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Walking Meditation - Dt Kids Outdoor - Ceremony Kids
A song about a little boy alone in the wood who is bitten on the finger by a boa serves as a warning to mankind: if you don’t respect nature, if you don’t take good care of the rainforest, then one day, you know what will happen. The talk is interwoven with several songs and stories, including a tale of a lonely monster with fourteen feet, three orange eyes, his knees on his nose, nine green fingers, and forty-seven toes, who finds friendship and family.
When we practice mindfulness and the Five Wonderful Precepts, we regenerate an energy like the Holy Spirit. When you are capable of touching the Holy Spirit, you can touch the Son and the Father. God the Father is like the ultimate dimension, and resting in God is dwelling in that ultimate dimension. The Holy Spirit is the energy given to you from the ultimate dimension, and the Son is full of that kind of energy. This is a contemplation of the Trinity, equivalent of the Three Jewels in the Buddhist tradition.
Harmony and peace between religious traditions is very crucial. If we are bound by notions, words, and concepts, then we are separated from each other as members of the same body. The Diamond Sutra goes far to recognize the non-human members of the family also—the vegetables, the minerals, and so on. Harmony is there when we transcend these kinds of barriers. The talk also includes a poem of gratitude to stones, plants, animals, and parents: For because you are, we are.