'The world,’ said the Buddha, 'is an ever-burning fire.'

 

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[…] if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth.

These are the eyes of the earth.
And this is the voice of the earth.


―Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth

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[...] to enjoy the world requires something more than mere good health and good spirits; for this world, as we all now surely know, is horrendous. ‘All life,’ said the Buddha, 'is sorrowful’; and so, indeed, it is. Life consuming life: that is the essence of its being, which is forever a becoming. 

'The world,’ said the Buddha, 'is an ever-burning fire.’ 

And so it is. 

And that is what one has to affirm, with a yea! a dance! a knowing, solemn, stately dance of the mystic bliss beyond pain that is at the heart of every mythic rite.


—Joseph Campbell
Myths to Live By

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Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea! 

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoch

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