Our awareness is overwhelmed by hundreds of different thoughts, feelings and sensations. Some we latch onto because theyre attractive fantasies or scary preoccupations; some we try to shove away because theyre too upsetting or because they distract us from whatever were trying to accomplish at the moment. Instead of focusing on some of them and pushing away others, though, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity. Feathers – the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that pass through our awareness – are harmless. Some may be more attractive than others, some less attractive; but essentially theyre just feathers. Look at them as fuzzy, curly things floating through the air. ~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche, from Open Heart, Open Mind
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:04:12 +0000
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