affirmation

I have lived all my life with a terminal diagnosis, yet the naming of cancer is considered terminal whereas living is not. To surrender into the reality of living is to surrender into the reality of it always leading to death. Surrender into dying is therefore not necessarily different than surrendering into life. To utterly surrender. To willingly, lovingly, enthusiastically give myself into the flow of the mystery of living that is this moment and no other, this radical acceptance of observer coexisting with the process giving rise to observer/observed, is to refine in luminosity until everything is luminous. I am gripped with immense smiling just writing this. Surrender, not as a giving up or a resignation but surrender as ultimate life affirmation. May this become increasingly firm.




This journey of living and learning and sharing;
May it become clear for everyone.
May we soften our grasping.
May we embrace the mystery of this immediate universe manifesting all of us.
May we find refuge in heart felt reverence and functional love.

May our lives continue to weave together well for the sake of everyone.
May blessings abound.





with thanks
Tarchin Hearn
excerpt blog post
Green Dharma Treasury

entering fully

Life is a boundless matrix of dynamic relationships. 

Ultimately, every action reverberates throughout the universe. 

I responding to you. 

You responding to me. 

This responding to that. 

That responding to this.

Responsiveness is the living heart of being and becoming. 

Atoms, molecules, organs and organisms, families and societies; 

entire ecosystems, biospheres, planets and galaxies; 

all shifting, responding, constantly changing.

Each birthing of this is a dying of that.

Each dying of that is a birthing of this. 

Responsive change is the very nature and fabric of what is.

Permanence is a mental abstraction; a hope, a need, 

a convenient but potentially deadening freezing 

of the actual creative dynamic of all our lives in action.

Suffering arises through trying to fix or make permanent 

what is essentially a seamless fluid process.

May we cease grasping at permanence and

with heartful confidence, love, enthusiasm and wide awake sensitivity, 

enter fully the great birthing/dying matrix of responsive relating;

this ineffable, un-pin-down-able, present blessing of now.

With thanks: Tarchin Hearn
Green Dharma Treasury
Photo: Peter Bowers