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maybe it wasn’t that deep at all

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I am addicted to pinterest http://pinterest.com/ellen915/.  It started because I felt I didn’t always know what I liked or what I wanted.  I guess I needed to become attached before I could really understand detatchment.  I needed to desire before I could realize that desire is the root of suffering.  Or maybe it wasn’t that deep at all.  I just wanted to zone out and look at pretty and funny things.  I love pretty and funny things.   Here’s one that fits so well with project easier!  And funny too.

The url the pinterest pin directs to is no longer there, which is weird.  So I apologize to whomever first generated this LOVELY SIGN.  You are so smart and funny.  Because bears are so scary, and fears are so scary.  And it just makes me laugh. The way one’s mind at first reads “bears”, and thinks, there aren’t any bears here, and then it all becomes clear in one silly moment of lucidity.  🙂

complicated maya world

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So reading, which is my escape, my way of going on a mental vacation, is not always as mindless as part of me would hope.  I’m reading The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett, a murder mystery set in Thailand and Nepal, about Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a Thai  policeman.  I won’t tell you all about it because it could be a spoiler if you haven’t read the earlier books in the series.  Anyway, as we know, we can escape, but we can’t really escape…

“And the whole agony of the thing seems bound up with Tietsin’s blade wheel; I have never had to get to know myself so well before.  The consequence is like waking in a shallow grave and having to shake off the clay before you can start work (188)”.

Tietsin is the hero’s guru, but also a drug dealer and Tibetan freedom fighter (and I thought my life was complicated)!

So what is Tietsin’s blade wheel for me?  The image that will cut through all of the mental traffic and make things clear to me?  I find it interesting that the truth comes from the complicated maya world here…as I’m sure it will for me, when I figure it out.  I’ll keep you posted.  And read the books.  Fun and illuminating!