Who are you that is doing all this emptying, surrendering, and detaching. Who are you?
Think about it - When we say "This car is MINE". Is the car really MINE? The company that built the car at one time said it was THEIRS. When you sell the car the next person will say that the car is HIS or HERS, the junk yard proprietor will say that it is HIS … and so it goes on and on … this business of me-ing and mine-ing.
To remember our essential nature is the ultimate purpose of practice. Here are a couple of pointers to That.
To Him [God] belongs everything in the heavens, and the earth, and everything between them, and everything beneath the ground. - Quran 20:6
“When you forget the self you become one with the ten thousand things” – Dogen
"The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life" - Walt Whitman
peace on you,
bob
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