Very grey these days in Ireland, not quite Summer weather….
When we are willing to be intimate with what actually is here now,
to look directly at all our experience,
we might recognize that this is our life
however different from our thoughts and ideas about it
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Abbot of the Village Zendo, Soto Zen tradition, New York
The Buddhist viewpoint has consistently demonstrated [that]
it is the perspective of the sufferer that determines
whether a given experience perpetuates suffering
or is a vehicle for awakening
Mark Epstein
See and realize
that this world
is not permanent.
Neither late nor early flowers
will remain.
Ryokan
We don’t really hear what people say,
We imagine what they mean
Byron Katie
We have the good fortune to be born as human beings..
Let us be joyous.
Dogen
Think lightly of yourself
and deeply of the world.
Miyamoto Musashi, 1584 – 1645, Japanese swordsman and philosopher, author of The Book of Five Rings
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