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 difference
Author: Karl Duffy
This is a Mindfulness Practice Blog written in Laois, Ireland, containing reflections on meditation practice, psychological growth, spirituality and wellness which hopefully may encourage and benefit others as they reflect on their lives and seek to develop a more balanced, mindful and conscious approach to it.
we keep getting caught
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
From letting go
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
Being, not doing
My teacher told me to hold on to the sense ‘I am’ tenaciously and not to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his teaching. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.
I simply followed (my teacher’s) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being, ‘I am’, and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the ‘I am’ in my mind, and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it, all disappeared – myself, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 –1981 indian non dualist teacher
renewable
You are impermanent and renewable, like your breath, like your steps. You are not something permanent experiencing something impermanent. You are something impermanent experiencing something impermanent.
If happiness can be renewed, so can you, because you in the next moment is a renewal of you in this moment. It’s wonderful to know that happiness lasts only as long as one in-breath or one step, because we know we can renew our happiness in another breath or another step.
Thich Nhat Hahn, The Art of Power
Sunday Quote: Oneness
Close your eyes. Find green mountains and pure water within your heart. Silently drinking, feel these become part of you.
When you hold the green tea in the bowl in your hands
The self and the natural world cease to be separate.
Sen Genshitsu, 1923 – 2025, \Grand master of the Urasenke tea tradition
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the hearts of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe.
Black Elk Speaks , recorded early 20th Century
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