The past few days I'd been thinking: "Life is one big ol' sand mandala." I used to say it was "one big day." Then I heard Alan Watts say we live in a "Rorschach blot," which we could agree with that as well. The sand mandala thing is just too right on. The Tibetan Buddhist monks create these beautiful sand mandalas and then after they're done, they sweep up the sand into a jar. Or at least that's what I remember from it. It captures our lives. Everything in our lives is like these sand mandalas. Nothing permanent, everything fleeting unable to be fixed. They're fragile..so is life and everything in life.
A friend sent me some fitting quotes from Osho today:
"Nothing belongs to you, nothing can belong to you. One is a homeless wanderer in the very nature of things. Time is impermanent. Time means the temporary. Time cannot have any eternal home in it. To make a home in time is to make a house on the sands, or to make a signature in water - you go on making it; it goes on disappearing."
-Osho
You cannot possess anything, it is impossible to possess anything. Life is insecurity and there is no way to become secure. Death is coming and will destroy all your securities, so don't be bothered. Understand the insecurity of life, accept it - in that very acceptance you become secure.
-Osho
thank you -- those quotes were just what i needed :)
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Funny, I just passed over some Osho at the local half price bookstore. I'll have to go back.
ReplyDeleteA friend was telling me about an Osho book he's reading. It's called, "The Buddha Said." One of the first lines of the book struck him. “Buddha always talks about the Way, never about the goal.”
ReplyDeleteIt was about how the Way is from moment to moment.....not about something in the future(goal of enlightenment for example).
my extra morning ramble:
Many of us interested in these things tend to have an idea of enlightenment, then we chase after it, but our idea is a guess and then we look for things that might look like our guess...and thought continues to be ever active. It's like using an iron to smooth out waves/ripples on water. It only continues to make more ripples/waves. Thought is a structure in the present moment, but one thought actually has no continuity with any other. We just create other thoughts that say so...even though its not so.
........each thought is like a grain of sand. We create stories and relationship between grains of thought....creating a sense of continuity of thought and also of "the thinker" that's created by thought.
ReplyDeleteWhat do we do now?!! I don't know....do what you're already doing and i'll do the same.