Now that all your worry
has proved such an unlucrative business
why not find a better job?
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Not paying off
Tag: impermanence
Watching it all
Practice sitting like a mountain sometime,
allowing all images and feelings and sensations to come and go as you reside in steadfastness, watching it all arise and pass away.
This is an image of equanimity
We feel everything, without exception, and we relate to it through our own strength of awareness, not through habitual reactions
Sharon Salzberg
Whole
The hardest thing I’ve learned,
and still struggle with,
is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.
Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Mind traps
From the great Bodhidharma, Chan Buddhism, 5th or 6th century CE. Delusion is one of the challenges of the mind in Buddhism. Its opposite is wisdom, which sees reality as it actually is: subject to change in ways that we can never quite anticipate.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
What you see
It is the beauty within us that makes it possible to recognize the beauty around us.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
The place we all seek
Let go of that which is ahead of you,
let go of that which has already gone,
and let go of the in-between.
If you have a heart that takes hold nowhere
you arrive at the place beyond all suffering
Dhammapada, 348
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