http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ Collection of Thoughts Topic: The Tibetan Art of Living en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:54:42 +0000 http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1458#post-28366 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:09:25 +0000 abstractprophet 28366@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>Cool stuff thanks shin</p> <p>I am reading a book at the moment called "Gods of Eden" which is about the use of technologies in ancient times that are thus far beyond what we use currently.</p> <p>Anyways, there is a passage in the book that tells a story of a Sweedish doctor who was invited to witness something by a Tibetan friend. What he witnessed was a group of Monks who moved stone blocks from the ground up to a cave in the side of a mountain using sound.</p> <p>Is quite a fascinating read </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1458#post-28365 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:35:40 +0000 shin 28365@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>"Most people equate happiness with an obvious absence of suffering. This is not happiness, but a lack of problems. Often, however, we do not belief that there is a deeper happiness." </p> http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/topic/1458#post-28364 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:30:31 +0000 shin 28364@http://collectionofthoughts.com/bbpress/ <p>I picked up this book at the fleamarket and find it fascinating, going back to the pre-Buddhist area of Tibetan shamanism. It has many different insights, and it just has a different quality compared to the 'normal' spiritual books. </p> <p>I'll post some of them over the next few days but to start with a wonderful passage.</p> <p>"That night I heard the songs of the earth and the elements. The words talked of what we are made of, where we came from and where we are going to. Of how things are. They were songs of wisdom, a wisdom that lies at the foundation of all humanity.<br /> All living things can hear that wisdom. They knew the song my teacher was singing that night. They knew it because they were the words and the wisdom. We know the song, too. Because we are the words. We are the wisdom."</p> <p>Christopher Hansard<br /> "The Tibetan Art of Living" </p>