panta rhei 🐝

“We get pulled back into the suffering loop because we trust the mental noise, more than the silence of being. Thinking about the enlightenment is not the same as your direct experience of it. The ego would rather chase enlightenment than to dissolve in presence. What is missing in your life is not the Truth; it is your simple recognition of it.”

-Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

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The Buddha hands his students six syllables and says: this is the whole path, folded small. *Hail to the jewel in the lotus.* — Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra, Chapter 4

A jewel inside a lotus. The lotus grows in mud — the mind, with all its noise and shame. The jewel is what was always there, untouched by the mud. The Buddha doesn't ask you to become someone new. He asks you to say six syllables until the noise quiets enough for you to notice what was already shining. Each syllable closes one door of suffering. If you've ever wanted a practice small enough to carry through an ordinary Tuesday, this is the one a billion mouths have carried before you. The jewel was already there. The mantra just helps you remember.

“The real face hidden behind every act of terrorism, elitism, totalitarianism, racism, tribalism, sexism, classism, individualism, materialism, consumerism, colonialism, imperialism, patriotism, hedonism, capitalism and narcissism is ‘EGOTISM’.”

-Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

“When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. 

When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.”  

 -Josei Toda