Who makes these changes?
I shoot and arrow right, it lands left
I ride after a deer and find myself
chased by a boar.
I plot to get what I want
and end up in prison.
I dig pits to trap others
and fall in myself.
I should be suspicious
of what I want.
Rumi
The bad news is: you are falling through the air,
nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is: there’s no ground
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.
Rumi
Wherever you stand
be the soul of that place
Rumi
photo harald hoyer
Wear gratitude like a cloak
and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’
Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Dwell in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
Rumi
In the MBSR group last night in Moone we were talking about how each day we are confronted with new experiences and challenges – unexpected deadlines, getting a parking ticket, the wind bringing down trees. We can be faced with changing feelings and attitudes, moods and emotions. However, as we said, it is not so much the experiences in our life that are crucial but how we relate to our experiences. Through sitting we are nourishing something that does not change – our awareness – which allows us say, as Tara Brach suggested yesterday, “This too”:
The water in the stream may have changed many times,
but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
Rumi
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