Good morning. The reality of our work is the expression of the now. Not an imaginary reality we hold in our minds, not our ideas of the work or ideas about changing our selves, just this, right here and now.
Our work is about embodying a finer energy, becoming sensitive to a finer material. This requires a strong and active attention.
Can we become sensitive now to a life in us of another quality. If we are situated in this, we don’t have to make a ME of everything that happens
We go into the street and keep something of this energy alive in our life. We bring our conscious attention into the world. I do not need to get something. I need to open to a larger attention now.
Don’t allow your negativity to become pervasive habit, where contempt and intolerance become malignant.
As the song states, “We’re too old to rock ‘n’ roll and too young to die”.
Hope” is the thing with feathers
By Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –
I’ve heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet – never – in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of me.
Mr. Bennett:
“Group is a home, heart
Strength, an energy source
At a high level it is self-sufficient.
The means for “to presence of group” is not within human hands – it does descend from above and from within (essence)
It relates to both a need and to the dharma pattern inherent; it does not depend on the outside.
Personality cannot belong to a group – only to a hierarchical structure. (authority) or a chaotic tense “grouping”
There is a special kind of sharing in Group – every cell is responsible, caring for every other cell.
The Work is Essence.”