Sunday Quote: In all weathers

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

If you only walk on sunny days,

you’ll never reach your destination

Paulo Coelho

Not what happens today

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

What matters in life is not what happens to you,

but what you remember and how you remember it

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Believe

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The nature of reality

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Phádraig daoibh go léir!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

The clouds above us come together and disperse;
The breeze in the yard departs and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can keep us from celebrating?

Lu Yu, Chinese tea master, 733 – 804

Everything is practice

Karl Duffy3 Comments

As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The changing nature of everything

Karl DuffyLeave a comment

Above all, the attitude of Buddhist meditation is one that keeps remembering and focusing on the changing nature of everything. When we witness, listen and relate to sensory experience as change, its power to burn, hold and trap us wanes. There is a sense of dispassion, not through rejection or some other kind of negative attitude to the sensory experience, but just through observing it, bringing the mind fully on to it – as fully as we can. Then the heart grows quiet and still.

Ajahn Sucitto