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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/5/2008 8:40:09 AM

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"Forget not the central truth that God is seated in your own heart. Don't be disheartened by failures at initial stages. Cultivate the spirit of surrender to the workings of his will, inside you and outside you, until you have completely surrendered up your ego-sense and have known that he is in all, and he is all, and you and he are one. Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome – all by his help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration."
- Swami Ramdas

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/5/2008 11:09:45 AM

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Dear RJ
thanks and manyBlessings for this post today At times in our chaotic lives seeing and hearing these written words can help us refocus that is what this gave me Life has been in chaotic transition for me of late nad my health has been responding with chaos however the silence of being without a voice has helpe dme to say over and over again God's name....Blessings RJ

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/5/2008 2:43:44 PM

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Thank you, Richard, for this beautiful post! I would only add that I would call God's help "grace"! I don't believe my own efforts alone can bring me to that state of God-consciousness.

Edda

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/6/2008 8:18:17 PM

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Good Point, but you do have to meet it by making the connection in silence

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/18/2008 8:42:12 AM

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                                      EMPTINESS

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/18/2008 10:06:42 PM

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Richard, is there really complete emptiness? Or is it a space filled with what we cannot name?

In everyday life we talk about a glass half empty. Empty of what? It may be half filled with water, but the other half is filled with air!

Edda

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/24/2008 7:58:48 AM

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The body of reality is pure as empty space. But emptiness is not empty and existence does not exist. Existence basically does not exist; people themselves become attached to existence. Emptiness is basically not empty; people themselves become attached to emptiness. Pure liberation is apart from existence and emptiness, without contrived actions, without concerns, without abiding, without attachment. Within Nirvana, not a single thing is created. This is the contemplation of enlightenment.

- Records of the Lanka (Daily Zen, July 24/08)

In the heart sutra we read: "Form is not emptiness, emptiness is not form; Form is exactly emptiness, emptines is exactly form. And, so it goes for all other phenomenae" It is this paradox that allows life to exist; and flourish. We have but to enjoy the illusion.

'Be still and know that I am'

gassho, namaste, blessings ( whichever is your bias ), rj

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/29/2008 6:36:57 AM

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IT IS ALL VERY SIMPLE

Each of us has only one soul to fix ...
Each of us has only one heart to heal ...
Each of us has only one head to clear ...

our own.

But we need all of us.

Without one, there is disorder ...
Without one, there is imperfection ...
Without one, there is a hole in harmony ...

no whole.

It is all very simple.
We all matter.

http://www.janetsmithwarfield.com/

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RE: Meet me in the Zendo - 7/29/2008 4:30:41 PM

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Richard, thank you for posting this website. It provides so much very powerful questioning following Francis of Assisi--let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. Prayers continue for Louise. May she have a total recovery with no need for additional surgery.

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