Guest guest Posted July 1, 2002 Report Share Posted July 1, 2002 Hospital officials said most of the dead and injured were women and children. One of the injured, a 6-year-old girl named Paliko, was brought to the hospital still wearing her party dress. Villagers said all members of her family were killed. Paliko appeared strangely serene and composed, and when asked about it, replied to reporters: "In the Koran we hear: 'He is the Living God, the Living One. No God is there but He.' Even in The Talmud I have heard it said: 'Our God is a living God. His power fills the universe. He formed thee. With his Spirit, He breathest into thee.' God is everywhere. There is no place that God is not. God was at the Wedding party, and God dropped the bombs, and God was the bombing. There is One Presence, One Power, One Life in all the universe. There are not billions of lives on Earth, but one Life, having uncountable expressions. We are all expressions of the One Presence we call God. Drawn deeper into this Recognition, all nature herself becomes transparent as the manifestation of Living God. Every motion, every breath, every thought and cessation of thought is none other than the intense enjoyment, the blissful delight and supreme pleasure of very Divine. This understanding yields the great relief of total sufficiency and equanimity -- despite whatever might temporarily appear to be so -- and thrills the heart and soul with ecstatic Remembrance of That, Source beyond conditionality and Play of the Eternal in time and space. There is nothing to be done, no weeping or prayer, nor ever any strategy that can be manipulated to attain this realization; no heroic gate-storming or self-generated effort will yield true satisfaction. Doing or not-doing are equally futile. All achievement is transitory. Even the most feeling submission to the Living One at last must be seen as arising from a subtle sense of separation in the body/mind. This understanding is not ours to get, as if it were an acquisition which we could add to our stable of goats, sheep, and chickens of the mind. This understanding is Who we Are, when all that would resist this death is at last released into and through the unspeakable Grace of Divine Love Itself. This is our destiny and our true nature. Love calls to Itself. Love answers. Children of Love emerge from this ecstatic Embrace. The math is simple and marvelous. A Wonder beyond Wonder! We hold each other in the Light of Grace, the Light of our Original Innocence, the Heart-Mind of God. In our gesture of Gratitude, we are lifted up in praise of the One, Who is our own True Self, Beloved. How fortunate indeed to awaken to the Gift of the Illuminating Light of Allah! How rare and precious is this human birth, that we may be filled to overflowing with the Grace and Bliss of this Embrace! Words cannot express this! Don't wonder about me -- find this Truth within your own heart of Hearts!" ~ Associated Press Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 This Paliko is some verbose 6 year old. She also seems to have ingested the complete Book of Non-Duality all in a gulp. Or maybe just sort of "burped" it all up in a single moment of stress-induced inspiration. Or...(am I too cynical for words?) the Associated Press reporter(s) managed a rather incredible translation of what might have been a more brief, less cogent sharing of feeling by the poor girl. If in any case, readers and listeners reflect and learn, (patience, love, forgiveness if nothing else) then the overly enthusiastic transliteration has done some good. Would anyone wish to sponsor a Paliko fund to help this unfortunate orphan? My friends and family helped collect clothing for the Afghan people (for winter) and I think this situation merits the same good efforts. What might she need (besides a family, of course!)? Any suggestions? Ideas? Let's not just discuss this one... Let's actually do something in the world... She should discover that she has not truly lost a family, but gained a larger one. I cannot offer much in terms of material good...but I think I can collect and offer clothing, toys, books, etc. Should she desire to visit America, I can offer a home, in need of repair, but well cluttered with warmth and a menagerie of critters--horse, goats, dogs, peafowl, cats, geese, chickens, chinchillas and so forth. Blessings, Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 Ah Zenbob! What is it that so compels you? Why not lift the cup and drink from it and leave the cup-smashing ritual to others, others who have it as their job to clean up teacups. But, dearest one... I am the one that has that terrible job of cleaning the teacups. In the bottom, eventually, we all discover the true ingredients. And, bitter or sweet, it is the truth that sets us free, not the fiction. In any event, grasp the bigger part of my comments and leave the small chiding doubts behind...or else are you inclined to assist me in cleaning the cups, too? :-) Love, Blessings, Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 , zen2wrk@a... wrote: > Or...(am I too cynical for words?) the Associated Press reporter(s) managed a rather incredible translation of what might have been a more brief, less cogent sharing of feeling by the poor girl. If in any case, readers and listeners reflect and learn, (patience, love, forgiveness if nothing else) then the overly enthusiastic transliteration has done some good. Ah Zenbob! What is it that so compels you? Why not lift the cup and drink from it and leave the cup-smashing ritual to others, others who have it as their job to clean up teacups. Such fine and delicious tea, and yet, there is always the need to tidy up after the drinker of such tea...my oh my, and the tea was so green and also chai-like and what do we know but the Drinking and Swallowing and becoming Drunk on all of this, this so already poured with a gentle hand of a gentle Heart, and so enjoyed was the great and kind green tea, the tea we think we think to drink, but in tasting, we falter and spill the liquid and then this causes the hand to tremble and then the teacup falls to the earth and shatters in a million, million pieces. Who can drink from shards of a cup that once held such perfectly aromatic tea? Where's the teacup tinkerer when you really need 'em? Love and more Love to you, you teacup thunker to test if it's really crystal, or just a fake glass imitation! Taste the tea and only the tea, for what are broken teacups but broken teacups once porcelein or crystal perfection? It was and is so sweetly intoxicating, this beautiful greenness, and so ever-growing greener, green tea of the One Who has come to Taste You... but then, sometimes all we ever seem to want to hold and fill with our own brand of tea is just a fragment of a fragmented teacup needing just a mouth to put our Sweet Lips to, so as to become the bowl of tea ItSelf. Such is the way of the One Who wants to Play! Sabu! Be well and lift the cup of tea to the HeartBowl, and beg for more for the greenness, if not nary another thing! LoveAlways, Mazie > > Would anyone wish to sponsor a Paliko fund to help this unfortunate orphan? > My friends and family helped collect clothing for the Afghan people (for > winter) and I think this situation merits the same good efforts. What might > she need (besides a family, of course!)? Any suggestions? Ideas? > > Let's not just discuss this one... > > Let's actually do something in the world... > > She should discover that she has not truly lost a family, but gained a larger > one. > > I cannot offer much in terms of material good...but I think I can collect and > offer clothing, toys, books, etc. Should she desire to visit America, I can > offer a home, in need of repair, but well cluttered with warmth and a > menagerie of critters--horse, goats, dogs, peafowl, cats, geese, chickens, > chinchillas and so forth. > > Blessings, > > Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 , zen2wrk@a... wrote: >I am the one that has that terrible job of cleaning the teacups. ...... people these days have all sorts of ways to jostle, whine, and separate. Try as you might, once broken, your sweeping is to no avail. Hey z-b -- there's always Starbucks! "When the sky is clear the sun appears, when the earth is parched rain will fall, he opened his heart fully and spoke out, but it was useless to talk to pigs and fish." ~Mumon LoveAlways, b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2002 Report Share Posted July 3, 2002 Robert's suggestion of starting a Paliko fund to help the young survivor of the wedding party bombing is an excellent one. I would be happy to support it. First we have to figure out how to find Paliko. Bob O'Hearn, can you provide us with information about the original article that mentioned her? Love, Maggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2002 Report Share Posted July 3, 2002 , "chezahmed" <chezahmed@a...> wrote: >Robert's suggestion of starting a Paliko fund to help the young survivor of the wedding party bombing is an excellent one. I would be happy to support it. ....it was Zenbob's suggestion, Dear, and you might try contacting the Red Cross, or email Zenbob to see what he has in mind. >First we have to figure out how to find Paliko. Bob O'Hearn, can you provide us with information about the original article that mentioned her? .....the original article was posted on the Home Page, and there is still some buzz in the media that you can access, probably referencing the town. LoveAlways, b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2002 Report Share Posted July 4, 2002 ....it was Zenbob's suggestion, Dear, and you might try contacting the Red Cross, or email Zenbob to see what he has in mind. What he has in mind, as originally posted to the group, was that members so intensely concerned with this news item, as well as those who became aware of it, might be so moved, being spiritually advanced folk to actually do something about it that would alleviate some suffering, rather than merely discuss it to death. The American Red Cross, for all the good they do, is not a non-profit organization, and monies, goods, etc., donated to them for specific causes often never reach the intended victim(s). I think perhaps UNICEF or some other UN relief agency might be a better target of our love "bombing" of clothes, toys, etc. In the meantime, precious moments slip by as we chitty-chat. Would we be so matter-of-fact if it were our own child who was injured? (I know, if we were killed and the child orphaned, we would not be very involved in the provess--at least not on this plane of existence!). I will try to find more information on Paliko, since the source seems cosmically uninterested in contributing more than some pale sarcasms. Blessings Love, Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2002 Report Share Posted July 4, 2002 , zen2wrk@a... wrote: >I will try to find more information on Paliko, since the source seems cosmically uninterested in contributing more than some pale sarcasms. .... "People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. ~ Rumi LoveAlways, b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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