Body and mind are one.
Thus, if you straighten your body, your mind is straight.
Miyazaki Zenji, 1901 – 2008, Zen abbot of Eiheiji Monastery
Not two
Tag: Life
Sunday Quote: One life
There is only one life you can call your own
and a thousand others you can call by any name you want.
David Whyte
Without distinction
When things no longer have the ability to offend you,
they cease to exist in the old way.
Jianzhi Sengcan, died 606, the Third Zen Patriarch
Quiet power
Sorcerers maintain that talking about ourselves makes us accessible and weak, while learning how to be quiet fills us with power.
A principle of the path of knowledge is to turn your own life into something so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.
Carlos Castaneda
The key
The key to our deepest happiness
lies in changing our vision
of where to find it
Sharon Salzberg, Finding your Way
Go with the flow
Get out of the construction business!
Stop building bridges across the raging waters of samsaric existence, attempting to reach the “far shore,” nirvana.
Better to simply relax, at ease and carefree, in total naturalness, and just go with the primordial flow, however it occurs and happens.
And remember this: whether or not you go with the flow, it always goes with you.
Nyoshül Khenpo Rinpoche, 1932 – 1999 , Tibetan lama
