when lived in truth, life isn't comfortable - it's painful, messy, beautiful, pristine, disappointing and awesome - the only spiritual path is the one of surrender, meeting resistance pain and deep suffering on its own terms until the sense of an alone separate self dissolves and merges and explodes in wonder - the wonder of absolute being, living as life in this moment, where there is no path or method, but a slow unfolding and untangling of phenomenal experience. Spirituality as a furnace and crucible and as you say not a scented candle - it reveals our true nature in the midst of a violent uncompromising universe in all its glory and intelligence. We are just the simple ease that notices this. Thank you Sumir - your writing stirs the heart
On May 6, 2025 Annie wrote :