Turn Into The Wind, The Boat is Sinking

From Tarana Wesley

Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat — and the boat is perpetually sinking.

— Alan Watts

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Direct liberation is deceptively simple. It involves becoming aware of a demon and then turning your awareness directly toward it.

It is the energetic equivalent of turning a boat directly into the wind when sailing; the boat stops because its power source has been neutralized.

Similarly, if you turn your awareness directly into an emotion, the emotion stops developing.

~ Lama Tsultrim Allione, from her book “Feeding Your Demons”

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The eyes of the child and the eyes of the old look with the calm candor of those who have not yet entered the masquerade dance or have already left it. And the whole interval seems like a vain commotion, an empty agitation, an unnecessary chaos which you wonder why it had to happen.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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The secret work is neither to turn on or off any feelings that come. It is simply to ride through — not identify. This allows life to unfold freely, welcomes a reality that doesn’t have to be a personal story……