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There are several reasons for keeping your eyes open when you practice meditation. With your eyes open, you are less likely to fall asleep. Then, meditation is not a means of running away from the world, or of escaping from it into a trancelike experience of an altered state of consciousness. On the contrary, it is a direct way to help us truly understand ourselves and to relate to life and the world.
Therefore, in meditation you keep your eyes open, not closed. Instead of shutting out life, you remain open and at peace with everything. You leave all your senses - hearing, seeing, feeling - just open, naturally, as they are, without grasping after their perceptions.
- sogyal rinpoche
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reuters is reporting that facial recognition software is getting so good that they can read emotions accurately and judge subtext in communication. it’s time to start developing that poker face, so your ATM will dispense all the cash you’ve asked for…
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tibetan buddhist lineage holders in the nyingma school can marry and raise families. over the last year, my lineage and the ripa lineage have been going through a marriage ‘process’. i say process because there are three wedding celebrations planned and we just had the second of the three this weekend in halifax, nova scotia. it was such a big deal, it magnetized articles in canadian newspapers (here, here and here) as well as a tv clip (requires realplayer) about the ceremony.
pictures from the wedding are also posted on a web site dedicated to sakyong mipham rinpoche’s father, chogyam trungpa rinpoche.
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this is an image from and the view that i had during my april month long meditation retreat. i sat right behind paul, shown here wearing his oh-so-perfect t-shirt that read slow cooked to perfection. we weren’t sure if he chose that shirt for the retreat on purpose, but everyone after a month of stewing in our own juices really appreciated the sentiment.
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