Monday 31 October 2016

Just be with this momentand see what’s going on. Know your own mind.

Just be with this momentand see what’s going on. Know your own mind.

See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are

William Shakespeare, in a beautiful and oft-quoted line from The Tempest, wrote, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” In this line he speaks to us much like the awakened would. Often in Buddhist literature we find similar references to the realization that life is like a dream, like a fantasy.

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