PHILOSOHAPPY

“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

Roei

Recorded Live on tape at Mayhem Hotel by Diego Rey

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

Reading an excerpt of Charles Bukowski's poem "Raw With Love (For N.W.)" 1974

Elf Dance (piano)

“I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.”

"Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you."

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again."

"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."

Wait Forever

"Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death."

"Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains."

“Relinquishment of everything is the Dharma, and he who understands this is a Buddha, but the relinquishment of all delusions leaves no Dharma on which to lay hold.”

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.”

"The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy."

“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”

"Jump into experience while you are alive! Think . . . and think . . . while you are alive. What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death. If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

What is found now is found then.

If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death."

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

"Outward appearances including mountains and mansions, all of the earth, water, fire, wind, space, and so forth …and what’s inward including all that arises as the manifold variations of awareness that affirm or negate, all of your moving, sleeping, eating, walking, talking, and so forth – without distraction, become familiar with their nature being like a dream, an illusion, hallucination, mirage, a moon in water, an echo, castles in the clouds, an apparition.

By knowing that the appearances of objects, affirmations or negations of the intellect, ebbs and flows of experience, and anything whatsoever, are the play of illusion – enhance your practice and train in being artful, so as to bring whatever you encounter within great intrinsic freedom!"

Text: Excerpt from Trilogy of Rest (Ngal gso skor gsum), Dzogchen writings by Longchenpa (1308–1364). It's from the third and final one -- being at ease with the illusory nature of reality.