Really nice hymn on the general subject. Though very Sorry Nablusoss, it's a hillbilly from the mountains of western Massachusetts. The alto singer is fabulous. -Buck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50IoS2nY7I&list=PL0A66F691478F74EE And am I born to die? To lay this body down! And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Eternal Freedom, it's a wonderful thing. The fact is it can take > > > > > some spiritual discipline to get there from here, as in a life well > > > > > lived. > > > > > > > > > > From the Gita somewhere: Disciplined people, freed from > > > > > [attachments], who have disciplined their thoughts and have realized > > > > > the Unified Field, find eternal freedom in divine consciousness > > > > > everywhere. > > > > > > > > > > > Having left external contacts outside; > > > with the vision within the eyebrows; > > > having balanced the ingoing and outgoing > > > breaths that flow through the nostrils, > > > > > > The seers, whose sins are destroyed, whose doubts are dispelled, who are > > > self-controlled and take delight in doing good to all creatures, attain > > > eternal freedom in divine consciousness. > > > > > > > What? You're not a seer? What [in hell] on earth have you been doing with > > your life? > > > > Sage advice, > > The sage, whose senses, mind and intellect > are controlled, whose aim is liberation, > from whom desire, fear and anger have > departed, is indeed for ever free. > > > > > > > > > There's a beautiful hymn from the Christian tradition about this > > > > Unified Field thing on earth as it is in heaven: > > > > > > > > In the Unified Field- > > > > > > > > Salvation, Om the joyful sound! > > > > 'Tis pleasure to my ears; > > > > A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, > > > > A cordial for our fears. > > > > > > > > Buried in sorrow and in sin > > > > At hell's dark door we lay; > > > > But we arise by grace divine > > > > To see a heav'nly day. > > > > > > > > Salvation! Let the echo fly > > > > The spacious earth around; > > > > While all the armies of the sky > > > > Conspire to raise the sound. > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" <awoelflebater@> > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm about halfway through 'Dying To Be Me'. So far so good. > > > > > > > > > > Emily, you might want to pick this one up. I'll let you > > > > > > > > > > know when I get this finished Michael. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, demographically very topical. > > > > > > > > > There's been a bunch of meditators dying to get out of here > > > > > > > > > recently in Fairfield. It seems there is a memorial every > > > > > > > > > other day to go to. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Life goes on for the living, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And if you read these books it appears, also, for the dead (but > > > > > > > > not gone). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Buck in the Dome > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "When the mind, through the practice of transcendental > > > > > > > meditation, rises to the state of cosmic consciousness, absolute > > > > > > > Field becomes permanently established in the nature of the mind, > > > > > > > and it attains the state of Unified Field, the universal state of > > > > > > > Being. Then the mind finds itself on a level of life from which > > > > > > > all the gross and subtle levels of creation can be stimulated, > > > > > > > controlled and commanded." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It's a wonderful thing in Fairfield having the campus radio station > > > > > > to listen to. I came out of the Dome meditation this morning and > > > > > > there was this above discussion from the Gita on the truck radio as > > > > > > me and my farm sheep dog drove along. It's true. -Buck, at home > > > > > > and out standing in his Field > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >