We kunnen iets doen in deze tijd van dreiging.
Doe mee als je gelooft dat jouw keuzes ertoe doen...
in dit leven...
Er worden beslissingen genomen waar niemand beter van wordt...
What is this thing called love?
Love,
Arthur.
>From: Valerie Chase
>Reply-To:
>To: ajheuwekemeijer@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: meditation tuesday morning
>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:26:06 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello Arthur,
>
>I've forwarded the following messages from Friends of Western Buddism.
>Tomorrow all over the world we will meditate at the same time. (Beginning at
>3:04pm Europe). The Metta meditation is the sending out of loving kindness
>to ALL sentient beings(Includes ourselves, friends, enemies, strangers.... )
>There are some specific steps to the medition, if you like I can send those
>details. But I think reading the passage below of the buddahs words you
>will find your own way.
>
>I'll send another note soon.
>Love Valerie
>
>
>On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:02:38 EDT, Vajramati@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > The following message was circulated a couple days ago by
> > Christopher Titmuss to people associated with his sangha. After
> > discussion by a few of us at Madhyamaloka we would like
> > encourage any Order members, mitras or Friends who feel affected
> > by these events to meditate at this time as Christopher has
> > suggested.
> >
> > This seems an appropriate gesture of solidarity with those who
> > have been affected; it offers a way to engage with the shock that
> > many feel having witnessed these events via the media; and it may
> > contribute a spirit of calm in the fraught atmosphere that has
> > followed the attacks.
> >
> > Subhuti
> > Kulananda
> > Vishvapani
> >
> >
> > IN THIS TIME OF SORROW
> >
> > Dear Dharma Friends,
> >
> > In the wake of the violent world events, we wish to invite our sangha
> > of friends, family and loved ones to meditate together on Tuesday,
> > September 18th, 2001, exactly one week after the terrible acts of
> > violence and terror in the USA. An appropriate time could be from
> > 9.04 am in New York City, Washington and Pennysylvania, which
> > is 6.04 am in California, around 2.04 pm (14.04 hrs) in Britain, 3.04
> > (15.04) in Europe, and 6.34 pm (18.34) in India and 11.04 pm
> > (23.04) in Australia.
> >
> > Let us meditate together for thirty minutes in silence and then offer
> > fifteen minutes for metta (loving kindness) to victims aand their
> > loved ones, for survivors, for perpetrators, for the world-wide Muslim
> > community and for the political and military leaders who are now
> > deciding what to do.
> >
> > Please forward this e-mail message to as many people as you
> > possibly can at the earliest possible moment.
> >
> > Metta
> >
> > Christopher Titmuss, Jaya Ashmore and co-teachers
>Metta Sutta
>The Buddha's Words on Kindness
>
>This is what should be done
>By one who is skilled in goodness,
>And who knows the path of peace:
>Let them be able and upright,
>Straightforward and gentle in speech.
>Humble and not conceited,
>Contented and easily satisfied.
>Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
>Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful,
>Not proud and demanding in nature.
>Let them not do the slightest thing
>That the wise would later reprove.
>Wishing: In gladness and in safety,
>May all beings be at ease.
>Whatever living beings there may be;
>Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
>The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
>The seen and the unseen,
>Those living near and far away,
>Those born and to-be-born,
>May all beings be at ease!
>
>Let none deceive another,
>Or despise any being in any state.
>Let none through anger or ill-will
>Wish harm upon another.
>Even as a mother protects with her life
>Her child, her only child,
>So with a boundless heart
>Should one cherish all living beings:
>Radiating kindness over the entire world
>Spreading upwards to the skies,
>And downwards to the depths;
>Outwards and unbounded,
>Freed from hatred and ill-will.
>Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
>Free from drowsiness,
>One should sustain this recollection.
>This is said to be the sublime abiding.
>By not holding to fixed views,
>The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
>Being freed from all sense desires,
>Is not born again into this world.
>
> >
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