Bless the Practice to Purify the Heart
Study the Practice of Purification.
Ignorance is Practicing Upside Down!
You are confused. Uncertain. Clinging to one or more points of view that you believe to be TRUE and Real. Think about it. Watch how you cling to your upside down inverted view of life.
Mark my words this practice is an adventure like no other.
It requires a war horse who submits to the Way, to a life that challenges every conditioned delusion that worms and lives within your mind. It respects and agrees to the duty and devotion of the path without measure.
Is this how you practice?
There is a saying in Tibetan Buddhism that seems to cover the distance: Two activities: one at the beginning, one at the end. Otherwise known as birth & death. We fail to realize this when we hang onto the smallest idea, thought, wish, hope for something for me, my, and mine.
Look closely at the contents of the mind, your mind and see where you end up.
Are you contemplating the Way.
In all circumstances of the Way, what are the two activities? We must study these things inside our own situation.
The Way is not formulaic or locked down; it is not to be so predictable or fixed.
“It is good medicine in the beginning, it is good medicine in the middle, and it is good medicine in the end” even when it hurts like hell.
We are not frivolous with our heart in any situation for that would be to think there are situations outside the Way, outside of the eye of God.
There is no escape.
Stop running.
Surrender.
Train well in every moment.
Don’t fritter away the life allotted.
Don’t be swayed by external circumstances.
Hold fast to confidence and faith to the practice to purify the heart.
Hang out with spiritual travelers. Those who know the Way. Those like-minded in spirit with the path you are on….those who grieve for you if you fall. Then, too, heed your own heart’s counsel; for the spirit within is what to rely on. The True Self reveals your situation better than sentinels on a tower. Then turn to the Source, listen to make your steps firm in the true path.
Adapted from Sirach 37:12-15
