The notion of
enlightenment means, “not bound”.
Not bound to what? Not bound to one’s own
mind in ordinary ways; not bound in confusion
to all the suffering that one’s mind
has produced and is
experiencing.
Posts Tagged → stillness
welcoming flies at the picnic
I don’t call
any song finished if I don’t
think that it somehow is vibrating with
the awareness of how we live in spite of the inevitable.
Which is what all spirituality is, is how do we come into being,
how do we live fully in the constant, conscious knowledge
that we won’t always? How do you invest in the idea
of any real commitment in the face of
everything being finite?
…We’re sort of
seduced into thinking that here’s life,
and there’s these bad things that can happen,
obstacles that just fall into your road, as if the obstacle
is not the road. You know? We want to think that all things
being equal, we should be content all the time, and would
be, except for these pesky flies that want to ruin
every picnic. As if that isn’t what
the picnic is.
❤️
have a listen to
Welcoming Flies at the Picnic,
it will gladden your
💜
there is some sort of spirit
We sense that
there is some sort of spirit
that loves birds and animals and the ants —
perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you
in your mother’s womb. Is it logical you would be walking
around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away
yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you
are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what
you once knew, and that’s why everything
you do has some weird
failure in it.
buddha nature is your own nature
A deep
and sophisticated
understanding of Buddhism,
Taoism, Zen, Ch’an, philosophy,
meditation technique — none of these
is necessary to attain realization.
They are just as likely to
ensnare you in towers
of complicated
thought.
Abide
in the simple
understanding that
buddha nature is always,
has always been, will always be,
your own nature. Breathe into
that. Breathe out from it.
That is all.
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see also
Hexagram 25, Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)
in the ocean of dharma
In the ocean
of the holy dharma there is neither
movement nor stillness. The essence of the wave
is like a mirror; when something comes, the reflection
appears. When there is nothing in the mind,
wind and waves are both
forgotten.