Infinity Matrix

Krishnamurti

mindmichael "| remember when I first arrived at my teacher Ajahn Chah's monastery, he looked at me and said, "I hope you're not afraid of suffering." I replied,

"What do you mean? I came here to meditate and find inner peace and happiness." He explained, "There are two kinds of suffering-the suffering we run from because we are unwilling to face the truth of life, and the suffering that comes when we're willing to stop running from the sorrows and difficulties of the world. The second kind of suffering will lead you to freedom." (excerpt "Bringing Home the Dharma")

May you have the strength and courage not only to face your suffering, but to also embrace the opportunities for love, laughter and compassion that are near you every day.

~ Jack Kornfield

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To cause yourself and your life to be intensely filled with happiness, do everything you can to give happiness to others.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can.

As long as ever you can.

May you be well and happy my friends.

I am grateful for your interest in Dharma and following my blog.

Terence McKenna

I don’t think it’s necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest of life and work is that they allow us to become someone different from the one we were at the beginning. If you knew, when you start writing a book, what you are going to say at the end, do you think you would have the courage to write it? What is valid for writing and for a loving relationship is also valid for life. The thing is only worth it to the extent that we don’t know how it will end.

Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Gaia Dharma - "We are all indigenous to this earth. We are made to know ourselves in relationship to nature. Humanity is a super-organism nested within the larger super-organism of Gaia. The Human Project is currently severely out of alignment with the Earth Project. AI will only amplify this if we don’t do deeper work around alignment now.

Evolution made us to co-regulate with, richly attune to and participate in our environments and our earth. If we want to build a human world that works (and flourishes) in the long term, we will need to revitalize all forms of wisdom that nourish indigeneity to our planet. We will need to align human beings, human cultures and human-created technologies with the wellbeing of all of life."

~Samantha Sweetwater

Painting: Balance by Ruth Evans https://ruthevansart.com