The Rosefinch of Mongolia

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Where the Light comes in …

“Aloneness is the heart of discipline...According to the Buddhist tradition, seeing the helplessness of one’s own experience is the only helpful way to look at things.” – Chӧgyam Trungpa Rinpoche

One instant at a time, giving it all up, surrendering, don't care if right or wrong, foregoing impatience, detaching from the opinions and prizes of the world, resting in the cradle of unfolding Creation – this enlightenment stuff can be hard work when we insist we are doing it alone and for ourself.

But, of course, we are not alone—in our experience of “thingness,” perhaps. That fact presents the source of problematic enlightenment. To insist that we are truly alone is to contradict what has been confirmed by physics and biology. Every “thing” is connected to every other – from the atoms of our DNA to the infinite Cosmos. Thinking otherwise is literally swimming against the stream, adding negative stress to an already stressed-out set of circumstances. Between the moment-by-moment manifestations of “is-ness” is where the Light comes in.

For more, see Eckhart Tolle on “what is” and on “why and how?”

Replacing one negative thought with a positive one lifts the wings of every Rosefinch over Tibet, the Himalayas, and Mongolia, and makes easier the journey you discover you are, yourself, on. Your “self” is also a Self. You, all Selfs, and the Rosefinch.