In this excellent talk, Gelong Thubten explains why meditation is so vital to us. Not just Buddhists or Taoists or Hindus but us all. I have often said Meditation should be taught at school. Gelong holds the same view. You can hold dear to you whatever faith or philosophy you have and still practice Meditation. It will improve your life and thereby all the lives of those around you.
Some believe in God as a deity. Some believe there are no deities. It really doesn't matter. I don't believe in belief. God is a man made word as is deity. Neither are right. Neither are wrong. What made us all is beyond words, beyond comprehension. IT doesn't need a label as IT just is. IT is unnameable. IT is unknowable.
"There is a thing inherent and natural, which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the universe. I do not know its name."
We are of the Universe. Indeed we are the Universe. Within us are the same atoms as found in the Universe. The same molecules as found in the Earth. We are one and the same thing. Haemin Sunim is his book "The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down" says this about our oneness with the Universe...
"The whole Universe is contained within an apple wedge
Doctor Wayne Dyer of whom Cara wrote two posts about on this blog was one of many wise people. There have been a great many. From Lao Zi or Lao Tu, Confucius, Siddartha Gautama, Jesus of Nazareth right through of modern times. Jiddu Krishnamurti, Osho, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle and many more.
I have listened to Wayne Dyer on YouTube. I have read his book "Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life - Living theTao." It proved to be very useful to me as it assisted me in better understanding the 'Tao Te Ching' a book I had read but struggled with.
Wayne Dyer, who returned to where he came, where we all come from, in 2015, like so many before him, had this to say about forgiveness... "Forgiving others is essential for spiritual growth. Your experience of someone who has hurt you, while painful, is now nothing more than a thought or feeling that you carry around. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will dis-empower you if you continue to let these thoughts occupy space in your head. If you could release them, you would know more peace."
