{"id":328,"date":"2010-12-23T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/a-buddhist-christmas-eve-eve-meditation\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:22","slug":"a-buddhist-christmas-eve-eve-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/a-buddhist-christmas-eve-eve-meditation.html","title":{"rendered":"A Buddhist Christmas Eve Eve Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Christmas Eve Eve\u2026<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vTgd5qluPTI?fs=1<\/a>\n

While a Unitarian Universalist Buddhist<\/a>, my natal tradition, a lineage deep in hurt and healing calls to me in this darker season.<\/p>\n

In fact the good of the tradition is nowhere more obvious, as I see it, than in this season<\/p>\n

hidden amidst the crass and trash <\/p>\n

of longing<\/p>\n

of darkness<\/p>\n

of hope<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nEeScUAJDyw?fs=1<\/a>\n

I read somewhere this song could actually been an early Hanukkah hymn\u2026<\/p>\n

That would work for me, as well\u2026<\/p>\n

Wandering in the dark night, lost<\/p>\n

If we stop<\/p>\n

just for a moment<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XREOi11-8dQ?fs=1<\/a>\n

and allow ourselves to be present<\/p>\n

we become the present the universe offers<\/p>\n

the child is born<\/p>\n

and the world is indeed saved\u2026<\/p>\n

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