Tag: Life

In front of you

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Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

Karen Maezen Millar, Momma Zen, Walking the Crooked path of Motherhood

photo of pedestrian bridge over the Drac near near the Lac De Monteynard-Avignonet, France,  by herby

As they are

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Just be aware whether you are confused, indifferent, happy, sad, uncertain or whatever.

Be that which allows things to be what they are. 

Just be the observer of whatever is. Right now my mood is “this”, “I feel this”..

Ajahn Sumedho

Sunday Quote: imperfections

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Imperfection is not our personal problem

– it is a natural part of existing.

Tara Brach,  Radical Acceptance

photo wingchi poon

Saturday : Step back

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This body’s lifetime is like a bubble’s:
may as well let things go.
Hopes and events seldom agree,
but the one who can step back doesn’t worry
We blossom and fade like flowers
we gather and part like clouds
earthly thoughts I forgot long ago
relaxing all day on a mountain peak
Shiwu, Chinese Zen Poet, 1272 – 1352,  Mountain Poems, No. 31

Discovering for ourselves

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We live in a huge net and web of being, human and non-human and we have obligations towards it but the only way to fulfill them is by doing it from the inside. Not from the head, not from what we’re told to do, but to discover for ourselves what needs doing and then start doing it.

Jane Hirshfield

Always chasing something

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I have nothing to report my friends,

But if you wish to find meaning

Stop chasing after so many things

Ryōkan Taigu,  Zen Poet,  1758 – 1831