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Blog on Dzog
On my mind, August 11, 2010
Of course, we all know that peacefulness is a state of mind. It seems that, no matter what the catastrophe or the disaster or the disappointment, we can each, miraculously, find that quiet space in the back of our minds to retreat to and regain some sense of composure.
It’s this quiet space that keeps people alive when trapped under rubble after an earthquake. It is the same quiet space that requires a breath away from the stimulus in order to be accessed. it is just that momentary breath between the pain and the reaction that keeps us all from bailing on our most stressful moments. If we can’t snatch it, we act impulsively like the flight attendant who flew down the emergency shoot and whizzed right on home.
So much in life depends on the beat of one breath.
In the beat of one breath, we can say no to a proposal that can lead to a lifetime of misery.
In the beat of one breath, we can turn down the idea that we must become replicas of somebody else, or try to please someone who won’t be pleased, or accept some assessment meant to hurt and hinder rather than help and better our lives in some way.
Lodged within the beat of that one breath is the peaceful state of mind that allows the instruction of intuition, that houses the true purpose each of us knows from our birth, that engenders the steps we will take to our own life’s fulfillment.
Peaceful, purposeful, like a river flowing, naturally, on its way to the sea.
Let us all breathe easy.
Blessings on this peaceful day.
Om Mani Padme Hum.
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