Leave everything as it is, in fundamental simplicity,
and clarity will arise by itself.
Only by doing nothing
will you do all there is to be done.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Tag: Acceptance
The reacting mind
Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or YOU? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. Reality is not problematic. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with “me” and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
Anthony de Mello, sj.
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It better happen this way
Every day, we give precedence to our mind’s thoughts over the reality unfolding before us. We regularly say things like, “It better not rain today because I’m going camping” or “I better get that raise because I really need the money.” Notice that these bold claims about what should and shouldn’t be happening are not based on scientific evidence; they’re based solely on personal preferences made up in our minds. Without realizing it, we do this with everything in our lives — it’s as though we actually believe that the world around us is supposed to manifest in accordance to our own likes and dislikes. If it doesn’t, surely something is very wrong. This is an extremely difficult way to live, and it is the reason we feel that we are always struggling with life.
Michael SInger, The Surrender Experiment
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Sunday Quote: No map….
You must give up the life you planned
in order to have the life that is waiting for you
Joseph Campbell
Arising and returning
The “10,000 is things”expression for all that happens in a life, or in the world of our experience. They arise and pass away, continually rearranging themselves, and we have to learn how to work with this reality:
The ten thousand things arise together;
In their arising is their return.
Now they flower, and flowering sink homeward, returning to the root.
The return to the root is peace.
Peace: to accept what must be
and to know what endures.
In that knowledge is wisdom
Lao Tzu
At ease with whatever is here
Settling, white dew
does not discriminate
each drop its home
Nishiyama Soin, 1605 – 1682, Japanese poet
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