Our life is completely realized as it is..always. Complete realization is not dependent upon doing. The Way, our life, our practice, has no by-roads. 'Nothing is not the Way; every thing is exactly the Way'. We are always right on the Great Way, always just this..not elsewhere. Our life isn't anything but The Way. Creating..being this moment is who we are. Practice is experiencing. Only in turning from negative beliefs each time they arise, noticing and bodily inhabiting this moment, can we be the life we are.
Recently I met a number of elderly people for whom being alone and abandoned is the underlying theme that they believe pervades all of their life. This makes it difficult for them to function except as a reaction to circumstances based on this core belief, with all sorts of suffering. They are truly cut off from their life.
Clarifying of beliefs and fears occurs as we practice. Inhabiting this body-mind-world allows life to shine forth. The vow to liberate numberless beings is a life lesson of all who practice the Way. This is the practice of being present. The truth is not seeing or hearing.. words and thoughts are far from it. Words may be useful..but they are not it.
If you can pass through the forest of thorns, untie the bonds of the Teachers, and attain the realm of inner peace, then the guards will have no way to offer flowers and outsiders will find no openings through which to spy. The forest of thorns is our self-centered beliefs.
How to untie what is never tied?
Someone recently proposed translating 'Sunyata' as 'Boundlessness'.. This point to the boundaries we put on forms, sensation, conception, the boundaries which we then believe are solid when in reality they are not. Self-centered strategies maintain these boudaries.
We need to reconnect with ourselves. Practicing reveals the Way we always are..this functioning is our life..Please enjoy this life.
Elihu Genmyo Smith : 'Everything is the Way'
Salam,
Cherine
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