Miles' Summary

Luminous blue sky
Thought clouds roll by
Breeze ripples along skin
Tickles mind within
No end to the vibration
Ceaseless flow from now to now to now
Me We Me We Me We

Easing in a letting go has been this week's practice.  As a number of major life decisions were taken on Monday morning, a great sense of relief swept over me and my practice.  A breath of fresh air, as the old cliché says.  On multiple occasions I found myself completely engaged with what I was doing for hours at a stretch - no impediments, no blockages.  In these moments the WH was not existent consciously, but nevertheless seemed closer than ever.

In another spiritual practice, I have begun more serious work with the Tibetan compassion practice of Tonglen.  This practice engages the mind with many difficult and intense emotions, and really feeling the raw emotion of each moment - physically as well as mentally - has been simultaneously terrifying and brilliant.  The emotions are at times overwhelming, but that is usually much more due to my own commentary about the emotion than the emotion itself.  In its commentary about the illusory nature of reality, the WH offers space from the emotion to allow the mind to get less swept up in all of the extra stuff that emotions generate.  This space ironically allowed me to be more intimate with these emotions, as there was no longer anything between the perceiver and the perceived.  It is incredible to witness the simple, but massive force of emotions, and to balance the clear space offered by the WH with the Tibetan practice of first realizing that everyone else feels the same emotions, and then sending the wish that other beings may be free of all of the extra commentary that complicates our emotional landscape and burdens the soul.  Emptiness springing compassion; compassion begetting emptiness.  The WH, Tonglen.  Me We.

Miles