hilitehead

live undivididly.

i didn’t want to know,

tame desire before its out of hand

a culture that celebrates fierce independence, yet we undyingly yearn for intimacy and connection with that special someone.
our need for other people is paradoxical. intimacy is all around us yet we continue to focus all our energies on the idealization of romantic love, of finding the one person who we hope will heal our loneliness yet prop up our illusion of independence.
can you turn insane at the hands of passion and lust?

things based on fantasy is unattainable, therefore a source of frustration.

genuine compassion is based on the rationale that all human beings have the innate desire to be happy and overcome suffering, just like myself. and just like myself, they have the natural right to fulfill this fundamental aspiration rather than fulfilling my own mental projections.

the more warmth you give others, the more you receive

the simple yet profoundly hard task of catching/being aware of flying thoughts without being frustrated or hard on oneself. perhaps we are rhizomatic; the body and the world are movements i cannot catch up with.

practicing inward and outward

seeing life and death in this body and breadth and everything we do allows us to let go of clinging. difficulty arises when we start to look outside ourself for liberation and salvation.

be present in every sense and surrounding. there is nothing special to become or achieve. be concerned with the way things happen in each and every moment. the ‘now’ is important and the ‘what’ secondary. now is endless time. you become time when you become yourself. nothing is defined or fixed.

he rode the lively wave of anxiety, pain, sadness, loneliness until it dispersed and became something else. he was completely enthralled in the moment. he studies himself so he could move beyond himself. he learned to work with his capacity for anger and reactivity, and in doing so, has something very real to offer others.

how do we live a balanced life in an unbalanced time?

self-centerdness into altruistic action. the intensity of our questioning and bewilderment fuels our motivation to practice.

community and solitude support one another. powerful insight comes when people with whom you share, hold silence for places in you, at the time you could not hold quietly.

where do the masks stick to us? and then let them transform.

this is our life, lets not miss it.