What do you think of sayings of Buddha " Nothing is lost in the universe"?

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON

Nothing Is Lost In The Universe

The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn , arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.

They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls,painting, etc, and on December 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished.

On December 19 a terrible tempest - a driving rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.

On the 21st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high.

The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home.l On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity, so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church.

By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later.

She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area. 

Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet. "Pastor," she asked, "where did you get that tablecloth?" The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria.

The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten "The Tablecloth". The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria.

When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. he was captured, sent to prison and never saw her husband or her home again.

The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home. That was the least he could do. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day jfor a housecleaning job.

What a wonderful service they had on Christmas eve. the church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the paster and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return.

One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn't leaving.

The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to  one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike?

He told the pastor how the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison. he never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years between.

The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They Drive to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier.

He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman's apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine.

TRUE STORY - submitted by Pastor Rob Reid who says God does work in mysterious ways. I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today to guide you and protect all who enter this space as you go along your way. His love is always with you. His promises are true, and when we give Him all our cares we know He will see us through.

So when the road you''re traveling seems difficult at best, just remember I'm her praying and God will do the rest. Pass this on. THIS IS ALSO A NICE SHORT STORY TO READ TO YOUR FAMILY ON CHRISTMAS EVE OR DAY.

Happy Holidays Around the world! Peace

What do you think of sayings of Buddha " Nothing is lost in the universe"?

DEALING WITH PAIN BODIES? WHAT DO YOU DO?

A COMMUNITY MEMBER SHARED A PAIN BODY EXPERIENCE, AND ANOTHER MEMBER SHARED THIS WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE HOPE ECKHART TOLLE'S RESPONSE WILL BE HELPFUL TO OTHERS WHO VISIT THIS SPACE. What works for you when DEALING WITH PAIN BODIES?

Question: When you know a certain person or situation is likely to trigger your Pain Body, is it better to avoid them altogether, or is it helpful to the development of Consciousness to stay with them and observe your Pain Bodies?

Eckhart Tolle: There is no clear answer to that - it depends on the situation.  In some situations you cannot even walk away,  and all you can do is be present with your Pain Body (like at work).  In other situations it may be better to walk out instead of being engaged in useless argumentation or conflict. No right or wrong answer, you have to take individual situations and feel what is right to do.

There is no way of avoiding the Pain Body altogether.  If you live in this world, there will always be situations in your life [that trigger it], unless you are a complete hermit. Even if you are a complete hermit, it may happen because your own Pain Body may arise as a result of certain thoughts that may trigger it. Your spiritual practice will have to be a heightening of Presence as soon as you notice somebody close to you who is being drawn into that deep unconsciousness that is the identification with the Pain Body.

The intensity of Presence needs to arise so that you can counteract the deep, powerful pull of unconsciousness of the other person’s Pain body, that wants your Pain Body to react - it wants an emotional reaction from you. You need to turn the dimmer switch up so that you become intensely present while the other person’s Pain Body is trying to get some kind of reaction from you. It’s a very subtle thing, it can easily be confused with closing down or shutting yourself off from the other person.

When I talk about intense Presence, it has nothing to do with closing yourself to the other person or shutting down . With intensification of Presence, there is a complete openness toward your surroundings, toward the Other, but there is that high degree of alertness, and that alertness is open towards what is. After a while you will find that you do that automatically; it’s not a decision-making process.

Whenever there is a pull of unconsciousness in a situation, you find yourself becoming more alert and awake. When you find yourself being challenged, you will find yourself becoming more alert – like the light is being turned up. That’s wonderful, because then it means that whatever the challenge may be, its function is to push you into intensified Presence. That’s the only way you can not be drawn into somebody else Pain Body.

Once you realize that this is possible, you will find in situations the intensity of Presence inside you will vary. It becomes very intense the moment you are challenged by a difficult situation.  Immediately you find, rather than being pulled into unconsciousness by a challenge, which is the case for most people, you intensify your presence.

Below is a very helpful video on PAINBODY ATTACKS (on Eckhart Tolle TV--click on link below). The lady addresses the issue of pain bodies with her parents and the difficult challenge she is having with this, but, this can be used with any challenge one may have with others.

http://www.eckharttolletv.com/?_s_ref=4CBRg8xOS&kw=[eckhart%20tolle%20TV]&creative=7634423746&gclid=CIT228vIiKUCFU465QodyXRcOA