A retreat day with Lama Gursam. I so very much enjoyed being with the Sangha, feeling opening hearts and minds, togetherness with light. And opening is also strange, so many ghosts go fleeing from the light that it gets confusing as to which spirits are of benefit. Good to have a wise Lama to protect us, and we circumambulate this old Quaker meeting, and walk through the graveyard.
I touch the stone and watch more closely how I am carried away by many thoughts. My relationship to them is where hindrance is, not in the thoughts themselves. They appear of their own accord, so many of them out of history. I notice how I push them away or pull them toward me. I let them be, notice my cravings, let them be. I return to the stone again and again and everything opens up. I am in the stream of change, but without pain, without ignorance, at least for a moment.
This place, as Lama emphasizes, is available everywhere if we recognize our challenges, treat them with kind attention, and in touching, let them go or otherwise deal with them within the realm of reality. Reality is like a new home with many family members, with quiet grounds.
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