Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the bottom of all this, there is an attitude of giving up and running away from one’s own problems, with the illusion that one will be able to find something that will miraculously help one to transcend all that. But the teachings are based on the principle of our actual human condition. We have a physical body with all its various limits: each day we have to eat, work, rest, and so on. This is our reality, and we can’t ignore it.
i’ve been living on the outside
looking in
searchin’ for some kind of answer i’m forever questioning
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an evening walk around downtown ~ Calgary, AB ~ July 2019
Suppose you are going to be punished by not being allowed to go to sleep when you are desperately in need of rest, and suddenly someone says: “All right, you may go to sleep now.” Think of the joy you would feel just before falling asleep.
hey hey and i need a dollar dollar, a dollar is what i need
and if i share with you my story would you share your dollar with me
well i don’t know if i’m walking on solid ground
cause everything around me is crumbling down
and all i want is for someone to help me
hey hey
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homeless people I met on random streets in downtown Toronto ~ June 2017
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