Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher…..
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned
….is to receive
Tag: Be fully present
Springing up and falling back
Happiness is not to be found through great effort and willpower.
It is already present in open relaxation and letting go. Don’t strain.
There’s nothing to do or to undo. Whatever momentarily arises in body–mind has no real import at all, has very little reality whatsoever.
Why identify with it and become attached to it, passing judgment on it and on yourself and others?
Far better simply to let the entire play just happen on its own, springing up and falling back again like waves, without ‘rectifying’ things or manipulating things.
Just noticing how everything vanishes and then magically reappears, again and again and again. Time without end.
It’s only our searching for happiness that prevents us from seeing it.
Lama Gendun Rinpoche, Free and Easy
The secret
The present moment
contains past and future.
The secret of transformation,
is in the way we handle this very moment.
Thich Nhat Hahn, Understanding Our Mind
Getting closer to real meaning
May my silences become more accurate
Theodore Roethke, American poet, 1908 – 1963, Words for Young Writers
photo richard outram
Simply being aware
When you meditate, do not try to have good thoughts, do not try to keep away bad thoughts,
do not try to stop thoughts, and do not try to go after them.
Rather, rest in a state of being aware of the thoughts as they arise.
Kalu Rinpoche
Not knowing but loving
The lesson of spiritual life is not about gaining knowledge,
but about how we love.
Are we able to love what is given to us,
love in the midst of all things,
love ourselves and others?
Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
