Fortune Cookie

I thought I'd post this here as it's mildly relevant, and well, it did make me think of practice:

Only when free from projections,
we can be away of reality

How unusually informative for a fortune cookie!

Meditation

We have been trying to find a way to get to a Gong meditation near us. It's in Wilmington, DE, which is about an hour's drive.

I learned today that Ginseng Yoga in San Diego, my haunt of choice is now offering a Gong meditation session once a week.

I cannot express how much I want to be out of my current locality and out there. There is so little room in my life for any practice right now, it's embarrassing.

Whilst it's true that practice can be had anywhere if you want it, it is also true that practice is easier when barriers to it are removed.

Transcend

I will today try to take to heart one of the messages I see in the heart sutra (general thought paraphrase):

Form is empty, and emptiness is form, there is no coming, no going, no understanding, no attainments. Dwell rather in the perfection of wisdom and go beyond, go beyond to the other shore which is enlightenment.

I try to allow the façade of the five skandhas to drop away, and place my mind above, and know that this is all part of my bigger journey through samsara, which ultimately, is empty.

For a novice like me, it's pretty damn hard, but here and there I manage to step outside of it for at least a moment or two.