Non-Change

Non-Change

"Our attachment to non-change is what causes our suffering."

Gael Chiarella
Yoga Meditation Collection

Random notes:

"...or pain that your body has held. Notice places of discomfort or pain that your emotions have held. Nothing is too large. Nothing is too small."

As we come into conscious relationship with pain, we see a divided path. One says: 'Let me eliminate you, and move as far away as I can."

And the other, says 'What are you sharing with me?' 'What do you have to say?'

For pain is always a suggestion for change. And the change itself may be painful. Our attachment to non-change is what causes our suffering.

In yoga we see a vision of two birds sitting on a golden limb. One is the observer. The other the observed. The observer sits in perfect peace. The other runs back and forth attached to this and that.

We know open ourselves to an acknowledgement of the observer part of each and every psyche. Of each and every thought. And as you bring your awareness...

Well it goes on and on from there. This is a small part of a meditation track I just heard and wanted to share.

Namaste


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Non-Change

Shawshank

Shawshank

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"Some hard truth to face, here. I am not going to make it on the outside.

Forty years I have been asking to piss.

All I do anymore is think of ways to beat my parole, so maybe they send me back.

Terrible thing to live in fear.

Brookes knew it. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.  Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy."

So without the honor of this commitment, it is death. Or jail 'till death.

Instead he goes off on his adventurish search, and the long rock wall.

Red is on a kind of a marathon. He only takes the clothes on his back and the compass. Nothing that will weigh him down.

"It is the kind of excitement only a free woman can feel. The excitement at the beginning of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope I can see my friend, and shake her hand. "

"I hope the Pacific is as blue as I imagine. And I hope that she is just as forgetful."

Shawshank