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#4012 - Monday, September 13, 2010 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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You are the sky. Everything else,
it's just the weather."
- Pema Chodron
“You can measure the depth of a person’s awakening by
how they serve others”
- Kobo Daishi (774–835 CE)
The end and the sum total of all mysticism,
philosophy, and meditation, of everything one
learns and develops, is to be a better servant
to humanity. Everything from the beginning to
the end in the spiritual path is a training to be
able to serve mankind better, and if one does
not do it with that intention, one will find in the
end that one has accomplished nothing.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
posted to Along The Way
"Compassionate action starts with
seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when
you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just
contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either
of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could
live."
- Pema Chodron
by Mazie Lane
Gratitude, the simple and profound
feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity. I
am generous when I believe that right now, right here, in this
form and this place, I am myself being given what I need.
Generosity requires that we relinquish something, and this is
impossible if we are not glad for what we have. Otherwise the
giving hand closes into a fist and won’t let go.
- Sallie Jiko Tisdale, "As If There is Nothing to Lose"
When you are practicing generosity, you should feel a little
pinch when you give something away. That pinch is your stinginess
protesting. If you give away your old, worn-out coat that you
wouldn’t be caught dead wearing, that is not generosity.
There is no pinch. You are doing nothing to overcome your
stinginess; you’re just cleaning out your closet and calling
it something else. Giving away your coat might keep someone warm,
but it does not address the problem we face as spiritual
practitioners: to free ourselves from self-cherishing and
self-grasping.
- Gelek Rinpoche
‘Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our
survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved
ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival
instinct by constantly asking ourselves, “How can I use my
life’s energy to benefit all living beings?”
- Noah Levine
"Wherever you are is the entry point" - Kabir
With gratitude and congratulations to Joe Riley on the 8 year anniversary of his Panhala poetry list.
This Amazing Day
-- e. e. cummings
(This was the first posting to Panhala ... )
i thank You
God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am
alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting
touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my
ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
~ e.e. cummings ~
(Complete Poems
1904-1962)
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