Tag: impermanence

Today is Pancake Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. In Latin countries, it marks the end of the Carnival period, Mardi Gras or “Fat Tuesday”. The practice of carnival probably began in ancient times when the last Sunday before the beginning of Lent was called Dominica Carnevala, or “farewell to meat Sunday” – referring to the upcoming Lenten period of fasting and simplification

.Simplify the problem of life: 

distinguish the necessary and the real.

Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. 

Thoreau

Remember to keep a calm head in difficult times

[aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem]

Horace, Odes, book II, poem III, lines 1 – 2

Wait in the stillness,

until you get what you came for.

Byron Katie

A person who has clarified their real state sees only

each thing,

each thing,

each thing,

and lets go of understanding an underlying nature for each thing.

Dogen, Uji