Tag: Be fully present

In front of you

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Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

Karen Maezen Millar, Momma Zen, Walking the Crooked path of Motherhood

photo of pedestrian bridge over the Drac near near the Lac De Monteynard-Avignonet, France,  by herby

The way of letting things be

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With no mind,  flowers invite the butterfly;
With no mind,  the butterfly visits the flowers.
Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes;
When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

I don’t know others, Others don’t know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature’s course.

Ryōkan Taigu, 1758 – 1831

As they are

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Just be aware whether you are confused, indifferent, happy, sad, uncertain or whatever.

Be that which allows things to be what they are. 

Just be the observer of whatever is. Right now my mood is “this”, “I feel this”..

Ajahn Sumedho

Unique

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If you don’t look at things through your concepts, you’ll never be bored. 

Every single thing is unique. 

Every sparrow is unlike every other sparrow despite the similarities. 

It’s a great help to have similarities, so we can abstract, so that we can have a concept. 

It’s a great help, from the point of view of communication, education, science. 

But it’s also very misleading and a great hindrance  to seeing this concrete individual. 

If all you experience is your concept,  you’re not experiencing reality,  because reality is concrete. 

The concept is a help, to lead you to reality, but when you get there, 

you’ve got to intuit or experience it directly.

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Anthony de Mello. sj.

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How we look and what we see

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The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeing new landscapes
but in having new eyes

(Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux)

Marcel Proust

Just realize

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Your true Self is always Present, Happiness is always Present.
You do not have to work at attaining it,
just remove the obstacles by which you cannot see it.
The hindrance is only one: Attachment to the past.

Sri H.W.L. Poonja ( Papaji),  The Truth Is