Having no destination, I am never lost.
Ikkyuu, 1394-1481, Zen Buddhist monk and poet
Sunday Quote: Always setting out
Tag: impermanence
Let it flow
Can’t just “let it go”?
That’s because emotions are not like rocks we can drop and throw.
They are more like drops of water that need to run through us.
So don’t let it go
Let it flow
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha blog
Step back
Sometimes, to achieve something, it is best if we step back or let go, as the Daoist-sounding great Zen Master reminds us
When you leave the way to the way,
you attain the way.
Dogen, Bodaisatta-Shishobo, The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance, 1234
Sunday Quote: Live without roads
To live without roads
seemed one way not to get lost.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Seasons
What can I say that I have not said before?
So I’ll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until it all ends.
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Mary Oliver What Can I Say [extract]
You cannot hold gravity
The universe does not
revolve around you.
The stars and planets spinning
through the ballroom of space
dance with one another
quite outside of your small life.
You cannot hold gravity
or seasons; even air and water
inevitably evade your grasp.
Why not, then, let go?
You could move through time
like a shark through water,
neither restless nor ceasing,
absorbed in and absorbing
the native element.
Why pretend you can do otherwise?
The world comes in at every pore,
mixes in your blood before
breath releases you into
the world again. Did you think
the fragile boundary of your skin
could build a wall?
Listen. Every molecule is humming
its particular pitch.
Of course you are a symphony.
Whose tune do you think
the planets are singing
as they dance?
Lynn Ungar, Boundaries
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