The hardest thing I’ve learned,
and still struggle with,
is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
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Month: July 2024
Mind traps
From the great Bodhidharma, Chan Buddhism, 5th or 6th century CE. Delusion is one of the challenges of the mind in Buddhism. Its opposite is wisdom, which sees reality as it actually is: subject to change in ways that we can never quite anticipate.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
What you see
It is the beauty within us that makes it possible to recognize the beauty around us.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
The place we all seek
Let go of that which is ahead of you,
let go of that which has already gone,
and let go of the in-between.
If you have a heart that takes hold nowhere
you arrive at the place beyond all suffering
Dhammapada, 348
The light of the sun
The blue sky opens out farther and farther, the daily sense of failure goes away, the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
Kabir
Sunday Quote: Stop chasing
I have nothing to report my friends,
But if you wish to find meaning
Stop chasing after so many things
Ryōkan Taigu, Zen Poet, 1758 – 1831
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