<div dir="auto">Thank you for this witness, George. Among the many wisdom teachers, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad and many more, you are included. Loving the continuation image of resurrection. Helps to embrace the sermons on promises of eternal life. Peace, Judi White</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 16, 2017 6:53 PM, "George Holcombe via OE" <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:'San Francisco',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'.SFNSText-Regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="m_8073230402283814399_1mj m_8073230402283814399_1mf" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">In our service this Easter morning at a Presbyterian church we sang a hymn written by a Methodist (Jesus Christ is Risen Today) and a closing hymn by a Muslim (Morning Has Broken) and following the Scripture reading of John 20 this quote (below). A profound sermon, and a fuller understanding of the idea of resurrection.</span></div></div><div style="font-family:'San Francisco',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'.SFNSText-Regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="m_8073230402283814399_1mj m_8073230402283814399_1mf" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Thich Nhat Hang, Zen monk</span></div></div><div style="font-family:'San Francisco',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'.SFNSText-Regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="m_8073230402283814399_1mj m_8073230402283814399_1mf" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">"I think there's a way of training ourselves in order not to become the victim of fear and grief- that is to look deeply into ourselves and to see that we are made of non-self elements. And when we look around ourselves, we can recognize ourselves in the non-self elements, like a father looking at his children can see himself in his children, can see his continuation in his children. So he is not attached to the idea that his body is the only thing that is him. He's more than his body.He is inside of his body but he is also at the same (time) outside of his body in many elements. And if we have the habit of looking like that we will not be the victim of our attachment to one form of manifestation, and we will be free. And that freedom makes happiness and peace possible. Other than meditation is there any specific practicer that can help you come to this understanding?</span></div></div><div style="font-family:'San Francisco',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'.SFNSText-Regular',sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;letter-spacing:-0.23999999463558197px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div class="m_8073230402283814399_1mj m_8073230402283814399_1mf" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">Yes. The Buddha advised us to bear in mind that everything is impermanent, that nothing has an absolute entity that remains the same. And when we keep that insight in mind, we can see more deeply into the nature of reality, and we will not be locked in the notion that we are only this body, this life span is the only life span we have. In fact, because nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with envy one else. That is why, when you look outside, around, you can see yourself. And when you look into yourself, you can see the outside. So that is a training.”</span></div><div class="m_8073230402283814399_1mj m_8073230402283814399_1mf" style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><br></span></div></div><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word">George Holcombe<br><a href="mailto:geowanda1@me.com" target="_blank">geowanda1@me.com</a><br><br>"Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley<br><br></div>
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