So, today is Monday and I was searching around for rose on google and you came number 3 in the UK, Just thought you would like to know…

Here is an experience of an American Buddhist nun with breathing. Pema Chodron has written a few books on Buddhism. She says:

“I remember when I was first given meditation instruction. It sounds so simple: Just sit down, get comfortable, and bring light awareness to your breath. When your mind wanders, gently come back and stay present with your breath. I thought, ‘This will be easy.’ Then someone hit a gong and I tried it. What I found was that I wasn’t present with a single breath until they hit the gong again to end the session. I had spent the whole time lost in thought.”

In anticipation of the fire element post, here is my comment. It is harder to comment on a post before it is written but I am sure that Rose Goddess will do a great job. In India they say that fire rises so it can join its source which is the sun. Of course this is a myth since at night it rises and goes away from the sun.

But the sun is the source of fire. Rocks and dirt do not burn. Only organic things that were or are alive burn. Oil comes from dead things. If you grow a plant for 5 days and burn it, you will get the fire from 5 days of stored sunlight. That is not much.

But if you burn a 300 year old tree, then the fire from that is from 300 years of stored sunlight. So now we are burning thousands of years of stored sunlight every single day.

Decades ago everyone in China walked or rode a bike. Now they are making cars at a faster rate than ever in America. So feel free to use any of this in your post if you want. I did not make it up but got it from an impressive article in a magazine.

He also says (page 245) “The German word for breathing– atmen– is derived from the ancient Indian (Sanskrit) word Atman, the indwelling divine spirit or God within.” I would translate Atman as soul. I would also say that when you breath, God is speaking His Word inside of you.

On 246 Tolle says “Whenever you are conscious of your breath, you are absolutely present. You may notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.” This sub-chapter in his book (4 pages) is called The Breath. I say that the breath is the Word of God. What do you, Jesus and Tolle have in common? You breathe all the time during your life in this body.

At one time it meant ‘happy’ so with that usage you can say that Rose is gay in the video. But then it changed to mean ‘homosexual’. If you confuse them, then you get things that make no sense. Now in the bible there is a famous line that makes no sense. It also uses a word that if you look up what this word means in the bible, it says that scholars disagree on what this word really means.

The line is (Jesus was fasting), “Man does not live by bread alone but by every word of God.” So the word that I was talking about above is “word.” Of course it cannot mean words in the bible because people were alive before the bible was written. Also the bible has many words, not one word.

On Christmas Day (2009) the movie, Sherlock Holmes, opens. Sherlock Holmes says “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” Word! Word up!

Do you think that people who have never read a word of the bible cannot live more than 5 minutes? What can you not live without for more than 5 minutes? Air. That is what this post is about.

Now let us put in the correct word for current English. “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every breath he takes (receives from God).” Now that statement that Jesus says makes sense, and it is profound. Air is much more important than food or water. Medicine says that without air for more than 5 minutes, your brain dies. The exception is if you are in a frozen lake.

Now pregnant people have more trouble breathing. The same happens when you eat too much food. But when you have fasted for a few days then there is much more room in the lower abdomen and breathing becomes much fuller.

So for 40 days Moses and Jesus lived off of air alone or air and water alone. I live a block from a creek and woods. Once I go into the woods (forest) I just have to follow the path. In there, the only thing that you can see are trees. But the oxygen content in the woods are higher since the trees make most of the oxygen in the air.

My friend moved from Philadelphia suburbs to Arizona since it is much warmer there and a lot less humid. But he says that he can feel the lack of oxygen there due to the lack of trees compared to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania means Penn’s woods (as in William Penn). At one time all the land in Pennsylvania was owned by Penn.

There is a lot of information from ancient India about why the bible refers to the word of God or the name of God. The most popular book in India is the story of Rama (Ramayana). Rama is God in human form. The book is all about how great Rama is. But in the beginning it explains why the Name of Rama is greater than Rama. Note that Rama’s Name or the Name of Rama is not ‘Rama.” It is really referring to the sound, word or name that an in-and-out breath makes.

My parents are using the neti pot every morning! All of their friends do too, I can’t believe it… They totally feel a difference.

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