Rookery, autumn…leaf fall exposé : )

Part (ii) is now published and includes Finding a method that works for you, Deconstructing our assumptions, and… Seeing things as real and being attached to them.

As dharma birds in the dharma tree

…this branch suits you

and this suits me

temporarily…

we may find some stability

nested

symbolically…

as a prelude to flying

invisibly

free

As we come into connection with the truth of emptiness …what happens to the fig-leaves of identification that, in taking ourselves to be some’thing’, we firmly hold in place?

If we gently examine this seemingly essential and definitional ‘clothing’ in the light of wisdom…its unsubstantial, non-essential nature becomes clear.

We do the same with the ‘self’, the one who is the wearer of the clothes…who is attached to these gossamer web-like ‘threads’ of mental clothing…

And we can see that… as the energy that flows with our attention is invested in particular beliefs… the shapings or ways of relating, that we adopt… become habitual… limited and limiting.
Yet ordinarily these views are assiduously strengthened and bolstered by linking them with associated arising thoughts of a similar ilk…and then, like the cuckoo… our sense of self, our identity, settles down to sit in that nest we made…our ‘home sweet home’ !

Unless we are fortunate we won’t leave its, in time foetid, cosiness.
But if we are, we get to turn around a bit and see that, inadvertently… we’ve turned our back on our unshaped, unborn naked awareness…within which both the nest and cuckoo rest!

If we see that our true home is awareness then we can see that putting on different ‘clothing’ that’s fitting to the situation, like an actor in a particular rôle…just as and when appropriate…is not so difficult. If the no-thingness of everything is clear then no clothes /’threads’/thoughts are special… true, our very own …