Pray Prayer Why

This is for those of You that missed it. Something to consider or think on... "If You 


live and act based on your knowledge of the laws and concepts of the Universe,


then there is no need to pray to anyone or anything. As far as we know, animals


don't pray, and, except for humans, do just fine"...BSharpe




Namaste,


Bobby Sharpe

Meditation, Prayer & YOU

Asking And Receiving

Prayer And Meditation

Prayer and meditation are similar practices in that they both offer us a connection to the divine, but they also differ from one another in significant ways. Put simply, prayer is when we ask the universe for something, and meditation is when we listen. When we pray, we use language to express our innermost thoughts and feelings to a higher power. Sometimes, we plumb the depths within ourselves and allow whatever comes to the surface to flow out in our prayer. At other times, we pray words that were written by someone else but that express what we want to say. Prayer is reaching out to the universe with questions, pleas for help, gratitude, and praise.

Meditation, on the other hand, has a silent quality that honors the art of receptivity. When we meditate, we cease movement and allow the activity of our minds and hearts to go on without us in a sense. Eventually, we fall into a deep silence, a place that underlies all the noise and fray of daily human existence. In this place, it becomes possible for us to hear the universe as it speaks for itself, responds to our questions, or sits with us in its silent way.

Both prayer and meditation are indispensable tools for navigating our relationship with the universe and with ourselves. They are also natural complements to one another, and one makes way for the other just as the crest of a wave gives way to its hollow. If we tend to do only one or the other, prayer or meditation, we may find that we are out of balance, and we might benefit from exploring the missing form of communication. There are times when we need to reach out and express ourselves, fully exorcising our insides, and times when we are empty, ready to rest in quiet receiving. When we allow ourselves to do both, we begin to have a true conversation with the universe.

For me personally, meditation is the ultimate connect with the universe, the Earth and, myself. Whatever works best for YOU is what YOU need to follow to make YOU happy and complete.

Elevate & Meditate,

Bobby Sharpe Dragon, Book of Shang www.myspace.com/akuasharpe

A Birthday Wish, Description of Prayer

Recently, on my birthday, I recieved birthday wishes and this message from a friend on myspace. It really caught me by surprise. Had never looked at "prayer" in this way. It certainly makes a profound statement, which, pretty much makes sense to me. Anyway, take what YOU will from this, and, if nothing else, maybe it will help YOU "opyn your mindz"!

One day suddenly you will be surprised -- you are praying. And then prayer has a beauty of its own when it has a surprise.

A learned prayer is bogus. A learned prayer is Hindu, Christian, Mohammedan.

It is parrotlike, it is mechanical; you repeat it from the head. It does not arise out of your being; it does not come as a surprise.

Real prayer always comes as a surprise.

Suddenly you feel one day an immense urge to bow down... not to anyone in particular but to this beautiful existence itself. And that's how one bows down to god.

Namaste,

Bobby SharpeBobbySharpe.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/akuasharpe