The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials are what do not exist.
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Rumi
Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy.
Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.
It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.
David Steindal-Rast osb
Simple words, ongoing challenge….
Do not find fault with the present moment
Keizan Jokin, 1268 – 1325, second great founder of the Sōtō school of Zen
Intrinsically, we are all completely and perfectly sane. We are enveloped and imbued by this sanity.
But unable to bring ourselves to acknowledge this, we hatch a hodgepodge of beliefs which we embrace and then chase as if they were real, stumbling and falling on the great way.
Dōgen Zenji, 1200 -1253, Japanese Buddhist priest and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.
Finding yourself doesn’t require that you fly to Tibet, join a convent, or build a meditation room.
Just consistently keep a minimal commitment to empty time.
Martha Beck
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater.
We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long.
Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.
Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart
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