speed of vision

Love this Nietzsche diatribe…

The total character of the world, however, is in all eternity chaos–in the sense not of a lack of necessity but a lack of order, arrangement, form, beauty, wisdom, and whatever names there are for our aesthetic anthropomorphisms…Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful, nor noble, nor does it wish to become any of these things; it does not by any means strive to imitate man… Let us beware of saying that there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is nobody who commands, nobody who obeys, nobody who trespasses… But when will we ever be done with our caution and care? When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our minds? When will we complete our de-deification of nature? When may we begin to “naturalize” humanity in terms of a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature?

We come back to our hearts every time….all is cyclical (and yes, cynical)….he is easy to agree with & to disagree with….that is why we love him….it’s always a matter of opinion….back to our own hearts….

There is an art ot relaxing into the philosophy which questions truth. Only when we take responsibility for our own vision can we begin to move into the paradox of truth.

Kornfield confronts our weaknesses from the same internal conflicts. It is our choice to ‘stop the war’ in ourselves. He says in ‘The Wise Heart’……

The opposite of aggression is true strength. When we have lost a sense of our innate nobility, we mistakenly believe in our fear & weakness. True strength brings clarity, like a sword that cuts through illusion. It is called discriminating wisdom. When we are not locked in blame or struggle, we can see things as they are.

Wow….would love, love, love to hear a conversation between these two forces….

They both seem to say….’why not step out of the battle?’….

Inviting us as does Ajahn Chah to rest in the non-contentious heart…..

buried heart

Another cyclical vulnerability! ugh…..we simply don’t do this do we?

Our hearts are deep forests…