Compassionate hearts walking in the light of hope

“Nothing to photograph,” I thought, looking around at the seaside this afternoon. “Absolutely” Nothing. The sky was grey and misty. Sometimes unpredictably a very pale sun pierced through its dark-grey veil, just for one moment. There you stay, like a dull gull on the sandbank, beak against the chilly wind, waiting...Waiting for what? For the Big Sea Monster to emerge from the surf? Like yesterdays Minotaur? Waiting for the change of the tide and the little tasty shells to appear? Could you know why they and you are staying here now at the surf..?

I put my hands in my pockets to warm and “it” said: “Just stay both feet grounded from your Hara-centre, breathe and do nothing. Don’t take pictures, Wait for Nothing, No-Thing. Try to feel how it is to BE Nothing. No Blippership, Nor the Nothing of returning home without a Blip. Absolute Nothingness”. No, not the dog playing over here, not the vague sun glimmer over the rippling laguna, not that sturdy man over there, who crosses over to the sea to take a short bath...Don’t do that, thinking about failing your daily Blip. Don’t think, but look and listen like a Gull.

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Yes, you may even stop thinking about the given that we were never born to think... Just feel yourself living a life full of joy, love, compassion, and fit to endure the suffering and pain, so deep and manifold among all our fellow beings in the universe. To search for companionship and practical reconciliation and to cultivate your deepest faith hoping for what seems most impossible: liberation, alleviation and ultimate salvation as an act of grace.

I’m not afraid that this will sound too much for some, and too humourless for others. For practising silence - standing like a Gull - at the surf, focusses on the empowerment of the compassionate heart, not only for this moment, but a Lifetime burning in each Moment (T.S.Eliot). Waiting and celebrating my whole lifetime, finally I found myself back taking some pictures. One of them expressing compassionate companionship and a shining light of wistful hope.
All born out of "Nothingness".