"So I’ve been sleeping with this silence in my mind
And all I see scares me" - Lydia
Had a decent train ride home despite the headache it gave me. Oakville was so nice and warm I just had to go for a long walk, how I missed exercise! I'm so excited to go back to school and see friends again.
Had another strange dream - I don't usually put emphasis on them or their meaning but this one was really odd. For one, I didn't die, and I always die in my dreams, s'just how it usually goes. In this dream I was walking along a dusty road in a green landscape; the sun was shinning, it was hot but not overbearingly so. I came upon an old church, it's big stone slabs wrestled into the earth. The door was ajar so I walked inside - there were no images of the Virgin, no crucifixes or alters. Instead there was just a massive, overflowing arrangement of flowers and plants, spilling from the ruined church forward into the room. Then I saw on the floor in front of the flowers, facing me, sat a yogi - in lotus posture and in deep meditation. When I looked more closely I realized it was my face. I started in such profound fright, and woke thinking"Aha, so she is the one who is meditating me. She has a dream and I am it." I had an unshakable feeling that when she awoke, I would no longer be.
"The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: “Who am I?” After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The “I am” is certain. The “I am this” is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not - body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being."
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
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- A fourth year Sheridan Illustration student, who may or may not end up being an illustrator.
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