TODAY I FEEL YOU ALL ENTERING THE WINDOW OF MY SOUL AND LAYING YOUR GARLANDS OF FRAGRANT LOVE OFFERINGS TO ME. IT IS DELIGHTFUL, BLESS YOU ALL, NAMASTE, MIGUEL

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

-Rumi

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According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

~The Dalai Lama

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Seeing the Sunset

Take the sunset: What happens when we see it? Ultimately, we don't. When the eye contacts a visual form, we merely see color, not a three-dimensional thing. In fact, the tint, along with the consciousness seeing it, dies out in a split-second, but we fail to catch the dissolve. Why? Because delusion blurs the separate moments of perception together, making experience look seamless. After the color sparks out, subsequent moments of consciousness replay the image from memory, dubbing it "sunset." This process takes only a fraction of a second. Nevertheless, by the time we name it, the original image is already gone. "Sunset" is a concept perceived through the mind-door, not the eye. We mistake this product of mental construction for something irreducibly real. Without the tool of mindfulness the trick is too fast to see, like trying to catch the separate frames of a running film.

-Cynthia Thatcher, "What’s So Great About Now?"

Jam Tse, Miguel