The most common way people give up their power,
is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
Sunday Quote: Power
Month: April 2023
A big empty space
A long weekend here in Ireland.
My home can be anywhere, heaven or earth.
All I need is room in my heart.
And a good source of water, of course.
You need room in your heart . . . a big empty space
To sort out what’s real from what’s not.
Hsu Yun, 1840 – 1959, renowned and influential Chinese Chan Buddhist master
Parts
“You know, you’re a little complicated after all”
“Oh no”, she assured him, “I’m not really,
I’m just a – I’m just a whole lot of different people”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Don’t Know Mind
In this whole world, everyone searches for happiness outside, but nobody understands their true self inside. Everybody says, “I, I want this, I am like that” . . . But nobody understands this I.
Before you were born, where did your I come from? When you die, where will your I go? If you sincerely ask, “What am I?”, sooner or later you will run into a wall where all thinking is cut off.
We call this “Don’t know”.
Zen is keeping this Don’t Know Mind always and everywhere.
Seungsahn Haengwon, 1927 – 2004, Korean Seon (Zen) master and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen.
Opening the eye of the mind
Repeatedly turn the mind toward what is known:
All things are of the nature to change.
Our only inheritance is impermanence and the truth that conditions rise and fall.
Jessica Angima, Kenyan American artist and meditation teacher
Holding things lightly
Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
Eckhart Tolle
Mindfulbalance 