How can you follow the course of your life
if you do not let it flow
Lao Tzu quoted in Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Going with the current
Tag: Be fully present
Be patient
In Tibetan Buddhism there’s a set of teachings for cultivating compassion called mind training, or lojong. One of the lojong teachings is, “Whichever of the two occurs, be patient.” This means if a painful situation occurs, be patient, and if a pleasant situation occurs, be patient.
This is an interesting point. Usually, we jump all the time; whether it’s pain or pleasure, we want resolution. So if we’re happy and something is great, we could also be patient then, and not fill up the space, going a million miles an hour —impulse shopping, impulse talking, impulse acting out.
Pema Chodron
Every step today
If you look for the truth outside yourself
It gets further and further away
Today, walking alone, I meet him everywhere I step
He is the same as me, yet I am not him
Only if you understand it in this way
will you merge with the way things are.
Dongshan, 9th Century China, Chan Buddhist monk (Stephen Mitchell translation)
Sunday Quote: Always changing
This dewdrop world –
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet
Kobayashi Issa, 1763 – 1828, Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest, after the death of his daughter
What to do now
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far into the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
How to keep going
When the big things feel out of control,
focus on what you love right under your nose.
The Horse in Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
per Laura V…
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