Montessori .... and Grace

[Guest guest]

Ah,so

So everyone is graced with Grace-Being....

Love to all!

-

Mazie Lane

Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:45 AM

Montessori .... and Grace

Dear Friends of the Sangha,

Grace, our little grand-daughter, has by Grace been able to be

enrolled in a Montessori school - a school that rarely has openings

in the immediacy. It usually takes months and months, sometimes into

the year-figures to get a place in that school. God is so GRACIOUS!

Grace, well-on-her-way to being beyond a handful of bundled-up

enormous energy, compelled by her own deep-seated, past-influenced

wantings, traits and tendencies, well, just know that this is the

finest hour that we have ever found that involves Grace being placed

in an atmosphere that will benefit her, help her to meet her own self

and the challenge of that meeting, and in that, it will ultimately

benefit mankind entirely.

Here ... Grace singing the Soliloquey of Being:

"God has given us a dark wine so potent that,drinking it, we leave the two worlds.

God has put into the form of hashish a powerto deliver the taster from self-consciousness.

God has made sleep sothat it erases every thought.

God made Majnun love Layla so much thatjust her dog would cause confusion in him.

There are thousands of winesthat can take over our minds.

Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love for God.His donkey was drunk with barley.

Drink from the presence of saints,not from those other jars.

Every object, every being,is a jar full of delight.

Be a connoisseur,and taste with caution.

Any wine will get you high.Judge like a king, and choose the purest,

the ones unadulterated with fear,or some urgency about "what's needed."

Drink the wine that moves youas a camel moves when it's been untied,

and is just ambling about."

~ Rumi, "Mathnawi IV, 2683-96, The Essential Rumi

As I Am,

Mazie