A treacherous drive to work this morning. Driving rain in the dark, surface spray from trucks.
It’s funny, so called bad weather used to bother me but not anymore.
Just enjoyed watching the local football team win 1-0 against spirited and stiff opposition. It was cold, wet and dark but the rowdy, good natured crowd was a pleasure to be a part of.
Care work has always required head, hand and heart since forever… perhaps the original source for Head, Hand, Heart?
It can’t be emphasized enough that nothing we have done, no action that we’ve taken, no resource that we’ve extracted, no technology that we’ve created, nothing has altered in the least the life force’s ability to continue to respond to change at the same rate it has always been capable of responding…
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There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is really yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
– Carl Jung, The Red Book
Our ego erroneously takes credit for its alleged thoughts and actions when instead the appropriate behaviour is to take responsibility for our unconscious.
Loneliness and being alone are two completely different things. Loneliness is a lack, being alone is wholeness.
The bad/ good news is everything is included. The good/ bad news is everything is empty.
Creativity and discovery are the same thing. It is what happens when the universe attempts to apprehend itself with itself.
Whatever you experience is complete, whole, lacking nothing and entirely sufficient unto itself.
My world/ life may be small yet it is infinite…
One lesson Zen practice teaches us is that without the constraints that we place upon ourselves of trying to control outcomes, we find ourselves in the natural flow of life. We regain the sense of being part-of rather than separate-from and we can relax…
easy
Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people.
– Huangbo Xiyun
“Observe things as they are …
No matter how hard I look I can’t find any evidence of free will, yet never fail to feel the full presence of thoughts and actions springing forth spontaneously and unbidden out of unconsciousness. Aware consciousness seems nothing more than a silent bookkeeper meticulously keeping track of everything after the fact.
Or, alternatively, he tries to solve all his problems by plunging headlong into a collective situation and a collective conviction, and seeks to redeem himself in this way.
An exhibition of paintings on emptiness “Emptiness is form, form is emptiness.”— “Heart Sutra”
ABHAY K. is an Indian diplomat, painter, poet, editor, …
Abhay K.: Shunyata
Let what comes, come. Let what goes, go.
These days it seems to me that practice is nothing without all the vicissitudes of life and vice versa.
Practice in the midst of life.
I don’t know if my daily coffee is habit, ritual or routine. Does it matter? Who cares?
A tiring but fun day at work. That pretty much sums up support work for me. I come off every shift tired, sometimes exhausted, but always, always fulfilled, stimulated, rewarded and strangely energised somehow.
What’s here now? 