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
Enough
Tag: Joy
an antidote to the rhetoric of growth
A Bank Holiday in Ireland; wise words
But beyond self-care and the ability to (really) listen, the practice of doing nothing has something broader to offer us: an antidote to the rhetoric of growth.
In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative.
Jenny Odell, How to do Nothing
How we live our moments
Like it or not,
this moment is all we really have ot work with
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Sunday Quote: Wholeness
Non est vivere, sed valere vita est
Life is not just a matter of being alive, but living well
Martial, Roman Poet, c 40 – 102 AD, Epigrams Book VI, 70:15)
Sunday quote: Courage
Courage is what love looks like
when tested by the simple everyday necessities
of being alive
David Whyte
Where you stand
How refreshingly bright is the moon of the Fourfold Wisdom!
Being so, is there anything you lack as the absolute presents itself before you?
The place where you stand is the Land of the Lotus,
And your person — the body of the Buddha.
Hakuin, Japanese Zen poet, 1686 – 1768.
