Most people want to have pure clarity,
but sweep as you will,
you cannot empty the mind.
Keizan Jokin, Zen master, 1268–1325
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.
Getting real
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry
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Loveliness
For lack of attention
a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill
No gap
At the moment of going there, just go there.
At the moment of coming here, just come here.
There is no gap
Dogen, Guidelines for Studying the Way
Right in front of us
We cannot become truly good in a better, more marvellous, and yet easier way
than by the simple use of the means offered us by God:
The acceptance of all that comes to us at each moment of our lives.
Jean Pierre de Caussade, French Jesuit priest, 1675 – 1751, author of The Sacrament of the Present Moment
….is to receive
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher…..
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned
