Subj : Comments...Meditation Tip
To   : All
From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Sat Jun 09 2001 11:07 pm

          The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 08, 2001
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            The most essential method, which includes all methods, is 
        beholding the mind.
    
                                            Boddhidharma
   

   Robin:  We are mental beings. Our identity is not physical but 
        mental. In a sense, the physical and mental are one. The body 
        and mind, as we usually experience them are not two but a 
        unity.
               So, when we 'behold the mind,' we are really engaging 
        the totality, the all of what we are.
            Boddhidharma was the man in legend who brought Buddhist 
        teachings from India to China and started the Dhyaha school 
        of meditation, which became Cha'an in China and finally Zen 
        in Japan.
               So, here we are. The world is born anew each day. There
        is no past to drag along with it. And we too are reborn 
        daily. 
               Whether young or old, we really are not who went to 
        bed last night. That 'self' is dead and gone. So let go, just
        let go, let go......
               Embrace, if you will, the daybreak. You are the light of 
        the world, and if you don't know this, then this is the 
        lesson you came to learn.
               And if you are lonely and hopeless, I will hold your 
        hand. I have known loneliness and hopelessness, so I 
        understand how you feel.
               I love you....I love you with all my heart and soul. 
        And I will not abandon you, not ever!
               I promise you that if you call on my name, I will be 
        there for you. In the name of the God and Goddess, we cannot 
        fail to be there for each other! 
           There is no time not to love.
   
   
 

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