Working on the 6th Chakra could get interesting!
From Tao & Zen
What is non-self, Anatta (Pali)? It means impermanence. If things are impermanent, they don’t remain the same things forever. You of this moment are no longer you of a minute ago. There is no permanent entity within us, there is only a stream of being.
This is a very profound teaching of the Buddha. For instance, looking into a flower, you can see that the flower is made of many elements that we can call non-flower elements.
When you touch the flower, you touch the cloud. You cannot remove the cloud from the flower, because if you could remove the cloud from the flower, the flower would collapse right away.
You don’t have to be a poet in order to see a cloud floating in the flower, but you know very well that without the clouds there would be no rain and no water for the flower to grow.
“The first days of spring … The season of renewal when the earth sheds its winter cloak, flowers bloom, and the heart feels as though everything is once again imaginable.”
~ Galen Watson
How quickly the sun rose yesterday, and how slowly it rose just a day later, behind many layers of thin clouds. I was grateful for the extra time in stillness. The moon, a tiny sliver in the sky, eventually disappeared from sight. A nearly invisible cloud brought the lightest of sprinkles. A morning dove cooed somewhere in the background. Two birds had a tiff off in the distance. The cats played down in the grass below.
“When your energy vibrates at a frequency that is in direct alignment with what the universe has been attempting to deliver your entire life, you begin to live in the flow and true miracles start to happen.”
~ Panache Desai
The sun rose quickly and brilliantly this morning. And as I repeated my metta mantra, I gave thanks to my teachers, and I expressed gratitude for the people that I encountered in my journeys yesterday.
It had been quite a while since I’d left the house. Two weeks I think. It was nice to be out, surrounded by people. When I used to take my walk to the bank, I was often enveloped in thought, turned inward, or chatting with a friend who would accompany me. Locals would sometimes tell me to smile … I was pretty serious back in those days, but I was carrying a heavy load. I still carry a heavy load, but I’ve handed any troubles over to my higher powers. Rarely are there troubles in the now, if I keep myself focused there, creating. Yesterday, I simply felt in the flow, open to what lay before me. And everyone in my path smiled, each clerk behind the desk was friendly, helpful, and offered kind words upon departing. Pretty miraculous …..