When tired, sleep. My arse.

I'm so tired today, shall I just sleep, shall I press on with my work? .

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Huang po said "Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha!"

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There is no self, there isn't an I that is tired, there is just tiredness. But the days work needs to be done, there are bills to be paid and this tiredness seems to stand in my way of achieving the goals for today.

Today there is a mentally foggy, exhausted Zen plumber, fixing leaky pipes, getting accustomed to the feeling of tiredness, just cracking on with what needs doing..

So, today I say, when tired in the face of much effort, be tired while putting forth effort.

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T. O. M's Disclaimer.

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What do I know, im just a guy fixing pipes, I'll have an extra coffee and "the self" I am accustomed to having may appear later on, in the meanwhile, I'm a groggy self..

In fact, none of these states are a self, they are just different conditions, linked together by circuits in a brain called memory. Luckily for me, my plumbing circuitry now works on autopilot, and like Bruce Lee, when I plumb, I don't plumb, it plumbs all by itself.

Submitted March 07, 2022 at 02:38PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/FgLuBi7