Saying For Today: Then, death is another movement toward an evolution from freedom to freedom, love to love, presence to Presence.
LOTUS OF THE HEART
All is Welcome Here
Living in Love beyond Beliefs
An example of the new world we can co-create together... As we allow ourselves to be changed, to open our hearts in care for others, the world becomes more a world of brotherhood, sisterhood, Kindness. We each can leave this world more a loving, gentle, compassionate place, when we leave. The change always begins with each one of us, not someone else. We are here for one another, we enjoy Life together, in Love.
A monk lived a simple life, in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening, while he was away, a thief sneaked into the hut only to find there was nothing there to steal. The monk returned and found him. "You have come a long way to visit me," he told the thief, "and you should not return empty handed. Please take my clothes as a gift." The thief, bewildered, took the clothes and ran away. The monk sat nude, watching the moon through his window. "Poor fellow," he thought, “I wish I could give him this beautiful moon, too."
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There is beauty, grace, and freedom in simplicity. In being non-attached emotionally, non-possessive, we enjoy things more and have more freedom to give without feeling our giving is a losing for ourselves. We delight in the commonest things, and we are able better to relax and appreciate Life. We become, through simplicity, more attuned to the Heart of Gratitude, rejoicing in even the smallest daily gifts of Grace. Simplifying our lives opens up spaciousness for wonderment. We may have an adult body, but we express a childlike spirit, an ageless love and presence that is not sentimental, but more. This simplicity is not merely outer, but primarily an inward simplicity. One example is the reduction of ideas we think are important. At some point, we have not a single idea we cling to, or defend. We do not cling to persons, then we are able better to love them and allow them to love us as they choose, or not love us at all. As we do not even cling to our own lives, the more free we are to enjoy Life and share ourselves fearlessly, with no hidden agenda. Even death, entailing the shedding of the body, is an act of gracious simplicity, an opening to a freedom beyond life necessarily limited by the body. A more simplified way of life prepares us for this shedding of the body, with its natural capacities and mind. Then, death is another movement toward an evolution from freedom to freedom, love to love, presence to Presence.
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