"Fratello assino" is what St. Francis of Assisi called his body. It means my donkey brother! Like a mule, the body which is the carrier of the five passions (five senses) can only learn to allow room for the spirit to shine through by being beaten with the whip. This of course is an alegory which says yet again, spirit is all, and the flesh counts for naught. The Idea of fasting, refraning from persuing the pleasures of the flesh (especially as we do now) will equate to the beating of this donkey brother into allowing room for the spirit child within to grow. The American Indians called this process the fight of the two wolves within, the one we feed the most will win the battle. Feed the spirit or the flesh? I say beat the crap out of this donkey brother of mine so we both can be free of the yoke of life on Earth and be forever joined with the SPIRIT.
LEGACY OF A JOURNEY
LOOK WHO IS? Salaam(peace children); What does the sparrow say to Spring in the air? when will my children see unity in face of all separateness? When the time is right, only then will the true seeker see, even with the same eyes which hitherto were unable to do so. Ripen apples fall freely from the tree no reason to hold on to the old life once I was an unripen fruit once I had visions of grandeur and magnificence! Ahhh....how fools rush in where wise men will not enter. Be ever so like the river flowing, not clinging free from the form free from the pain forms contain always seeking the WAY HOME! From morning until night fall that is all THAT IS ALL ONLY GOD ALWAYS GOD ALL GOD ALONE GOD ONLY
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