Deep Field

… you wake up, and you learn again. Learn the previous cycles. The familiarities. Everyday, you get up again. Get into that old body of yours and teach it something new, or teach it to let go, or tell it to run, or eat healthy, or meditate, or read. Never, ever forget to grow. Never, ever forget you don’t stop growing. There’s always something new, and you’ll never know it all. So get up again, and learn.

There are many ways into this house. But once within - no matter the entrance - you will find the same thing, a house. But beware, once in the house - YOUR house - there is no way out, so first may come the time to notice the other entrances, and respect them. There are many ways in, some faster, some harder - respect them.

Then may come the time to look in, at the rooms and the walls, the wallpaper and the cracks. Then the furniture and hangings. Then the carpet and rugs and the furniture behind the furniture. and the trinkets and accoutrements adorning them. Then the bits hiding away in cupboards and under the stairs. And the dust, and the damage and wear on all these things you see in your demesne. Dig deep and you’ll surprise yourself.

The house - the universe, the all, the mind - is fractal, and what you’ll find can be painful, but to unroot the waste bracken of the garden that is mind is necessary. Once it is started new flowers may bloom - brilliant new colours. And the universe will be all the brighter for it in return.

We cannot seek suffering, it will come to you if it is needed. Naturally it is eminent in our being, of our processes day to day, but it is not necessary as a goal of growth to actively want to embrace it. It will embrace you - when necessary.