Ok so, everything isn't a pile of shit. I retract that statement.
The dog is still dying, but who isn't? He had a skin infection I let balloon in my mind to the death of the only dog I've ever loved and it took me down a rabbit hole.
Now, here with my Buddhist teacher, I recognize, nothing is permanent.
Not me, not you, not this space nor the dog. Why agonize over it.
He laughs, my teacher.... and I wonder how he laughs like he does, but it is because he knows, this is not his only life. This is one of many and he sees me trying so hard to just get it all right in this one.....not possible.
This is a learning experience our lives. Imagine...We are people in little boats.
The little boat is your life, your body in this world. We all sail on the same sea. We all have waves, up and down.....Sadness, grief, joy, birth death. We all have the ability to rise above all of it.
When you can see yourself in the boat. But not be in the boat....there is hope. See the sadness, don't become it. See the grief, don't become it. Experience the joy....don't become it. See the birth and death. It is not all that is you. You are the observer of this life.
Karma is a real thing. The best way to build it is to help those who have less, who are sick, who are struggling.
Meditation is real, it is a way to rise out of the boat and see yourself for what you are....one of a billion in a billion boats. Rise above that you during times of emotion.....enjoy the calm seas. None of it you can control. The only thing you can control is the removal of attachment to the you in the boat and all the emotions, people and things that go with it.
You will not be able to avoid the storm,the waves, the ups and downs....but you don't have to let it capsize you, or keep you battling the storm. Rise above it. See it....see you but realize. It will all pass.
The joy
The hope
The love
The grief
The saddness
The excitement
The success
The failure
The death
They will all pass. No sense focusing on any one of them.
See yourself in your little boat out on the sea of life.....rise above that image and see it all for what it is.
Impermanent.
Once we master this skill, I am told....we may have a chance to be free.....truly free.
And then we are really home.
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