nowhere everywhere home

1/17/2014

Where are you today, dearest one? As you hear this question, you may look around - locating yourself, your body, in the physical environment, where you live. You may say: "I am here in Kalamazoo, in my home, in my kitchen; preparing breakfast, feeling lonely and very scared because this loneliness has been with me for far too many days now."

Please ask yourself now: who is this one, afraid of so much loneliness, that it believes it is loneliness itself? Who will eat this breakfast of loneliness?

This loneliness is not you. It is a cloud in the sky, passing by; however slowly, it is still just passing by. You are the sky, touched by the clouds, seasoned by the clouds, lovingly holding the clouds as they float and move and shift and dissolve, on their way to nowhere, everywhere, home.

Know this, dear one: you are not the clouds, you are forever the sky.

All love,
Analisa

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The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, "I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas i do not quite understand. Please enlighten me."

The patriarch responded, "I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning."

Said the nun, "You cannot even recognize the characters. How are you able then to understand the meaning?"

"Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?"

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Analisa Domenica is a humanist minister and mentor, in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and laying-on-of-hands for comfort care and pain release. Analisa joyfully celebrates weddings and memorials, according to your faith or non-faith tradition. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.

'Li' lives and works in Mill Spring, NC, a stone or two's throw from Asheville, NC and Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. She also works globally via phone. You may reach her by phone at 828.429.0096 or write to her by clicking here.