too bad...
god doesn't have email :(. there are things i'd like to have said....
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9 comments:
Hahaha! :D
God deals in another kind of instant technology... prayer.
still available to you.
i couldn't agree more with bb :)...it's instantaneous..you need only think :)
well, bb&aa: what about email responses? :P
At the seekers' weekend N & I recently attended, the speakers described prayer as speaking to God and meditation as listening to God... so perhaps we need to meditate to get those "email responses".
It's a question worth a whole conversation about...As with truth, I think God's answers are never known or seen, they are realized, over a time continuum... His answers, like Himself, I often feel, are never given in the form, in the quantity or even at the time we expect it to take/be/in. They are cleverly wrapped and delivered at just the instant we are ready to receive it. It becomes all crystal clear at that point. But until then? Perhaps, that is why meditation and prayer need to constantly go hand in hand to, I guess, sharpen our perception and keep us in readiness to receive; time spent chewing the cud, time spent discarding spent thoughts and creating space, the space to receive new perspective and fresh energy....And then, it arrives....mysteriously, surprisingly and beautifully :)
beautifully said, aa!
Here's what Abdu'l Baha has to say about meditation:
"Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries. In that state man abstracts himself: in that state man withdraws himself from all outside objects; in that subjective mood he is immersed in the ocean of spiritual life and can unfold the secrets of things-in-themselves. To illustrate this, think of man as endowed with two kinds of sight; when the power of insight is being used the outward power of vision does not see.
This faculty of meditation frees man from the animal nature, discerns the reality of things, puts man in touch with God.
This faculty brings forth from the invisible plane the sciences and arts. Through the meditative faculty inventions are made possible, colossal undertakings are carried out; through it governments can run smoothly. Through this faculty man enters into the very Kingdom of God.
Nevertheless some thoughts are useless to man; they are like waves moving in the sea without result. But if the faculty of meditation is bathed in the inner light and characterized with divine attributes, the results will be confirmed.
The meditative faculty is akin to the mirror; if you put it before earthly objects it will reflect them. Therefore if the spirit of man is contemplating earthly subjects he will be informed of these.
But if you turn the mirror of your spirits heavenwards, the heavenly constellations and the rays of the Sun of Reality will be reflected in your hearts, and the virtues of the Kingdom will be obtained.
Therefore let us keep this faculty rightly directed—turning it to the heavenly Sun and not to earthly objects—so that we may discover the secrets of the Kingdom, and comprehend the allegories of the Bible and the mysteries of the spirit.
May we indeed become mirrors reflecting the heavenly realities, and may we become so pure as to reflect the stars of heaven."
oh ho nikhil...too loooong.
just kidding :p
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