Tag: Life

Sunday Quote: No Add-on’s

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Our effort in meditation is to get rid of something extra.

Shunryu Suzuki

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How to be at peace

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How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

Eckhart Tolle, A new Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose

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Able to hold

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In the Buddhist tradition the ability to be happy is often translated into English as ‘equanimity,’

roughly meaning to be equal to things,

to be large enough for the drama in which we find ourselves.

David Whyte, The Three Marriages

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The way things are

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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.

When we don’t hold strongly to the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Have faith in the way things are.

Love all things that happen as your self; then you can care for all things.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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How to train the mind

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Consider all phenomena to be dreams.
Don’t be swayed by outer circumstances.
Be grateful to everyone.
Don’t brood over the faults of others.
Explore the nature of unborn awareness.
At all times simply rely on a joyful mind.
Don’t expect a standing ovation

Atiśa, 980 – 1054, Seven Points for Training the Mind and Heart

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Able to hold contradictions

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Contradictions have always existed. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude.

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