a reminder stubbed once is not nice stubbed twice is a teaching stubbed three times is to be stubborn it is to ourselves we’re always preaching

this item, posted to a virtual Sangha, resonates very deeply.  reposting here for my own remembrance and learning as well as for the friends in the Dharma that i know visit here. may it bring the same to you as it does me.

i love it when i run into something i didn’t know existed, so “created” for myself… then discover.

conversation that is ringing some bells here. following it closely.

archival.

There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. – Wei Wu Wei

today is a brilliant, crisp, and wholly beauteous day. there is a slight chill in the air, indication of change and inclement weather. my neck tells me it will rain on sunday, for Rinpoche’s teaching. hrm.

very likely the most beautiful image i have encountered. i found it (well, a very poorly reproduced version thereof) some months ago and had just about exhausted myself trying to find a high fidelity version of the original.

it is said the tathagata makes use of all things, and to the unenlightened mind, such a one seems to be no different than any other. the more i think on that, and the more i think on the nature of mind, the more profound that seems to me.

today’s thought — the true nature of another may be found in their face.