I'm working on a wedding ceremony for some excellent friends getting married this fall (hi guys!) and realized as I was working on the close that this reading didn't really fit. I'd love to shoehorn it in, but until I speak with them and we start tearing apart what's there. There's no room. So I'll put it here - Buddhist scriptures, no idea if Buddha said this but it's pretty cool:
“Do not deceive, do not despise each other anywhere. Do not be angry of bear secret resentments, for as a parent will risk their life and watches over their child, so boundless be your love to all, so tender, kind and mild. Cherish good will right and left, early and late, and without hindrance, without stint be free of hate and envy, while standing and walking and sitting down, whatever you have in mind the rule of life that is always best is to be lovingkind. Gifts are great, founding temples is meritorious, meditation and religious exercises pacify the heart, comprehension of truth leads to Nirvana, but greater than all is lovingkindness. As the light to the moon is 16 times stronger than the light of all the stars, so lovingkindness is 16 times more efficacious in liberating the heart than all other religious accomplishments taken together.”
Saturday, July 22, 2006
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I think that's really nice, Roben. A really good touch. Hopefully they'll let you throw it in there somwhere! :)
*hugs and love*
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