"You are never alone ...."

You are never alone or helpless.  The force that guides the stars guides you too.

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Moments

Moments,

In the moment,
What else matters?

"It's dark ...."

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. 

Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. 

Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. 

Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. 

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. 

Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. 

When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. 

No rhetoric, no tremolos, 

no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. 

And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. 

Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. 

So throw away your baggage and go forward. 

There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, 

trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. 

That’s why you must walk so lightly. 

Lightly my darling, 

on tiptoes and no luggage, 

not even a sponge bag, 

completely unencumbered.

Aldous Huxley

"Drink your tea slowly ...."

Drink your tea slowly and reverently,

as if it is the axis

on which the world earth revolves

– slowly, evenly, without

rushing toward the future;

Live the actual moment.

Only this moment is life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Now when the bardo of dying ...."

“Now when the bardo of dying dawns upon me,


I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment,

Enter undistracted into clear awareness of the teaching,

And eject my consciousness into the space of unborn Rigpa (primordial nondual awareness);

As I leave this compound body of flesh and blood
 I will know it to be a transitory illusion.”

“When the bardo of the moment of death appears
 may I abandon attachments and mental fixations,
and engage without distraction in the
 path which the instructions make clear.
  Mind projected into the sphere of uncreated space,
separated from body, from flesh and blood,
 I will know that which is impermanence and illusion.”

Guru Rinpoche