Subj : Daily Wisdom & Meditation Tips: Commentary...
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From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Fri Jun 15 2001 12:40 am

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  Time alone does not heal. It is the loyalty to life that heals.
  - Stephanie Ericsson
  
 Robin:     Time? What is that? All the world we know is founded on time and 
        on space, and yet we cannot hold up either of these to consider. 
        They are really abstract, and they serve to make a stage whereon 
        we play out the drama, whether comedy or tragedy, we call our life.
            Some will even descend into melodrama...
            But, what if the mystics are right when they say reality is not 
        bounded by time and space but precedes both?
            Does this mean there is no space between us, so maybe we are not 
        a multitude but a singularity? And what is the length of time between 
        now?
  
            The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 02, 2001
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 Only a person who is one with the laws of nature can be said to be one who 
is at ease wherever he goes and is not psychologically dependent on anything.
 
                                                Lie Zi
 
 Robin:     Laws of nature? Is the Tao lawful, is it written down somewhere, 
        or are we attempting to use a word for nature that is applied to 
        human concerns, but does not concern nature? Dharma is almost a way 
        of expressing this better when it asserts a 'natural' place for all 
        living beings and a way in which they manifest, still it falls short 
        of nature itself. Whose nature? Yours and mine, that's who.
            Well, my kitty just jumped on my lap to remind me to not view 
        humans as special manifestations of this nature. Nor are we alone in 
        being sentient. Sometimes I think a cockroach is as intelligent 
        as a human. We tend, don't we, to define intelligence by ourselves, 
        and we think of nature as external, as if we could somehow step apart 
        from it. 
            On occasion, when I take a walk in 'nature,' I get the strong sense 

        I am strolling in my own 'nature,' and they are the same...
 
           The Meditation Tip of the Week - June/02/2001
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  All existences are like the leaves on the tree: fed by the one root.
  Origin and end come from the same source, empty; Origin and end alike go 
  back to that.
   
                                        Taisen Deshimaru 
 
 Robin:     Sunyata, an ancient word for emptiness, has come to mean the void 
        which is the very wellspring of manifestation. She is embodied 
        in Kuan Yin, the divine emptiness that is also infinite compassion and 
        boundless light, who is also the Boddhisatva Avalokitesvara...In 
        the Tao, the balanced force of Yang and the great space of Yin are 
        enclosed by the Tao, the circle. So Yang is eternally being born from 
        Yin, from emptiness, and yet Yang is eternally dissolving into Yin 
        as well, so this is the law of the conservation of energy. It changes, 
        but it cannot be destroyed.
            Emptiness, in the Zen sense, is not just absence of anything. 
        It is pregnant with potential, and it is the fertile ground where 
        life is born in all its myriad profuseness and abundance, its infinite 
        variety.
           Without Sunyata, the Void, all would stagnate. But with space, there 

        is change and beauty. She is the fount of being, and without Yang there 

        would be emptiness, yes, but there would be no life, no being, no 
        beauty. It is the touch of Yang and Yin, of Shiva and Parvati, 
        that is the cosmic orgasm. It is the true Tantra, and from it arises 
        all that live. And, life itself is the vibrant, thrilling vibration 
        of love, of gratitude to its Mother and Father who have conjoined 
        in love and from that love a universe has arisen.
 
 

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