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14 years 9 months ago #1030
by Dharma Comarade
Quote from Norman Fischer: was created by Dharma Comarade
"Time is constantly passing. If you really consider this fact, you will be simultaneously amazed and terrified. Time is passing, even for tiles, walls, and pebbles. This means that every moment dies to itself. Arising and passing away are simultaneous. That is why there is no seeing nor hearing. That is why we are both sentient beings and insentient beings.
"Please investigate this in your practice. You can do this quite directly. When you sit down, feel how gravity holds you to the earth. It's in your body; it's in the feeling of your sitting down. Give yourself to that holding of the earth. Trust gravity, because gravity is your body. The earth actually is your body. Feel your body as earth. Feel earth as your body. Earth is insentient, and your body is also insentient. But it is also sentient, because in your body there is breath. Breath is spirit. Breath is consciousness. So when you sit, also feel this breath, this spirit, which literally lifts your body up. You are soaring up into space. The only thing that prevents you from flying out of here is your body, which holds you to earth.
"So be present to that reality, which is the most fundamental reality of your life. Feel it now in your sitting and all day long. Be present with this and allow it to carry you forward into every moment of your life from now on."
The fact that he is an accomplished poet really shows through in this quote.
"Please investigate this in your practice. You can do this quite directly. When you sit down, feel how gravity holds you to the earth. It's in your body; it's in the feeling of your sitting down. Give yourself to that holding of the earth. Trust gravity, because gravity is your body. The earth actually is your body. Feel your body as earth. Feel earth as your body. Earth is insentient, and your body is also insentient. But it is also sentient, because in your body there is breath. Breath is spirit. Breath is consciousness. So when you sit, also feel this breath, this spirit, which literally lifts your body up. You are soaring up into space. The only thing that prevents you from flying out of here is your body, which holds you to earth.
"So be present to that reality, which is the most fundamental reality of your life. Feel it now in your sitting and all day long. Be present with this and allow it to carry you forward into every moment of your life from now on."
The fact that he is an accomplished poet really shows through in this quote.
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14 years 9 months ago #1031
by Jake St. Onge
Replied by Jake St. Onge on topic Quote from Norman Fischer:
Nice
I grow increasingly convinced that once practice/faith/realization has come "online", then poetry is much more helpful than technical geeky stuff about this technique and that one-- but instead, more about pointing to the meaningfulness, the felt sense of meaningness, that lives uncontained but fully expressed in a moment of practice.
I grow increasingly convinced that once practice/faith/realization has come "online", then poetry is much more helpful than technical geeky stuff about this technique and that one-- but instead, more about pointing to the meaningfulness, the felt sense of meaningness, that lives uncontained but fully expressed in a moment of practice.