What makes you so free?

Static free
anti-cling
de-grasp the self.
let go
recognizing impermanence
like a cool refreshing breeze
on a hot summer day in New Delhi.

embrace what is, and enjoy the breeze.

this moment will pass also.
this moment
these thoughts, any pain or discomfort.
This body will grow and then decay...like everything.
The self IS impermanent.
IT IS empty of inherent existence...like everything.
Point to the self...where is it really?
Did you find it?
Just like the table it is made of many elements.

Compounded elements that continue to change,
and with the right conditions the compounded self will even evolve.

Just like the cool breeze, this awareness of emptiness is true freedom.
For when we understand this we can live without clinging to life, self, others, and things!
This cling state IS ignorant, watch it lead you again and again to suffering.
Again and again to extreme emotions that seem uncontrollable.

Like a dog chasing its own tail...the harder he trys to bite his tail the more he suffers,
but he continues to do it anyway.
Round and round we go when we stop no one knows.

But there are many ones that make up this whole. And many stop to listen.
Their own silence introduces them to their awareness, which stops them from the ignorant circles.

Be aware.
Be bear aware.
Take time to retreat in silence to cultivate inner awareness. For the winter, for a month, for a week, for a day, for an hour, for 10minutes, with a breathe.
The more you practice wise awareness, the easier it is to flow with life.

Let go of the willows and flow down river!

Stop the clinging, and you will finally enjoy that which you so desperately cling to.

Ah the sweet wisdom of the four seals.
Shakyamuni Buddha sealing truth.
this buddhadharma--the awakened path
the way of truth
eyes wide open from the inside--------outside.

Now now, don't turn your shoulder up at this "religion," for it is far more a science.
It is for the truth seeker that resides in each one of us.
Alas, you do not have to run to some confession hall, temple, or shave your head and take on a life of robes, caves, and long silences...

NO!!! We those they call the lay people need to engage ourselves by being fully aware of the reality as it is.

Just remember...

"Fundamentally it is not the act of leaving behind the material world that
Buddhists cherish BUT the ability to see the habitual clinging to this world
and ourselves and to renounce the clinging.
--Dzsongsar Jamyang Khyentse
from the book, What makes you NOT a Buddhist

so be static free and you will finally be free.