He Who Dies Before He Dies Does

In Its Outward Manifestation, Meditation Appears To Involve Either Stopping, By Parking The Body In A Stillness That Suspends Activity, Or Giving Oneself Over To Flowing Movement. In Either Case, It Is An Embodiment Of Wise Attention, An Inward Gesture Undertaken For The Most Part In Silence, A Shift From Doing To Simply Being. It Is An Act That May At First Seem Artificial But That We Soon Discover, If We Keep At It, Is Ultimately One Of Pure Love For The Life Unfolding Within Us And Around Us.

Karma Is Often Wrongly Confused With The Notion Of A Fixed Destiny. It Is More Like An Accumulation Of Tendencies That Can Lock Us Into Particular Behavior Patterns, Which Themselves Result In Further Accumulations Of Tendencies Of A Similar Nature... But Is Is Not Necessary To Be A Prisoner Of Old Karma.

When You Have Children, You Realize How Easy It Is To Not See Them Fully, And Perhaps Miss All Those Early Years. If You Are Not Careful, You Can Be Too Absorbed In Work, And They Will Be Only Too Happy To Tell You About It Later. Being A Parent Is One Of Greatest Mindfulness Practices Of All.

Paying Attention And Awareness Are Universal Capacities Of Human Beings.

Look At Other People And Ask Yourself If You Are Really Seeing Them Or Just Your Thoughts About Them.... Without Knowing It, We Are Coloring Everything, Putting Our Spin On It All.