I love the reminder of the impersonal nature of suffering. I am left with the question, “what is practice?” Is this the time to let go of the raft and walk along the other shore?
Although it's not easy sometimes to let go of the raft, sometimes clinging to it prevents us from swimming when we need to swim and floating when we need to float and sinking to the bottom when we need to sink. Each moment is a new one and the more we embody NOW, the closer the "other" shore is. In fact, it's always right here, right under the raft, supporting it.
Now is all there is, and Dharma inquiry is part of this Now and can be a transformative practice before, during, and after our meditation practice. Thanks, Ian for commenting and reading. Bows from San Francisco.
I love the reminder of the impersonal nature of suffering. I am left with the question, “what is practice?” Is this the time to let go of the raft and walk along the other shore?
Although it's not easy sometimes to let go of the raft, sometimes clinging to it prevents us from swimming when we need to swim and floating when we need to float and sinking to the bottom when we need to sink. Each moment is a new one and the more we embody NOW, the closer the "other" shore is. In fact, it's always right here, right under the raft, supporting it.
If not now, then when?
Now is all there is, and Dharma inquiry is part of this Now and can be a transformative practice before, during, and after our meditation practice. Thanks, Ian for commenting and reading. Bows from San Francisco.
Well sometimes practice is like medicine, and sometimes I don’t know what it is. And that not knowing, is sometimes freeing, and sometimes troubling.
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Awareness!!!