Experiencing The Spiritual: Dialogue with Paul Hedderman and Jason Magnon

So What Is This?

Welcome. And thank you for visiting. What we have chosen to share is an informal and unstructured account of our own spiritual observations, experiences, and perspectives. We are not claiming to be authorities, or even to be "right." about anything. Our goal is to carry out this project with humility and respect. We hope you will participate and share your experiences as well. This is a project, an attempt to express the inexpressible as it has manifested in our lives. Here, we hope there will compile a vast array of ideas, observations, and experiences that all pertain to the spiritual path upon which you and all of us are both traveling (sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously). This forum is wide open, and we encourage your participation and feedback. These posts will be personal and spontaneous. They might inspire you, elate you, and touch you deeply... or they might do nothing at all. It's possible that some stuff will challenge you or make you uncomfortable. That can be a good thing, though it's not necessarily our aim. Whatever the effect may be, we hope it is a positive one, and that you grow in consciousness and live in the greatest of peace. Thanks for joining us, and be well.

With love,

Jason, Kathryn, and Ward

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Dialogue with Paul Hedderman and Jason Magnon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay4XO4TWmxI

It was a privilege to have this conversation, and in the end... I just realized how very little I know ;)
[but... who is it that doesn't know... and what don't they know??? Hah!]

Enjoy. And please don't forget to check out www.zenbitchslap.com for more from Paul.

Thank you,
Namaste,

Jason

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An Inexhaustible Database of Quotes

We will be changing and updating these regularly, so come back to see what has been said by the teachers and masters of the past and present.

Jason's picks:

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -Carl Jung

"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."

"It is your mind that creates this world."

"Be a lamp unto yourself" -Siddhartha Gautama

"Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love."

"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult- once we truly understand and accept it- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."

-M. Scott Peck, MD

"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be."

"The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal."

"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now."

"Love is all there is."

-from the series of books, Conversations with God

[I would copy the entire book if I wasn't careful... too much profundity and truth to narrow down into a few sentences]

"There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all,

beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.

This is the Light that shines in our heart." -Chandogya Upanishad

"Jesus said, 'When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same... then you will enter the Kingdom of God.'" -from The Gospel of Thomas

"Thine own consciousness, shining, void and inseparable from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth and no death and is the Immutable Boundless Light."

-from The Tibetan Book of the Dead

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Science without Religion is lame, Religion without Science is blind."

-Albert Einstein

"Reality is not what's happening, it's what we think is happening"

"There is no Chosen One. We are all able, we all are chosen, and the question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?"

"Once you figure out how the mind works, you will become very clear that you are not your mind- and with that knowledge will come the gradual disassembling of the ego in its present form." -Neale Donald Walsch

"Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that."

"There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being. Eventually we see that we are the limitless, boundless ground of the universe. Our job for the rest of our life is to open up to that immensity and to express it."

-Charlotte Joko Beck

"For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality." -Osho

"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." -Yasutani Roshi

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Dialogue with Paul Hedderman and Jason Magnon

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