The great Suzuki Roshi’s classic image on how meditation develops space in our lives and allows us work with whatever challenging thoughts arise:
The way to control your sheep or cow is
to give him a large, spacious meadow .
Tag: impermanence
Sunday Quote: fishing
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau
Again and again
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
Growth must be chosen again and again;
fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham Maslow
Life doesn’t go in a straight line
I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
Federico García Lorca, 1898 – 1936, Spanish poet
In this moment
Back to work after the long Easter weekend:
The way to attain balance:
Who dares to equal the person
who falls into neither being nor non-being!
Everyone wishes to step out of
the current of ordinary life,
But this person, after all, comes back
To sit among the coals and the ashes.
Dongshan Liangjie, Chinese Chan (Zen) teacher (806-869), Verses on the Five Ranks
Follow your own path
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way
Martin Buber
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