2-5-9 Day #4
In the Visitors' Center: lunch of bread, hard cheese, tea and sugar and milk, yogurt, recently-foraged grapefruit, pomegranate. Delicious as are all meals here.
Second visit to the Shrine of Bahji: because we are blessed with a very small group of 114 [versus about 400] there is no waiting to enter the Shrine.
Tip #3: practice sitting on the floor with and without back support. [Note: before my divorce in 2005 I used to say the Long Obligatory Prayer, ending on the floor, then stretch and say the rest of my prayers every morning. Now sitting on the floor is very difficult.]
Very uncomfortable physically on the floor. My other challenge was the acute intensity of feeling I am now aware of while within the Shrine. Yet it is also hard to leave.
A thought crossed my mind, the possibility that progress in the next world may involve the increasing ability to "tolerate" the intensity of being close to the Lord. Only a thought.
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114? That is indeed small compared to my pilgrim group (393 in December 2007, largest ever to that point in time). But both will be small compared to the future, when entry inside the Shrines will no longer be possible.
I'm enjoying reading about your experiences and comparing them to mine.
Thank you! Always glad to have at least one reader. ; >
Thank you! Always glad to have at least one reader. ; >
This is wonderful reading, Sis. You write so well. And your experiences are moving, and foreign. Thanks. ~Margaret
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