In our actual experience of life, our life is not plural, not only plural, but also singular. Each one of us are independent and dependent. We…after some years we will die. That will be the end of our life but if we think that is our end of life, that is wrong understanding. And if we think we do not die, that is also wrong understanding: we die and we do not die and that is right understanding.
Suzuki Roshi, Lecture on posture
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A flower falls, even though we love it;
a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
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Being kind is a simple practice, but it is also a transforming practice,
because as we continue, the conceptual boundary between “us” and “them” begins to melt
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Everyone should be born into this world happy and loving everything. But in truth it rarely works that way. For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it. Halleluiah, anyway I’m not where I started!
And have you too been trudging like that, sometimes almost forgetting how wondrous the world is and how miraculously kind some people can be? And have you too decided that probably nothing important is ever easy? Not, say, for the first sixty years.
Halleluiah, I’m sixty now, and even a little more, and some days I feel I have wings.
Mary Oliver, Halleluiah.
It is easy enough to see that all through our lives we are faced with the task of reconciling opposites
which, in logical thought, cannot be reconciled
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
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