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This body’s lifetime is like a bubble’s:
may as well let things go.Hopes and events seldom agree,
but the one who can step back doesn’t worryWe blossom and fade like flowerswe gather and part like cloudsearthly thoughts I forgot long agorelaxing all day on a mountain peakShiwu, Chinese Zen Poet, 1272 – 1352, Mountain Poems, No. 31
Month: August 2014
A motto for this month: In the ordinary moment
You didn’t have to be learned, live in a monastery or have extraordinary experiences in order to practice mindfulness:
Bankei was approached by a priest who boasted that his master possessed miraculous powers.
This master could take a brush and write Amida in the air and the word would appear on a sheet of paper in the distance.
Challenged to equal this, Bankei replied, “My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.”
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