Buddha sends a postcard home #2 of 7
Dear Gopa,
I hope you are well and happy. I expect Ma and Pa showed you the postcard I sent. It told them I have learned to live in full awareness. I expect you are still practicing Vedic meditation, trying to live in awareness yourself, seeing things as they really are. I will teach you what I have learned.
Have you seen when you sit in the palace garden that everything is connected to everything else? Not one thing has its own separate self. Not one thing is independent. The flowers depend on the soil, the soil depends on the rain, the insects depend on the flowers, the stream depends on the clouds. Looking at it with awareness, the garden becomes an interconnected whole.
So nothing exists in the way we usually think it does. Nothing is fixed. Everything is flux. Things appear when the right conditions come together and pass away when conditions change. Nothing is permanent. All things are interconnected and interdependent; nothing we can grasp, nothing to crave for, nothing to fear losing, nothing to cause us suffering. It is not a matter of words and concepts. Meditation brings the calm mind we need to live in this awareness.
I look forward to seeing our son. I am sure he has grown strong and wise with your tender care.
Yours with a joyful mind,
Siddhartha
Peter Limbrick, August 2025
See:
The Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent Arising by Lobsang Gyatso.
The Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy By Gay Watson
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