@banjoglass “Many people make the mistake of thinking that, since ego is the root of suffering, the goal of spirituality must be to conquer and destroy ego. We struggle to eliminate ego’s heavy hand......but that struggle is merely another expression of ego. We go around and around, trying to improve ourselves through struggle, until we realize that the ambition to improve ourselves......is itself the problem. Insights come only when there are gaps in our struggle, only when we stop trying to rid ourselves of thought...when we cease siding with pious, good thoughts against bad impure thoughts, when we allow ourselves simply to see the nature of thought” #chogyamtrungpa 🕉 #nobletruths #aintdatamuhfuckah #handmakertop (at Irkutsk, Russia)

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What Remains, 1.2.2018 // It's not art if you're not suffering. It's not love unless you're suffering. You're not living if you're not suffering. 🕉 #nobletruths

Today when speaking to Tony about my previous reflection I made the connection with the four noble truths.  When dealing with cravings, clinging, fear, etc.   1. We begin from a place of ignorance, not knowing that we do the things that we do.   2. Until we build up the realisation that we are doing it, we have developed understanding.  However, we still do it, but the difference being that we are aware of doing it.   3. After which, we begin to make subtle changes to try to stop what we do, to feel the experience, and may begin to see signs of letting it go, that change is happening.   4. Finally, we fully understand it and let it go so that not even emotions arise when faced with the situation, which is developed through following the eight noble path. Hence the four noble truths.

"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." -Zen Proverb #NobleTruths

If suffering results from desire, where does desire come from? Who is it that does the desiring? And for what purpose?