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Overcoming Contradictions
Sunday, August 21, 2016

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http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Richard-Rohr-s-Meditation--Sabbath----Hinduism--Week-1--Pranayama.html?soid=1103098668616&aid=YI5AGIA8Ahw

When I meet a monk,
          I bow politely.
When I see a Buddha,
          I don't.

If I bow to a Buddha,
          the Buddha won't know.
But I honor a monk:
          he's here now, apparently,
          or, at least, he seems to be.

-- from I Don't Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei, Translated by J. P. Seaton
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 to choose my illusions carefully.

I like Father Rohr's meditation this morning.

http://conta.cc/1CPB1SB

"...You do create your response to reality,* and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality..."

* or the appearance of "reality"

( Talking about Mystery is gibberish, or at best poor metaphor or simile. Still we keep trying. Eventually each particular bit of gibberish gets in the way..A )

Where there is no sense of the world,
What can one preach of true and false?
Whose birth, act, form, or name is there?
What boundary, where there is no town?
Akha, where there is no body to begin with,
The indivisible remains, as is.

-- from Wings of the Soul: Poems of Akha: The Spiritual Poet of India, Translated by Krishnaditya
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There is also the fact that in the age of money-dominated politics, many professional lawmakers do not come from the ranks of the commoner - instead, more and more are wealthy upper-crusters whose cloistered upbringing inside gated communities leaves them wholly unfamiliar with their constituencies.

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