joe..masters or not...i know what you are saying joe..loud and clear i hear it..however i am my own teacher and at this moment in time i pray my life is a prayer as you say practise 24/7 /365 sometimes i get into a knot and forget after all i'm only human! merle
Merle, We are ONE with all beings. Any time we shake the spider web -- or the Jeweled Net of Indra -- beings get the message, even if they do not know it. If they are AWAKE, they get it. There is no way to hide our perturbations of the net. Prayer is unnecessary, and has essentially *already happened*. By the time we think of prayer, word is already OUT. THAT'S what I'm getting at. A person with no mind, and hence no motion of mind, does NOT shake the net. See this in tons of Zen stories about the records of various masters, or much better yet, discover it from within your very own, most personal, practice, ...which is OUR practice, you know. My teacher was right, Merle! You're right to pray. It's just unnecessary. It's reopening the barn door after the Colt has already bolted. Rest assured. --Joe > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > joe and troops.. > i will pray.. > you will not pray.. [snip]
