{"id":1977,"date":"2007-01-20T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/01\/beyond-the-beliefs\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:50","slug":"beyond-the-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/01\/beyond-the-beliefs.html","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RbJJrKD9zlI\/AAAAAAAAAD4\/Vm1BT_9MVXs\/s1600-h\/dawnMaineCoast.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RbJJrKD9zlI\/AAAAAAAAAD4\/Vm1BT_9MVXs\/s400\/dawnMaineCoast.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I was cleaning out stuff and I found the following crammed into a back pocket of a pair of blue jeans. I can\u2019t for the life of me recall which friend handed it to me when. I do recall being told by the friend that she (or maybe it was he) thought Tarthang Tulku was Thai. Shows my friend isn\u2019t into <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> niceties, Tarthang Tulku being a Tibetan lama. Meant as words for a chalice lighting, I thought it an appropriate invocation of the new day, any new day\u2026<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Beyond the beliefs of any religion,<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>there is the truth of the human spirit.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Beyond the power of nations,<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>there is the power of the human heart.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Beyond the ordinary mind,<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>the power of wisdom, love, and<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>healing energy is at work in the universe.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>When we can find peace within our hearts,<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>We contact these universal powers.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>This is our only hope.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(<em>Tarthang Tulku<\/em>)<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Chalice Lighting (unison)<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Darkness cannot drive out darkness<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Only light can do that.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Hate cannot drive out hate<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Only love can do that.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(<em>Martin Luther King, Jr<\/em>)<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-3157898805717302766?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was cleaning out stuff and I found the following crammed into a back pocket of a pair of blue jeans. 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