The mind starts to become quiet
when it really sees how untrue its narrative is.
Adyashanti
Very true
Tag: balance
Don’t waste it
Since there is nothing but just this moment
The time-being
is all the time there is.
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist priest and writer, founder of the Soto school of Zen, Shōbōgenzō
Sunday Quote: Luminous
This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view,
but inside the angel,
is perhaps my real task.
Rilke, in a Letter, 1915
Difficulty is a school
Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into it and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route of becoming.
All the magic and glass mountains and pearls the size of houses and princesses beautiful as the day and talking birds and part-time serpents are distractions from the tough core of most of the stories, the struggle to survive against adversaries, to find your place in your world, and to come into your own.
Difficulty is always a school, though learning is optional.
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Joy
84,000 delusions
84,000 lights
84,000 joys abounding
Saichi Asahara, Jōdo Shinshū [True Pure Land Buddhism] poet, writer and sandal maker
In Buddhism it is said that there are 84,000 doors to Enlightenment
Fall and rise
We’re not trying to stand in the middle of something, and know that the situation will pass.
We’re trying to stand in the middle of it and know that our overwhelm will pass.
That’s what’s passing. The situation itself may take a long while, and we have to do some effort in it. But what we’re aimed at, as practitioners, is to first let our overwhelm pass, let it be, let it rise and fall as all emotions do.
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