“However beneficial a practice appears to be,
however politically correct or exciting,
if it does not contradict your habit
of grasping at permanence,
or looks harmless
but insidiously encourages you
to forget the truth of impermanence
and the illusory nature of phenomena,
it will inevitably take you
in the opposite direction to dharma.”
~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Whatever you experience in your life
– pain, pleasure, heat, cold, or anything else
– is like something happening in a dream.
Although you might think things are very solid,
they are like passing memory.
You can experience this open,
unfixated quality in sitting meditation:
All that arises in your mind
– hate, love, and all the rest
– is not solid.
Although the experience can get extremely vivid,
it is just a product of your mind.
Nothing solid is really happening.
~ Pema Chödron
If you are looking for something to “take away” from visionary journey, the main thing is nothing is to be taken away , just presence in next moment when it comes.
If you think to integrate is to make experienced bliss last, you are doing it wrong.
And yet, all the doing, all the adventure, all the practice and the dream we call life is to be experienced and done and cherished.
