UNTAINTED CORE "The real (anytime) miracle..." Dec. 22, 2019 "...empty of a separate, independent self." "...only eternity."

 UNTAINTED CORE
 INNER PRIMORDIAL SILENCE
ALPHA-OMEGA-REQUIRED….
...AND ALL BETWEEN & BEYOND
Rx:
BREATH’S PERFECT POSSESSION
THE DEATH OF ALL THAT CAN DIE
=
FERTILE COMPOST
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ONLY
 THE ABSOLUTE’S INTEGRAL REMAINS
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4:05 AM-12/22/19

View of Sky over Ocean as we leave garden lot by Abode......headed to Sunrise Beach this chilly, windy morning

The real miracle is not to fly or walk on fire.
 The real miracle is to walk on the Earth,
and you can perform that miracle at any time.
Just bring your mind home to your body, become alive,
 and perform the miracle of walking on Earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
https://www.lionsroar.com/mindful-living-thich-nhat-hanh-on-the-practice-of-mindfulness-march-2010/
Excellent article above…with gentle suggestions…

When we first hear about emptiness,
we feel a little frightened.
But after practicing for a while,
we see that things do exist,
only in a different way
than we’d thought.

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Emptiness is the Middle Way
between existent and nonexistent.
The beautiful flower
does not become empty when it fades and dies.
It is already empty, in its essence.

Looking deeply,
we see that the flower
is made of non-flower elements --
light, space, clouds, earth, and consciousness.
It is empty of a separate, independent self.

In the Diamond Sutra,
we are taught that a human being
is not independent of other species,
so to protect humans,
we have to protect the non-human species.

If we pollute the water and air,
the vegetables and minerals,
we destroy ourselves.​

We have to learn to see ourselves
in things that we thought were outside of ourselves
​ in order to dissolve false boundaries.
Thich Nhat Hanh
​The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

These two Above-&-Below Photos - Sunrise December 22, 2014

AFTERNOON

Birth is okay and death is okay,
if we know that they
are only concepts in our mind.
Reality transcends both birth and death.
Thich Nhat Hanh
​​https://quotes.justdharma.com/beyond-birth-and-death/

It is only resistance that transforms
the eternity of the present moment
into the transience of passing experience
as time or duration. 
Without resistance there is only eternity.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Net of Jewels
December 20

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
the name that can be named
is not the eternal name.

The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;
the Named is the mother of all things. 
 Lao Tzu