The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so.
[In Japanese it is two words]
Suzuki Roshi
Sunday Quote: The secret
Tag: balance
A solid center
Many have gone mad looking for a solid center,
but there is none.
We think of centering as only a continual narrowing
of focus until we touch the pearl
but in practice it is often a continual expansion
of focus until we become the ocean.
Our center is vast space, boundless awareness
indistinguishable from unconditional love.
Stephen Levine
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Sometimes it is better, when we we feel groundless and uncertain, to resist the drive to make a situation right or wrong, and instead to trust in an underlying flow.
Once the whole is divided, the parts need names.
There are already enough names.
One must know when to stop.
Knowing when to stop averts trouble.
All things end in the Tao, like a river flowing home to the sea.
Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching, 32
How do you know?
Try not to resist the changes that come your way.
Instead, let life live through you.
And do not worry that your life is turning upside down.
How do you know that the side you are used to
is better than the one to come?
Rumi
A mind at rest
Without a story, the fragments won’t settle.
Lia Purpura, 1964 – , American poet
Sunday Quote: Joy
what you really want is
love’s confusing joy.
Rumi
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