--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Byron Katies newest book as titled above. It is her commentary on the > Tao Te CHing all 81 sutras with a chapter for each sutra some short > some long.given in an off hand contemporary manner. > Excerpt from Chapter 21 The master keeps her mind always at one with > the Tao. > > Page 59 chapter 2 para 2. > If my child has died, thats the way of it. Any argument with that > brings an eternal hell. 'She died too soon". "I didn't get to see her > grow up". I could have done something to save her". 'I was a bad > mother.' 'God is unjust." But her death is reality. No argument in the > world can make the slightest dent in what has already happened. Prayer > can't change it, begging and pleading can't change it, punishing > yourself can't change it, your will has no power at all. You do have > the power, though, to question your thought , turn it around, and find > three genuine reasons why the death of your child is equal to her not > dying, or even better in the long run, both for her and for you. This > takes a radically open mind, and nothing less than an open mind is > creative enough to free you from the pain of arguing with what is. An > open mind is the only way to peace. As long as you think that you knew > what should and shouldn't happen, you're trying to manipulate GOD. > This is a recipe for unhappiness. > > Enjoy TOm T > Oddly enough, I find her words above very comforting, even if I find it a huge stretch to understand the part about how the death could be better than not dying.
