Nothing we see or hear is perfect.
But right there in the imperfection
is perfect reality
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Tag: Awareness
Content
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not
Epicurus
Simply
A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, German psychtheorapoist and zen teacher
The stones and bricks that make up life
Just this day, with its work, and travel, its meetings and discussions, and its weather, roads, stones and plants. We do not need to add more.
Mind as fences, walls, tiles, and pebbles
is nothing other than fences, walls, tiles, and pebbles.
There is no additional mud or water.
Dogen.
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No longer trying to become
My thought is almost never directed on knowing myself as I am in this moment…and again in this moment. It is difficult for the thought to remain on what is, because it is based on memory and is constantly visualizing the possibility of becoming. How to …resist the desire to become, in favor of simply what is? It is difficult for my thought to stay in front of the unknown. This means abandoning belief in everything it knows, even the trace of the preceding moment. To stay in front of the unknown my mind must be profoundly silent. This is a silence that is not obtained by suppressing or by sacrifice. I do not make the silence. It appears, when the mind sees that by itself alone, it cannot be in contact with something it cannot measure, something higher. Then the mind no longer seeks, it does not try to become.
Gurdjieff’s pupil, Jeanne De Salzmann, (1889 – 1990) Reality of Being
We will never be here again
The gods envy us.
They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last.
Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.
Homer, The Iliad
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