No exercise today, went to 9:00 AM Mass at St John's church in Beverley and then had coffee with an old friend at Caffe Nero in Saturday Market before driving over to West Yorkshire for Easter Lunch with my sister Jackie and family.
What is a Buddhist doing going to mass you may ask, and even taking communion? Last year, during a deep meditation an experience occurred that is not too uncommon. A feeling of great peace came over me and the sense that all manner of things would be well and the world and myself were not separate entities. The experience cannot adequately be described in words, it is rather ineffable, a feeling.
Words come afterwards. It seemed to me that this feeling/realisation, could equally well be described as "the love of God". The realisation dawned that the practical teachings of Jesus and the Buddha were almost identical, so I returned to my catholic faith. Now I'm a meditating catholic. The whole that we are part of is beyond my comprehension, and I am comfortable with that, secure in the knowledge of his presence and infinite compassion.
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