We have natural wakefulness, but we also have a lot of confusion.
The point is that the confusion is temporary and the basic nature is fundamental.
Gaylon Ferguson, Natural Wakefulness
The difference
Tag: Life
friendship with life
I keep yearning for this friendship with life, which is the deeper home I am returned to when I put down all I carry…
Our friendship with life is the ever‑present sanctuary of being that waits beneath our struggles.
Mark Nepo, The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life
From the heart
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all.
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone
W.B.Yeats, A Prayer for Old Age
The way we travel
Human beings do not find their essence through fulfillment or eventual arrival,
but by staying close to the way they like to travel,
to the way they hold the conversation between the ground on which they stand and the horizon to which they go.
We are, in effect, always close to the ultimate secret:
that we are more real in our simple wish to find a way than any destination we could reach
David Whyte, Consolations
this precious moment
We tend to think that life will occur sometime later. However, this moment – exactly as it is – is the full disclosure of reality.
When you find your place right where you are,
the Way itself is being lived out,
and we realize the entire universe in the present moment.
Dōgen, Genjōkōan,
Stop interpreting
We gain peace of mind when we recognize that, in this moment, nothing is actually missing. The sacred is not elsewhere.
Rice in the bowl
Water in the bucket
Zen koan response by Yumen when asked what is fully awakened awareness
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