http://www.malahypnotherapy.com/hypnosis/can-you-stop-your-mind-for-2-minutes/103/ Discussing the Evolution of Consciousness and Growth with Spiritual Hypnosis Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:35:18 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.malahypnotherapy.com/hypnosis/can-you-stop-your-mind-for-2-minutes/103/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 Carmel Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:25 +0000 http://www.malahypnotherapy.com/hypnosis/?p=103#comment-1172 Its a Zen Koan, you'll find more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_face. It's an invitation for one to recognize the empty nature of reality by looking beyond the particulars of one's socio-cultural and psychological understanding of self, body, and mind. You can Google "Original Face Zen Koan" and a whole lot of info will come up. I like Zen Koan's though, they help to open the mind and expand it from habitual or conditioned responses to the world and reality... another one would be "Before Enlightenment, chopping wood. After Enlightenment, chopping wood." Its a Zen Koan, you’ll find more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_face. It’s an invitation for one to recognize the empty nature of reality by looking beyond the particulars of one’s socio-cultural and psychological understanding of self, body, and mind. You can Google “Original Face Zen Koan” and a whole lot of info will come up. I like Zen Koan’s though, they help to open the mind and expand it from habitual or conditioned responses to the world and reality… another one would be “Before Enlightenment, chopping wood. After Enlightenment, chopping wood.”

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