Sublime

So Rumi asks us to hold both: we are not separate, but also we are. We are these completely unique individuals who are capable of infinite configurations of innovation and beauty, but we are embedded within and entirely dependent upon the larger ocean of allness.

The Third Noble Truth is the Cessation of Dukkha, Nirvāṇa, the Absolute Truth,

THE SIXTH PARAMITA IS BEYOND SUBJECT AND OBJECT

We are all the Ancient One. We are the One. And the One becomes the many—for the play, for the sport, for the dance—and we can get lost in the many in realities one, two, three, or four. But on channel five, there is only one of us, not intellectual or metaphorical. In that reality, we are one. Every reality up to this point is an equally valid, re

What we discover is that instead of walking a path to reach a specific final destination, we are walking it to learn how to walk it. The moment we fall into simple harmony with the walking, dissolving ideas about our destination or our identity as a walker, path and goal merge into one. In other words, liberation is complete when we are no longer w

With the “eye of prajna” the human situation is seen for what it is–a quenching of thirst with salt water, a pursuit of goals which simply require the pursuit of other goals, a clutching of objects which the swift course of time renders as insubstantial as mist. The very one who pursues, who sees and knows and desires, the inner subject, has his ex

“Whip, rope, person, and bull—all merge in No-Thing. This heaven is so vast no message can stain it. How may a snowflake exist in a raging fire? Mediocrity is gone. Mind is clear of limitation. I seek no state of enlightenment. Neither do I remain where no enlightenment exists. Since I linger in neither condition, eyes cannot see me. If hundreds of