less is more in the singularity

1061

Form is formless,
   Emptiness is form.
      Form is yet form,
         Emptiness is emptiness.

“The slightest degree of sanctifying grace is superior to a miracle, which is supernatural only by reason of its cause, by its mode of production, not by its intimate reality; the life restored to a corpse is only the natural life, low indeed in comparison with that of grace.” (R. Garrigou-Lagrange) 

A rose is a rose is a rose.

“Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody.” (Ansari of Herat)

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” (Pema Chodron)

1062

You cannot experience the ecstatic union of love without the desperate agony of separation. Alienation is the empty signifier that opens the subject to One, then two, and three, six, eight…

Out of emptiness arises compassion.

Compassion = egolessness + precision in the form of knowledge

A little bit of everything at once. Begin again. 

“An authentic spiritual life needs good works and a strong dose of philosophical inquiry, but if it is not underpinned by an authentic sense of devotion, it remains merely unwordly.” (Gareth Sparham)

“Buddhism teaches that behind all our fears is our inability to actually appreciate, on a visceral level, the truth of impermanence.” (Norman Fischer)

“We are being trained through our incarnations—trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.” (Ram Dass)

1063

“All life is meeting.” (Martin Buber) 

Patience leads to perseverance. Belonging is acceptance. Beauty, art, and wonder are in all things. 

How can I help? I accept uncertainty with the knowledge that I will adapt.

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” (Rainer Maria Rilke)

“Clouds come out of the sky, rest in the sky, and dissolve back into the sky. In the same way, all the experiences of ordinary life and transcendent states such as nirvana appear out of the primordial basis.” (Orgyen Chowang)

One that is all-embracing becomes one with all that is embraced.

“The closer we come to Realization, the more we become instruments of true compassion.” (Ram Dass)

Wherever you are, this is where you’re supposed to be. Believe it or not, here you are. Due to causes and conditions (all terms applied), we are here. Now what? 

When we finally get down to Two, there’s a total breakdown into multiplicity. At first it is difficult and then, in time, it accelerates and becomes responsive (rather than reactive). One-two. Two steps. Reflection and diffusion. One cannot reflect on that which one has become; the pill is swallowed; all that is left is to discover what healing toward wholeness is like. 

Catastrophe living is NOW. Time and space are virtual becomings; actually we are always and already now-here. The ritual healer and alchemist of the soul aims “to pierce the veil of phenomena and operate directly upon things in themselves.” (Joshua Ramey, The Hermetic Deleuze, p. 189)

Consider: what is the potential of this moment to completely revolutionize the past or future? When boundaries dissolve, it is more important than ever before to connect. Like images on a screen: one, two, three… movement becoming the dance between doing and non-doing, form and formlessness. Beginning again every moment entirely fresh, flowing, intensive. 

With courage, the spirit will not perish. 

Tend to the part of the garden you can touch. 

Inquiry + Sense = Knowledge

Less is more in the Singularity.