The Egg of Creation

What is the manifestation of compassion, is like this: Imagine a sky, empty, spacious, and pure from the beginning; its essence is like this. Imagine a sun, luminous, clear, unobstructed, and spontaneously present; its nature is like this. Imagine that sun shining out impartially on us and all things, penetrating all directions; its energy, which is the manifestation of compassion, is like this: Nothing can obstruct it, and it pervades everywhere.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Glimpse After Glimpse

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I am drawn to what I am obsessed with no matter what I believe to be true. History doesn’t repeat itself so much as it spirals. It comes back to similar themes but always one step above or below itself: so it goes. It is either a negative spiral, spinning its way to annihilation, or it is revolving into an entirely new evolution from a baser form of itself. This is true for history and it is a theorem that applies directly to the life I think I own. It takes a bit of reflection to see it sometimes but history provides examples of it working when I look at the Big Picture. I.e., there will never be another Attila or Hitler. Evil devolves as neatly as does the good evolve. This view works and rings true when we see that conditions will never recreate another Christ or a Buddha. However, here is another truth that encourages me; it only takes a few enlightened souls to raise consciousness to matter how many little Nero’s are stomping about. Great minds go to great places, good minds go to good places, and small minds go to small places… We see the tyrants pass as new forms of the tyrant take to the ego gone goose-stepping towards destruction. We see the little acts of selfless compassion everywhere swimming upstream like spermatozoa to the egg of creation. It only takes one to fertilize the ova and each of us has that capacity.

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