http://just-be-it.com Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:24:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're excited for our last performance of the year at Washington Square Bar and Grill in White Bear Lake.  It's a celebration in honor of the season of light, the arrival of winter, and the swing of sun/earth alignment to longer days.  So come on out for the best pre-Christmas ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/12/winter-solstice-with-ride-at-the-square-dec-22-9pm/ In life, we can face the moment or try to dodge it.  We can commit to being ‘here, now’ or we can try to ignore the moment.  Our restless mind is continually pulling us from ‘being here’.  We can be caught in thoughts of the past or we can be ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/12/cest-la-viesuch-is-life/ After suffering the agony of WWI, the US Congress set aside 11/11 as a day of pause.  In 1938 it was designated Armistice Day, a day to lay down arms in pause to reflect upon the loss and grief from war.  The pause was later dedicated to the loss of ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/11/armistice-day/ Just as the moon is full, may your day be filled with ‘One-der full’ moments. In celebration of One, taking pause from the pain of notions of two. To heal, to be whole, from the pain of two. Yoga...to yoke...to be in union, connected. Armistice...to lay down arms, opening hearts in faith, hope, and ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/11/one-der-full-moments/ Tomorrow marks a shifting moment.  There’s an opportunity to deepen in our notions of ‘two’ or deepen our awareness of One.  We can expand our circle of belonging or diminish it.  We can sharpen our sword or open our arms.  We can be carried away by repeating thoughts from the ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/11/intensifying-the-social-trance-or-waking-to-one/ The non-dualistic traditions speak to the interconnection of all things, to the illusion of ‘other’.  Even when we get to the core of most religions, the proponents advised us to love one another as ourselves, even our perceived enemies.  Our suffering is fueled by the illusion that we’re separate.  We ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/11/111111-from-a-non-dualistic-perspective/ Cultivating deep abiding in: Just here. Just this. As opposed to the suffering in: Just there. Just that. We need to express what we feel we are, our beauty. And, yet, we don’t know who we are.  Ahhh, the mystery. Love is what’s found in the space between generosity and gratitude. People ask, “So why meditate?” One answer is, ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/11/a-few-recent-insights/ The source of our restlessness can be found in our difficulty facing uncertainty.  We are drawn to create an object of desire.  This attachment creates anxiety about the inevitable felt loss we face as the Law of Impermanence works on us.  Yet, when All is subject, we are humbled in ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/10/subjectify-everything/ We human beings are pretty complicated.  It seems neuroscientists are discovering more and more how we move between a variety of consciousness states.  I recently heard one use an analogy to the discord in our political system. He said it was like we each had a variety of political parties ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/10/under-the-influence/ Where does our suffering come from?  Isn’t it because we ‘think’ we’re separate?  Isn’t it because we’re caught in our resistance to change?  Isn’t it because we’re drawn to the illusion of duality over the reality of our interdependence?  And isn’t our peace found in touching stillness, feeling the interdependent ... http://just-be-it.com/2011/10/111111/