Subj : Commentaries on Daily Wisdom & The Meditation Tip of the Day To : All From : Rachel L. Akers Date : Sun Jun 10 2001 11:31 pm Ok Oldie but I'm trying to catching up dailywisdom@yahoogroups.com "The greatest lesson you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return." --quote from the new motion picture "Moulin Rouge" Robin: This is a line, a lyric, from a song. I suppose the film used it with permission, as the song's been around for some time. It is equally hard to be loved as to love, maybe even more difficult. We yearn for love, some of us, and we settle for a bargain. "If you love me, I will love you." But love is not 'let's make a deal,' it is the core essence of life and it is what lends meaning to our brief span on the Earth, so without it there is none. Yes, we may be great and famous, accomplish deeds that will make it into the histories, wow the audiences at a concert or a play, become movie stars or authors of distinction. Yet, if these pursuits lead not to love they lead nowhere. "Teach only love, for that is what you are." (A Course in Miracles) And all else we might teach is but a lie. meditationtip@yahoogroups.com The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 04, 2001 -------------------------------------------- If you really want to know yourself, you will search out your heart and your mind to know their full content and when there is the intention to know, you will know. Then you can follow, without condemnation or justification, every movement of thought and every feeling as it arises; by following every thought and every feeling as it arises you bring about tranquility which is not compelled, not regimented, but which is the outcome of having no problem, no contradiction. It is like the pool that becomes peaceful, quiet, any evening when there is no wind; when the mind is still, then that which is immeasurable comes into being. J. Krishnamurti Robin: Listen to "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead, read Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. You will see that peace is in the still mind, only there. One can find peace on the battlefield, as did Arjuna at Kurukshetra, in the Bhagavad Gita. But it ain't easy. We need to hear the divine voice guiding us in stillness and underneath the tumult and the horror of the movie we look upon. Yet, we have fixated on the surface of the ocean, 'full of sound and fury' while ignoring the peace of the depths. And those deep waters are the greater part of the sea, while the waves, with all their storms, are superficial. If there were a pill for 'peace of mind,' it would sell like hotcakes and make billions for its manufacturer. But there is a quietude within us, available to all for free, and we need only notice it and follow where it leads us. Meditation needn't be formal. It can be practiced while walking and running, even (after a time) during conversation. It is simply uncovering the peace that has always been within us. We never lost this peace; but we got entranced by the drama of life, the 'glamor' as some occultists call it. Maya is its Sanskrit name. Imagine we sit in a cinema, and we gaze at the blank screen. Then the lights go out and the projection of the drama arises. Then we have the duel between 'good and evil,' the sounds of violence, the sides we want to see 'win' and those we would see 'lose.' And we forget we are still looking at the blank screen, which now has all the dualities projected on its surface, yet is not affected by the projection at all itself. We have voluntarily suspended disbelief for the time of the movie, and yet, once the projection ends and the lights come back on, we don't go outside thinking the events we witnessed and 'believed' in are going on around us. Like a dream they are gone. Life is like a movie. Life is a dream. We can step out of the theater whenever we so choose. That's the invitation, even now. --- Msged/2 4.00 * Origin: Elfwhere - The POINTy eared POINT (3:640/531.2379) .