Show Me Practice

27 Sep 2014 2 Comments

by zeuslyone in Abstraction, Mindfulness, Practice Tags: , , , ,

“Show me one thing that you didn’t learn from your books.” Better said, show me how these ideas impact a life. Show me how they are concretely experienced and practiced.

Even the barest knowledge of facts must change you and the world in which you live. In learning of photosynthesis, a new world of interaction opens where physics, chemistry, and biology intertwine—a new realization of the intimacy of *natura*, the chiasm of a vibrant unfolding.

Now you see life differently. Your understanding changes – you and the world change. Yet this wonder is so easy to lose and so hard to gain. With your elaborate systems and beautiful arguments, how do you see the world differently, and how do you continue to be in wonder of it, to have gratitude for every moment of it, and to find meaning in it? Or are you lost in a haze of Ideas? Are your ideas lived through concrete experiences, or are your experiences lived through abstract ideas? Wake up.

Walking the Path

27 Sep 2014 Leave a comment

by zeuslyone in Mindfulness, Practice, Presence

Keep your eyes open. With each step, the world moves. Knowing that the road leads to Rome, even knowing what Rome will look like when you get there, is not the same as the journey. Knowing that there are dangers everywhere, even knowing that you are strong enough to overcome them, is not the same as traveling without fear. Each step is all there is, neither good nor bad. Before and after fuse into the repetition of difference.

Your Story?

27 Sep 2014 Leave a comment

by zeuslyone in Big Picture, Change, Narratives Tags: , , , , ,

I laugh, worry, press, scheme, cry, give up, and struggle—focused on my “story”.
The wind blows. The world turns, and the sun emits myriad rays.

Everyone muddles through their lives—wrestling between belief and meaninglessness, life and death.
Bacteria, plants, animals, protozoa, and fungi all come into being and fade away without a second thought.

Empires rise and fall. Man kills man en masse in the name of creed, country, and consumption. Each time, a certainty of cause drives strife and sacrifice.
Mass extinctions occur. Meteor strikes and ice ages change the shape of the world and the life on it. The only traces—fossils and craters.

We produce, consume, and dominate. Reason shall bend nature to its will through science and progress!
As species go extinct, the biosphere adapts. Everything goes onward, no matter our intentions. All changes—only organizing principles remain constant.

So what is your “story”? There is only one—the Being of Becoming, an ongoing, splendorous festival of universal emergence.

Festival of universal emergence.

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