subject: re: souvenirs
from Laos
sent: saturday, december 16, 2001 3:31 AM
sorry to take such a
long time to answer you; I know that being busy, even very
busy, is not an excuse, but oddly enough, replying quickly
to a mail seems to be one of the difficult things
in life for me; ah, the mysteries of life! as the Chinese
say, little easy things can become a problem if you don't
do them and
big difficult things can
become easy just as you do them!
and in principle, there's
actually no difference between 'little' and 'big' things;
we should just do the things we have to do in life because
they need to be done for the sake of the universe and not
for our own sake, because our hearts are telling us to do
so, as it is in our hearts, our most sacred inner space, that
we can best understand what life wants from us. this is the
real and sacred meaning of duty, some necessity of things
which is above us as individuals but that we have to accomplish.
this is like being one with the Tao, or the Buddha, or the
Christ...
we should just make
sure that we let life flow through
us as freely as possible and that we do with love everything
that life wants us to do and not bother that much about personal
problems like getting old, or fat, or unhealthy; this is called
purity and is the best remedy against getting old, fat or
unhealthy. but to accomplish this, as you can see, we should
fight against our laziness; laziness is our worst enemy on
our spiritual path, and so, I still have a lot of work to
do on myself! as Jesus once told a paralyzed man: 'raise and
walk, my son'. the laziness of our soul is paralyzing us...
J.
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