with subtle levels of mind. The discussion addresses the tenets of “non-foundationalism,” wake-centricity, and other forms of absolutistic thinking that limit our view of mind and reality. Powerful spiritual techniques lead to wisdom, and applied wisdom expresses itself as compassion – or it is not genuine wisdom. Roger shares how his lifelong study and practice helps him respond to social and global challenges, and how he walks the talk. This remarkable interview ends with a discussion about the inherent goodness in the world, the utter immediacy of liberation, and how we merely need to open the aperture of awareness to reveal the light (lucidity) that is in everything – including our dreams.—Roger Walsh MD., Ph.D. DHL graduated from Queensland University with degrees in psychology, physiology, neuroscience and medicine, before coming to the United States as a Fulbright scholar. He is currently a professor of psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies at the University of California. His research interests include psychological wellbeing, wisdom, and love, practices such as meditation that foster them, and how we can best respond to the social and global challenges of our time. He is a student, teacher and researcher of several contemplative practices. Roger's research and writings have received over twenty national and international awards while his teaching has received eight awards, and he is a University of California Distinguished Writer as well as its Outstanding Physician. His books include Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices, Paths Beyond Ego, as well as The World of Shamanism and the modestly titled book, The World's Great Wisdom. He was formerly a world record holder in high diving and a circus acrobat, and recently graduated from the San Francisco Comedy College and had an extremely brief and unsuccessful career as a standup comedian. For more information, see www.drrogerwalsh.com