Dhamma is simple:
Live with love and be aware.
It is only the mind that complicates this teaching and says that it is not enough.
Michael Kewley, Former Buddhist monk, currently teaching courses on Awareness and meditation
Complicating things
Month: January 2022
Not who we are
The transformation of fear does not mean that we no longer have fearful responses. It means that we no longer believe that those responses are who we are. This is what practice is about: learning to stop believing that our deep-seated reactivity is who we are. Who we really are is much bigger than any of our fear-based conditioned responses. When we can really experience fear, we can see through this false identification, perhaps even glimpsing a vaster sense of Being.
Ezra Bayda, Being Zen
Endless winding beauty
Stop now, right now, and look around you. This is your place in the labyrinth. There is no place else you need to be. See with eyes that aren’t fixed on goals, or focused on flaws. You are part of the endless, winding beauty. And as you learn to see the dappled loveliness of your life, as your new eyes help you begin loving the labyrinth, you’ll slowly come to realize that the labyrinth was made solely for the purpose of loving you.
Martha Beck
Looking forward
One day I finally realized that I no longer needed a personal history and just like drinking I gave it up, and that, and only that, has made all the difference.
Carlos Castenada, Don Juan
Do what you love
Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise.
Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Thoreau
Sunday quote: Don’t wait
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
The Talmud
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