In a world where all is borrowed,and time like elusive dust seems tojust slip through our fingers, all we really have are these precious momentswhere we can make fertile the soilin the garden of our hearts,that here love may make its homeand here the mortal seed may flourish. Only love can free us from the […]
Impermanence – Azam Ali – Where all is Borrowed Read Post »
Having just had my first real positive breakthrough with my slipped disc, after 7 years of pain, I was reflecting on what different views it is possible to form on the myriad shifting conditions of ones life, and how differently those views must then impact on your life. I’ve just had a successful course of
Half Empty or Half Full Cup? Read Post »
Reflecting on how easy it is to get swept up in wanting and not-wanting, based on misunderstanding the impermanent and not-self nature of all things, the activities of this life, and the apparent pleasures that arise in it are seductive and yet illusory. How true it is that that which we grasp after slips like
Wordly Things are Pitiful – Milarepa Read Post »
When it really gets down to it, how much of our activity is quite simply ‘useless’? I don’t mean that it has no use at all on a mundane level, but that it is so conditioned, so led by instinct or habit, so unconscious or below awareness or choice, or simply so trivial, superficial and
