Various musings while walking (part 5)

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• ‘Beginning’ and ‘end’ are arbitrary distinctions from the mind. {10.31.07}

• When presented with a phenomenon, one has the chance to either integrate & form a harmonious relationship with this phenomenon or to shut oneself off from it by either denial or distortion of its existence and impact. {10.31.07}

• Two modes for increasing understanding of the world: expansion & concentration. We may expand our sphere of perception to include things not yet known or we may examine things already perceived in more depth. {10.31.07}

• True Understanding is the indifferent acceptance following sympathy with opposing view-points. {11.5.07}

• Any kind of reach back into the past that extends beyond learning from our mistakes, and any kind of reach into the future that extends beyond making sure not to misstep is a diversion from the now. Both of these considerations are simply to enhance the now anyways, so let us embrace child-like forgetfulness towards the past and child-like confidence towards the future. Each of these embraces are an arm in the true embrace of the now, and the unfathomable love springing therefrom. {11.5.07}