Hello Everyone

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Hello everyone. Just got back into town today. Hope you are all well. I will be

catching up on some of the e-mail over the next few days. As the year 1999 comes

to a close, many people are anticipating major events and changes in their life.

Same old stuff every 1000 years. Life is happening now. Always now. Twenty five

hundred years ago, Buddha carefully analyzed the human condition and said that

life inherently involves suffering of some type or another. Suffering indeed

appears to be universal. One need not look far to see examples of horrific

suffering due to poverty, neglect,

ignorance, war, injustice, greed, and abuse. Joys come intertwined with sorrow.

Pleasures and pain often follow each other in a natural cycle. We are all born

wearing the garland of suffering. A sage once said that all fruits that fall

from the tree of life are bitter sweet-- but two fruits are sweet only. One is

meditation on the nature of the Truth of Self. Second is Satsanga or keeping

company of people who walk the path of Truth. The pathless path truly goes

nowhere. Truth cannot be found elsewhere or at another time. It exists always in

the Present--As Presence of the Heart. The

Heart is the both the ultimate mystery and the ultimate simplicity. It cannot be

known in the sense of objective knowledge. It Eternally Knows It Self. Once I

heard that Aristotle reasoned that God being perfect must always be meditating

on perfection. But since there is no perfection other than God, it follows that

God must be in constant meditation on His/Her Own Self. So the Sages declare

that God sits in the Heart as one's own Self. That is the Truth we must drink

deeply of. That is the nectar of immortality. That Thou Are!