Kalama Sutta
Kalama Sutta, a Buddhic Teaching on my string of pearls. May it serve you on your spiritual journey as it has mine. (It’s a discourse of the Buddha contained in the Anguttara Nikaya of the Tipitaka.) Melanie
Soul Dialogue
In September of 2019, I created this audio Soul Dialogue for those who were attending a Soul Retreat with me in December 2019. Since then, many have found it helpful for meditation and asked me to share it again… May the beauty within Soul Dialogue leave you inspired with its blessings. ?Melanie
Reiki – Working with a Positive Message to the Subconscious Mind
In the audio post below, I’ve taken the Nentatsu-ho technique on page 132 of Hiroshi Doi’s A Modern Reiki Method for Healing and expanded it.
Knowing the Source of Our Actions
Seek not the transcendent within one’s self. Seek the immanent presence of your divine self. An audio blog:
We’re Back
melaniechong.com has been resurrected, thanks to Thom! Thom Forbes was my partner in getting melaniechong.com visible. He set up the site in 2013, maintained it with generosity of spirit and the expertise of his profession as an editor and journalist. The date of the last blog post was August 2018. Here we are in June …
Teach/Remind Me To Love ?
?What will it take to know??? was recently added as the tagline to melaniechong.com.?It serves as a companion to ?the healing energies of love? essay on the home page. I was reminded of the phrase, ?don?t put the cart before the horse? when I contemplated this pairing. How? Keeping it as simple imagery, the horse …
Enzymes?
I found myself contemplating how an understanding of the way that biological enzymes function in metabolism would shed light on Valentin Tomberg?s teaching on ?spiritual enzymes? in Meditations on the Tarot, A Journey into Christian Hermeticism. He also refers to them as spiritual exercises. Here is one definition of biological enzymes I found: ?They are …
Such Is the Way of Inspiration
Are you wasting or squandering your life force in unwholesome mental states? Recognize what it is, make the corrections or adjustments, and move on. Ask yourself the important question, ?Is this worth my life energy or is there something better?? Remember, what you resist persists.?So: Do the analysis; Make a decision; If you need help, …
Life
Life. God is life. God gave me life. I am powerless to destroy it. What will it take for me to know this immutable truth with unshakeable confidence?
The Healing Energy of Love Is Speaking
I recently began to look into the Ho’oponopono healing of the Hawaiian tradition and found it reflecting beautifully the healing energy of Love. I have listened to videos of Aunty Mahealani and the more structured presentations of Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. Both teachers?have gifts. Aunty brings an understanding that is a less structured/right brain experience; …