Mayka, Fair enough. People have been enlightened from hearing a stone hit a bamboo so who am I to argue : )
Mike ________________________________ From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 1 March, 2011 1:23:46 Subject: Re: [Zen] Don't Change - By Anthony De Mello Mike: To me the story is great just as it is. Whatever one makes or interpretate it is a different matter. There is nothing to be added to it as its says already everything. But if you would ask me to give a description of it, it will be spoiled. Mayka --- On Mon, 28/2/11, mike brown <[email protected]> wrote: >From: mike brown <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Zen] Don't Change - By Anthony De Mello >To: [email protected] >Date: Monday, 28 February, 2011, 14:40 > > > >Mayka, > >The story doesn't end there. Learn to accept the world as it is, too. You're >not >separate from the world and the world is not separate from you.. or 'me'. From >recognising we all share the same Nature comes great Love and Compassion. > >Mike > > > > ________________________________ From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> >To: Zen Forum <[email protected]> >Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 18:31:01 >Subject: [Zen] Don't Change - By Anthony De Mello > > >Dedicated to all those who accept us just as we are: > >There is this story by Anthony de Mello I like it very much for its simplicity. > >I was a neurotic for years. Anxious, depressed, >selfish. And everyone kept telling me to chance. > >And I resented them, and agreed with them, and >wanted the change, but simple couldn't. No matter how I tried. > >What hurt the most was that, like the others, >My closest friend kept urging me to change. >So, I fell powerless trapped. > >One day he said: "Don't change, I love you as you are" >These words were music to my ears: "Don't change. Don't change. Don't change.... >I love you as you are" >I relaxed, I come alive. And suddenly, I changed! > >Now I know that I couldn't really change till I found >someone to love me whether I changed or not. > >I this how you love me, God? >
