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Blurbs from my heart #3

October 22, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Even though we experience our own view as the right view it is good to realize that it is certainly not the only right view.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: good, Heart, Inspiration, Personal, right, view

6 things you always wanted to know about spiritual awakening

October 22, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon 1 Comment

This blog has been online now for about a week and I received from different people similar questions The questions were something along the lines of: “What is life like after an experience of transformation?”. I can tell you how it was for me. After the introduction I will try to answer a couple of those questions.

The spiritual language doesn’t really make sense until you have had some sort of mystical experience yourself. And before I had mine I felt huge resistance against people who spoke about “becoming whole”, “coming home”, “dropping the self” or “a deep letting go”. But after the experience I realized that these terms actually make a lot of sense…

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Insight, Liberation, Life, Personal, Transformation, Wholeness

Before you die, please live a little

October 14, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

“Before you die, please live a little”. It is a quote from Hojo-san, the younger brother of my Dharma grandfather Maezumi Roshi and also a zen master. It is very good advice. Sometimes we forget that our existence has created for us the opportunity to celebrate life. Yes, celebrate it! This is your chance, this is your moment! You are here on this planet, you are breathing, it’s an amazing miracle to be alive. And because a YouTube video says more than a thousand words:

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Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Death, Joy, Life, Video, Wholeheartedness, Wisdom

Blurbs from my heart #2

October 13, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

You are a lot less limited than you think you are.

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Why not leaping into the blogosphere naked?

October 8, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon 1 Comment

Leap of faith

When I write this post this blog is not online yet. I feel that I’m postponing, hesitating to take the leap. Why am I afraid? It’s the fear of being naked in front an invisible audience, an audience composed of strangers and/ or people that know me very well. But also the fear of being naked in front of no audience at all. How embarrassing to scrape your courage together, take off all your clothes, walk on stage and reveal yourself.. to find out nobody came to watch.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Blogging, Fear, Heart, Honesty, Masks, Naked, Personal, Social Media

Blurbs from my heart #1

October 6, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Sometimes the Universe pats us on the shoulder unexpectedly. To remind us that life is good.

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Enlightened Faces #1 Suzuki Roshi

October 1, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Suzuki Roshi

Filed Under: Basic Goodness, Enlightened Faces Tagged With: Beautiful, Compassion, Honesty, Wisdom, Zen

Masquerade

September 27, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

This is a beautiful video. It speaks for itself, really. Made by an art student as his graduation project. I find it a very reassuring feeling that a young guy uses his skills to attempt to deliver such a profound message. Click and watch and let me know what’s your feeling.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Beautiful, Fear, Liberation, Masks, Video, Vulnerability

Boundaries

August 27, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

I have a strange relation with boundaries. When I started my search at 29 it was because I was finally hearing the feedback I wasn’t able to hear before. In the eyes of others my ‘problem’ was that I was not respectful of their boundaries. My problem was that I didn’t know what the hell they were talking about.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Boundaries, Compassion, Courage, Honesty, Insight, Karma, Personal, Wisdom

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