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Thank you

January 10, 2011 By Atalwin Pilon 4 Comments

I’m thinking now “what have I learned today?” because it feels that I haven’t learned anything, that I’m merely letting you know I’m just happy. But on second thought I realize that I am harvesting now. I have said before that happines is not something we should strive for, it is a side effect caused by living from the heart. So I guess I’m letting you know that now and then everything falls into place and meditation, writing, yoga, being honest and trying to serve as good as one can lead to having a very beautiful day. And I wish to thank you for that. Because without you, the Universe would be incomplete.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Bali, good, Heart, Joy, Love, Personal

How and where to start your path

January 9, 2011 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

We are about to leave Lebongan and packing our bags. Mostly, we just had a lazy time, but with beautiful moments and nice conversation. When we left Scallywags (best restaurant in Lebongan, do not go to Indiana’s, the self-proclaimed 3 Michelin star chef is an imposter) we just knew that it was time to move on. I always find that an interesting phenomenon: that we just know when a conversation or phone call had ended. How do we know that? Anyway, this was something similar. We will be heading to our next destination in a couple of hours.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Bali, Heart, Honesty, Liberation, Life, Meditation

Surrender

January 7, 2011 By Atalwin Pilon 4 Comments

Just a couple of moments ago she walked up my balcony and give me a long and warm hug. She shared with me tht she went to a spa this morning where she had a massage. During this massage she had started crying. She hadn’t cried in over a year. Now she came over to thank me. She also told me she that it felt scary and dislodging but also real and right. Her eys were softer and her breathing relaxed and deep. She felt that this was only the beginning. But she told me she knew what to do: to surrender.

She just made my day. I love these little miracles. Thank you.

Filed Under: Basic Goodness Tagged With: Bali, Beautiful, Healing, Heart, Transformation, Vulnerability

Enlightened Faces #4 The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh

November 29, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Basic Goodness, Enlightened Faces Tagged With: Beautiful, Compassion, good, Heart, Mindfulness, Wisdom

A Sincere Voice

November 18, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon 3 Comments

It is nice to find awareness in unexpected places. In a newspaper, for example. In today’s Volkskrant I found a background story behind a new movie “Des Dieux Et Des Hommes”. It depicts the true story of seven Trappist monks who choose not to flee from their remote Algerian monastery when the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) Muslim order the exile of all foreigners in 1996. The brave monks do not want leave the Algerian villagers behind, with whom they have been living for decades and for who the monastery serves as a hospital. The expected consequence is that they will be killed. And that’s what happened.

In the newspaper article the 73 year old Brother Armand Veilleux is interviewed. This Belgian monk was the last one who saw his fellow monks alive. Now what I would like to share today is not about the movie (although I believe we all should see it) but the words of this monk. He tells the journalist that he was very much against the idea of making a movie about this terrible incident but feels that “the result is excellent”. “It is a very correct vision on what happened there. I think it is wise that the director doesn’t make implications about who killed the brothers. Indirectly, the movie will contribute to finding the one’s who are guilty”.

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Enlightened faces #3 Lama Konchog

November 11, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

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Enlightened faces #2 Ramana Maharshi

October 25, 2010 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

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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

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

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