Everything Changes
This Sunday's journeys: Everything Changes | Everything Changes - Mindfulness Meditation | Best Drag Queen Entrance EVER!
High Five! It’s Sunday.
Grab a warm drink, turn on the speaker, and settle in, we’re going on a stroll.
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01 - Everything Changes
“What arrogant presumption!” I retorted. “How do you know I have not attained inner unity? Every morning I meditate for two hours with a Zen master.”
“what are you seeking?”
“Awakening!”
“Then you’re a dreamer. You seem to think you’re climbing a ladder with only one rung, but it has many more. You sit motionless on your butt in this zendo, hoping to attain a mysterious state that they’ve taught you to name ‘awakening’. You’re like a parrot that salivates when it sees clouds, because it’s been taught that they’re also called ‘banana’. You imagine that awakening is like obtaining a piece of gold or a precious object that you can then keep, like a halo around your head. It’s ridiculous. Only when your stagnant ideas become fluid will you experience your first explosion of consciousness. And of course you think that will last forever, but you are mistaken - in this dimension of reality, the only permanence is impermanence. That which does not change stagnates. Acquiring fluidity can be likened to a large stone falling into the middle of a lake. The shock creates a circular pattern of waves that covers the entire surface of the water. The expansion of consciousness is infinite, but the lake of the mind is finite. Once the process begins, you will go from awakening to awakening, from smaller to greater surprises, never ceasing to be astonished before the newness of the world. Do you understand? You have been searching for a static awakening, whereas there is only continual change…”
Taken from "The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky” by Alejandro Jodorowsky
A few weeks ago I mentioned the movie “The Holy Mountain”. Since watching it for the first time a few years ago, I was really curious about all the symbolism in it. I saw a couple of other Jodorwsky movies since, and they all have a heavy dose of mystical symbolism. I came across his spiritual autobiography at a book fair, and after reading half of it last summer on Fire Island, I’m back at it. This paragraph was the last page I earmarked (my way of marking parts I like in books), so I picked up from there, and I still felt some sort of rush reading again today.
PS- his “spiritual journey” is crazy (well, kinda in the same way he is…). Definitely recommend it as a fun+insightful read.
Until next week,
- Disco
02 - Everything Changes - Mindfulness Meditation
Joseph Goldstein on Insight Timer
Speaking of “everything changes”, here is a link to a meditation on the topic that I like.
03 - Best Drag Queen Entrance EVER!
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🌳 That's all for today.