The only way to reach the truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision.
Osho
Sunday Quote: Letting judgments go
Tag: Be fully present
When you feel lost
When we feel lost we sometimes need to take time, to stand still, and let the outside world speak to us, rather than just listening to the voices in our own minds.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
David Wagoner, Lost [estract]
The reality
It’s quite illusory to hang on to a private, hidden, truer self apart from how you actually are,
even if therapy promotes this grand illusion and profits from it.
Instead, the realism of Heraclitus: You are how you are.
James Hillman
Without effort
The principles of all things arise without effort,
Water does not need to think to offer itself as a home for clear moonlight.
Sōgi 1421–1502, Japanese poet
Moving, not holding on
Buddhism may be summed up in two phrases: “Let go!” and “Walk on!”
Drop the craving for self, for permanence, for particular circumstances, and go straight ahead with the movement of life
Alan Watts
Three lessons
Last Sunday I passed some young children gathering chestnuts, which was always a big thing this time of year when I was young. We would gather then to play the game of “conkers” in school, a yearly challenge which was taken very seriously. The chestnut plays a role in different traditions and cultures including in Italy where carrying one around in your pocket for winter was thought to prevent colds.
Seeing one of them on the ground reminded me of this passage and its message of trust.
And I saw a tiny thing, the size of a nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought: ‘What is this?’ And this is the answer that came to me: ‘It is all that is made.’ I marvelled how it could survive, it was so small that I thought that it might disintegrate. And in my mind I heard this answer: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it.
In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it.
Julian of Norwich c. 1342–c. 1416, Revelations
