When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the student is ready, one word can be the teacher that awakens the mind. Since I have become a little more awakened, I often am aware of and sometimes experience the impermanent nature of the elements that are not really within me but better described as me in form. My body and the elements that comprise it are impermanent. My essence or soul is permanent, free from birth and death. What helps me avoid stagnation in a realization of emptiness of impermanence is knowing and reminding myself that everything incuding myself is constantly changing. What helps me merge with the world in compassion is knowing or reminding myself that my form includig all the elements that comprise my form and the world are merged, are one action or process, which awareness facilitates and flows into compassion.
On Jan 20, 2019 David Doane wrote :