I don’t know anything about consciousness.
I just try to teach my students to hear the birds sing.
Shunryu Suzuki.
just listen
Tag: heart
a real break
What you need,
what we all need, is silence,
Stop the noise in your mind,
in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard
Thich Nhat Hahn
devoted to gratitude
What would it be like
to awaken to a day devoted to gratitude
a day of thankfulness for what was
and yet will be?
Stephen Levine
Every day is a new day
For the new month….
Every moment is a surprise, if we have the eyes to see it.
The more we cultivate awareness,
the more we realize that even the ordinary is extraordinary.
David Steindal-Rast
a way of working with change
The Dzogchen tradition likes to use metaphors for non-grasping – effortless – awareness to help us recognize the “vast expanse” of our “natural mind”
Rest loosely,
like a bundle of straw untied.
No tightness, no goal
– just this.
Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje, Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs
Sunday Quote: Doing and non-doing
True joy does not come from having or receiving,
but from being… where all delight begins and ends.
Meister Eckhart, Sermon 52, On Detachment
