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The Important Things, The Infinite Things
Inner emptiness is not a void to be filled with comforts; it is a window to be looked through.
~ Alan Watts
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How much grief you’ve had in your life from grasping at and solidifying transient moments. So the key focus of the practice is to relax out of identification with the content of the mind, with what’s arising in the mind, and with this open to the empty mind knowing that the empty mind is always full. The mind is unborn and it’s filling or it’s showing or it’s display never stops. This is form and emptiness.
- James Low
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… The decisive question for man is this: is he facing infinity or not? This is the main issue of his life. Only if we know that the essential is the unlimited, can we avoid placing our interest in futile things, and in every kind of things that are not really important.
— Jung
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… Renunciation here means overcoming that very hard, tough, aggressive mentality which wards off any gentleness that might come into our hearts. Fear does not allow fundamental tenderness to enter into us. When tenderness tinged by sadness touches our heart, we know that we are in contact with reality.
