windthread

i wanted to say some things about that Paticca samuppada,  dependent co~arising,  how suddenly it has become so clear with the reading of Joanna Macy's World as Lover World as Self.  But it's also clear that it's going to take some time to try to put together my own personal sense of it that is so different and so perfect for me during this particular time.  So…i'll wait a while.  In the most bottom line though, she says: 

"For our daily pursuits and frame of mind,  what does it mean to be a living part of a living whole, like a cell in the body of Earth?  Such a question, when we pursue it, brings us back to ancestral wisdom.   This centerpiece of the Buddha's teaching  [Paticca samuppada] is not about a dimension of reality separate from our daily lives.  It refers to no absolute or eternal essence, but to the way things work,  how events happen and relate to eachother.  Perceiving all existence as a dynamic, self~sustaining web of relations…..patterns and circuits of contingency, arising and sustained by their own interplay."

these small cloth drawings.   In the first moment,  what is There,  is simply a single piece of linen or cotton with random markings created by random placement of plant material.  Just this.  but then, upon looking,  there is that interplay…the imagination,  the marks.  Suddenly a third thing arises…the 

awareness of being a part of a Whole,  for me…Magic…a part of something that just IS there but becomes interplay, and so, co~dependent arising. 

I should have taken a pic of the cloth above as it initially appeared from the basket…plain, really,  beauty FULL ly subtle,  but plain.   But simply by looking with a mind to Make,  the whole of what it is above became visual,  and so,  became a living example for me of dependent arising that brought that feeling of connectedness.  The fact that they are such simple cloths…just simple marks and lines….

and i LOVED in comment yesterday, Mo had not seen the mark at the top as a butterfly or moth until the antennae became more clear to her.  This is such a beauty Full example…before it was clear to her,  it wasn't there.  Then suddenly, it was.   ……the co~arising….  if she hadn't seen it still,  it would not BE THERE.   the arising is dependent.   I feel like this is going to be the Glow of all this next period of my life.   To attend,  with such Open ness.   Not knowing anything,  but being so present,  to be Ready for what can arise.

This one is in the shop.