tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post116192891755968452..comments2023-09-06T02:38:55.328-07:00Comments on Graceful Presence: The Water DropMeredithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432640322896933989noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post-19374481783267385662018-05-12T17:18:16.304-07:002018-05-12T17:18:16.304-07:00I first read this teaching of Suzuki Roshi a year ...I first read this teaching of Suzuki Roshi a year or so after almost falling to death on the cliffs next to Nevada falls in Yosemite. It moved me to tbe core then and still touches my heart sio many years later. The hesrt of Roshi and his wisdom is inseparable grom his words. I feel his tremendous compassion, his steangth and wisdom in tbis teaching of the journey between life and death. I feel he is also saying life and death are also not separate when viewed from the vantage point that few human"s like him can see. Everything is both the drop and the ocean.i hope his teaching touches eacj person who is exposed to it. He is deathless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post-1162356893501688312006-10-31T20:54:00.000-08:002006-10-31T20:54:00.000-08:00David, Irving, James and Tommy - Thanks my friends...David, Irving, James and Tommy - Thanks my friends, all from the Source.Meredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09432640322896933989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post-1162304930430486432006-10-31T06:28:00.000-08:002006-10-31T06:28:00.000-08:00"Our life and death are the same thing. When we re..."Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life."<BR/><BR/>In this realization we can become more humane and compassionate rather than less and draw closer into the dance of life. We can become free to embrace our human element, while at the same time be the witness too. As we witness, we also rest in the words of Maharshi: <BR/><BR/>"The realized person weeps with the weeping,<BR/>laughs with the laughing,<BR/>plays with the playful,<BR/>sings with those who sing, <BR/>keeping time with the song...<BR/>What does he lose?"isaiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704507894213178186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post-1162008659942120322006-10-27T21:10:00.000-07:002006-10-27T21:10:00.000-07:00The different droplets of the water remind me of t...The different droplets of the water remind me of this explanation (I found online) on the similarities of the religions. They look different but are really from the same source: <BR/><BR/>All religions acknowledge that mankind's present state is unsatisfactory. All believe that a change of attitude and behavior is needed if the human situation is to improve. All teach an ethics that includes love, kindness, patience, generosity and social responsibility and all accept the existence of some form of Absolute. They use different languages, different names and different symbols to describe and explain these things; and it is only when they narrow-mindedly cling to their one way of seeing things that religious intolerance, pride and self-righteousness arise. Imagine an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Chinese and an Indonesian all looking at a cup. The Englishman says, "That's a cup." The Frenchman answers, "No it's not. It's a tasse." The Chinese comments, "You're both wrong. It's a pet." And the Indonesian laughs at the others and says "What fools you are. It's a cawan." The Englishman gets a dictionary and shows it to the others saying, "I can prove that it is a cup. My dictionary says so." "Then your dictionary is wrong," says the French- man "Because my dictionary clearly says it is a tasse." The Chinese scoffs at them. "My dictionary is thousands of years older than yours, so my dictionary must be right. And besides, more people speak Chinese than any other language, so it must be a pet." While they are squabbling and arguing with each other, a Buddhist comes up and drinks from the cup. After he has drunk, he says to the others, "Whether you call it a cup, a tasse, a pet or a cawan, a cup is meant to be used. Stop arguing and drink, stop squabbling and refresh your thirst." This is the Buddhist attitude to other religions.<BR/><BR/>http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/qanda01.htmThey call him James Urehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05171585857015973860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post-1161976985700659042006-10-27T12:23:00.000-07:002006-10-27T12:23:00.000-07:00Greetings of Peace:Much of Sufi writing and poetry...Greetings of Peace:<BR/><BR/>Much of Sufi writing and poetry shares this same theme. We are drops of life, and we fall into the Ocean, we become the Ocean. <BR/><BR/>Many Blessings!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8416825.post-1161966782771968792006-10-27T09:33:00.000-07:002006-10-27T09:33:00.000-07:00Beautifully put. "You have difficulty because you ...Beautifully put. <BR/><BR/>"You have difficulty because you have feeling, you attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created."<BR/><BR/>This is so difficult to understand, but so liberating I wish everyone could know it instantly.<BR/><BR/>DavidDTclarinethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06482572917950645940noreply@blogger.com