The Diamond Sutra and Mindfulness Meditation -Let Go of the Composite Form
琉璃心The Mindful Heart /Mindfulness Meditation
2025-06-1100:31:18
The Mindful Heart Season 5, Episode 78
Let Go of the Composite Form
Under the quiet glow of the Strawberry Moon, we arrive at Episode 78.
This week’s episode is about letting go-not running away, but gently seeing things for what they are, and loosening the grip we didn’t realize we were holding.
Last Friday, I attended the premiere of The World Between Us 2, a deeply moving Taiwanese drama now streaming across 240 countries via Amazon Prime Video.
In the show, there’s a mental health facility called Chingyun mental health hospital-a space for reflection, for breakdown, for healing. That fictional place is based on a real one: an oil painting I created last year, late at night, in solitude. I painted it because I, too, needed a place to rest my mind. Somehow, that image made its way into the show’s visual language-just as our quiet intentions often ripple further than we expect.
This episode centers on a line from the Diamond Sutra:
“A composite form cannot truly be spoken of. But ordinary people become attached to it.”
When we say:
“I failed.”
“They hurt me.”
“This is who I am.”
-we’re clinging to a composite form: a temporary bundle of feelings, memories, stories, and physical reactions. We treat that moment as the whole truth.
But mindfulness gently reminds us:
These identities are assembled, moment by moment. They are not fixed.
And they are not who we truly are.
In this episode, I’ll guide you through a simple mindfulness practice to help you see these “composite forms” clearly-then let them go, breath by breath.
Just like the Strawberry Moon:
It is full-not for anyone.
It shines-not to prove anything.
It simply is.
What would it feel like if we could live like that, too?
Thank you, as always, for listening with your mindful heart.
May this episode bring you closer to the ground of peace that’s always been there.
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