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Light and Ice

Today I am, again, learning more about emptiness - about "reality." I found an audiobook at the library titled The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path by Urgyen Sangharakshita.  I think I have passed over this book many times thinking I would not like it, but I was very wrong.  This is a great book (or maybe I'm in the right place at the right time for it. )

The thing that I feel I almost "saw" was the "emptiness of emptiness" the idea that there is nothing permanent, certain, or 'self existent' about anything - everything changes, everything is made up of something else, everything can be seen as good or bad.  Even this beautiful tree covered in ice can be seen as a threat to power lines, cars or people passing underneath as the wind blows large chunks of sharp, dense heavy ice in every direction.

No camera I own could capture how amazing they looked in "real life."

It's been a long time,
but what is long
and what is time?

I've been away,
but who am I,
and away from where?

Can mindfulness really ruin your life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojF-o_eWp-o&sns=em


This was funny
How My Son Ruined My Life - Selma & James Baraz

Fantastic Fantastical Day

Today is a fantastic day.

I have so much that I can't believe how long I have gone without noticing and appreciating this abundance.

I have people and resources surrounding me that are encouraging me to do great things. I am deeply grateful to all of them.

It is now my responsibility to make the best of all that has been given to me. And to continue to notice the ever present and always increasing abundance that is flowing to each of us.

As long as I am breathing I am receiving.

I have more than enough at this moment...

I have more than enough (money, wealth, food) at this moment...

And I am gaining more and more of God's abundance all the time.

The universe, God, source energy is always flowing towards me and each and everyone of us.

There are so many examples of this that it's both frustrating and surprising that it takes this long to see it. The trick is to maintain this outlook. You ( and I) have to tell our Self that the universe, source energy, life itself provides each and every one of us with everything we could possibly need. We simply have to repeat this to ourselves over and over again until it becomes second nature. A habit we don't even think about. We just know it.

The thing that helps this process the most is watching. Watching. Watching.
Watching yourself, and watching others. Watch what happens when you do what you love.

Watch what happens when you listen to YouTube videos that you love.

Watch what happens when you create things that you love and you give that to others.

The more you can watch, and align yourself with gratitude and happiness, the better you will feel and the more easily the feeling of abundance will flow to you.

mm 2016. Sept.