Cary Bayer


Cary's latest writings
Accentuate the Positive

“You’ve got to accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with Mister In-between.”— Johnny Mercer What was true in the legendary hey day of Broadway’s Tin Pan Alley is as true today in the new millennium. If you want a transformation in, say, your finances, you must remove the resistance to prosperity that festers in the Unconscious part... (posted by Cary 1 year 154 days ago.)
A Basketball Fan Lets go of his Attachment

“He who has no undue fondness towards anything, who neither exults nor recoils on gaining what is good or bad, his intellect is established."   -- Krishna, The Bhagavad-Gita I’ve taught hundreds of people how to meditate as Krishna taught in The Bhagavad-Gita .   I’ve even taught others how to teach meditation and lose their worldly attachments.   So I must confess, as game 7 of the NBA Finals between... (posted by Cary 1 year 343 days ago.)
The Zen Teachings of Cats

Life teaches us lessons in myriad ways. I absorbed some important ones the other night at a gathering of a dozen conscious folk. But it wasn’t their chants that taught me; it was the hostess’s cat. She was a pretty long hair with lovely green eyes, whose grace and self-esteem imparted life lessons wordlessly. Amidst meditations, prayers and philosophy, the real buddha was teaching Feline Yoga. It was the regal bearing of little... (posted by Cary 3 years 342 days ago.)
Mom's Alzheimer's-My Mother, The Now

LIFE 101 This is a happy story, though don’t be surprised or disappointed if it brings a tear or two to your eyes. It concerns my 88-year-old mother, who lives in a nursing home in Dallas and who’s now among the most present people I’ve ever known. She also happens to have Alzheimer’s Disease; note the word have, rather than suffers from. Mom enjoys the moment, even if it’s a visit from her son who she... (posted by Cary 4 years 209 days ago.)