Guest guest Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 July 7, 2003--My friend Peter always lets me know that to feel the wind on your skin is a blessed thing. Forget illness, sorrow, unsolveable human problems. He has known more than his share and carries his burden so gracefully. I have never met Peter but I don't have to. He is a pointer to the real just as much as Ramana Maharshi or Nisargadatta Maharaj. The twinkle in his eye is a universal one. How blessed we are by people like Peter. How can you find him? You got me. I feel his love in every honest word that he writes.... "The only thing I have ever found that really works (for me at least) is just being. By which I mean sitting or walking through the grasses, not doing anything much, feeling the air and the sun, seeing the wide wide sky, and just poking along. For me, what helps when pain comes is to scream as appropriate, then go on with the walk (or crawl depending on strength) through the grass. Talk of enlightenment it seems to me, is for the healthy only, since they think that by hard work and strict discipline they can attain something. For those of us who are seriously ill however, all that seems like impossibly hard work. 'Enlightenment', 'awakening', and the like seems to me to be all just a lot of talk and hard work - really just a way of avoiding the wind in one's hair, so easily available anywhere at any time, regardless of circumstance, without any effort at all. Trying to attain something more seems, well, uninteresting." For more of Peter's letters....http://www.bobwoodyard.com under Vicki Woodyard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 VICKY THANK YOU I COMPLETE AGREE MICHAEL BINDEL - skiplaurel Friday, February 20, 2004 4:22 PM The Wind on your Skin July 7, 2003--My friend Peter always lets me know that to feel the wind on your skin is a blessed thing. Forget illness, sorrow, unsolveable human problems. He has known more than his share and carries his burden so gracefully. I have never met Peter but I don't have to. He is a pointer to the real just as much as Ramana Maharshi or Nisargadatta Maharaj. The twinkle in his eye is a universal one. How blessed we are by people like Peter. How can you find him? You got me. I feel his love in every honest word that he writes.... "The only thing I have ever found that really works (for me at least) is just being. By which I mean sitting or walking through the grasses, not doing anything much, feeling the air and the sun, seeing the wide wide sky, and just poking along. For me, what helps when pain comes is to scream as appropriate, then go on with the walk (or crawl depending on strength) through the grass.Talk of enlightenment it seems to me, is for the healthy only, since they think that by hard work and strict discipline they can attain something. For those of us who are seriously ill however, all that seems like impossibly hard work. 'Enlightenment', 'awakening', and the like seems to me to be all just a lot of talk and hard work - really just a way of avoiding the wind in one's hair, so easily available anywhere at any time, regardless of circumstance, without any effort at all. Trying to attain something more seems, well, uninteresting."For more of Peter's letters....http://www.bobwoodyard.com under Vicki Woodyard./join "Love itself is the actual form of God."Sri RamanaIn "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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