The Space Inside a Clay Pot Is the Same as the Space Outside
- Inside the clay pot there is space, and outside the pot there is space. They were never two.
- When the pot breaks, no sky is lost. The emptiness simply rejoins what it always was.
- I live inside this body like air inside a pot, one with the boundless sky around me.
- Dear seeker, the walls you feel around yourself are only clay. Look within, and find the open sky.
- A river poured into a jar is still the river's water, tasting of the same endless source.
- Rain fills the valley's hollows, yet the vast sky above never grows smaller or larger.
- Hold a candle in a hut or in a palace, and the light is the same.
- Mountains rise from the earth like pots shaped by hands, yet space moves freely through them all.
- Each breath enters and leaves the body, as wind passes through an open doorway, belonging to no wall.
- I am Absolute. Inside and outside are one, and I rest as the boundless space within all.
Realization for Today
"The space within me and the space around me are one, and that spaciousness is who I am."
....FOR DAILY MEDITATION SERIES : 16
