In today's practice, my teacher Susan mentioned the initial practice of Kalachakra Tantra or the Practice of the Wheel of time, it is the most advanced form of practice in the Vajrayana revolves around time and cycles from cycles of planets to cycles of breaths. It is about embracing the temporal human experience as oppose to transcending ourselves to another realm. "Embracing of temporal" inspired me to think about the presence of impermanence...how are we going to experience everything that is ever changing around us and still to embrace it? People, environment, feelings, relationships, physical and mental states, for the better or worse, they evolve and change constantly, we hold on so dearly to what we love, grasping causes suffering and it is painful to lose what we have, in the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism, the third Noble Truth is the truth of impermanence stated its existence, and for that, I was thinking or I can be wrong, with the practice of compassion it might be an antidote. Isn't compassion the ability to hold love and pain at the same time? As we imagine the feeling of embracing person or an event versus grasping them, the journey seems to continue even after "death do us apart". When each time love expands by a molecule, its accompanied by a same sized molecule of pain due to impermanence, practicing compassion would be a great way too in terms of continuing the journey together through all times and cycles...
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