O Belgique qui m'as valu ce dur loisir, Merci ! J'ai pu du moins réfléchir, et saisir, Dans le silence doux et blanc de tes cellules, Les raisons, qui fuyaient, comme des libellules, À travers les roseaux bavards d'un monde vain, Les raisons de mon être immortel et divin, Et les étiqueter, comme en un beau musée, Dans les cases en fin cristal de ma pensée.
Openness doesn't necessarily mean that you have to make yourself available to the other person all the time. Openness is knowing the situation -- if it's healthy and helpful to the other person to involve yourself with them or if it is more healthy not to involve yourself, if showing this kind of commitment is not healthy for the other person. It works both ways. Openness doesn't mean you have to take everything in at all; you have a right to reject or accept -- but when you reject you don't close your self; you reject the situation.
Whether you accept or reject it depends on whether it's a healthy situation for the other person or not; it's not purely what they want. Openness doesn't mean that you are doing purely what the other person wants. Their wantingness may not be particularly accurate....So you just work along with what's valuable there.
Chögyam Trungpa
From TRANSCENDING MADNESS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SIX BARDOS edited by Judith Lief, pages 89-90
miljoenen galaxieën vormen enkel wat schuim op die strandloze zee.
wij zijn draaiend uit het niets voortgekomen, sterren rondslingerend als stofdeeltjes. de sterren maken een cirkel en in het midden daarvan dansen we. draaien en nog eens draaien splijt het gehecht zijn in twee.
elk atoom draait perplex rond en het is enkel god die om zichzelf draait.
But the very, very, present moment, if we can really experience the moment without mental commentary, just experience it – there is no ‘I’ there. And this is why it is so difficult for us.
There is an open spacious awareness. It doesn’t mean that we become unconscious. On the contrary it’s when you, for a moment, you wake up. It’s like we enter a whole completely much more vivid awareness. But because it is something which we are not habituated to, immediately the ego jumps in and starts commenting, and then we’ve lost it again. —
tijd die je doorbrengt in nepal is een stof die je kunt inademen.
in het westen schiet de tijd voorbij met de meedogenloze en angstwekkende doelbewustheid van een wurgende klimplant - als in een versneld afgedraaide film.
een week, twee maanden, tien jaar vliegen voorbij als geheugenverlies, als een doorlopend spervuur van werkdagen, afspraken, televisieprogrammas, deadlines, etentjes, wassen en plassen, betalingen en telefoongesprekken.
gisteren, vandaag en morgen vallen over elkaar heen als sambo en de tijger, en vermengen zich tot een ondoorzichtige en kleverige siroop.
iets als nu bestaat niet; er is alleen een opeenvolging van laters, die hun hechtranken om de kalender slaan. de klauwen van de klimplant.......
the
key is: to be here, fully connected with the moment, paying attention to
the details of ordinary life
by taking care of ordinary things - our
pots and pans, our clothing, our teeth - we rejoice in them
when we
scrub a vegetable or brush our hair, we are expressing appreciation:
friendship toward ourselves and toward the living quality that is found
in everything.
What
is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude.
To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you
must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a
child, when the grownups walked around involved with matters that seemed
large and important because they looked so busy and because you didn't
understand a thing about what they were doing.
And when
you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are
petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to
look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something
unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own world, from the vastness of
your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation?
Why
should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange
for defensiveness and scorn, since not understanding is, after all, a
way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation
in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
There
are no problems. There is nothing wrong. Everything is unfolding as it
should. Everything happens in its own time. Space and time are
illusions. They really do not exist. They're stationary. Causation does
not exist either. No thing has a cause, therefore no thing has an
effect. Cause and effects are again products of your own mind. When the
mind is quiet, karma ceases. Samscaras are non-existent.
There never was a cause for anything. But if you feel that in a
previous life you did something wrong and now your paying the price, or
if you think that you did something wrong in this life and you're paying
the price, then you'll pay the price, because that's what you think. There is virtually no price to pay, because nothing ever happened. If
it appears to have happened to you then you have to go through the
consequences of having the effect return, or karma will come back to
you, because that's what you feel, that's what you believe. It's all in
your feelings and your belief system.
But if you feel as if you're born
at every moment, every moment becomes brand new. Where is the effect?
There is no time for any effect. There is no space in which to have the
effect. space and time and causation become one, the present moment. And
if you feel like that then you can look into the future, which doesn't
exist, and see what's happening. It all has to do with your mind. As
long as you feel situations you know it's your mind that's doing it.
As part of my own contemplation on basic goodness, I reflected on my father’s life. He experienced the loss of his culture, the destruction of his home, and the knowledge that his friends and family were being tortured.
One of the most brilliant minds of his generation—the last to be fully trained in Tibet—he became a refugee in places where nobody understood who he was or what he knew. Of all people, he had the right to say, I have been given this transmission of basic goodness, and I’m beginning to doubt it. People are not good.
Instead, he showed us basic goodness and urged us to create enlightened society.
c.s.lewis
