Subj : Some Thoughts on The Meditation Tip of the Day/week -June 10, 2001
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From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Fri Jun 15 2001 11:34 pm

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          The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 10, 2001
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     Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is 
    going on all the time. We are in it now.
  
                                          C. P. Gilman  
 
Robin:      Dead? What is that? Yes, what is born will die, but what was unborn 

        cannot be included in that.  If we were born, then we can look forward 
        to a definite end. But, I suggest our home is not in time but, indeed, 
        in eternity. In eternity there is not birth, nor is there death. Change 

        is the dance of the illusory, it is not the binding of the infinite, 
        the fetter on the unending.
            To paraphrase the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, 'the Self or 

        Atman is not born, nor does it cease. It cannot be wetted by water nor 
        burned by fire. Being eternal, it assumes a form, a body. But when the 
        form is worn out, like an old garment, it is put aside. Thus forms 
        change, but the Self abides unchanged.'
            So, if we identify with the temporal, we are bound by its rules. 
        But if we know ourselves to be the eternal, we are free. We cannot die, 

        not now nor ever.


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                The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 09, 2001
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        There are only three essential questions:
        Where are we from?
        Who are we?
        Where are we going?

                                Nishkam

Robin:      In a nutshell, if someone asks "Who am I?" the response might be, 
        "Who wants to know?"
            We get involved in the question of identity while the breeze blows 
        outside, while the flowers release their lovely perfume, while children 

        play and there are kitties and puppies to pet. 
            Do you get it? I think you do.
 

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          The Meditation Tip of the Week - June/09/2001
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      Meditation is not anything of the mind, it is something beyond 
        the mind.
      And the first step is to be playful about it.
      If you are playful about it mind cannot destroy your meditation.
      Otherwise it will turn it into another ego trip; it will make you 
        very serious.
 
                                                 Osho 

Robin:      What then is meditation? Is it something 'special' that we do to 
        become 'enlightened?' 
            Is it then the means to another end? Or is it just the natural
        activity of the mind when not engaged in conjecture or argument. 
        I suspect it to be the latter.
             The natural mind is wholly holy. Yet, meditation is natural and 
        simple; it is the activity of a peaceful mind, not a goal seeking 
        device. It is not what one does to become enlightenened. It is that 
        which the enlightened do, and it is their joy.

  
 
 

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