It’s not about getting rid of one perspective and stabilising another. Swapping one story for another. It’s about recognising and accepting that everything is impermanent. All of it. Nothing survives the flow of change no matter how much you want it or try to hold on to it. All is perpetual flux.
Author: Thisness
Well hello again. It’s been a while. Heaven knows why I’m posting here, now. These things happen!
Nothing happens in which you are not entangled.
Carl Jung
Bad things happen, we are smashed apart, we rebuild ourselves, we are changed, we move onwards. More often than not we find ourselves improved, we grow, we get stronger, deeper.
Nick Cave
Not everything has a story. Not everything needs a story.
What we are does not exist in language.
Nothing Missing
All there is, is this one bottomless moment, present experiencing here and now—ever-present, ever-changing. Sometimes it is lit up (in waking and dreaming); sometimes it is dark (in deep sleep). Although darkness and light are different, they are inseparable. This boundless whole is seamless and indivisible…
Nothing Missing
Dogen
Realisation is reality right now. Even shocks, doubts, fears, and frights are none other than reality right now…
Dogen
The key to peace of mind, I say, resides not in practices and paths, but in suffering consciously the ordinary pain, fear, and confusion that come into every life automatically, and differently for each of us.
This right now is it, whether you ‘meditate’ or you don’t. For me, awake means living this right now fully with eyes wide open.
Robert Saltzman
One can not feel the conscious need or want to do anything at all, yet be powerfully moved to simply act out of nowhere.