You are looking everywhere except within you,
and that is the only place where you are going to find the treasure,
the truth,
the beauty.
Osho
The starting place
Tag: balance
Comings and goings
Does not just apply to people but to all experiences
When you do not block people from coming to you, when you do not stop people from leaving, and when your mind transcends both their coming and leaving, your spiritual practice is indeed accomplished.
Kim Jae Woong, Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind: Reflections of a Korean Buddhist Master
The wisest choice
If you must look back, do so forgivingly.
If you will look forward, do so prayerfully.
But the wisest course would be to be present
in the present gratefully.
Maya Angelou
In 2023, be like a cat
When a cat falls out of a tree, it let’s go of itself. The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground. But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree, and suddenly make up its mind that it didnt want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.
It is the philosophy of the Tao that…the moment we were born we were kicked off a precipice and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it.
So instead of living in a state of chronic tension and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat.
Alan Watts, What is Tao?
Sunday Quote: new and unique
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe
— a moment that never was before and never will be again.
Pablo Casals quoted in Diane Loomans, Full Esteem Ahead
Now the dancing begins
The mind is constantly trying to figure out
what page it’s on in the story of itself.
Close the book. Burn the bookmark. End of story.
Now the dancing begins.
Ikko Narasaki Roshi, Zen Buddhist monk, died 1996.
