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Garbage amd roses a stream of change
Jeffrey
Veteran
Garbage can smell terrible, especially rotting organic matter. But it can also become rich compost for fertilizing the garden. The fragrant rose and the stinking garbage are two sides of the same existence. Without one, the other cannot be. Everything is in transformation. The rose that wilts after six days will become a part of the garbage. After six months the garbage is transformed into a rose. When we speak of impermanence, we understand that everything is in transformation. This becomes that, and that becomes this. Looking deeply, we can contemplate one thing and see everything else in it. We are not disturbed by change when we see the interconnectedness and continuity of all things. It is not that the life of any individual is permanent, but that life itself continues.
-Thich Nhat Hanh, in Present Moment, Wonderful Moment - From Everyday Mind, a Tricycle book edited by Jean Smith
-Thich Nhat Hanh, in Present Moment, Wonderful Moment - From Everyday Mind, a Tricycle book edited by Jean Smith
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Everything is a complete and seperate manifestation based on various causes and conditions.
Yet everything is interdependent for those obvious causes and conditions can be further divided into other causes and conditions.
Coffee time !
Going back to how things smell however, I know it is hard to not dislike a horrid stech, but I always try to keep in mind what the buddha said about the 5 senses. We should not find any of them displeasing or appealing. The rose really should not be beautiful to you and the garbage should not really be a bad thing to go up to and smell.