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Post by markings on Jun 17, 2012 4:42:10 GMT
Are you oblivious to the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death?
There is no guarantee that you will survive, even past this very day!
The time has come [for you] to develop perseverance in [your] practice.
For, at this singular opportunity, you could attain the everlasting bliss [of nirvana].
So now is [certainly] not the time to sit idly,
But, starting with [the reflection on] death, you should bring your practice to completion!
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Post by clara927 on Jun 20, 2012 5:57:51 GMT
Hello Markings,
Commitment, perserverance and practice seem to be the themes of the last week or so.
This is a very powerful excerpt. Thank you for sharing, Markings.
-Clara
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Post by markings on Jun 20, 2012 11:18:46 GMT
For me the striking sentence is: There is no guarantee that you will survive, even past this very day!
A day or two after I read this for the first time there was this story in the mornings news: A mother and her daughter pregnant with her first child are caught up in the morning traffic on the way to her first gynecology appointment. A truck with a container trailer joins the highway but takes the bend too fast. The trailer topples over, flattens the car and kills them all.
Life can end very fast and totally unexpected.
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sparklekaz
Someone asked me.. What is your religion? I said, "All the paths that lead to the light".
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Post by sparklekaz on Jun 20, 2012 12:53:05 GMT
Dear Markings,
I believe it is only in living each day as if it were our last that we can truly be present in this moment. Many spend their lives worrying about what is to come that they fail to see the beauty of the moment and to learn the lessons to be found in it.
Every second, of every minute of every hour of every day can bring us that moment of enlightenment that many spend their whole lives looking for. Enlightenment is a moment of pure insight.
It is said, that death can happen every day in one sense as we change and old parts of the self dies. So every day we may experience death and rebirth as part of our alchemical transformation.
Love and light Kaz |
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Post by bluestarman1 on Jun 21, 2012 2:48:27 GMT
St. Paul said (cryptically), "I die daily"
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Post by markings on Jun 21, 2012 5:36:45 GMT
That is probably not frequent enough. LOL
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