Buddhism

Dharma teaches us that everything exists as appearance and emptiness together at the same time. Does getting stressed out about correct form emerge from our tendency to see everything as independent and self-existent? Is our perception of correct or incorrect in the form that we perceive, or is it merely a subjective judgement that exists in only in our mind?

A lama once told me the parable of eating a piece of really good cake. She said that if the cake was good, it would be as if when we went to the store and bought the ingredients, we also bought a can of "good." Opened the can and poured he contents into the mixing bowl and stirred "good" into the batter. Poured the "good" batter into a pan, put the pan in the oven and baked the cake. Took the good cake out of the oven and then ate a piece of good cake.

When in reality, the good is not in the cake. The good is in us.

Om gate gate, paragate, parasam gate, boddhisvaha.

Go further. Go beyond. Go beyond the beyond. Be that.