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The Internet is amazing. I met a man at my Uncle Bill Dixon's favorite general aviation airport in Chicago area (Lansing). He wrote poetry and had attended Oklahoma State University, as I did, and knew someone who had attended Roosevelt University where I graduated a long time ago. From that meeting, he knew nothing about UU but eventually his Uncle Mon found a contact in Kolkata who could have these made there and shipped to us.
I wanted it to be specifically for homes and non-denominational chapels because when I spent time in a hospice chapel there was nothing Unitarian in there (That was in Vermont). Anyway, here is the link.
Link to my fellowship page about chalice here.
This idea started after I went to General Assemblies in Quebec City, later Boston, Long Beach and that one in Texas.
I have had an amazing education in dealing with the various folks (Muslim/India)(Kolkata) and the snags that happen
crossing cultural divides. It's been great.
MEDITATION FOR KNOWING THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE
Get comfortable, sit back against a wall or lie down. If you are lying down please bend your knees and place your feet on the floor.
Go ahead and close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths, in through your nose and blow out through your mouth. As you breathe in pull the breath all the way into your tummy.
Place your hands on your stomach and feel your breath there and then release it by blowing out through your mouth. Now repeat that twice more . . . now resume your normal breathing . . . and now I'd like to take you on a little journey.
Sometimes we get confused about who we really are. We think we are our job, or the role that we play in life.
Many of you have recognized several things that have been interfering in your relationships.
Take this opportunity; explore other areas that are holding you back.
Picture a clear plastic bag. Fill the bag with swirling purple air. Watch the patterns as they swirl around.
Now create tiny sparkles of light in the purple air. Allow the sparkles to make their own pattern.
The air is so clear that when you put an object into the bag you can see it even more clearly than you can in real life.
Everything you put into the bag you will be able to understand.
Now put your name into the bag. See it floating in there. Understand what it means.
Put your naked body into the bag. Look at it see it from every angle. What does it say about you?
Now put any illness or injury that you have into the bag.
Look at your body. See that parts that are not working. Now put any pain that you have in the bag. Put any pain that you've ever had into the bag.
Now put your favorite outfit of clothing on the naked body. What are you communicating by wearing these clothes?
Put your entire wardrobe into the bag, and your hairstyle, your make up, personal items.
Now put your house in the bag and your furniture. . . place your car into the bag. What are you telling people about you through your car?
Now put all of your possessions into the bag.
Now put your job into the bag, and all the ideas that you have that you are what you do.
Now put your mind in the bag. With it that little voice that in the back of your head that is always telling you what to think and do.
Put your personality into the bag. Put your
dreams and your nightmares into the bag.
Now put all your beliefs in the bag. Your beliefs about money. . . about women and men and sex.
Your beliefs about your sex organs, your weight, your complexion. Your beliefs about race, God, religion, and politics.
All the ideas that you have about death and loneliness.
Put your mother and father into the bag. Put your brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, husband or wife, your lover, your children, your friends in the bag. Put anyone that that you have ever hurt in the bag.
Now put all of your complaints into the bag. Put anything that you have ever complained about into the bag.
Put all of your judgments into the bag....all of those people and things you felt were good or bad, right or wrong. Put those judgments in the bag.
Put your need to always be right, into the bag. All your opinions about what you have or have not accomplished in the bag
Opinions about your failures, about your reputation, opinions about all those things that you think you are guilty of, those things that you are trying to do.
Opinions about the rules or laws that you have broken.
About the arguments that you have had and all the agreements that you did not keep. And all the relationships that you have left.
Put into the bag all the opinions others have about you.
All the opinions that your parents had about what they wanted you to be.
What your friends wanted you to be. What your boss wants you to be. What your enemies think of you.
Now put your characteristics into the bag. You're habits, your addictions, and your resistances.
Your being argumentative or resentful or revengeful, your need to be alone, your desire not to tell the truth.
Your desire not to confront others. Your refusal to allow people to teach you. Your reluctance to empower other people. Your fears, your unwillingness toward making the world work.
Your need to make justifications about what you do wrong. All your reasons for why you are what and who you are.
Your current problems. Put them all in the bag.
Now look around you and put anything you've forgotten into the bag.
Make sure that everything that is you is in the bag.
Now look at the bag from all sides, from the top and the bottom.
See everything that is you, in the bag.
IT IS NOT YOU
You are not in the bag. YOU are who is looking at the bag. You created everything in the bag to help you express yourself.
You can keep or discard anything in the bag. It's your choice.
IT IS NOT YOU
You are not the things in the bag. You are who
"Thank you Fairyblue1 from Oprah Community of Eckhart Tolle"
I would give this book definitely.
