Mediumship and Beyond

Next Sunday, 12th February 2012

I am taking the Divine Sunday service

at Parkgate Spiritualist Centre in Rotherham

South Yorkshire.

The service begins at 6.30pm as usual.

Hope to meet some of you there if you can make it.

Enjoy!

Who is hearing?

Your physical being doesn’t hear,

Nor does the void.

Then what does?

Strive to find out.

Put aside your rational Intellect,

Give up all techniques.

Just get rid of the notion of self.
Bassui

It is as though you have an eye

That sees all forms

But does not see itself.

This is how your mind is.

Its light penetrates everywhere

And engulfs everything,

So why does it not know itself?
Foyan

There are  thousands upon thousands of students

who have practised meditation and obtained its fruits.

Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method.

If you can not find the truth right where you are,

Where else do you expect to find it?

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.

The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

Although its light is wide and great,

The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.

The whole moon and the entire sky

Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

“Dogen”

In every moment of every day,

 through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself,

is Divinity revealing Itself.

Yet we do not see. Or we see, but do not believe.

We do not believe the evidence of our own eyes.

We do not hear the truth in the sounds of silence.

Neale Donald Walsch

My fear and doubts have vanished like mist

into the distance, never to disturb me again.

I will die content and free from regrets.

This is the fruit of Dharma practice.

We all appreciate in others

the inner qualities of kindness,

patience, tolerance,

forgiveness and generosity.

“Dali Lama”

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there – thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems – then the child is not really there for you.

The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality.

Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

Meditation is not to escape from society,
but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on.
Once there is seeing, there must be acting.
With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.
Why not try and see positive things,
to just touch those things and make them bloom?