......success and failure are your journey*......
Little Bunny Foo-Foo, hoppin' through the forest
pickin' up the field mice & boppin' 'em on the head.
And along came the goooooood faaaaaairy. And she said....
"Little Bunny Foo-Foo, I don' wanna see you
pickin' up the field mice & boppin' 'em on the head."
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*The quote in the top bar is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I tend to view with some suspcion as a person (great teacher or charismatic cult leader? I'm not sure!), but whose teachings I often find useful nonetheless... here is a further elaboration:
The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.
If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.
When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness. You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages....
You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.
And,
Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....
[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.
4 comments:
you know, i dunno. i remember learning that at some girl scout thing -- summer camp maybe? and i think it builds up to ending with some silly little pun.
*will go goggle this* to heck with tv -- how did we ever learn anything about anything before google?
here you go:
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/l007.html
C wrote an profile of a singer named Kimya Dawson for an upcoming issue of The Believer magazine, and while he was working on it he told me she and her band (formerly called Moldy Peaches) did a cover of "Little Bunny Foo-Foo."
Which makes this the second adult reference to "Little Bunny Foo-Foo" that has popped up in my life in a very short time.
Which kinda freaks me out.
I learned slightly different words than you did.
A lot of kids' songs vary lyrically from region to region. For instance, the one about blowing up your teacher? My left-coast friends and I know totally different words than the midwestern kids learned!
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