2018.04.07 - Day 24

FB Live this morning: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, part 3 of "3 Lamps" teaching, about transcendent rest, and specifically resting body, speech, and mind. This felt like the perfect teaching to come home to, especially when it would be so easy to be pulled to and fro by concerns. And fits well with my practice for this time.

I've not gotten to write about it (although I did work with some notes), but while away we talked (among other things), about reaction and responsiveness, mirror and reflection. Wu wei, although we didn't talk about that specifically. There was someone in the group who seemed so deeply restful and settled with themselves that it made their eyes sparkle and words flow easily, at total ease with Being.

Dear Wester,
Was biting into a Macaroon (still Passover) and thought on the coconuts. That little dirty barefoot boy walking right up the palm tree with a machete.
Probably not doing this practice correctly.

Spending almost this entire day reading the PaB Wiki.
The Chronicles, the Events, Scribes, retreats, Theme sessions, books, logs.
The usual cast of characters and the can not be remembered ones.
The casual quick thoughts that were not taken up to their limits.
The longer studies, practices, homework.
The taking whatever sentence/thought/joke was last before a 90-sec study of it.
So many examples.
From Wu wei, Monkey mind, Zeroth time, non-dualism, not using pronouns, ...
"Dropping what you have to see who you are" - Have PaB! dropping the having to Be.

Still a work in Progress edited 22:09, 7 Apr 2018

Listened to a Web Conference (in French) by nomad pianist Marc Vélla about "praising the false note". False notes of life are our mistakes, blunders and shortcomings and the musician suggests we embrace them as they open new spaces in which we can grow. Harmony comes with making peace with our shadow selves.

Wishing everyone a peaceful evening, night and day tomorrow.

From Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth:

"If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are--the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined."