A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Via Lama Surya Das
tSponsSoredoWhen a water drop merges with the ocean, it is indivisible from the ocean. And the one space on the outside and inside of a broken vase cannot be differentiated, but extends into a single, all-pervasive space. Likewise, in the identification within yourself of the pure awareness, the nature of your mind, there is nothing to be altered and nothing else with which to engage.
Via Daily Dharma: Mountains Are Simply Mountains
In
our essence of mind, mountains are simply mountains, flowers are
flowers, and the sound of the wind is the sound of the wind. We hear, we
see, and we leave each thing as we hear or see it, adding nothing at
all to it.
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