relax iain.... forcing anything will not make it happen..open your heart and go with the flow...merle
I've never set foot in Tasmania Joe, I live in Scotland so I sadly don't know your friends that you mention. You sound like you have an interesting background though. I have half a high school education plus whatever I've read myself since leaving school back in the late 80's and that's about as academic as I get. Just to reiterate, I'm not the author of the words on the webpage I linked to but I do know the author was, amongst other things, a member of the team that designed the first pacemaker. His chosen field of expertise was electronics. I mentioned the diamond because that diamond found me several months ago quite spontaneously. I entered a state I believe is known in some circles as yoga nidra, my heart beat would stop beating or at least slow down to a few beats per minute. I was fully conscious and moving around while this was happening. Now there are those who can enter this state at will but I can't and as your fond of saying Joe we must practice. It's all very well falling into such a deep meditative state spontaneously but to master it, some sort of practice may be necessary for me. I'm not practicing zen nor have I ever practiced zen, well not formally anyway. I suppose I mentioned the diamond to see what others experiences and knowledge were in relation to the diamond. I'm still wondering where to go next with my experience or should I just leave the experience behind and wait for the next one. Then again, if you don't know what to do, it may be best to do no-thing. Iain. --- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote: > > Iain, > > Sounds like you know some medicine, there, or physiology. > > Oh, but Tasmania, eh? > > Maybe you know my friend, John Tarrant, a Zen teacher now teaching in > California. He hails from Tasmania. > > I also know John's old college roommate, Garry Webb, a mathematician, who > worked for some time in our Lunar and Planetary Lab, in Arizona. Small > world, "...but I wouldn't want to paint it", as the comedian Steven Wright is > wont to say. But Wright had experience as a house-painter, not a landscape > painter, the latter which I've just taken up. ;-) > > Tell us more about the heart search and diamond discovery if you like. I > suppose no need to do the backward search you've alluded to, if the gem or > heart are already established, and gleaming. Lub-dub, or shine-shine, > > --Joe > > > "iain" wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote: > > > > > > PS And, really, let's let Iain tell us which diamond he has in mind > > > ...or, wherever it is. ;-> > > > > > > > Merle is quite right in my view about the diamond being in the heart, the > > physical manifestation of this diamond may well be the sino-atrial node. > > The words linked to below were written by a man who help guide me out of a > > psychosis after I encountered the Buddha by the side of the road. Well I > > actually met the buddha by the side of a crossroads in the dip of a valley > > but that's another story. > > > > http://www.anunda.com/lifestreams/sacred-heart.htm >
