Holding onto the world lightly is peacefulness
There is nothing that you need to hold on to
There is nothing that you need to push away
Sutta Nipata 1097
a way of peacefulness
Tag: impermanence
Letting change happen
I settled at Cold Mountain a while ago, already it seems like years and years.
Freely drifting, I wander the woods and streams
And sit there, watching things themselves; I am satisfied.
Not many come this far into the mountains,
White clouds sometimes touch and pass, thin grass does for a mattress,
The blue sky makes a good cover, a stone under my head. I am happy
I’ll let heaven and earth go about their changes.
Han Shan, Cold Mountain, poem 12
Hold firm
No matter how difficult a state of mind you may find yourself in,
if you hold firm,
eventually the floating clouds will vanish
and the withering wind must cease
Dogen
Fixed expectations
Your definitions of desirable and undesirable, as well as good and bad, all come about
because you have defined how things need to be, in order for you to be OK
Michael Singer
Magic
The magic that is needed to create or sustain anything is within all of us.
Our magic is unique to us,
and it is not distributed evenly or fairly, but it is within all of us.
Martha Graham, 1894 – 1991, American dancer and choreographer.
Amid the mess
What if the path to happiness is not
bringing order into the mess of our lives
but instead relaxing amid the mess
and rejoicing in its aliveness and beauty
Haemin Sunim, Korean Zen Buddhist Teacher, When Things Don’t go your Way
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