Like a broken gong
Be still, be silent.
Know the stillness of freedom
Where there is no more striving.
- Buddha in the Dhammapada
It is touching that this awakened one used the brokenness of the gong to illustrate the stillness of absolute freedom. Such brilliance. At once it acknowledges the sad aspect of this human existence, so filled with brokenness: broken hearts, broken bodies, broken intellects and mental capacities, broken personalities and emotions, broken selves, and then leaps courageously and confidently to the joy of freedom found in silence and stillness, where there is no more striving. This is the sad/joyful heart that is awake.
~Aki
~Aki
3 comments:
*enjoying the silence that is*
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...me too, Julie.
Reminds me of a post I wrote today around this quote:
Words!
The Way is beyond language,
for in it there is
no yesterday
no tomorrow
no today.
-Seng-Tsan, “Verses On The Faith Mind”
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