
helleborus

bluebell
click on either flower to see a larger size (particularly worthwhile with the bottom one; at the large size you can see the pollen all over the stamens!) or check out my "nature" set.
......success and failure are your journey*......
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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.
3 comments:
I just totally horked that bluebell pic as my desktop wallpaper!
I LOVE YOUR NATURE SET!!!
wow, thanks Mush! I appreciate the appreciation!
The bluebell photo is my favorite pic in a long time--I made it my icon on Flickr so I could look at it constantly. :-)
horked, that's a new one. Is that computer techie speak somehow? :-) I saw a book today about interesting words from around the world (funny, I just gave that exact same book, only a different one, to my mom for christmas last year)... the book is called "tingo," which in some language means, "to take every item you covet from your friend's house by borrowing them one at a time."
Fortunately, digital files are infinitely reproducible, so you can tingo my whole nature set and it won't hurt me none. ;-)
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