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Create the conditions for awakening
This is the theme I've chosen to reflect on this coming year, 2015. I've learned, from past years, you never really know what the theme will teach you as it accompanies you on your Earth walk. But I like it!
I'll be exploring what it means to be "awakened"; and what are the conditions I can create that will foster wakefulness?
Wakefulness is the way to life
The fool sleeps
As if he were already dead,
But the master is awake
And lives
He watches
He is clear
How happy he is!
For he sees that wakefulness is life.
How happy he is,
Following the path of the awakened.
With great perseverance
He meditates, seeking
Freedom and happiness.
So awake, reflect, watch
Work with care and attention
Live in the way
And the light will grow in you.
By watching and working
The master makes for himself an island
Which the flood cannot overwhelm."
From The Dhammapada. Rendering by Thomas Byrom
2 comments:
from the Teachings of Ptah-Hotep, who taught in Egypt between 2575-2134 B.C.E.
565-74 (Hos 14:9; Prov 2:1-5; 19:20)
Finally, my students, remember, the wise follow their teachers' advice,
Consequently, their projects do not fail.
The wise rise to positions of trust,
Guided by their teachers' instruction.
The wise rise early to start to work,
Fools rise early to worry about all there is to do.
Thank you for sharing your comments! Wise teacher.
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