Which for me gives deeper meaning to things that I had (before embracing Buddhism) labeled as either good or bad and assigned numbers of importance to experiences/events/people, etc. I still experience this habit energy as most of us but knowing that all is interconnected and spiritual allows me to see the world in a softer, kinder and more accepting way.
And I also love the story he speaks of where people asked the Buddha if he was a god, a sage, a great saint to all of which he said no. So the people asked him what are you then and the Buddha said, "I'm awake." And I have found the state of being awake to be a feeling of "returning to my true home" as Thich Nhat Hanh says after years of wandering in a fog. A feeling of true freedom.
~Peace to all beings~
2 comments:
Materialism and escapism. So true.
The practice can really come alive when you view it in the way you described. I've been dealing with spiders lately which are creatures I really have quite an aversion to, but in the light of the Dhamma I cannot bring myself to actually kill them. This isn't something I am facing in meditaion but in my workplace which is just an everyday environment. This is a nice little piece here. I wish you well in your practice.
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