Enough baloney is what I meant to say. I just don't have enough baloney is what's obvious here.

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Mathias,
My best quality, if I must say so myself, is that I am the most detached chick you ever met. I learned years ago about the pain associated with attachment when I made a major move and watched two business partners destroy each other. I learned how when you attach yourself, you get hurt. Then I lost my house, was sued for no reason, was hornswaggled and all while my only child was entering school. Seemed that my environmental project of restoring the shoreline and having turtles hatching and golden slippered egrets repopulating really pissed somebody off too.
I watched my only peer family member crash into a pole and was quickly put into an ambulance and then disappeared. I practiced detachment and was able to sleep quite well that night. I witnessed several other crashes and also practiced detachment. I have moved 17 times, also practiced detachment. Went to alanon, the people sat there with their mouths open and then said, Um, we really have nothing to say after that. (That was the time I came home to my house being epoxied shut, the human being epoxied, dog epoxied, etc.
Nah, I have detachment. I just don't have ENOUGH.
Want to laugh? I have intense cravings for baloney! You'd think I'd have had enough by now! Cheers, Janine :) pss I love Rodney Yee AM PM yoga for the times when you are so numb that you can only manage to do a tape. Also, Harvard Divinity School's Relaxation Tape for when you have so much trauma you get lockjaw. Namaste

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Mathias,
My best quality, if I must say so myself, is that I am the most detached chick you ever met. I learned years ago about the pain associated with attachment when I made a major move and watched two business partners destroy each other. I learned how when you attach yourself, you get hurt. Then I lost my house, was sued for no reason, was hornswaggled and all while my only child was entering school. Seemed that my environmental project of restoring the shoreline and having turtles hatching and golden slippered egrets repopulating really pissed somebody off too.
I watched my only peer family member crash into a pole and was quickly put into an ambulance and then disappeared. I practiced detachment and was able to sleep quite well that night. I witnessed several other crashes and also practiced detachment. I have moved 17 times, also practiced detachment. Went to alanon, the people sat there with their mouths open and then said, Um, we really have nothing to say after that. (That was the time I came home to my house being epoxied shut, the human being epoxied, dog epoxied, etc.
Nah, I have detachment. I just don't have ENOUGH.
Want to laugh? I have intense cravings for baloney! You'd think I'd have had enough by now! Cheers, Janine :) pss I love Rodney Yee AM PM yoga for the times when you are so numb that you can only manage to do a tape. Also, Harvard Divinity School's Relaxation Tape for when you have so much trauma you get lockjaw. Namaste

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Right on Bob, cool reply.
Years ago I read an interview. Mother Theresa was the person being interviewed. She mentioned in the second half of her life something about wondering where God was anymore. It was either in Newsweek or Time. Sometimes, I'm thinking the same thing.

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Janine K,

Namaste. You are already well along your road toward enlightenment right now.

You have developed a keen sense of community with your fellow human beings that motivates you to serve others even when they are unappreciative. You are expressing some entirely understandable resentment at others' lack of appreciation, and yet you also continue to resist the pull toward indulging in the same kind of selfish behavior that you observe in them. You identify strongly with the billions of "people out there suffering at the hands of" others who are less enlightened than yourself. Neither they nor you are suffering alone.

Please note that I'm not trying to define you, only to reflect back to you the impression I'm getting from your excellent post.

I feel that the work you are doing right now -- toiling to take good care of your family, friends, and community; striving to overcome the effects of the widespread cruelty, carelessness, and self-absorption of so many of our fellow human beings; and struggling mightily with your own feelings of resentment -- this is all Good Work. It is intensive Karma Yoga.

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Dear Janine,
It is not about anyone else. It is about you. If you are "suffering", I suggest that you take a look into Buddha's 4 Noble Truths. To paraphrase, "In order to end suffering, one must renounce attachment". If you are attached to the outcome, then you will suffer the outcome. Good or bad. Namaste, dear one.

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"...unity is possible for anyone, starting from wherever you happen to be."

Only you can change your perspective on life, Janine.

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Hey Bob? Poppycock! I think that you might be in a good place. Will you be in a good place and still feel the same say if the fickle finger of fate dips into your enlightened world? Glad you feel good. I think there are a lot of people out there suffering at the hands of people who are so used to taking and not giving that it's pathetic. I think there are a whole slew of women who are wanting to be enlightened but they are too busy taking care of the world. Namaste
ps I so want to enlighten myself from all the stuff I do for people who just expect it with no love in return. I do think the 9/11 crowd would like to be enlightened too. Double Namaste

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There are many pathways leading us toward unity. Practicing one (or more) of the Four Yogas is such a pathway, and it is an excellent and elevated one for any soul who is ready to take it.

The lower slopes of the foothills are full of winding pathways meandering around here and there. Some are stony, some full of thorns, but they all are converging by whatever circuitous routes, all leading people eventually and ultimately toward unity. In general they require a more extensive investment in lives and trouble than the pathway of the Four Yogas.

Lest we judge those still struggling along those thornier and more convoluted paths in the lowlands of spiritual confusion, it is good to remind ourselves from time to time that each such struggling soul is but our own self at a less enlightened and more difficult stage of our own journey.

So please have mercy upon them, for they know not what they do.

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For me Gyana or Jyana Yogi is one of the more important as well as one of the tougher yogas to practice. Here is some quotes on Jyana Yoga from one of my teachers:

"Of the four major pathways to self-realization, Jyana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult. To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes. The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things. We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self. There is nothing but God."

Question everything; look deep inside why the things you encounter in life give you great joy or great sorrow. Jyana Yoga can be a great tool to help you peel away the layers of ego that keep you from seeing the truth; from finding true freedom.

Recognition is Liberation!

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