Thank you to Debilyn Molyneaux of The Bridge Alliance for bringing a quest for shared spiritual practice among organizations working in Washington DC, the connection via the link above and this week's Witness Wednesday prompt:
“There is the thought, and then there is the knowing of the thought. And the difference between being aware of the thought and just thinking is immense. It’s enormous… Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They’re just mental states. They’re not solid, they’re transparent. One has to know that and then not identify with the knower. One has to know that the knower is not somebody.” ~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (excerpted from the biography Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie)
This quote on first read landed squarely in RantWoman's "too much Buddhism makes me want to punch someone" nerves. RantWoman is VERY glad she did not stick with her unease but instead digressed to read the Bridge Alliance website above.
Further worship brought further words about detachment, about Abrahamic religions' dwelling in an all-encompassing external.
Just when RantWoman was thinking "oh good I don't have to tear myself out of some external, along came, in the chat, "Thoughts and emotions are just like clouds, they will pass. I am the fullness of the sky behind them."
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