Margins of being (# 1825)

18 06 2022

1.I have been led to Rufus Jones who wrote: “We do not know how far the margins of being reach”. I did not include the whole quote because Jones goes on to talk about borders. Borders!!?! We don’t need no stinkin’ borders. One’s being mixes with the being around us long before it comes close to the margins (if there are any). Thich Nhat Hanh calls it interbeing. Buddhists put it as “this is that” and “that is this”. It is stimulating to think of one’s larger footprint. One’s karmic actions, compassionate or selfish, go outward and affect an unknown number of people. We might realize this when a loved one dies and we begin to hear from others how important that loved one affected their life. It is unpleasant to think that maybe some people might be relieved or happy if we died. No matter how awful we have behaved, we have the opportunity to make people happy at the end of our final act. For some reason I am recalling Julian of Norwich: God always makes it right in the end.

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18 06 2022
The Yellow Kingfisher

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