1/8/2024 0 Comments A timeless love![]() ![]() The planets, asteroids and moons all spin and circle round it. When refuge is taken in the Buddha, awareness has the central position taking refuge in the Buddha is being that awareness. We could say, “But the sun is moving, spinning, hurtling through space as well,” but for the purpose of this image, we take the sun in the context of this solar system as the symbol of wisdom-absolutely pure, with ocean-like compassion, the wisdom, the awareness of your own heart. Of course, all analogies are partial, imperfect. When you let go of that habit of grasping and identification, the heart abides in the position of the sun-central, bright, radiant, and unwavering. Similarly, if we shift our perspective to being the knowing, we are no longer attached to all the births and deaths, the successes and failures, and the springs and autumns. It is because of the spinning of the earth that we speak of sunrise, but from the sun’s point of view, it is not going anywhere. It’s said the sun rises, but from the sun’s point of view it doesn’t rise. But that which knows birth and death is not tied to birth and death. The day arises, a feeling arises, a thought swells up into being, does its thing and then fades away, whether it is a breath, a day, or a lifetime. A new day being born like a new breath an inhalation being born. Opening the heart to the new day, with the pale, dim light of night-time, the moon and the stars slowly giving way to the rising sun, and color and form coming back into our perceptions, we bring attention to these cycles of day and night. ![]()
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