not Plugged-In Ignorance:
"Clinging to sense pleasures, to sensual ties,
Seeing in fetters nothing to be blamed,
Never will those tied down by fetters
Cross the flood so wide and great."
- Udana
feeble ilg asks;
how has our Species come to be sooooo terribly afraid of being with our own mind?
why has it become like pulling wisdom teeth to get people to meditate? to unplug? to just be STILL?
where are the fields to which the cowboys of the Higher Self have retired?
not one of today's "extreme athletes" or "indomitable cage fighting warriors,", it seems, is willing to ride the wild bronco of the sensual, outer-directed world and throw with cultivated skill a lasso around the multipronged horns of ego-centricity!
"Victory produces hatred; he that is defeated is afflicted with suffering;
He that has renounced both victory and defeat lives in tranquility and happiness."
- DhammaPada
where are my Spirit Warriors?
playing video games, i suppose, or otherwise grasping for money or sex in some way or another with predictably poor postures and frayed, fatigued mental nerves so weak, so incapable of carrying the genuine load of a true Warrior of Self.
has our hunger for the go(o)dness of what we are
been so satiated by so many addictions to comfort?..
DO NOT miss this EXTREMELY POIGNANT, POETIC ENTRY FROM COACH on today's DL!
POTENT DHARMA TEACHING STRIKES AT YOUR HEART!
plus, a photo of coach painting a wall mural in his unborn baby daughters room...
"There are so many Layers to this one DL, it's amazing!"
- LK
