You never really know what the next moment is going to bring,
so living fully in this moment is the only constantly reappearing option for happiness.
Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness is an inside job
Sunday Quote: the best option
Tag: Joy
A place of surrender
If we pay attention, we will realize that every moment around us, there is a world that we did not create that’s been there for 13.8 billion years, and there’s trillions of cells in your body that are doing what they’re supposed to do, and all of nature, everything.
You wake up and you realize, “I’m not doing any of this. I didn’t make my body. I didn’t make my mind think. I don’t make my heart beat. I don’t make my breath breathe, etc, etc, yet I have this notion that I have to make things happen. Yet, all throughout the universe, things are happening everywhere and I’m not doing them, so why exactly am I the one that’s in charge of what’s unfolding in front of me?”
What you realize at some point is that you’re not; that the moment in front of you that’s unfolding is no different than all the zillions of other moments that aren’t in front of you that are unfolding in accordance to the laws of nature, the laws of creation. You start to practice saying, “I want to pay attention to what the universe is creating in front of me just like it’s creating everywhere where I’m not, and let me see how I can participate in that – be part of that – instead of interfering with it with my desires and my fears.”
That’s living from a place of surrender.
Michael Singer, Living From A Place Of Surrender, Sounds True Blog
A motto for life
More from the always inspiring Dogen. Very little can be added to this as we start another week…
In performing your duties maintain
joyful mind,
kind mind
and great mind
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist monk, founder of the Soto school of Zen.
Sunday Quote: Still
Wait in the stillness, until you get what you came for.
Byron Katie
Wonderful things
Each day we take a lot of things for granted…
Mountains and oceans have whole worlds, with innumerable wonderful features.
However, we should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this,
but even what is right here,
even a single drop of water.
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Buddhist monk, founder of the Soto school of Zen.
Enough
If you have one pot
And can make your tea in it
That will do quite well.
How much he is missing
who must have a lot of things.
Sen no Rikyu, 1522 – 1591, Japanese tea master
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