Sunday Quote: Alive in living

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Life happens for me,

Not to me

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Simple. Be present

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I don’t know anything about consciousness.

I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing

Shunryu Suzuki roshi, 1904 – 1971

Your great teacher

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What would happen if you put striving aside?

What if your practice was simply being present ?

Just open awareness. Just here. No longer anything to find. Just being present.

And then within that….letting your own heart teach you. Letting your own heart guide you.

What if you trusted that your own heart is really your great teacher?

Henry Shukman, Zen teacher, Mountain Cloud Zen Center

No need to force

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The Tao is always at ease.
It overcomes without competing,
arrives without being summoned,
accomplishes without a plan.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 73

A huge relief

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Groundlessness isn’t something we need to avoid. The same feeling we find so troubling when we open to it can be experienced as a huge relief, as freedom from all restraints. It can be experienced as a mind so unbiased and relaxed that we feel expansive and joyful.

Pema Chodron

Even a brief moment

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Even the briefest moment of silence is both

a way of coming into the present

and a way of moving on.

Jon Kabat Zinn