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Zen doesn’t offer an escape from ordinary life. It asks you to meet it fully.
Explore ordinary mind, everyday activity, and why doing the dishes is the practice.🪷Ordinary Mind Is the Way
📅 Jan 15 7PM -
Putting wings on a caterpillar does not make it a butterfly…
Shiv is a lone but wise voice in the so-called spiritual industry. I always enjoy the way he punctures what Ordinary Mind Zendo’s Barry Magid calls our ‘curative fantasies’.
He reminds us, above all, of the full breadth and depth of our humanity – everything included, nothing left out.
I’m suspicious of claims of ‘our true nature’ good or bad, but particularly when it is stated as fact that fundamentally ‘we are love.’
Unless you’re in the depths of delusion or simply not being honest with yourself, this is just a delightful (curative) fantasy.
https://whatisherenow.art.blog/2024/11/05/309/
#fantasy #honesty #humanity #life #love #mind #ordinaryMind #spiritualMaterialism #spirituality
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If everyone is special
then no one is.The right path is not prop up one’s being through imaginary signifiers and try to avoid your fundamental humanity.
The right path is the complete embodiment of your ordinariness. To experience all manner of suffering and confusion, so you can guide others out of Samsara. That is the path of the Bodhisattva.