It is imperative to cut off the mind road.
If you do not cut off the mind road, you will be a ghost, clinging to the grass.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai,, 1183–1260, Chinese Chán master
Overthinking
Tag: Awareness
Magic all around
There’s always a lot of magic, but our way of seeing it is very small and we mostly just call it Nature.
Why, we are not at all surprised that we can pick up an apple in autumn that was a pink flower in the spring.
That’s natural magic and we don’t really notice it.
Pat O’Shea, 1931 – 2007, Irish children’s fiction writer, The Hounds of the Mórrígan
Stop talking to yourself
If you aren’t feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn’t have anything to feed on.
It peaks and passes on.
In order to be gentle and create an atmosphere of compassion for yourself, it’s necessary to stop talking to yourself about how wrong everything is – or how right everything is, for that matter.
Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are – a Guide to Compassionate Living
Where you stand
How refreshingly bright is the moon of the Fourfold Wisdom!
Being so, is there anything you lack as the absolute presents itself before you?
The place where you stand is the Land of the Lotus,
And your person — the body of the Buddha.
Hakuin, Japanese Zen poet, 1686 – 1768.
Remember today
Much of what you see “out there” is actually manufactured “in here” by your brain
Only a small fraction of the input to your occipital lobes comes from the external world;
the rest comes from internal memory stores and perceptual-processing modules.
Rich Hanson, Buddha’s Brain
Sunday Quote: Power
The most common way people give up their power,
is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
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