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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Saturday, October 15, 2005

There is no god higher than truth

You said ...

Is the desire, at the deepest level to be in touch with the sense of oneness?

Does it make a difference in how we feel towards someone if their blindness leaves
them without any image of the sky, while we peer up and call it by a colour, blue?

Alone, face to face with a newborn baby, no concepts to explore or to understand,
are we, 'relating',or is the peaceful serenity the UNITY simply being felt?

The greater our understanding of this false, little-self, the closer it seems to come to death, thus availing one to the greter truth that unites all.

I search for a response, dear friend, but can not find one within me. Your words are overwhelmingly truthful and an attempt to muster a response would take away what I feel reading them.

"greater truth that unites all"


And truth is found more in the process, than within the result :-)

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Meditation has been incredibly easy for me lately. I love the energy-sensations I get the moment I sit on my zafu. The energy wiggles it's way throughout every inch of every limb on my body the moment I sit down. Last night was a new experience for me (they are all though, aren't they). A sensation arose in me where the container could not hold the contents. I literally felt as though my body was to split in half and my being just ooze out. I could feel my skin stretching and pulling all around. My being felt of enormous quantity in a container that could no longer hold it in place.

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