The start of Holy Week in the Christian Tradition. It is good to practice, but also to be aware that every week, every moment is “holy”
The Emperor Wu asked Bodhidharma, “What is the first principle of holy teachings?
Bodhidharma replied: “That there is nothing holy about it”
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere
and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Post prompted by these little purple flowers seen on a walk in Emo yesterday morning.
I perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying,
there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless,
that holds all together, that creates,dissolves and recreates…
for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists,in the midst of untruth, truth persists,
in the midst of darkness, light persists.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let my doing nothing
When I have nothing to do
Become untroubled in its depth
Of peace like the evening in the seashore
When the water is silent.
Rabindranath Tagore
We have natural wakefulness, but we also have a lot of confusion.
The point is that the confusion is temporary and the basic nature is fundamental.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum
that can easily drag you along with it.
Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness,
be it material or psychological.
Happiness comes from letting go
Mark Epstein
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