Subj : Meditation Tips and Daily Wisdom Comments
To   : All
From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Sat Jun 09 2001 12:11 am

Remember pple, this is something a bloke I respect does regularly. I don't 
agree with _everything_ he said but it'd be interesting as a conversation 
starter...

  Rai

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         "Action may not always bring happiness;
            but there is no happiness without action."
 
                                         - Benjamin Disraeli
  
 Robin:     Disraeli was the diplomat's diplomat, a Jew who attained 
        prominence in an anti-Semitic sociey, the England of Queen 
        Victoria. He was not known for philosophical commentary, but 
        he was clearly not so superficial as most who hold such 
        office these days tend to appear.
            So, about action....Can we hold heartfelt views and be
        complacent? Do not the views we hold demand we act on them?
            We discuss things online, but then we go back and watch 
        television or sit before the computer monitor and do nothing,
        nothing at all.
           What is wrong with this picture?
 
 


             The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 05, 2001
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     Once a person has stopped discrimination, banished delusion, and
  ended the trick of thought, he will be full of inner peace and there
  is naturally the state of nothingness.
 
                                                Zenji
 
 Robin:     This state of 'nothingness' is simply to be free. It means, there 
        is no one to protect, nothing to defend, simple emptiness. We generate 
        a 'self' out of our judgments, our taking of positions. But this is 
        a false self, an ego made of nothing but positioning. Can this then 
        be all that we are? If it is, how very sad...
            Taking insight, we go beyond the surface. We arrive at a placeless 
        place, a timeless time. We let go of ego, all ego, even a hint of ego, 
        and we become free.
            Still, as Alan Watts said, "Egoless beings may have very strong 
        personalities."
            By letting go of the false, we invite the real to fill us up. In 
        the light of the real, the false is shined away as a dingy shadow 
        in the light of day. Then we have more, not less, self. It is rather 
        amazing.
 
 
  

--- Msged/2 4.00
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