02-01-2005, 08:32 AM
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is not this trim anymore!
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: New England
Posts: 21,709
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Originally Posted by boilergirl1
I found this in my mail one day and thought i'd pass it along......
If you really want freedom, happiness will arise.
From happiness will come rapture. When your mind is enraptured, your body is tranquil. When your body is tranquil,you will know bliss. Because you are blissful,your mind will concentrate easily. Being concentrated, you will see things as they really are. In so seeing, you will become aware that life is a miracle. Being so aware,you will lose your attachments.
As you cease grasping, so you will be freed.
-Digha Nikaya-
From "The Buddha Speaks"
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But if I lose my attachments...
I'll just be a normal snowman!
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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.
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