Links to Clarity: Bowing Tulips
This post is authored by a Zen teacher and artist in Maine, Mike Stiler. I had occasion to spend some one-on-one time with him several years ago. He worked with Toni Packer, and is a friend of my friend, Joan Tollifson. He’s clear.
March 27, 2017 @ 11:45 am
Beautiful!
March 27, 2017 @ 6:16 pm
That was a great “hit”, happiness wanted to say thank you! I remember something of Fred’s about birds, that switched my understanding to this. I had never gotten that the bird, lilies, etc did not toil but were happy. Fred pointed out that Oneness was having a good time! Living as the part, I HAD been right (unhappy part here, therefore unhappy part there!). Choosing my non-choice to see from/as One, I get to read things like this now without being mad/depressed! (he has a good disclaimer though that it’s not “me” that knows this, so that I don’t exclude unhappy “me” from the list of things I Am presence for)
The “screen of then and when” is perfect! Goes great with another movie analogy. We are riveted (yet anxiously twitching) in our seats, the only one in the theater. What’s the movie that is so mesmerizing/unnerving, but to an audience of only one? The Past !
Watch the birdies! Mike
(but not the fake separate birdie that isnt’ even there, that the photographer keeps pointing somewhere else so you keep trying to find what isn’t even there)
March 27, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
🙂 _()_