08-17-2011, 12:00 AM
BarefootInTheSand wrote:For me, power is the force within each of us. Some have called this the "life-force" although I am pretty sure that it survives beyond life. And heart, for me, is the core of something, such as the core of you or I...but could also be the core of an intention or the core of something as simple as soup. from Dai E Zenji's Vow for Awakening (zen sutra)
Our further prayer is not to be extremely ill or to be suffering
at the time of departure, to know its coming seven days ahead so
that we can quiet the mind to abandon the body and be unattached
to all things at the last moment wherein we return to the Original
Mind in the realm of no birth and no death and merge infinitely
into the whole universe to manifest as all things in their True
Nature and with the great wisdom of the Buddhas to awaken all beings
to the Buddha Mind.
personal LifeForce returning to non-personal LifeForce
Our further prayer is not to be extremely ill or to be suffering
at the time of departure, to know its coming seven days ahead so
that we can quiet the mind to abandon the body and be unattached
to all things at the last moment wherein we return to the Original
Mind in the realm of no birth and no death and merge infinitely
into the whole universe to manifest as all things in their True
Nature and with the great wisdom of the Buddhas to awaken all beings
to the Buddha Mind.
personal LifeForce returning to non-personal LifeForce