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Spacious Mind
“According to tantric Buddhism, you can keep your passion, but you can’t have your self.”
Jangchup Garma
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To “see” means to stop getting caught up in “this is happening to me” and “that is happening to me”, to stop being pulled in by the tempest of life, to stop deriving your identity from the experience you are having. This “stop” is not an action from the tight knot of ego-mind that wants to control things. It’s a soft pause in perception, a silent stillness for a moment in the midst of the storm. And in this soft pause, an inner vista opens up to reveal a much wider view of reality. If this vision falls open into itself, then you directly “see” or “know” or recognize the open awareness behind, beyond and within all experience. You see it, you know it, you recognize it, because it is one with who you are … your true nature prior to all experience….
~ Amoda Maa
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Sorrow, people used to say, is a river. And if you let sorrow move through you, it will wash out those things and that are no longer full of life. Grief, people used to say, is an ocean. And there are times when everything has to go back to the ocean in order that we be washed clean, in order that the deep waters from which life came can absorb those things that are no longer contributing to life.
