The water that you see in the waterfall
has already rushed to the great ocean.
Life is like the rushing water of the waterfall. From a distance it appears solid, but when you look closely, you see that it is in constant movement, continuous change, rushing like a cascade of long white rope
Tangen Harada Roshi, Throw yourself into the House of Buddha
How do you let go of attachment to things?
Don’t even try. It’s impossible.
Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them
Eckhart Tolle
A new month and a new season.
May all that is unforgiven in you,
Be released.
May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquilities.
May all that is unlived in you,
Blossom into a future,
Graced with love.
John O’Donohue, Benedictus
“Noise” in this image can stand for all the hassles which we encounter this day
For the mind that is silent, noise is as direct a spoke into the hub of silence as are birdsong, wind, and waves.
It requires nothing more than to meet noise with stillness and not commentary.
Martin Laird, A Sunlit Absence
Water, when it flows downstream, does not have a model of what it’s doing. Its just being water, and water flows downstream, because that’s how water works.
The thing that is extraordinarily hard for any of us to truly realize and have sufficient faith to accept, is that if you stop having views, having models, planning, desiring, organizing and structuring….
it’s all right.
Ram Dass
I hate endings.….The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap.
Why not be more honest with the moment?
The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.
Sam Shepard, 1943 – 2017, American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director.
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