No matter how long the room has been
dark,
an hour or a million years,
the moment the lamp of awareness is lit
the entire room becomes luminous.
You are that luminosity.
You are that clear light.
-Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
-Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Time passes, and we view
each new moment through the moments we have lived. Painful moments, joyful
moments, busy moments, leisured moments. As a passenger on a train ride, we are
watching the landscape out the window. We see the fields and the towns. We hear
the call of the owl and watch the autumn leaves fall. Through it all, we are
more than what we see or say or feel or know.
Today the sun was
shining, then it wasn't.
Today it was snowing and blowing and the roads were
coated with ice.
Then they weren't.
Tonight the moon was big
and bright, and now it isn't.
While everything outer
waxes and wanes, you are that unchanging luminosity.
You are that clear light.
Tonight I am thankful.
Tomorrow I will recall
today.
From Awakened by Stirrings:
Will
we come to our senses and honor the will of the creator? "The greatest of
these is love." There is no way to know where we are going. We must move
into the darkness of the preconceived ideas and from the very center of the
soul weave together the threads of bodies, minds, and spirit.
Never
again shall we walk this way. We must not look back, for fear will surely grab
us and yank us into denial. We must let our heart guide us where our minds
would not dare to let us go… Thereby we will find a way to invite others to
join… Where all will remember that we were made to be free!