Sometimes the byproducts of our perfect expression may manifest as pain and suffering. Our folly is to resist and solidify these phenomena. Our wisdom allows them, accepts them and witnesses their inevitable dissolution.
We are a symphony without a conductor.
Loch Kelly
The ego is optimised for survival not truth.
No state of mind, mood, condition, thought or feeling is a thing to be either attained and believed or relinquished and denied — they are all just spontaneous by-products of infinitely dynamic and unknowable causes and conditions that simply arise and disappear in spite of anything we may do or not do.
Can we just be all of that, the whole incredible ungraspable show.
Life’s infinite unfolding is all we need. This is always it and this is always enough.
Ordinary everyday life is meditation enough if we attend to it in the moment with simplicity, an open curious mind and without taking ownership of any of it.
When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.
Herman Hesse
Preparation (literally forethought) is making up a small, finite, limited, fixed story and attempting to force the infinite, unknown energy of the universe to fit into it.
Good luck with that.
Thisness 