Originally Posted by
Jundo
And now, if one can embody how to experience so in all the chaos of life, with the baby sick, in the city streets, with the latest horrible news on CNN ... when life is a bitch as much as a beach.
No thoughts in both thoughts and no thoughts, trees as no trees as trees again.
It is not so hard to feel harmony and flowing oneness of you-sun-ocean-sand, but can one learn to feel so right amid and as all of life? Can you feel a Gratitude and Harmony so Grateful and Harmonious that it does not even need to feel small human "grateful woowy harmony" all the time ... and is Grateful even for the things in life that grate on us, and Harmony in both harmony and noise? Can one "be the flow" when that flow is more a mud puddle, water fountain, busted toilet (happened in our house last week), child peeing on the sofa (our house last night), killer tidal wave or white sand with a drink in your hand?
Sunny days and rainy are all the weather ... and through or behind dark clouds the sun shines though hidden. When you can see the Light shining as both light and darkest dark, and the sea and beach on both calm days or during life's tsunami and hurricanes ... flowing--through you, around you, by you, in you, you and no you ... one may be getting somewhere with this Practice.
Gassho, J