Chatroom Meditation: Scheduling

[Plenum]

A Thought for all the Lonely People

Date: 22 June, Saturday
Time: 7AM New York, 12PM London, 7PM Beijing, 9PM Sydney
Location: Chatroom 2 - the Lounge

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Theme: When we are younger - it seems easy (and natural) to make friends.  After we leave high school, or college, and get older, it seems as though friends seem harder to come by.  Well - that is the case for many people (I'm sure it's different for other folks!).

So there are a lot of lonely people in this world.  People who haven't found their place.  Haven't found a romantic partner.  Haven't found a best friend.  Don't have much contact with their family.

We'll just offer a Prayer of Hope for these individuals.  That they can find the courage to go on - and will eventually find a social system that feels supportive.

Namaste.

There are natural functions which have to do with other-self.

Among these are touching, loving, the sexual life, and those times when the company of another is craved to combat the type of loneliness which is the natural function of the body as opposed to those types of loneliness which are of the mind/emotion complex or of the spirit.

This Loneliness covers the physical (the body), as well as the mental/emotional, and the spiritual.

We'll recognise all these kinds