message from linda

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please forgive this child.AMMAs sun spoke to our beloved sister linda a

couple of days ago and she told AMMAs sun to give you all her love.

 

 

>"Dusty Gain" <dustygain

>Ammachi

>Ammachi

> Re: DC satsang/nice people

>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:35:03 -0000

>

>Ammachi, Max Dashu <maxdashu wrote:

> >

> > There is a dharma saying that goes, Don't ponder other people.

> >

>

>Om Namah Shivaya all.

>

>I am relatively new here, getting the digest for the last couple of

>months. I look forward to getting it everyday and read every word. I

>look forward to being in Amma's arms once again soon. I am fortunate

>in that i live in a small community just outside Yosemite so I am only

>a 2 1/2 hour drive to San Ramon and have been able to attend all the

>weekend retreats there since I met Amma last November. I feel like my

>life of 55 years has now been lit up with what had been missing, and I

>can't imagine a future without Mother's beaming smile filling my

>vision everytime I close my eyes.

>

>One of the biggest steps in my life since I met Amma is the

>realization that I no longer feel the need to have the last word. In

>my past, having the last word was important when arguing some point.

>Now I rarely find myself in a potentially argumentative interaction,

>and when faced with the potential for one, find myself smiling and

>changing the subject if possible, or just walking away without even

>intending to do that. It just happens. I am learning the benefits of

>Love. I have a long way to go yet, but with the help of Mother, I may

>yet make it.

>

>Last night, I finished reading a book I had been loaned to me by my

>daughter Misha, who introduced me to Amma and just returned from 6

>months in Amritapuri with her husband Mahesvara.

>

>From page 252 of "Amma and Me" by Manoharan:

>

> "I can't speak for all ashrams, but this particular one really is

>a battlefield, and to me the glory of the spiritual life is rather

>like the glory of being a foot soldier in that sometimes it's hard to

>see any glory at all. Slogging through the mud from one battle to the

>next seems to be the nature of the game. And truthfully, sometimes I

>get tired of the mud. Often people have unrealistic romantic

>expectations that everybody here should be perpetually happy and full

>of joy, etc., but it's not like that at all. People here are

>intensely working through their issues, and because of this there is

>often more negativity coming up in those that live here than in those

>that live in the world. And frankly, because of this, sometimes I

>wish I were anywhere else on the planet but Amritapuri."

>

>From the preceding page:

>

> "ONCE A HINDU ASCETIC and a Catholic monk were comparing notes on

>their respective sadhanas. "I meditate twelve hours a day," the

>ascetic said to the monk. "What about you?"

> "That's wonderful," replied the monk. "We don't meditate very

>much at all."

> "And then I fast for ten days every month," the ascetic continued.

> "We only fast once a year on Good Friday," said the monk.

> "On Thursdays and Fridays I stay up all night chanting."

> "I really am impressed," said the monk. "We go to bed every night

>at ten."

> "Well tell me then, what is it you do? What is your form of

>sadhana?" the ascetic asked the monk with great curiosity.

> "My friend," replied the monk, "my brothers and I simply live in

>community."

> The ascetic understood. "I bow to you," he said. "Your penance

>is by far the greater."

>

>Counting the days,

>Mike

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