One of the best things about Just this Day is that people get to meet others who might have different ways of meditating and different ways of life but they get to see how marvellous one another is and how meditation unites them. How does this happen you might ask. Well it is because in meditation, you start to dissolve some of your views, some of your ideas and some of your attachments and when they dissolve or disappear for a bit, you see that because they do disappear and hopefully dissolve, they can't be the whole story. They must be on top of a more fundamental identity and that one is the one shared by all of us.
So there are the methods and there are the places and there are the events. There are the people who practice meditation and some of them wear white and some saffron and some maroon and some just wear any old thing. But the clothes and the organisations are only there to show that there is someone or something inside and it is meditation which reveals that very special person who needs no covering at all.
My friends who are coming to St Martin-in-the-Fields are representatives of their own groupings but they all believe that meditation belongs to none in particular and to anyone who practises faithfully. There is a mark about them which is worth noting. They all have winning smiles and I think that is because they feel happy and at one with themselves and with each other.
Do come and meet them in November, either at St Martin-in-the-Fields or by turning on your computer and visiting our new website
www.justthisday.org. You can read about them all there and even more important, on November 23rd, you just click on the beautiful sparkling globe and bingo, you will be with us by live-stream. Do please do this and make some good new friends.
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