Sympathize with the homeless?

@Elevatorpitches Yes, our home is in the afterlife. Let's pray it's Paradise.

@Madeleine that can be RIGHT NOW

Lets make it better and keep trying harder.

@Elevatorpitches This life will never be perfect. Paradise is perfect.

@Madeleine This planet could be a PARADISE. People who meditate think it aleady is, I am becoming one of them in spite of fundamentalist religion.... and disbelief...

no better idea.

@Elevatorpitches I pray and I feel the joy by connecting my heart and thoughts to my Creator. But what about the next world? Nobody wants to regret it that day.

@Madeleine I deal with what I know...this ONE life I have.

@Elevatorpitches What is your purpose in life? Do you believe that we were put on this earth to live for a number of years then die? What is the purpose of self-improvement if it's going to end eventually?

@Madeleine Hey ho!!

That's what MEDITATION teaches.😌

@Elevatorpitches What does it teach?

@Madeleine It teaches that PARADISE is here right now if we want it.

It teaches us WHO WE ARE.

Try it.

I suggest popping on some free Jack Kornfield videos from you tube. You will be in love again.

That will be your takeaway once u take that stuff


sseriously!! 🌈

@Elevatorpitches Does it teach once you enter Paradise of this world, you will live forever? Never become old or die?

@Madeleine first rule of reality:

its not about before and after
now and then
there and here
forever or any other length of "time"
Paradise or hell
life or "death"
old and young
time and dog
this world or the big unknown
YOU and your body
form...and change

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Hanging onto "stuff" gives one rope-burn.
Add hatred to hatred continues the cycle.

How to practice this? Remember the spirit of the eyes of a two year old gazing on an apple or a butterfly or a rainbow...for the first time.

Stay in your seat and notice what comes and goes.

Bring presence to your circimstances that arise and pass.


....adapted from some Jack Kornfield material off the you tube

@Elevatorpitches So death doesn't exist?

@Madeleine your meditations can help you work with that one...

😼

do small things with great love, including presence in physical death.
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@Elevatorpitches Respectfully, this is not reality. It's running away from reality.

@Madeleine Everything is a mirror of the Self

@Elevatorpitches The reality says we're here temporarily and our bodies eventually will die and be under the ground. There's no escape from that. Our souls, however, will not die. That's why we have to purify our souls to be accepted to enter Paradise afterlife.