I would think that so much happens between one moment of time & another moment - but I think it is more like what I heard an Irish actor say…
“It’s not one thing after the other, it’s more like the same old thing after the other.”
It is a paradox… “everything changes and in the slowness of it there is a sense of continuity with death blows from time to time.”
Death, sudden, and unexpected death is one of the inevitable blows.
In Buddhism which does not have the market on suffering sees the blowout of death as an intermittent suffering. It is irregular for those of us fortunate to live where there is a sense of peace and order. For those in war zones…it’s a whole different story.
My teacher would add that “life is arduous enough so we do not need to persecute our life with anything extra…” We do not need more make life more difficult.
After all, suffering knows our address. We need to find out for ourselves.
To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly. DOGEN
There ya have it, now ya got it…so what do ya do with it?
Let’s have a look…
To study the Buddha way = to study the self.
The whole dharma is in the fathom long body, intimately available. So, do you know that?
To study the self = to forget the self.
Forget all those self-appetites; don’t worry so much about what you’ll get; forget seeking stuff for yourself.
STOP polishing the ego to make it look good; forget th ego.
To forget the self = everything actualizes the Self.
It is an entry into the REAL world; yoga, union with the undying, unborn, uncreated.
When actualized by everything = your separateness of body and mind drop away.
No-body, going no-where or where-ever = being on holy ground.
No-trace of this actualization is spotted.
It continues endlessly. The eternal, undying, unborn, uncreated is Real. We have to be willing to step back into ourselves and find out for ourselves.
Don’t give up. Keep going.
OM
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