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Don't Worry

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  What is there to worry about in the present moment? Five times in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us not to worry. Don’t worry about your life, about what you eat or drink, about the clothes you wear, or about the future. Take no thought for tomorrow!”   Can you worry in the miracle of Presence? Worry is the past and future. The mind of worry is the mind of time. And time is made of your thoughts. When thoughts of the past and future dissolve, there is no time, no worry.   On this Sabbath morning, for a few minutes, or at least for a breath, can you relinquish the past and future, let go of stories, and simply feel this inhalation, this exhalation? Not in your mind, for that is only the concept of “breathing,” but in your chest, as pure sensation. Put your hand on your solar plexus, with tender love, in the valley just below your beating heart, just above your belly. This is the valley of prayer. Feel the rise and swell, then the fall and kenosis, “...
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The Grace of the Friend in the Heart of Non-Duality (Video)

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"All day, that Otherness was there."~Krishnamurti's Notebook. The Grace of the Friend arises in the heart of non-duality when we become no one. This is the miracle of kenosis (Philippians 2:7), "self-emptying." Then Grace has room to transmute our anger into love and our fear into joy, which is simply unfathomable to the intellect.
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Open (A Poem From 'Wounded Bud')

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The blossom cannot open itself. It takes a sunbeam to ignite the rose. I was asleep until you placed a ruby on my chest, awakening the exhalation of my gentle song, the whisper of Spring in a Winter garden. 'So-ham, So-ham...' One breath pouring wine into the polished cup of another. Some say that this is just a sound without meaning. I say it means that Magdalene has met Jesus in the bridal chamber of the heart. Book Link
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