Monday, December 04, 2006

Daily Meditation:

The sixth step of the Eightfold Path is Right Effort, meaning to abstain from all evil states of mind and to foster and maintain virtuous states of mind: compassion, pity, sympathy, calmness and tranquility.
Right effort is a might good thing. Do the right thing as Spike Lee would say. Foster the kind. I think empathy would be better then pity and sympathy. Outmoded words for a feeling of loving care for our world and fellow man. It is the goal of this season to become like the child of god we are. We are all god's children. Do we live in that fashion? Calmness and tranquility allow us to be at peace with all. It opens us to the possibilities. When we are disturbed and out of balance we are not able to focus on the care and love. It is necessary to enter the day, enter the moment with that calm. To walk forward with peace in our hearts and minds.
I think if our actions are based on thoughts and motivations that are pure our lives will become a reflection of that purity. The way we are to be and what it is we do and act become who we are. Changing our minds to be good and whole. Changing our actions too. Work in love.

No comments:

the studio

why do I have to shrink and go away so someone else gets to grow?"