Continuing to post some quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh who is very ill in hospital as a reminder to keep him in your thoughts
Do not just look for what you want to see,
that would be futile.
Do not look for anything,
but allow the insight to have a chance to come by itself.
That insight will help liberate you
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Joy is being willing for things to be as they are
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special
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Breath – you invisible poem!
Pure, continuous change
with all that is, flow and counterflow
where rhythmically I come to be.
Each time a wave that occurs just once in a sea I discover I am.
You, innermost of oceans, you, infinitude of space.
How many far places were once within me.
Some winds are like my own child.
When I breathe them now, do they know me again?
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus II, 1
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I have learned to live each day as it comes,
and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Day, American journalist and Catholic Social activist
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One of the aims of meditation practice is to develop a mind that sees, and does not get hooked into events too easily. The “Ten Thousand things” in this quote is a shorthand way of talking about all the experiences – good and bad – which arise and pass away. It stands for all of reality, which contains the right mix of experiences for our growth, and with its ebbs and flows is continually rearranging itself.
When the ten thousand things are viewed in their oneness
we return to the origin
and remain where we have always been.
Sosan, Third Zen Patriarch, died 606
Good or bad, happy or sad,
all thoughts vanish into emptiness
like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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