When you find your place where you actually are, practice occurs....
When you find your way at this moment, practice occurs…
Here is the place; Here the way unfolds
Dogen, 1200 – 1253, Genjōkōan: Actualizaing the Fundamental Point
Tag: Life
What is the sacred?
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do,
doing it with your whole heart,
and finding delight in doing it.
And the delight is the sense of the sacred.
Helen Luke, 1904 – 1995, Jungian Analyst and writer
Start now
Starting here, what do you want to remember?…
Are you waiting
for time to show you some better thoughts?
When you turn around, starting here, lift this
new glimpse that you found; carry into evening
all that you want from this day. This interval you spent
reading or hearing this, keep it for life –
What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?
William Stafford, You Reading this, Be Ready (extract)
Sunday Quote: waiting
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life
waiting to start living.
Eckhart Tolle
Another moment, another chance
I know now,
after fifty years,
that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering,
leaving/returning, never stops.
The whole of life is about another chance
Jeanette Winterson, Why be Happy when you Could Be Normal?
Being as is
The wise person man, perceiving wealth and craving,
Knows them to be empty illusion;
Food and clothes sustain our body and life;
But I advise you to learn
Being as is.
When it’s time, I leave my hermitage and go,
And there’s nothing to be left behind
Layman Pang, 740 – 808, Chinese Chan layman
