Beautiful Nothing

Jennifer Hagedorn Dizon

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photo in a jeepney. beautifulnothing.

text from santmat:

“I tell you truly, your body was made not only to breathe, and eat, and think, but it was also made to enter the Holy Stream of Life. And your ears were made not only to hear the words of men, the song of birds, and the music of falling rain, but they were also made to hear the Holy Stream of Sound. And your eyes were made not only to see the rising and setting of the sun, the ripple of sheaves of grain, and the words of the Holy Scrolls, but they were also made to see the Holy Stream of Light. One day your body will return to the Earthly Mother; even also your ears and your eyes. But the Holy Stream of Life, the Holy Stream of Sound, and the Holy Stream of Light, these were never born, and can never die. Enter the Holy Streams, even that Life, that Sound, and that Light which gave you birth; that you may reach the kingdom of the Heavenly Father and become one with him, even as the river empties into the far distant sea.”
~ Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

jimparedes:

“As long as you regard yourself or any part of your experience as the “dream come true,” then you are involved in self-deception. Self-deception seems always to depend upon the dream world, because you would like to see what you have not yet seen, rather that what you are now seeing. You will not accept that whatever is here now is what is, nor are you willing to go on with the situation as it is. Thus, self-deception always manifests itself in terms of trying to create or recreate a dream world, the nostalgia of the dream experience. And the opposite of self-deception is just working with the facts of life.”

Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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95/365. may you see the beauty in every moment and know you are a part of it.

95/365. may you see the beauty in every moment and know you are a part of it.

69/365. #elevatetheeveryday #ssevolve #shuttersisters #inspiration #courage #faith #message #path #trust #love #light #sky #focusingonlife #flowers

69/365. #elevatetheeveryday #ssevolve #shuttersisters #inspiration #courage #faith #message #path #trust #love #light #sky #focusingonlife #flowers

DISSOLVING OUR SELF-IMPORTANCEThe fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied. We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs—or we don’t. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality, or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives. Pema Chodron

DISSOLVING OUR SELF-IMPORTANCE

The fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs—or we don’t. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality, or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

Pema Chodron

So while The Path of the Soul may not always be the route with the fewest challenges, it will always be the “best” route, given where The Totality of You is choosing to go, based on where it is right now as a result of all your previous choices and decisions.


The Soul defines “best” as that which is most likely to allow the highest expression of Self that you next choose to experience, based on Life’s Divine Purpose.

There is such a purpose, of course. The eternal journey of the Soul, this present Cycle of Life, is not without purpose. There is a reason for it occurring.

Life has a reason and a purpose. All people yearn to know what it is. Most have not yet clearly understood.

Your Soul is not on a wild-goose chase. It is not moving through Time and Space forever without a clear objective. Quite to the contrary, the Soul’s objective is very clear.

NDW 
“The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the Heart — not something that comes ‘above the earth’ or ‘after death’.
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Friedrich Nietzsche


THE DREAM OF CONSTANT OKAYNESS →

It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.

i stay awake to honor a new age with an image. here by my bedside i notice the things in place and realize i haven’t paid much attention to them in a long while. the objects and books i keep close to me are inspiration and reminders. i sleep and wake up to the coziness of all these within my reach. but do i sleep knowing i have all i need? and as i awake, am i really awake? the buddha tells me the answers are within and that all we seek will be mirrored back to us when we learn to calm the muddy waters in our mind, allowing all thoughts to simply flow; rise and fall like the breath. when we simply let things be, without grasping and owning and identifying, we realize all the peace and happiness we want is really ‘who we are’ when we simply let go. let go. let it all go. (Taken with Instagram)

i stay awake to honor a new age with an image. here by my bedside i notice the things in place and realize i haven’t paid much attention to them in a long while. the objects and books i keep close to me are inspiration and reminders. i sleep and wake up to the coziness of all these within my reach. but do i sleep knowing i have all i need? and as i awake, am i really awake? the buddha tells me the answers are within and that all we seek will be mirrored back to us when we learn to calm the muddy waters in our mind, allowing all thoughts to simply flow; rise and fall like the breath. when we simply let things be, without grasping and owning and identifying, we realize all the peace and happiness we want is really ‘who we are’ when we simply let go. let go. let it all go. (Taken with Instagram)

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