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Realize What You Are
When a bucket has even a single hole in it, no matter how many times you lower it into the well, the water will run out. What about the mind? Nature is there continually offering all its innumerable gifts. But if the mind has holes in it, how can it retain what it receives? No matter how many times it is filled with the bounty of the universe, it still feels lack and emptiness.
What makes these holes in our thinking? It is our many barriers, boundaries, likes, dislikes, resentments, judgments, expectations, projections, in one word, our karmas. Nature has no discrimination. The sun, the rain are for all. The air we breathe is universal; all are breathing universal breath. In our hurry to give labels and categories to the world, we do not see its beauty. We do not feel our feeling. We pass by nature's bountiful offerings.
How to fill up the holes of the mind? Paushadhatake time to retreat from the many activities which have created wounds in your psyche and mind and heal yourself.
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