Hurtigruten Day 11

"Endings and beginnings---everything moving on, in

flow...

Only a few more hours on the ship---a little bit of a sad feeling and yet the joy of having experienced so much. Last night especially looking at the sea and the many shapes and movements the water and light made---a better understanding of :

Ocean

Water

Wind

and

Wave

Remembering a something from William Blake, how to not hold on but to let the joy be:

He who binds to himself a joy

Doth the winged life destroy

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Coming into port in Bergen, I kiss the JOY and let it go..."

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"So don't accept the idea that there is a certain unchangeable life pattern controlled by something or someone...watch your life carefully. In daily living your past life comes up like a jack-in-the-box. Pop! You don't feel good, but this is okay. You still have the freedom to make a choise of how to maifest your life now. Then your actions in the present create causes and conditions for your life in the future....Freedom means that in the next moment you can manifest your life in a new way."

-Katagiri, p 199-

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"If you take the best care of one moment, offering yourself to your activity, letting your life touch the ground of existence and handling the phenomenal worl with wisdom and compassion, you turn a new leaf---360 degrees. In the next moment a completely new life appears, and that life helps others."

-Katagiri, 201-

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"So stand up in your life, accepting the whole situation. That means total acceptance of your life."

-Katagiri, p 205-

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"Don't attach to thoughts and emotions; just let them return to emptiness. Just be present there and swim in buddha-nature. This is living the bodhisattva vow to help all beings. Then the great energy of the universe supports you and you take one step toward the future with all beings."

-Katagiri, p 216-