Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke the owls. Invoke winter, then spring.
Let any season that wants to come here make its own call. After that sound goes away, wait.…
How you stand here is important. How you listen for the next things to happen. How you breathe.
William Stafford, Being a Person
The journey to acceptance is about discovering what we need to let go of, rather than what we need to start doing.
By noticing moments of resistance throughout the day, you can start to become more aware of what prevents acceptance from naturally arising. This in turn will allow you to view the thoughts and feelings that arise during your meditation with a much greater sense of ease.
Andy Puddicombe, Ten Tips for Living more Mindfully
You should train yourself thus: In what is seen, there is only the seen. In what is heard, there is only the heard. In what is sensed, there is only the sensed. In what is understood, only the understood.
This is how you should train yourself. When for you there is in what is seen, only the seen, in what is heard, only the heard, in what is sensed only the sensed and in what is understood only the understood, then there is no you in connection with what is seen, heard, sensed or cognized, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor there nor anywhere in-between.
This and only this is the end of stress and unhappiness
The Buddha in the Bāhiya Sutta.
There is not a particle of life
which does not bear poetry within it.
Flaubert
I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how to do it.
Picasso
Enlightenment involves derailing and deconstructing the sense of lack.
It is getting rid of that piece of psychology that in every moment says, “There’s something else that I should be having right now. There’s something else that I should be right now. There’s somewhere else that I could go right now. There’s somebody else who’s got it better than me right now. I’m not complete right now. I need to be something right now”.
Ajahn Sucitto, Parami: Ways to Cross Life’s Floods
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