“You know, you’re a little complicated after all”
“Oh no”, she assured him, “I’m not really,
I’m just a – I’m just a whole lot of different people”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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Tag: Awareness
Don’t Know Mind
In this whole world, everyone searches for happiness outside, but nobody understands their true self inside. Everybody says, “I, I want this, I am like that” . . . But nobody understands this I.
Before you were born, where did your I come from? When you die, where will your I go? If you sincerely ask, “What am I?”, sooner or later you will run into a wall where all thinking is cut off.
We call this “Don’t know”.
Zen is keeping this Don’t Know Mind always and everywhere.
Seungsahn Haengwon, 1927 – 2004, Korean Seon (Zen) master and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen.
Opening the eye of the mind
Repeatedly turn the mind toward what is known:
All things are of the nature to change.
Our only inheritance is impermanence and the truth that conditions rise and fall.
Jessica Angima, Kenyan American artist and meditation teacher
Sunday Quote: Good
What matters is the good we did
Not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow
The best season
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.
Wu Men Hui-k’ai, 1183 – 1260, Chinese Chan master
Stephen Mitchell translation
Correcting is normal
The ship is always off course.
Anybody who sails knows that.
Sailing is being off course and correcting.
This gives a sense of what life is about.
Michael Meade, 1944 – American Author
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