The Moutain

Our deeper mind is a mountain. The petty and trivial concerns that consume us are nothing more than the passing clouds or a beating storm. So teaches the Rigpa, a type of Tibetan Buddhism.

I agree.

We know this mind during our more introspective and challenging moments in life. We use different words to describe it. Sports use the idiom “he’s in the zone” ,or, “she is in the heat of the moment.” For the religious it is the sense of being in “God”-“Jesus”-“Yaweh”-“Allah”. For the more secular of us it is “deep relaxation”, “wonder”, “awe”. Albert Einstein would call this state of mind his “Thought Experiments.” Those are names, I call it a mountain. I call it a mountain since it makes it easy to visualize.

Visualize:

I am the mountain and I can explore this mountain. There are caves in my mountain. Imagine a person exploring/spelunking the caves. In the center of this mountain is a well. The explorer discovers the well. He looks inside. The well is deep. The water is glimmering obsidian. The fear of the water is great. You don’t know where it goes, nor what lies within. Can you even breathe? The explorer has fear.

He overcomes it. He dives into the cool obsidian. Swimming he feels at home. Breath is no problem. The well opens wide and runs to the center of the world. There, at the worlds center, he sees the twirling heated metals and stones of the core. The core pulses and reverberates. The molten material moves upward and out of the core, like arteries, exploding into the seas and the lands to detstroy and create. The heat that does not escape moves with convection currents, keeping the earth humid, warm and able to sustain life.

The explorer is there, in that center. From here he sees the connections of life.
The connections that Ecology show us, global markets demonstrate, and family & lovers teach us. It is inter-connection; life working as dependent relationships. And the explorer remembers that his path to this place came from the center of his mountain.
The mind is a mountain.
The mountain is connected.
The mind is connected.