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The Middle Path
Let me tell you about the middle path. Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted, abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not cleanse the one who is deluded. Mortifying the flesh through excessive hardship does not lead to a triumph over the senses. All self-inflicted suffering is useless as long as the feeling of self is dominant.
You should lose your involvement with yourself and then eat and drink naturally, according to the needs of your body. Attachment to your appetites--whether you deprive or indulge them--can lead to slavery, but satisfying the needs of daily life is not wrong. Indeed, to keep a body in good health is a duty, for otherwise the mind will not stay strong and clear.
This is the middle path.
-Discourse II
From "Buddha Speaks," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.
Jude "White-Bear" Correll
Animal Psychic Team
Spirit Foundation Int'l
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Let everything you do be your expression of Spirit,
And everything you say be your Prayer ~Anon
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Nice article on the Power of Intention and Animal Healing
http://www.sidereus.org/a/jwb_intention.htm
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