{"id":5653,"date":"2010-04-07T22:41:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:55:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:55:59","slug":"the-dust-is-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/04\/the-dust-is-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dust is Your Life Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Life is what happens to you
\nwhile you’re busy making other plans.<\/p>\n

– John Lennon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From ‘Astonishing X-men: Unstoppable’ by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) says, “Everything is so fragile. There’s so much conflict, so much pain… you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on<\/span>. If happy comes along – that weird, unbearable delight that’s actually happy – I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, ’cause it’s here, and then… gone.”<\/p>\n

Poignant words indeed. Fragility of it all and the fleeting nature of momentary happiness is impermanence (Anicca) itself. Prevalence of conflict and pain, with the seemingly ‘endless’ awaiting for it to be gone is suffering (Dukkha) itself. Grasping at worldly joys is ultimately futile because they come only to pass. Ours is a world of stirred up dust, of delusions, that shroud our vision, that chokes us, that rises and falls. But all is not lost. Realise Anicca and Dukkha fully as they are, and you will realise Anatta (non-self), and the bliss of liberation will be yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

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