The recording of Part (ii) of the chapter Love and impermanence is now available from the Audio/Video tab above, in The Open Door of Emptiness series.

If you were listening on Saturday 1st March to James’ teaching on ‘Effortful Selectivity and effortless non-selectivity’ you’ll maybe find the contents unconsciously resonating with the themes he explored.
If you didn’t get to see that live, then you might find that video complements this teaching and vice versa.
Each time a fresh expression …

In my experience these ripples of dharma act like the sea on my egoic sandcastle… a form built of and from the open sea’s shore …
As the tide comes in…each little ripple of arriving water has an impact on the apparently given stability of the structure…

At first the sand gets wet.. then dries as the water retreats…
But gradually, as ripple follows ripple…
the outer ramparts, rigid constructs… soften… and then slide into the sea…

Then the inner structures strictures or constrictions…the grasping at, and that which is grasped at…
give way to the truth… and all releases…

and freshly emergent experiences, in openness, arise and dissolve naturally…like the waves of the sea

P.s. There’s also a new post about being crocussed! …which comes and goes with this…