So take care not to consume yourself. Take care not to drown in your own reflection. For what is outwardly is not a clear reflection but only an image, an inferior one.

We can and we will...

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕦𝕞𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖

Epigenetics is Karma.

Back From Retreat.

Surf this yuga bois

Drumming your grandpa in the shrine,
Cooking your aunts in the pot,
Marrying your grandma in the past,
Should I laugh or not?

Found these browsing Wikipedia. 🌻

Red Pine poem 253:

Children, I implore you
get out of the burning house now.
Three carts await outside
to save you from a homeless life.
Relax in the village square
before the sky, everything's empty.
No direction is better or worse,
East just as good as West.
Those who know the meaning of this
are free to go where they want.

Red Pine Pome 18:

I spur my horse past ruins;
ruins move a traveler's heart.
The old parapets high and low
the ancient graves great and small,
the shuddering shadow of a tumbleweed,
the steady sound of giant trees.
But what I lament are the common bones
unnamed in the records of immortals

Red Pine poem 106:

The layered bloom of hills and streams Kingfisher shades beneath rose-colored cloudsmountain mists soak my cotton bandana, dew penetrates my palm-bark coat. On my feet are traveling shoes,my hand holds an old vine staff. Again I gaze beyond the dusty world-what more could I want in that land of dreams?


- Hanshan

Our mundane tendency is to blame some external other(for there are many) for our disposition.
However, the true causes and conditions of our imprisonment is not to be found externally outside our realm of influence, but in our tendency to seek it there.

Wisdom is understanding, understanding is understanding cause and effect. Understanding cause and effect, we understand suffering. With understanding suffering and it's causes we understand ourselves. Understanding ourselves we understand others. Relating(compassion) to others is understanding interdependent existence. Understanding Interdependent existence is realizing selflessness. Selflessness is Buddhahood.

A multitude of sentient beings spot each other.
I am self, that is other. Thinks the One through them all.

“Son, listen. These are the characteristics of devils. That which is called ‘devil’ is not some actual great big black thing that scares and petrifies whomever sees it. A devil is anything that obstructs the achievement of freedom. Therefore, even loving and affectionate friends become devils [with regard to] freedom. Most of all, there is no greater devil than this fixation to a self. So until this ego-fixation is cut off, all the devils wait with open mouths. For that reason, you need to exert yourself at a skillful method to sever the devil of ego-fixation. As adjuncts, there are three devils that are born from ego-fixation; thus we have the four devils that must be severed. These are their names: Devil of the Material and Devil of the Immaterial; Devil of Exaltation and Devil of Inflation. Those are the four devils of ego-fixation”

- Machig Labdrön

These are creations that are sustained by faith. Make Belief.
From naming, credit coined, a web of associations. Knowledge. All of mind, recognized by mind alone. Shards among the shatter, a mirror of man.
God

State-mente: You can choose to evaluate ((this)) statement as True or False.

(both, neither) *

However you evaluate, the statement holds true. There is no innocense, you are responsible for your views and wherever they lead you.

Good luck.