Tag: Joy

Holding things lightly

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Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

Sunday Quote: Good

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What matters is the good we did

Not the good we expected others to do.

Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times can Help us Grow

The best season

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Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.

Wu Men Hui-k’ai, 1183 – 1260, Chinese Chan master

Stephen Mitchell translation

Sunday Quote: Luminous

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This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view,

but inside the angel,

is perhaps my real task.

Rilke, in a Letter, 1915

Joy

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84,000 delusions

84,000 lights

84,000 joys abounding 

Saichi Asahara, Jōdo Shinshū [True Pure Land Buddhism] poet, writer and sandal maker

In Buddhism it is said that there are 84,000 doors to Enlightenment

Sunday Quote: A light in the heart

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No striving, no grasping at this or that, no entertaining any self-involved stories whatsoever.

Instead, attention pivots toward a light in the heart in which the ‘field of boundless emptiness’ is revealed.

All questions and doubts are put to rest.

Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091–1157, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk