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
Tag: Life
Sunday Quote: imperfections
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 worryWe blossom and fade like flowerswe gather and part like cloudsearthly thoughts I forgot long agorelaxing all day on a mountain peakShiwu, Chinese Zen Poet, 1272 – 1352, Mountain Poems, No. 31
Discovering for ourselves
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
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
Observing everything
The essence of all practice, is to learn to look beyond the sensory world, learn to abide beyond perception. One way that we can do this is to look upon life as something that flows through the mind. Rather than thinking of oneself as a person who is going places, consider these as images going through the mind. Right now we have the image of the meditation hall; this is what we can perceive. The sound of this voice; the feeling of sitting on a cushion; the sense of sight; see that all these things flow through the mind like a current. When Ajahn Sumedho went traveling recently he said he made the determination before he left that he wasn’t going to go around the world, he was just going to let the world go through his mind. Afterwards he said the result was very peaceful: he went everywhere, saw everyone, did everything, but the sense of movement, of a person heading towards somewhere, was absent; there was stillness in its place.
Ajahn Amaro
photo keven law
