Whenever we are seeking happiness,
it is in fact our innate happiness that is seeking us.
The happiness we seek is the happiness we are.
Rupert Spira
Already here
Tag: heart
What Are You Carrying?
If you put down the stories you tell yourself about your life for one minute, what remains?
Let go of a hundred years;
Rest from the ten thousand concerns.
Let go with both hands and walk on,
Free from judgment and division
Shitou Xiqian, Chan Master and hermit, 700–790 Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage
Sunday Quote: What Is Already Here?
Our minds are always asking “How can this moment be better?”
What if we tried asking today, “What is already here?” and stop wishing that reality become something else:
A monk asked Yaoshan
What is the essenital truth in all your teaching?
Yaushan replied
Clouds are in the blue sky;
water is in the bottle
Chan master Yaoshan Weiyan , 751–834, found in the Transmission of the Lamp
Sunday Quote: balance
Keep your thoughts and feelings steady, and your breathing (qi) relaxed and even.
心平气和
Heart-mind calm,
breath harmonious
Common Chinese saying
A Lesson in Letting Things Be
Things are as they are.
Looking out into the universe at night,
we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars,
nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts
Small acts
We are here to change the world
with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily
rather than with one great breakthrough
Harold S. Kushner
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