The sounds of streams
are Buddha’s speech.
The coloured mountains
are Buddha’s pure body.
Night brings eighty-four thousand poems of Buddha.
Listen, someday you may awaken.
Su Shi, 1037 – 1101, Chinese calligrapher, essayist and poet.
Listen
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.
Sunday Quote: Ceasing the struggle
Spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything — not about winning or losing — but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is.
Pema Chodron
A constant journey
Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving.
Life is the train, not the station.
Paulo Coelho
Grounded
While sitting on the floor of a room in Japan and looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragon flies hovering in space, I sensed that this small world, almost underfoot, shall I say, had a validity all its own, but must be realized and appreciated from its own level in space.
I suddenly felt I had too long been exclusively above my boots.
Mark George Tobey, 1890 – 1976, American painted, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.
Now
There is one simple thing wrong with you – you think you have plenty of time….If you don’t think your life is going to last forever, what are you waiting for?
Why the hesitation to change?
Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
The Choice
As we look forward to starting another month …
To dare is to lose one’s footing temporarily;
to not dare, is to lose one’s life
Søren Kierkegaard
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