Warts And All

We are all clones – replications of an idea –
until we break out and recognise our self, warts and all.

To see the complete story, we need acknowledge all the troubling bits, and not idealise.

In England, in 1653, at the time of Oliver Cromwell, it was common for portraits to flatter the subject by softening or removing any blemishes. Cromwell told the portrait painter, Sir Peter Lely, “I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me, with all the roughness, pimples, warts and everything as you see me.”

The real Dharma practice is just like that;
we stop Photoshopping ourselves.
🙂

If we want to know the truth,
we have to know what isn’t the truth.