For Sunday April 30th, 2017

Hello everyone, if we had been working telepathically you all would have been telling me to slow down and not try to do everything at once. So it seems that's a good focus for this evening – the care and nurturing of the self.

May we take our time to heal. May we sit back and breath. May we let ourselves rest.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday April 23rd, 2017

Hello everyone, it is possible to affect the future of the world with attitudinal changes. A change of attitude from less loving to more loving is one of the most beautiful things a person can experience or observe. Such changes are entirely internal yet can have an enormous affect on the outer world. 

Here's an exercise: choose someone you feel would benefit from an improved attitude. It can be a world or national figure, someone down the street, in your family, or a random passerby. It's your choice, anyone you want. Choose them, then love them. Love them absolutely. Try desperately to love them enough that they love themselves enough to change their attitude.

You can spend as much time on it as you wish, five minutes or five years, but it must come honestly from the heart. 

NDEers tell us that in our life reviews we will see the fruits of our labors.

Thank you everyone,

Richard

Good grief...

It's only this morning that I realized I had missed yesterday's meditation completely. I have an excuse for being distracted, if it helps at all. My step-brother passed away on April 1st. Yup, he was a big time joker and somehow it was very fitting for him to pass on April Fool's Day. The thing which was such a distraction for me was that I had been asked to officiate at his funeral service which was held on Saturday the 15th. Somehow I was completely wrapped up in preparing for that and looking forward to Easter at my daughter's house on Sunday. The Sunday evening meditation never entered my mind. Sheesh...

Well, I guess we have to accept our human frailties as lovingly as we can, then carry on. So, Tuesday's focus will be coming soon and I'll 'resurrect' my efforts for next Sunday.

Thank you all for your understanding,

Richard

For Sunday April 9th, 2017

Hello everyone, we humans are fantastic at justifying absolutely anything. Whatever impulse occurs within us can be instantly justified by our mind. We then gleefully follow that impulse with the unshakable belief that it was the justification which came first.

Yet the teachings of Buddhism tell us to watch what our minds are doing. There is always a wise, outwardly loving path available. Are we searching for it or simply following internal impulses and justifications?

May we sit this evening for the awareness of our own inner workings. May our biases, angers, grievances, and habitual thought patterns become clear. May we search for the wiser way.

Thank you all,

Richard

For Sunday April 2nd, 2017

Hello everyone, division creates war. The war may be outwardly destructive or internally conflicting.  Whether it's geographical, cultural, ideological, financial, power based, or a selfish artifice of politics, as long as a pattern of division exists in our hearts and minds we are bound to produce war. 

We look for external forces as protection, military and legal, against that which we continue to create internally. All this while science gets closer and closer to proving what the ancients have said for eons, that we are One.

May we sit this evening for the greater truth. May we set aside our thinking mind. May we release conflict and find connection.

Thank you,

Richard