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"The Mystic Hours"
by Bro. Wayne Teasdale
"We are in touch with the highest spirit in ourselves. We, too, are a Buddha, filled with the Holy Spirit, and we become very tolerant, very open, very deep, and very understanding."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wayne writes: "To be a Buddha is to be truly awake - to the nature of existence, change, impermanence, suffering, liberation, compassion, and love. To be awake is our deepest truth and goal. We are each the Buddha, but the question is: do we know it? do we accept this noble calling? Or do we run from it, hiding behind the firewall of addition and ignorance? The highest spirit in us in the Buddha nature, or the Holy Spirit. This highest spirit is discovered in the depths of the present moment and so requires mindfulness to know it and be it. May we each develop our capacity for mindfulness."
When I first read this I recalled Marianne Williamson's poem from her book "A Return To Love" that says "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." (You can read the entire poem at improventures.com/resources/marianne.htm). It takes a strong nature, or perhaps ego? to live your highest nature and take the negativity that comes your way. But we need you to live it. We need all awakened souls to stretch and live their lives at full tilt to plant the seeds for the next generation, and to further peace on the planet.
The line, "...hiding behind the firewall of addiction and ignorance..." jumped out at me when I read it. I'm going to give it some space and time to develop in my thinking, but I have an inkling of the depths it could touch.
If there is nothing else I accomplish with my body of work and the life I live, I hope it is said of me that I encouraged souls to examine their existence and connect with their creator.
What of you?
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