Good day folks. Peace and blessings be upon you
Go and have pity on all, for through pity, one finds freedom of Speech before God. Abba Pambo
Today my brothers and sisters is one of those, where less is more on the blog.
Go in peace and bless those who persecute you.
Your Brother in Christ, Buddha and all the saints,
Peter.
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Good day to you my brothers and sisters. A mystic blog to share.
The lives of mystics suggest that one
cannot exist permantly in a stage of bliss
until all karma and personality issues have
been released, or true liberation occurs.
Aurobindo said "all limitations can be surmounted.. by calling in a higher power and consiousness than that of the personal mind and will. The higher consiousness than that of personal mind and will. The higher consciousness can, by what it brings, correct or rebuild what is defective in the personal nature . He believed of the first tasks necessary for spiritual seekers was to achieve a settled peace and silence in mind, and equanimity (calmness, composure, steadiness) in the being, trusting that happiness comes from the satisfaction of the soul rather than of the emotions or the body, which can never be satisfied.
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Unconditional love is not a familier experience for most of us, and loving without a particular object is difficult to maintain, so projections are engaged. The personality just naturally wants someone special to give it to.
Learning to love God as expressed in every aspect of the universe is one of the highest intentions of the spiritual practice, and one of the most difficult to attain.
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Obviously this is something we have to not just ourselves work at, but prepare by meditation and prayer to be open to letting that which is supernatural work in us. For this I will share the following, which is from the mystic, John of the cross.
Cloud Prologue
May I Praise You worthily
To you, O God
every heart stands open,
and every will speaks,
No secret is hidden from you.
Purify my mind,
My thoughts and my heart
With the gift of you grace,
so that I may love you perfectly
and praise you worthily.
The Giver is the Gift
Lord, I ask nothing of you
except the gift of love,
that is the Holy Spirit.
for among all your gifts
there is none so good and valuable
so noble and exellent as this.
For in no other gift save yor gift of Love
is the Giver himself the Gift,
so that the gift
is the noblest and best of all
I desire your love
Lord, I desire your love,
not because I am worthy,
but because I am unworthy;
for if I had it,
it would make me worthy.
And since you created me for your love,
although I may never enjoy it,
I will still desire it,
pray for it
and hope to attain it..
I must go now and let my youngest son, Harry use this computer and so I leave you with the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Your brother in christ, Peter.
cannot exist permantly in a stage of bliss
until all karma and personality issues have
been released, or true liberation occurs.
Aurobindo said "all limitations can be surmounted.. by calling in a higher power and consiousness than that of the personal mind and will. The higher consiousness than that of personal mind and will. The higher consciousness can, by what it brings, correct or rebuild what is defective in the personal nature . He believed of the first tasks necessary for spiritual seekers was to achieve a settled peace and silence in mind, and equanimity (calmness, composure, steadiness) in the being, trusting that happiness comes from the satisfaction of the soul rather than of the emotions or the body, which can never be satisfied.
...................................................................................................
Unconditional love is not a familier experience for most of us, and loving without a particular object is difficult to maintain, so projections are engaged. The personality just naturally wants someone special to give it to.
Learning to love God as expressed in every aspect of the universe is one of the highest intentions of the spiritual practice, and one of the most difficult to attain.
............................................................................................
Obviously this is something we have to not just ourselves work at, but prepare by meditation and prayer to be open to letting that which is supernatural work in us. For this I will share the following, which is from the mystic, John of the cross.
Cloud Prologue
May I Praise You worthily
To you, O God
every heart stands open,
and every will speaks,
No secret is hidden from you.
Purify my mind,
My thoughts and my heart
With the gift of you grace,
so that I may love you perfectly
and praise you worthily.
The Giver is the Gift
Lord, I ask nothing of you
except the gift of love,
that is the Holy Spirit.
for among all your gifts
there is none so good and valuable
so noble and exellent as this.
For in no other gift save yor gift of Love
is the Giver himself the Gift,
so that the gift
is the noblest and best of all
I desire your love
Lord, I desire your love,
not because I am worthy,
but because I am unworthy;
for if I had it,
it would make me worthy.
And since you created me for your love,
although I may never enjoy it,
I will still desire it,
pray for it
and hope to attain it..
I must go now and let my youngest son, Harry use this computer and so I leave you with the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Your brother in christ, Peter.
Friday, 13 January 2012
Fish on Friday
Good day my brothers and sisters.
Be attentive and listen to me. I want to share an extremely strong affirmation and prayer that I came across yesterday and needed to spend some time going over before deciding if it should go on this blog.
It is of course up to you, but I believe - even in the awareness of my own ignorance of all the unseen powers in this universe - that I will benefit in a few ways from saying this prayer.
This prayer is long and that I believe is an intrinsic part of its power.
Prayer at Daybreak - Archimandite
Sophronios
O Lord Eternal and Creator of all things, who of thy inscrutable goodness called me to this life; who bestowed on me the grace of Baptism and the seal of the Holy spirit; who imbued me with the desire to seek thee, the one true God: hear my prayer.
I have no life, no light, no joy or wisdom; no strength exept in Thee, O God. Because of my unrightousness I dare not raise my eyes to Thee. But Thou said to Thy disciples, `Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do.`
Where I dare invoke Thee.
Purify me from all taint of flesh and spirit.
Teach me to pray alright.
Bless this day which Thee give unto me, Thy unworthy servant.
By the power of Thy blessing enable me at all times to speak and to act to Thy glory with a pure spirit, with humility, patience, love, gentleness, peace, courage and wisdom: aware always of Thy presense.
Of Thy immense goodness, O Lord God, show me the path of Thy will, and grant me to walk in Thy sight without sin.
O lord, unto whom all hearts be open, Thee know what things I have need of.
Thee are aquainted with my blindness and my ignorance,
Thee know my infirmity and my soul`s corruption;
but neither are my pain and anguish hid from Thee.
Wherefore I beseech thee, hear my prayer and by Thy Holy Spirit teach me the way wherein I should walk, and when my perverted will would lead me down other paths spare me not O Lord, but force me back to Thee.
By the power of Thy love, grant me to hold fast to that which is good.
Preserve mefrom every wor or deed that corrupts the soul; from every impulse unpleasing in Thy sight and hurtful to my brother-mankind. Teach me what I should say and how I shold speak.
If it be Thy will that I make no answer, inspire me to keep silent in a spirit of peace that causes nether sorrow nor hurt to my fellowman.
Establish me in the path of Thy commandments and to my last breath let me not stray from the light of Thy ordinances, that Thy comandments may become the sole law of my being on this earth and all eternity.
Yea, Lord, I pray to Thee, have pity on me. In my foolishness, o God, I plead with Thee for many and great things. Yet I am ever mindful of my wickedness, by baseness, my vilenes.
Have mercy upon me.
Cast me not away from your presence because of my presumption.
Do Thee rather increase in me this presumption, and grant unto me the worst of mankind, to love Thee as Thee commanded with all my heart, and with all my strength.
With my whole being.
Yea, O Lord, by The Holy Spirit, teach me good judgement and knowledge.
Grant me to know Thy truth before I go down into the grave. Maintain my life in this world until I may offer unto Thee worthy repentance.
Take me not away in the midst of my days nor while my mind is still blind.
When Thee shall be pleased to fring my life to an end, forewarn me that I may prepare my Soul to come before Thee.
Be with me, O Lord, at that dread hour and grant me the joy of salvation.
Cleanse me from secret faults, from all iniquity that is hidden in me; and give me a right answer before Thy judgement seat.
Yea Lord, of Thy great mercy and immeasurable love for mankind be known to me. Amen.
I know Fish on friday is a blog where I tend to share spiritual things and today I may have suppaced past blogs. Saying this, I have left out a bit because I thought it may me too much to take in in one blog. So I may if upon prayer belive it is the right thing to do, put it in an evening post.
Have a good day my brothers and sisters and know that you are loved. My alarm is just going off and so I must take Buster over the park. Bye for now, Peter
Be attentive and listen to me. I want to share an extremely strong affirmation and prayer that I came across yesterday and needed to spend some time going over before deciding if it should go on this blog.
It is of course up to you, but I believe - even in the awareness of my own ignorance of all the unseen powers in this universe - that I will benefit in a few ways from saying this prayer.
This prayer is long and that I believe is an intrinsic part of its power.
Prayer at Daybreak - Archimandite
Sophronios
O Lord Eternal and Creator of all things, who of thy inscrutable goodness called me to this life; who bestowed on me the grace of Baptism and the seal of the Holy spirit; who imbued me with the desire to seek thee, the one true God: hear my prayer.
I have no life, no light, no joy or wisdom; no strength exept in Thee, O God. Because of my unrightousness I dare not raise my eyes to Thee. But Thou said to Thy disciples, `Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do.`
Where I dare invoke Thee.
Purify me from all taint of flesh and spirit.
Teach me to pray alright.
Bless this day which Thee give unto me, Thy unworthy servant.
By the power of Thy blessing enable me at all times to speak and to act to Thy glory with a pure spirit, with humility, patience, love, gentleness, peace, courage and wisdom: aware always of Thy presense.
Of Thy immense goodness, O Lord God, show me the path of Thy will, and grant me to walk in Thy sight without sin.
O lord, unto whom all hearts be open, Thee know what things I have need of.
Thee are aquainted with my blindness and my ignorance,
Thee know my infirmity and my soul`s corruption;
but neither are my pain and anguish hid from Thee.
Wherefore I beseech thee, hear my prayer and by Thy Holy Spirit teach me the way wherein I should walk, and when my perverted will would lead me down other paths spare me not O Lord, but force me back to Thee.
By the power of Thy love, grant me to hold fast to that which is good.
Preserve mefrom every wor or deed that corrupts the soul; from every impulse unpleasing in Thy sight and hurtful to my brother-mankind. Teach me what I should say and how I shold speak.
If it be Thy will that I make no answer, inspire me to keep silent in a spirit of peace that causes nether sorrow nor hurt to my fellowman.
Establish me in the path of Thy commandments and to my last breath let me not stray from the light of Thy ordinances, that Thy comandments may become the sole law of my being on this earth and all eternity.
Yea, Lord, I pray to Thee, have pity on me. In my foolishness, o God, I plead with Thee for many and great things. Yet I am ever mindful of my wickedness, by baseness, my vilenes.
Have mercy upon me.
Cast me not away from your presence because of my presumption.
Do Thee rather increase in me this presumption, and grant unto me the worst of mankind, to love Thee as Thee commanded with all my heart, and with all my strength.
With my whole being.
Yea, O Lord, by The Holy Spirit, teach me good judgement and knowledge.
Grant me to know Thy truth before I go down into the grave. Maintain my life in this world until I may offer unto Thee worthy repentance.
Take me not away in the midst of my days nor while my mind is still blind.
When Thee shall be pleased to fring my life to an end, forewarn me that I may prepare my Soul to come before Thee.
Be with me, O Lord, at that dread hour and grant me the joy of salvation.
Cleanse me from secret faults, from all iniquity that is hidden in me; and give me a right answer before Thy judgement seat.
Yea Lord, of Thy great mercy and immeasurable love for mankind be known to me. Amen.
I know Fish on friday is a blog where I tend to share spiritual things and today I may have suppaced past blogs. Saying this, I have left out a bit because I thought it may me too much to take in in one blog. So I may if upon prayer belive it is the right thing to do, put it in an evening post.
Have a good day my brothers and sisters and know that you are loved. My alarm is just going off and so I must take Buster over the park. Bye for now, Peter
Thursday, 12 January 2012
God, its okay to have a laugh and at times its all that keeps us going. So God, thank you for giving us humour.
THE YOGI AND THE PIZZA
The yogi walked into the zen Pizza Parlour and said: " Make me one with everthing." When the Yogi got the pizza, he gave the propietor a £10 note. The proprietor pocketed the bill. The yogi said "Dont I get any change?" The proprietor said, "Change must come from within.""
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My reality check just bounced.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
My life has a superb cast, but I cant figure out the plot.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again.
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Hmm, just pondering how some years ago when I aquired a brain injury, this resulted in losing my memory. Then I chose to go on a spiritual journey to lose my sense of self and aquire a state of enlightenment. I am smiling now, as I know I am getting there and am happy if I never arrive.
Bye bye my brothers and sisters. Blessings and joy be upon you and overflow all around us.
Bro Peter
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
This is a wonderful day. Affirm it with me, cos we are full of wonder and thanks be for that.
At Home While Still on the Way
God. God is pure Love. This is our only thought with the prayer of the heart and we open ourselves to have this Love within us.
The Jesus prayer (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy on me, a sinner.) or any other prayer, is used to gently empty our minds of all distractions from God alone. As well as this, our prayer becomes a prayer of the heart, centered in our inner being the empty space in which our God-filled mind can descend and vanish. God can become our host within us. St Paul said, `I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me` (Galations 2:20). Then we can affirm what Luther said, `Grace is an experience of being delivered from experience`. ( a bit zen! ) And then we can realize that it is not we who pray, but the Spirit of God who prays in us.
One of the early Fathers said: `When thieves approach a house in order to creep up to it and hear someone inside talking, they do not dare to climb in; in the same way, when our enemies try to steal into the soul and take possession of it they creep around but fear to enter when they hear that ..... prayer welling out of us.
When we have given our heart ands soul over to God, the world and all its powers are unable to steal it from us. When God has become the Lord of our heart, our basic alienation is overcome and we can pray with the psalmist:
It was you who created my inmost self,
and put me together in my mother`s womb;
for all these mysteries I thank you:
for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works.
(Psalm 139:13-14)
When God has become our shepherd, our refuge, our fortress, then we can reach out to him when all around us in this forsaken world is in turmoil and feel at home while still on the way. With the indwelling of God we can enter a wordless dialogue with our Master, waiting on the day he will lead us into the house where He has prepared a place for us(John 14;2). Then we can wait while we have already arrived and ask while we have already received. Then we will be able to comfort one another with the words from Paul:
There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-6)
Have a good day brothers and sisters.
Peter
(ps. This is quite a spiritusl blog as I am doing battle against negative forces and need all the armour I can muster, to win. Fortunately and hopefully I have you on my side. Please I ask for you to pray for me to win this fight. Your brother, (in Christ and of Buddha and all the saints) Peter
God. God is pure Love. This is our only thought with the prayer of the heart and we open ourselves to have this Love within us.
The Jesus prayer (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy on me, a sinner.) or any other prayer, is used to gently empty our minds of all distractions from God alone. As well as this, our prayer becomes a prayer of the heart, centered in our inner being the empty space in which our God-filled mind can descend and vanish. God can become our host within us. St Paul said, `I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me` (Galations 2:20). Then we can affirm what Luther said, `Grace is an experience of being delivered from experience`. ( a bit zen! ) And then we can realize that it is not we who pray, but the Spirit of God who prays in us.
One of the early Fathers said: `When thieves approach a house in order to creep up to it and hear someone inside talking, they do not dare to climb in; in the same way, when our enemies try to steal into the soul and take possession of it they creep around but fear to enter when they hear that ..... prayer welling out of us.
When we have given our heart ands soul over to God, the world and all its powers are unable to steal it from us. When God has become the Lord of our heart, our basic alienation is overcome and we can pray with the psalmist:
It was you who created my inmost self,
and put me together in my mother`s womb;
for all these mysteries I thank you:
for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works.
(Psalm 139:13-14)
When God has become our shepherd, our refuge, our fortress, then we can reach out to him when all around us in this forsaken world is in turmoil and feel at home while still on the way. With the indwelling of God we can enter a wordless dialogue with our Master, waiting on the day he will lead us into the house where He has prepared a place for us(John 14;2). Then we can wait while we have already arrived and ask while we have already received. Then we will be able to comfort one another with the words from Paul:
There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-6)
Have a good day brothers and sisters.
Peter
(ps. This is quite a spiritusl blog as I am doing battle against negative forces and need all the armour I can muster, to win. Fortunately and hopefully I have you on my side. Please I ask for you to pray for me to win this fight. Your brother, (in Christ and of Buddha and all the saints) Peter
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Been looking at Picasso`s Monkey and her Baby 1951
Good day to you all. Picasso was such a prolific artist. Its estimated that he produced over 50,000 artworks.
Massacre in Korea is a very strong piece which I hadn't seen before today. I do recommend that you look at it.
When I saw for the first time today his bronze sculpture, Monkey and her Baby, 1951 I thought that the face looked more like that of a baboon. It was only when I read about this piece that I saw the head as it was origonally, a toy car shape.
I should say along with Pablo Piccaso that we dont have to understand art. For me its is not about understanding the stars at night, or the sight and sound of a babbling brook, its taking it into ones wonder.
Following are some of Pablo`s sayings that struck a chord with me.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Its not what an artist does that counts. But what he his.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Painting isn`t an aesthetic operation; its a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Have a good day my brothers and sisters.
Peter
Massacre in Korea is a very strong piece which I hadn't seen before today. I do recommend that you look at it.
When I saw for the first time today his bronze sculpture, Monkey and her Baby, 1951 I thought that the face looked more like that of a baboon. It was only when I read about this piece that I saw the head as it was origonally, a toy car shape.
I should say along with Pablo Piccaso that we dont have to understand art. For me its is not about understanding the stars at night, or the sight and sound of a babbling brook, its taking it into ones wonder.
Following are some of Pablo`s sayings that struck a chord with me.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Its not what an artist does that counts. But what he his.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.
Painting isn`t an aesthetic operation; its a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Have a good day my brothers and sisters.
Peter
Monday, 9 January 2012
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Companions in Christ,
Knowing that our heavenly father
has sufficient grace for all our needs,
let us pray to him now.
Lord, we pray for the leaders and ministers
of your Church, especially those for whom
your work has brought danger and persecution;
may they never lose sight of your presence,
which comforts and protects.
silence
Lord of power:
deliver us from evil.
We pray for clear light and guidance as our world faces
the problems and crises of another week;
for the willingness of leaders
to be wisely advised and courageous
in doing what is right.
silence
Lord of power:
deliver us from evil.
We pray for a greater willingness in us
to live and work in your strength;
for a deepening trust in your power
to save, heal and overcome temptation.
silence
Lord of power
deliver us from evil.
We pray for all addicted to drugs,
alcohol, solvent abuse, violence,
or any other habit that enslaves;
for all victims of war, and abuse;
for the terrified and the suicidal.
silence
Lord of power
deliver us from evil.
We pray that all who have passed from this life (for me this includes especially my late wife Tracy)
may live in the joy of your presence for ever.
silence
Lord of power
deliver us from evil.
Thank you, Father, for all the evils
that have been conquered,
and all the good that is done through your power
every day throughout our world.
Help us to notice your goodness.
silence
Father we bring these prayers
trusting in the power of your love,
which you have shown to us
as Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen
This blog if I am able in any way to say it is art, is the art of equipping us to be being in good spirits. Do we not want to be balanced well in an holistic sense to encounter what this world has in store for us? So meditation and prayer can equip us to go forth with open hearts and spirits ablaze.
We are immortal spiritual beings having an human experience.
Go forth with love and spread the good news that we have been saved.
Your brother Peter/
Knowing that our heavenly father
has sufficient grace for all our needs,
let us pray to him now.
Lord, we pray for the leaders and ministers
of your Church, especially those for whom
your work has brought danger and persecution;
may they never lose sight of your presence,
which comforts and protects.
silence
Lord of power:
deliver us from evil.
We pray for clear light and guidance as our world faces
the problems and crises of another week;
for the willingness of leaders
to be wisely advised and courageous
in doing what is right.
silence
Lord of power:
deliver us from evil.
We pray for a greater willingness in us
to live and work in your strength;
for a deepening trust in your power
to save, heal and overcome temptation.
silence
Lord of power
deliver us from evil.
We pray for all addicted to drugs,
alcohol, solvent abuse, violence,
or any other habit that enslaves;
for all victims of war, and abuse;
for the terrified and the suicidal.
silence
Lord of power
deliver us from evil.
We pray that all who have passed from this life (for me this includes especially my late wife Tracy)
may live in the joy of your presence for ever.
silence
Lord of power
deliver us from evil.
Thank you, Father, for all the evils
that have been conquered,
and all the good that is done through your power
every day throughout our world.
Help us to notice your goodness.
silence
Father we bring these prayers
trusting in the power of your love,
which you have shown to us
as Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen
This blog if I am able in any way to say it is art, is the art of equipping us to be being in good spirits. Do we not want to be balanced well in an holistic sense to encounter what this world has in store for us? So meditation and prayer can equip us to go forth with open hearts and spirits ablaze.
We are immortal spiritual beings having an human experience.
Go forth with love and spread the good news that we have been saved.
Your brother Peter/
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