When did you stop questioning your existence?
When did you stop asking yourself, “What’s it all about?” It was probably the moment you learnt to ‘fit in’…you had programmed yourself! It does feel like that, doesn’t it? All nice and cosy (and this can even happen in Dharma centres 🙂 ).
This ‘fitting in’ is a fitting in to the dreams of others…“Live the Dream!”
We are potentially enlightened beings who, instead of being amazed at this pronouncement, are more interested in watching a ball being kicked around, the vintage of a glass of wine, blaming subversive ideas that we have planted and hoped nobody noticed, or making a perfect nest to be a Buddhist on.
So, stop being silly and remember what you are!
I once worked in a sandwich bar in Colorado. Upon handing a gentleman a cheese roll, he exclaimed it to be “awesome”! I found that puzzling…it was just a cheese roll… 😉
In case you’ve forgotten what you are: you are unconfined pure compassionate awareness…that’s alllllll! It’s the source of your being…now that’s awesome!
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
Hello Tony – “fitting in”. I used to be a teacher, and when I look back with a certain mindset, I realise that much of early years education – in spite of all the high ideals and fancy terminology and ideologies – is about encouraging children to “fit in”.
Daisy
PS love the image of building a comfortable nest and perching on it being a perfect Buddhist…!!