Lasana_Kalonji chucklin - February 27, 2011 add/view comments (0)

The cosmos is filled with precious gems.
I want to offer a handful of them to you this morning.
Each moment you are alive is a gem,
shining through and containing earth and sky,
water and clouds.
It needs you to breathe gently
for the miracles to be displayed.
Suddenly you hear the birds singing,
the pines chanting,
see the flowers blooming,
the blue sky,
the white clouds,
the smile and the marvelous look
of your beloved.
You, the richest person on Earth,
who have been going around begging for a living,
stop being the destitute child.
Come back and claim your heritage.
We should enjoy our happiness
and offer it to everyone.
Cherish this very moment.
Let go of the stream of distress
and embrace life fully in your arms.

Thich Nhat Hanh



Sunday
I am sitting on the sand watching the waves roll in. There is a dead pelican on the beach, no one seems to be bothered by it's presence. As I watch my peers play in the water and socialize on the beach I sit and reflect. I think of the dead creature. I wonder how it met its ultimate fate. In any event, the fallen creature is still part of the continuum, perpetuating all. The seagulls are close to me. They don't seem to be afraid, they're hungry I suppose. I imagine that they are fortunate, not having to be concerned about how they will feed themselves and as the dead pelican, they are still perpetuating everything that God has made.
My senses absorb the sights and sounds of nature that I rarely have the opportunity to experience. I look at the sun glistening off the waves as they surge in. I listen to the sound that the water makes. I feel the sun, warm on me. I feel the wind brush my body, I listen to the way it sounds as it rushes by my ears. The wind cools me as the sun warms me. I look at the place where the sky and water meet and ask myself, "Does God speak to me?" and I know that He does.



SMALL THOUGHTS


"Financial freedom occurs in two extremes,
Having everything, and having nothing at all."

"I am Omniscient in the knowledge that I know nothing at all."

"I have learned through hardship, not to cherish material things;
Now if I could only learn to appreciate them."





SELFISH THOUGHTS

"I wish I could save the world,
But I cannot.
So I will concentrate on saving myself,
And maybe someone else,
Will follow suit."

As I ponder the issue of my existence as a part of the human race,
I have come to grudgingly accept my solitude,
As a phase of character adjustment.
Even though I am rarely alone, I often feel this way.
I do not feel complete.

REALITY
There is no escape from reality.
Only finite diversions,
Fantasies.
Fantasies offer no sense of closure.
So we indulge ourselves,
Running away,
Until there is finally,
Nothing,
But reality.


Tell me what do you do when you're feeling blue?
Do you find the right direction or a small clue,
To what it is that may trouble your soul blue?
It's a vicious cycle we all go through,
Learning to live is a heavy groove.
Do you follow, lead or stumble or do all three?
That is the journey to become free.
Stand up in the light living for love.
I must be free to fly away.
Living every day,
Shining like the sun,
Love for everyone.
I must be free.
I must be me.
I must be whole.
I must be.

I think that there is something 'obscenely comical' and at the same time, 'ominous' about the state of the world today, about the fact that after thousands of years of existence, HUMANKIND AS A WHOLE, IS STILL BEHAVING LIKE A 'CANCER' TO ITSELF AND THE WORLD THAT SUSTAINS IT.

After evolving from a so called primitive state
after evolving to a place where technology is progressing at an 'exponential rate'
after it has become common knowledge that the odds of earth being the only planet in the universe that has intelligent life are SLIM TO NONE (to put it conservatively)
after the common knowledge that our world gets smaller and smaller every day

HUMAN KIND IS STILL IN A PLACE OF INTERNAL CONFLICT
WE ARE STILL OPPOSED TO EACH OTHER.
WE ARE OPPOSED TO OURSELVES.

Someone has played a very mean spirited joke on the world when they introduced it to organized religion . Why was dog (a word that represents an animal that holds a 'to the death' loyalty to man) spelled backwards used to represent the one 'supreme/omnipotent/omniscient ' being?

Why isn't 'hindsight 20/20' when it comes to world history, organized religion and war?
Are we thinking' yet?

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