8/ Practice, broadly speaking, in a Buddhist Mahāyāna key? Not a return to conceptual tidiness, but the unflinching capacity to let mutually annihilating perspectives—emptiness and form, self and no-self, samsara and nirvana—coexist in a compassionate life of unresolved clarity.
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@LamaSuryaDas· When we say Yes to life, meeting whatever befalls us with authentic presence, we grow happier, deeper, wiser, more loving and caring. ~Lama Surya Das "The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations, emotions and people, experiencing everything totally without reservations or blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself." - Trungpa Rinpoche & Rigdzin Shikpo Image with calligraphy reading: Langri-Tangpa has said: I open to you as deep a teaching as there is. Pay attention! All faults are our own. All good qualities are the Lords'. The point here is: give gain and victory to others, take loss and defeat for ourselves. Other than this there is nothing to understand.
@Zen_Moments As for reconciliatory alchemy? Thurman: “Enlightenment is not a simplified state. Not at all. It is the supreme tolerance of cognitive dissonance.” And Trungpa, “The chaos that takes place in your neurosis is the only home ground that you can build the mandala of awakening on.”