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#2541 - Monday, July 31 2006 - Editor: Gloria Lee
I have
not really known myself,
or anyone else.
I've tried to do good, and not
just what my appetities wanted,
but that was all infatuation
with this precious, isolated, body.
That you and I were constantly joining,
I didn't know. I didn't know
that even to ask "What are You?"
or "Who am I" breaks the harmony.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
posted to Along the Way
photo by Alan Larus http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/islands/16.htm
In Mahayana Buddhism in
particular great emphasis is laid on realizing the union of
wisdom and compassionate action. Human fulfillment is seen to lie
in the integration of the inner and outer dimensions of life, not
in transcendent wisdom or world-saving compassion alone. As long
as we remain delusively convinced of our egoic separation, then
we remain cut off from the capacity to empathize fully with
others. Such empathy is nothing other than the affective response
to insight into the absence of egoic separation. For when the
fiction of isolated selfhood is exposed, instead of a gaping
mystical void we discover that our individual existence is rooted
in relationship with the rest of life. For Thich Nhat Hanh, this
is the realization of "interbeing"; for the Dalai Lama
that of "universal responsibility": two ideas at the
heart of contemporary Engaged Buddhism.
-- Stephen Batchelor, The Awakening of the West
photo by Alan Larus http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/islands/IMG_2171-01.jpg
The mind is not just 'oneness' or a singular entity
because it manifests in manifold ways. It is not a plurality or
many things, either, because these numerous manifestations all
have one essence. No one can describe its nature saying, "It
is exactly like this!" It is indescribable, unutterable,
inconceivable, nonarising, unceasing, and nondwelling, like the
essence of space. Mind nature is discovered within the experience
of awareness and is cognized individually.
-- Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, "Union of Mahamudra and
Dzogchen"
From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff
Schmidt.
photo by Alan
Larus http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/islands/17.htm
The Second of the Fourteen
Mindfulness Trainings:
"Aware of suffering
created by attachment to views and wrong
perceptions, I am determined to avoid being narrow-minded and
bound to
present views. I will learn and practice non-attachment
from views in
order to be open to others' insights and experiences. I am
aware that
the knowledge I presently possess is not changeless, absolute
truth.
Truth is found in life and I will observe life within and around
me in
every moment, ready to learn throughout my life."
~~Plum Village
From the website, http://www.plumvillage.org/index.htm
posted to Daily Dharma
One Day
One day I
will
say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I
have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.
Then I will
be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my
faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are.
~ David Whyte ~
( Where Many
Rivers Meet)
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