Author: The Other Schell
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Due to the influences of our social environment people have forgotten the true essence of time. As far back as I can remember the concept of time was directly related to clock time or dates on a piece of paper called a calendar. In this human made understanding it appears that time is…
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What is more important, exercising love or claiming the certainty of its source? What is more necessary, drinking clean water from a stream or labeling the origin of its flow? What is more essential, eating the tree’s fruit or naming its root? What bears more meaning, working with the visible or claiming to know the…
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Shaping The Present Moment
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It’s like the experience of an adult child who has just blown a soap bubble. As the bubble floats in front of you, you know that if you touch it, it may burst. Yet, you can gently moving the air in the space around it, and while still intact its shape and direction change. Neither…
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I remember sitting on the floor in my 8×13 storage room that I had rented and converted into a bedroom/office in 2013. It had been 13 years since I had attempted to meditate. By meditation I mean sitting still and thinking about nothing. The main motivation for the attempt had nothing to do with believing…
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If you are able to sit still long enough in your meditative practice, clock time eventually dissolves. You smile as thoughts come to mind that try to drag your attention back to the clock. Their attempt to influence you to move from stillness has no effect. The real you has separated from your thought and…
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Take a moment. Close your eyes. Breathe deep. Hold it. Focus on your center. Hold it. Exhale. All of it. The last of it. Hold it. Focus on your center. Now breathe normally. Boom! You have just absorbed the gift of breath and it is pleased to propel you forward. You are no longer the…
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I was approached by a college student from a neighboring Christian University after our meditation. Student: “I don’t like your meditations. You are not praying to God. You are not spreading the message of Jesus to the world as God commanded us to do. You just sit silent.” Me: “The message of Jesus…
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Two things come to mind this morning as I have been of late reviewing Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao Te Ching. One is a conversation I had with my mother many years ago. My mother was hardly a saint but was a tenacious searcher for the truth. She was raised in the Apologetic…
