It is in the brain that everything takes place….
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Tag: Life
At odds
Suffering occurs when you believe in a thought that is at odds with what is, what was, or what may be. Experience this moment free of your mind’s interpretations of it. You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world. Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true
Adyashanti
Only three things
When you die, only three things will remain of you, since you will abandon all material things on the threshold of the Otherworld:
What you have taught to others,
what you have created with your hands,
and how much love you have spread.
So learn more and more in order to teach wise, long-lasting values. Work more and more to leave the world things of great beauty.
François Bourillon, A French Druid Triad
Big Enough
The Chinese have a saying: We should try to live our life so that it’s big enough to contain all the paradoxes.
Earl G. Ingersoll, Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
Sunday Quote: Trust
Unmoored
in midnight water,
no waves, no wind,
the empty boat
is flooded with moonlight
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, founder of the Sōtō school of Zen.
Stability and freedom
Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future
The past no longer is. The future has not yet come.
Look deeply at life as it is.
In the very here and now the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly – How can we bargain with it
The sage calls the person who lives in mindfulness night and day “one who knows the better way to live”
The Buddha, Bhaddekaratta Sutta
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