Inconceivable

It's Thor's day … and the mailbox held a reminder from Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Emerson delivered his famous "American Scholar" commencement address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard today in 1837. He told the students to think for themselves rather than absorb thought, to create rather than repeat, and not to look to Europe for cultural models. Today's blog follows his advice while also looking selectively at the flotsam and jetsam inclusive of an Asian notion.

Inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all. Hence this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole. – Erwin Schrödinger in Maria Popova's Marginalian.

At its heart, meditation is about using simple awareness to allow what is happening in the present moment to take place.

Tilopa’s Six Nails of Meditation (adapted)

Let go of what has passed / Let go of what may come / Let go of what is happening now /

Let go of trying to figure out anything / Let go of trying to make anything happen /

Rest. Relax, right now, and rest.

With a cool sunrise,

coming attractions of Fall.

My Tai Chi complete.

— jb