Jane Shankara and Peter Wittgenstein in the library...

 

 

When I taught world religions at FSU and a student would begin, "I was born Christian..." I'd interrupt and say, "Actually, you were born without any religion. You were naked, covered with amniotic fluid and blood from your mother's womb."

Reality check

It's not about what or (how much) you've been studying; it's whether you can put it into practice now (and now). 

 Tenzin Gyatzo, the current (14th) Dalai Lama (b. July 6, 1935)

Emptiness here, Emptiness there,

but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.

Infinitely large and infinitely small;

no difference, for definitions have vanished

and no boundaries are seen. 

from Trusting the Heart-Mind, by Seng-Ts'an, 

Third Chinese Patriarch of Chan (Zen), 7th Century

 

I recommend Douglas Harding's book On Having No Head, which is all about seeing that awareness is "a transparent eyeball." 

May we all feel deeply connected to Gaia.