#rand larson

Rand Larson is at Burning Man.

The weather held long enough for Temple of the Deep to open. A beautiful ceremony with the Black Rock Rangers and Temple Guardians gifting the Temple to the city. It’s deeply moving.

Rand Larson

One of the most beautiful sunsets ever. Temple of the Deep.

— at Burning Man.

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"When you encounter difficulties, the feelings and stories that arise in reaction are just that, feelings and stories. They are whirlwinds of confusion, based not in what is happening now but in deeply held beliefs about you and your relationship to the world. Let them swirl- leaves in the wind. Sometimes you fall back into them and lose touch with the present, but a moment of recognition always comes. Right then, come back to your body, come back to your breath, and rest. The confusion, the stories and the feelings are still there. They continue to swirl, but you are not lost in them."

Burning Man : Temple of Together : Rand Larson

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The Temple of Together @Burning Man. Oldest son is out there now. Our family has a little bundle of memorabilia to burn when the temple burns on Sunday night.

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“There are people who try to raise their souls like a man continually taking standing jumps in the hopes that, if he jumps higher every day, a time may come when he will no longer fall back but will go right up to the sky. Thus occupied he cannot look at the sky. We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily. As Aeschylus says, “There is no effort in what is divine.” There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

In one of Grimm's stories there is a competition between a giant and a little tailor to see which is the stronger. The giant throws a stone so high that it takes a very long time before it comes down again. The little tailor lets a bird fly and it does not come down at all. Anything without wings always comes down again in the end.”