Freefalling through phenomena…
No parachute but no ground either.
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Yesterday I received a letter which immediately caused me great anxiety and fear, a palpable contraction in my chest and my mind spinning. This very experience, these heightened sensations are just as much the very aliveness of being as the calmness which preceded them and the subsequent peace afterwards. There’s no separation – the ebb and flow of impermanent interdependent sensations is all of a whole – inseparable, and indivisible. Everything is always perfectly alive, vibrant and flowing. The way of being includes all, excludes nothing.
I’m not a Zen Buddhist. My mind has no spiritual tradition. It is whatever it is, however it is, wherever it is, whenever it is.
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
Samuel Beckett
You guard a spiritual thing;
Tan-hsia (739-824)
It isn’t something you could make,
And it isn’t something you can describe.
In this ground of ours,
There is no Buddha, no nirvana,
And no path to practice,
No doctrine to actualize.
The way is not within existence
Or nonexistence,
What method would one then practice?
This abundant light,
Wherever you are, in every situation,
Is itself the great way.
Everything is just happening including you.
I have no idea what awakening or enlightenment mean to other people but to me they simply mean the open, unconditional, honest, vulnerable acceptance of our life exactly as it is.
I think so-called ‘original nature’ is a phantom. There is no such thing. There’s no original anything. There is simply everything that happens in every moment, whatever that may be.
Thisness 