MalvaLila

Går långsamt, äter snabbt.

[Damien Echols @damienechols]

Attachment to emptiness

One of the final traps on the path is becoming attached to emptiness itself. After realizing that possessions, status, beliefs, and even identity are empty of inherent existence, many people quietly replace one attachment with another. They become attached to silence, detachment, non-duality, or the idea of “no self.” They mistake emptiness for the destination instead of recognizing it as a tool that frees them from clinging. The moment you begin identifying as someone who has “attained emptiness,” you’ve created another identity to defend.

True freedom isn’t found in clinging to form or clinging to emptiness….it’s found in moving effortlessly between the two. This is why Zen says, “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” The point was never to escape the world, but to participate in it without being bound by it. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form. When you stop grasping at either one, ordinary life reveals itself to have been the goal all along.

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Red Sky 1930
:
Emile Nolde.

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

Midsummer Eve (1908) by Edward Robert Hughes

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@Schmidtjnb @sekundarskam Verkligen vemodigt. Samtidigt sker ständiga förtätningar här i Sthlms förorter så fler kan pressas in.

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@sekundarskam Mackor med stekta ägg är bästa matsäcken!

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Through the Walls
Acrylic on linen
Anastasia Trusova.

[Mark Wright @markeology]

My daughter Annika is proudly autistic and 12 years old.

She drew this butterfly from a photo she took herself — every vein, every scale, rendered by hand on a tablet.

She signs everything she makes. Dates it. Like she already knows it matters.

She's turning 13 tomorrow. Please share this for her birthday. Let's make her day.

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@edsbyjonte Gläds med dig åt dina framsteg- så befriande att klara detta.

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@DanielG24297673 Fin tur😃

[Jan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RosaryMum]

Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus.

Gospel of St. Luke (1:26-38)

Street Art, Naples

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Många tror att ljusbärare alltid funnits i kyrkan, men så är det inte. Om det inte vore för mordet på Martin Luther King skulle vi nog inte kunna gå in i svenska kyrkor och tända ljus.

Lucka 5: Martin Lönnebo kuppar in ljusbärare i Svenska kyrkan.

https://t.co/pEazjHbzky

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@MattPearceArt So beautiful! I love the way you use colours, it gives reality a bit of dreamy magic.

[Damien Echols @damienechols]

Every spiritual map in existence….the Tree of Life, the chakras, the medicine wheel, the elements….exists for one reason only: to lead you out of the prison of the mind and into the direct experience of this moment. These maps are not the truth. They are not the destination. They are training wheels. They are stepping stones across the river of unconsciousness. The tragedy is that people start worshipping the stones. They cling to the system. They think memorizing every symbol will make them awakened. But symbols are not realization. Realization is what remains when the symbols have done their work and fallen away. Every system is a torch designed to burn itself up.

Presence is not hidden inside any tradition. Presence is the ground beneath every tradition. Presence is not something you earn through metaphysical understanding. Presence is what remains when the one trying to understand finally dissolves. The maps and models exist to break identification with the mind, not to become part of the identity itself. At a certain point the only thing left is the direct experience of being. Not the story. Not the commentary. Not the ladder. Just this. The Work was always about subtraction, not accumulation. And when presence dawns, you see the truth with absolute clarity: the destination was always here. The only thing that had to be discarded was the one who thought it wasn’t.

[Sister Bethany, fsp @SrBethanyFSP]

Woman walking past me this morning: “Real or costume?”

“Real!” I say cheerily.

“I *thought* you looked too authentic to be dressed up!”

Halloween is always an adventure for those of us who wear the habit!

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@villkorspappan @bajenbecca Ja, en som klippte tånaglar har jag också sett på gröna linjen.

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@Blaaskymning Vilket ljus! Tack för denna delning🧡

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@PeterEngman65 Vilken plats! Fotot förmedlar stämningen🩷

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@DanielG24297673 Så fina! Mums😋

[MalvaLila @TrustInSilence]

@DanielG24297673 Passerade precis med tåg😊Fin båge!