Prayer

 

M’s pears, before sauced 

And after. So delicious!  TYJ

Lee van Laer, Daily Five, Substack today, The Place of Prayer:

And already the prayer of being has begun. 

Here is where I breathe deep into the being-body 
bringing the energies of the planetary air 
deep into the cathedral. 

This place of prayer and sustenance. 
This place of blood and being. 

And I see that this is a dwelling place 
from which I can arise to meet the day accordingly
in the certain knowledge that the goodness of being 
gathers itself here at the root of this foundation. 

The energies of the planetary air infuse the torso 
in such a way that the arms and the trunk of the body 
begin to vibrate with the same energetic forces that root me to the planet. 

The heart and the throat and the head 
become more open more available to this energy 
and it begins to assume its own rightful form as a whole thing. 

An energy that inhabits the entire body evenly, 
distributed throughout every particle. 

And the energy has no need to engage in movement 
from one place to another
for it is already perfectly distributed everywhere 
as a single force. 

Instead, it rests in a very active stillness. 

The stillness of prayer. 

For real prayer never actually arises anywhere 
but from within this perfect stillness. 

Real prayer cannot be made by man or woman
for it belongs to the expression of forces 
much greater than any individual life. 

It belongs to the community. 
It belongs to the planet. 
It belongs to the sun and the stars. 

And I see that I cannot make prayer within myself, 
but that when it comes I am called to it. 

So in this place of stillness, I wait. 

Ready for bed

 

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Went to PSC tonight. Got some pears from M. She’s going to make pure butter. I think I will too.  Maybe cornbread also  The TBD turned out to be psychometric. Couple of ladies I find boring went on and on about items they were wearing. D Brought a beautiful Nicaraguan cornhusk mosaic, which is something I have never seen before

Here is a very similar example except hers showed a farmer in the field

Novica Corn husk collage of musicians and dancers l

 Actually, here hers is:

God bless the makers and artists

Breath, sensation

 

Almost a throwaway creation, yet equally complex

Thank you, Absolute, and TNJ for my eyes to see it

Today, now, always as I live and breathe: enjoy this body and feel it just as it is. Acknowledge the little pains and farts without complaint, instead, with awareness, with awareness of awareness, and with gladness. 

    Lee’s Substack post on oversimplification by two scientists:  we are elaborate hair holders. Will there be a test? And I think I will not read AI if I know it’s there: too inorganic!  But his comments made me think, about the hairs on my head, and especially those on Red after bathing him yesterday. Then naturally follows:

Matthew 30:26 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 27 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[h]29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?[i]And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.  Blessed be the beautiful Name.

Edgy and Tricky

11-10-26 pretty

Can’t say why but I am. Lord, lord abide 

The following is entered on 11-14

The Use of Trickery 11-13-26, Rabbi Moshe Wisnefsky, Genesis 27:28-4 Chabad.org Wisdom for daily Chumash portion

“The blessings Isaac bestowed upon Jacob were for material prosperity. The fact that Jacob obtained these blessings through cleverness teaches us how we should engage in our own material pursuits. When eating or conducting business, for example, we can appear to be merely tending to our physical needs, similar to the materialistic Esau. But behind this façade, we should really be thinking like Jacob: our true purposes should be spiritual: We should eat in order to have the strength to do good deeds, study the Torah, and observe G‑d’s commandments. We should earn our livelihood in order to have the financial means with which to do all these things, and so on. This is the sort of “duplicity” that we are meant to employ in our interactions with the material world.“

    This reading reminds me Of needle Mann‘s book, Money and the Meaning of life.  It also reminds me of Dan and the Coral incident, 10-8-2024 or 3. He called it a mitzvah when he managed to extract a large amount of money from me for cosmetics I didn’t want or need, and maybe it actually was. I still ponder how and why a good Jewish man works that way in a commercial enterprise that also works that way. People ( especially Ddi)) could and likely do consider I was just being a foolish old lady.  But I sense something more to it, and perhaps this passage gives a clue.  Lord, I would like your guidance on these questions of inner being and Materialism

Thanks again

 

Flock together 

Tuesday evening looking down the barrel of Wednesday garbage collection again, already. Thank you for that good service in this time and place. As well as for recovery from fights with S. 

Can’t serve two masters

As long as I get my toys and my naps

Except the Rabbi has a good take on financial prosperity: It’s not necessarily corrupting, If you consider Goddoes the prospering to righteous and charity giving Jews. I’m probably oversimplifying and Sis C would certainly take exception to that notion. So would most of Americans since they keep voting the Democrats in for Government handouts. 

Deer, Lord. Thanks!

 

Gotta love them!