Tag: impermanence

abstractions

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Anicca [impermanence] is very good for helping us break out of our sense of time. Time is an abstraction. We create it as a linear fund, something that moves forward.

But contemplate that. How long has this week been? Ten days? Some said that yesterday felt like 48 hours. And yet, whats ten seconds of pain? How long is a shower? How long is a cold shower?

Time then is a measure of desire – desire for continuity, desire for a certain outcome. It paralyzes us into expectation and anticipation or dread and worry. We skip over the present moment and get lost in something we imagine as out there in the virtual reality we call the future. But in the purest sense there isn’t any future. We are only ever here

Ajahn Sucitto, What you Take Home with You

Let go rather than forcing

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Turn within

and drop off everything completely

and realization will occur.

Silently dwell in the self, in true suchness, abandoning conditioning. 

Open-minded and bright, simply penetrate and drop off everything.

Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091–1157 Chan Buddhist monk, Practice Instructions

I can be happy

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I am aware that happiness depends on my mental attitude, and not on external circumstances.

and that I can live happily in the present moment

simply by remembering that I already have more than enough conditions to be happy

Thich Nhat Hanh

Unseen

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There is always something coming to birth

Even when we don’t desire it,
God is ripening.

Rilke, The Book of Hours I, 16

The greatest discovery

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If it were possible to be in touch

with our inherent peace and happiness

without being dependent on external circumstances,

would that not be the greatest discovery one could make?

Rupert Spira, You are the Happiness you Seek

Nothing special

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You do not need to have any special experiences to be free.

You just need to relate 100 percent fully with whatever you’re experiencing – the good the bad and the ugly

Andrew Holecek