On the walk back from the dojo,
A thousand delights abound.
Life arises on the surface
Each branch, each breeze
Carries a penetrating sound,
Each step softly throbs
To the Universal Beat
Within a few meters,
Crossing existence all over.
©FJ March 2022
Groupe de Pratique
Recueils — Participations
Many thanks to all
Notes & Silence 
Th challenge, then, or the aspiration at least, being that all ways you go have a similar quality?
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I guess.
for what would be the use of a teaching limited to circumstantial conditions ?
There is a call to universality within each of us regardless of our traditions, or various paths…
What kind of path would not seek universality ?
Would it be worth to consider it as a path at all ?
Also, we should beware of path calling themselves universal while praising the opposite.
Isn’t that a mark of the Beast ?
How contemporary, how Orwellian that usurpation is …
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We all have one path I think. It’s called « life ». The subdivisions are artificial, it seems to me. That is why I wondered at you marking out one in particular.
To my mind, your comment on « the Beast » is the condemnation of all religion.
1984 is now.
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Where would you stand on such an interpretation of this comment ?
Would you agree with such a condemnation ?
My guess is you would.
But what s a guess really worth ?
1984 is now.
Now is worse than 1984.
The scale of ignorance makes it so.
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Sometimes, a guess is all we have. An assumption if we are lucky.
I am not a supporter of religion. Belief is one thing, but faith (as I define it – we’ve had that discussion) imprisons, while religion constructs the walls and paints them with the venom of the ignorance you mention.
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