VIDEO POST: What Is It? (30 Minutes)
What is it that you’re hanging onto that’s keeping you from seeing and being clearer than you currently are? Is your ball and chain too big to pull through the Gateless Gate? Find it, acknowledge it, and become willing to be other than the way you are. That’s all you can do, but that’s enough–it’s plenty.
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October 16, 2015 @ 7:22 pm
Fred, do you realize what Awakeness and Aliving does to the idea/story/concept of grief??? The wailing, gnashing of teeth, all-consuming depressing and sadness and sobbing…all that is or will be GONE! Oh, sure, there will be vacant imagined spaces, but they’re only memories — thoughts — ideas. We can miss someone or something a little without getting caught up in it and letting ourselves be taken over by it for years, or months, or — well, even minutes. I’m reminded of the Wren story in “Unknowing.” The entire grief industry will be put out of work, or at least radically transformed. Which is all OK, of course. It was all a pretty predatory affair to begin with. Namo Narayan, Fred. And, thanks again.
October 18, 2015 @ 3:59 pm
We are not just the Vastness, we are also the human being. The human may experience grief, which means that Awakeness is experiencing grief. I agree with the overall thrust of what you’re saying, but we want to be careful about either/or. The truth is usually both.
I can remember when Gus and Cooper, our dogs died. There was certainly grief. Yet at the center of that sorrow the Great Okayness remained unruffled.
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” -Thornton Wilder
October 20, 2015 @ 1:35 pm
Dear Fred, I love this video, I love your unique and joyful expression which is totally contagious, and I love seeing the wonderful way Life appears when specialness, control, and personal knowing are no longer running the show – I really appreciate every video you share, and wanted to say thank-you. xoxo
October 20, 2015 @ 2:36 pm
Thank you, Joyce! I really appreciate your comment.
All love,
Fred