Reflection 259

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Mind At Large

The more I take care of the Coolness here the more the warmth takes care of itself there. It's not that I feel myself to be more loving (my love goes out to you and cannot be retained here) but that you are seen to be more lovable. My feelings, adhering now to their objects instead of their Subject (Who finds nothing here to attach them to) become real and spontaneous feelings and no longer put-on or worked-up, sentimental ones. Ceasing to cultivate and wallow in my own states - an anxious, self-defeating, absurd habit - I'm free at last to enjoy people and the world just as they come, from this their Empty Source. In other words, my mind, with all its thoughts and feelings, is centrifugal. Ceasing to be a small, local, private, personal possession abstracted from the universe there and shut up in a brain-box here (as if it could be!) my mind is at large, one with the universe, blown sky-high. The world, so seen, is the same old world, yet utterly different. It is replete with a mind and meaning I no longer abstract from it. It is all there, because I claim none of it for myself. It is sane. It makes sense. It is loved. (Douglas Harding. Quoted in Seeing Who You Really Are by Richard Lang.)