Happy Valentine’s Day!
So maybe it’s a good day to say that:
The second chapter of the book ‘The Open Door of Emptiness’ is called ‘Love and impermanence‘
…and the recording of the first part of the chapter is ready to listen to now…
If you look under Audio, you’ll find it at the bottom of this set…
Here, in a kindly way, without judgment, we are invited to look very precisely at what we get up to…
What are we assuming?…What are we ignoring?…What is the basis for our beliefs?…Who are we?
If we were to just sit there and think…
What am I assuming? What am I ignoring? On what are my beliefs based? Who am I?…
it’s not likely that we’d get very close to the heart of the matter.
Not because we are stupid… but because we begin the investigation with a squint which distorts our perspective…
However when the squint… our tinted view, in the recording… is recognised as such and its causal factors are explained, then the possibility of seeing clearly, without any wool over our eyes, opens up.
We have been given a chance, with skilful methods to help us…
‘Old habits die hard’ as the saying goes…and ‘patterns insist’, as I have learned… but the key and most unusual question is raised… about their ownership…and this can help to dissolve the dualistic glue…
The bit in the introduction ‘About the book’ gives a sense of the great love behind all this …
Arising from the good heart energy – from the teachings themselves to their reproduction in different ways – as the work of many…evoked by many…for the benefit and freedom of us all
I am humbly and profoundly grateful…
For without this dharma, and these many explanations…then what???