Someone else’s body is a place for your mind to go
Jenny Holzer, 1998.
Mikhail Vrubel, Morning (1897)
This is so beautiful
(via tryphena)
when your heart doesn’t tell you the truth,
the pain will tell you the answer.
“Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky.
Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don’t worry about clear mind it is always there.
When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes. You must not be attached to the coming and the going.”
-Seung Sahn
In the analogy most commonly used by contemporary Buddhists, mental activity begins to seem more like weather- like clouds and sunny spell, rainstorms and blizzards, arising and passing away.
The mind, in this analogy is the sky, and the sky doesn’t cling to specific weather conditions nor try to get rid of bad ones.
The sky just is.
