Monday, December 5, 2011
Day 46: Have Neighbor Kids Over to Play
It is easy to let your family be an island, getting caught up in your own family's happenings and plans that sometimes, especially in the colder, home bound months, you forget you have neighbors...at least I do. But yesterday our boys were invited to play at the neighbor's house, they haven't been to in a long time, and today we had the neighbor boy over here to play. It is a small thing but it is important to keep those relationships up, it makes a much stronger sense of community!
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we are going to talk about something that needs a mind that can penetrate very profoundly. we must begin very near because we cannot go very far if we do not know how to begin very close, if we do not know how to take the first step. the flowering of meditation is goodness, and the generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation. we have talked about many things concering life, authority, ambtion, fear, greed, envy, death, time; we have talked about many things. if you observe, if you have gone into it, if you have listen rightly, those are all the foundation for a mind that is capable of meditating. you cannot meditate if you are ambitious-you may play with the idea of meditation. if your mind is authority-ridden, bound by tradition, accepting, following, you will never know what it is to meditate on this extraordinary beauty...
ReplyDeleteit is the pursuit of its own fulfillment through time that prevents generosity. and you need a generous mind--not only a wide mind, a mind that is full of space, but also a heart that gives without thought, without a motive, and that does not seek any reward in return. but to give whatever little or however much one has-that quality of spontaneity of outgoing, without any restriction, without any withholding, is nescessary. there can be no meditation without generosity, without goodness-which is to be free from pride, never to climb that ladder of success, never to know what it is to be famous; which is to die to whatever has been achieved, every minute of the day. it is only in such fertile ground that goodness can grow, can flower. and meditation is the flowering of goodness. those exact words were spoken by a fellow being named j. krishnamurti and these words now are spoken by a person who loves you and your whole family with all his heart. a family who i look up to so much for your hearts of gold that you share with the whole word at the drop of a dime. you ask yourself if you are being a good human being. you wonder if there is more you can do to be this human being you piture to be true but in reality you have been it the whole time. i guess i really dont know you. ive only met you once but in that little of time ive spent with you i saw a person that will give the shirt off her back to someone not because its what is written in some religous book but to give because of the immense love you have bursting thru your heart. dont forget what has always been true. it always has been. whatever you are looking for you will find it. and if you dont then atleast you lived. i mean really thats what its all comes down to it because its the journey not the destination my friend and family...
That is a beautiful quote and such a warm compliment, thank you. I would love to know who posted this!
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