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Mind is interested in what happens, while awareness is interested in the mind itself. The child is after a toy, but the mother watches the child, not the toy.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Words are the finger pointing at the moon.

Once you arrive at direct experience, you leave the words behind. A description of water cannot quench thirst.

There is silence between two thoughts, in that gap you find your true state of being. Be in a state of presence, observing is not an action.

What the mind calls “boring” is often where the sacred hides.

Repetition. Routine. Mornings. Evenings. The same domestic rituals, again and again. Making food. Clearing up. Doing the laundry. Walking the same streets. Paying bills.

This is not a downgrade from spirituality. It is the manifestation of it.

The transcendent does not live somewhere else. It shines right here, through the ordinary, through the immanent, through the endless cycles and repetitions of each ordinary day.

Feeding the cat. Doing the shopping. Putting the kids to bed.

God does not need “special” moments. Grace shines just as clearly in these repetitions.

Be present to them before you die.

- Jeff Foster

What a strange kind of irony we all share, we run from ourselves in the hopes of finding ourself.

In the absolute truth, there is no direction, there is no centre, there is no boundary, there is no concept such as above, below; there are no distinctions such as holy place or not holy place. In the absolute realm every thing is equally and primordially pure. There is no hell, there is no heaven. This is important for you all the understand.

But in the relative world , all these exist as a projection of us, human beings. As I always say, like a rainbow. A rainbow is beautiful with all the orderly colour and shape. But even though it appears beautiful, doesn't mean that it truly exists. in the absolute world the rainbow does not exist. But in the relative world we all know, a rainbow appears and we can see it. we can, even sometimes, take photograph of it. So this union of absolute and relative truth is something that the followers of the Buddha, such as ourselves, always try to take advantage f and cultivate.

And when you understand that truth, then so called the Liberation happens, thar par dang tham chay chen pai go phang. until then if you divorce the emptiness and appearance, then you will always suffer.

When you look at a rainbow, its beautiful shape and colour-if you get distracted by it and chase after the beauty of the colour and the shape, we all know what will happen. We will only be disappointed. That is how we, human beings, always follow this illusory life - fame, possessions, relationships and all kind of worldly values. We have a very strong habit.

Dzongsar Khyentse, The sacred spot

a desiring mind is often seen as the source of suffering… (warning) 😆

I’ll grow anyway, through the cracks. through the pressure. through every place I was never supposed to survive.

find time? Full stop and witness

finding the sacred in the ordinary…

…recognizing that the divine is not a distant entity, but the very essence of all existence. Instead of escaping the world, you shift your perception to see the underlying unity connecting every aspect of daily life.

“Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether. You don’t ask what a dance means, you enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means, you enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean, you enjoy yourself; or at least, so you do when you are up to snuff.

But to enjoy the world requires something more than mere good health and good spirits; for this world, as we all now surely know, is horrendous. 'All life,' said the Buddha, 'is sorrowful'; and so, indeed, it is. Life consuming life: that is the essence of its being, which is forever a becoming. 'The world,' said the Buddha, 'is an ever-burning fire.' And so it is. And that is what one has to affirm, with a yea! a dance! a knowing, solemn, stately dance of the mystic bliss beyond pain that is at the heart of every mythic rite.”

-Joseph Campbell

From Myths to Live By p. 102-103

miracle, doesn’t describe it accurately. Then, why describe anything?

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