Tag: Be fully present

Always new

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I have discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color – something which exists before all forms and colors appear.  This is a very important point.  No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea…  But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing... then at that moment you will have perfect composure.

Suzuki Shunryū, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

No gap

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At the moment of going there, just go there.

At the moment of coming here, just come here.

There is no gap

Dogen, Guidelines for Studying the Way

….is to receive

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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

Springing up and falling back

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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

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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

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May my silences become more accurate

Theodore Roethke, American poet, 1908 – 1963, Words for Young Writers 

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