Behind me there are two women and a baby. The baby is fussing a bit and the mother keeps saying the most irritating things.
"Normally she's such a GOOD baby, she doesn't whine like this at ALL."
"You're no fun today, you're no fun at all. And that's your only job as my baby, to be FUN. You hear? You're supposed to be FUN."
"Where's my perfect little angel? What have you done with her? Hmmmm? Where is she?"
"This is just no fun at all."
"When she's anything short of perfect I'm always asking her, 'Why aren't you perfect?'" (Turns to baby) "Why aren't you? Why aren't you?" *kissing sound* "Hmmmm? Why?"
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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:
Good God.
yeah, I know, right????
wow. i cannot believe she actually said the shit about the baby being fun.
today, in the store, a woman said to her mom "no, mom. i don't want to read the new fucking rebecca wells book (ya ya's series, the most brainless literature we have at rainbow). i want something i don't have to *think* about at *all*."
(earlier she had also turned down barbara kingsolver, the bean trees, because she has to read kingsolvers novels "like for school, ok? i am *so* not going to read that for fun!")
although i occasionally share this sentiment on different gradiations, i was shocked to hear her say it outloud, especially when she turned to me, standing next to such periodicals as the nation, progressive, mother jones and adbusters (and, ironically, clamor) and in all seriousness asked me if we carry glamor.
yeah. that's right. sometimes people say the things you think they are probably thinking. i wonder how i do that for others? cuz i am sure i do...
huh... for me that's probably when I say something about the revolution or killing someone who irritates me.
glamor. clamor. I like it.
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