There is an inner wakefulness…
that will eventually
startle us back
to the truth of
who we are.
Rumi
Tag: Awareness
Everywhere and everything
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water
– now it has water inside and water outside.
We mustn’t give it a name,
lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
Kabir
Working with today
Accept – then act.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Always work with it, not against it
Eckhart Tolle
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No stories, just enjoy
It is no easy matter to stop short at just seeing.
Mahasi Sayadaw.
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Needs no comment
Awareness is the centre of what we call ‘mind’, but normally of course, the mind is awareness plus regret, or longing, or analysis, or sidetrack and rumbling trains of thought moving forward, backwards – or anywhere except the simply open present. So it takes training, but with guidance and effort, the meditator centres on awareness as the feature of the mind that is constant, irreducible and needs no comment. Consequently, as awareness releases from these associated activities, it is revealed in its depth and warm beauty. It’s a given treasure.
Ajahn Sucitto, Mind out of Time
phto Laitche
The light in the darkness
One day the sun admitted,
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The Infinite Incandescence
That has cast my brilliant image!
I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The astonishing Light
Of your own Being!
Hafiz
photo D Sharon Pruitt
