Tag: Life

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not

Epicurus

An opportunity

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Whether we are on the busy streets of New York or in the solitude of a mountain cave in Nepal, our happiness and contentment are completely in our own hands. Sitting meditation enables us to rest our mind in a present and cheerful way. When we sit, we make a direct relationship to the source of happiness. At the base of that experience is a quality of happiness, which is not a sense of giddiness, but of relaxation. Wherever we are, life is going to be coming at us. But if we use our lives as an opportunity to develop and enhance our mind, we will always be able to acknowledge that we are in a precious situation.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

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Simply

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sitting

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, German psychtheorapoist and zen teacher

Six words to live by

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Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t Think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

Tilopa ( 988–1069 } passed on this advice on  mahāmudrā meditation to Naropa, his successor.

  In the original Tibetan it contains just six words. The following translation attempts to tease out their full meaning:

Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don’t try to figure anything out.
Don’t try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.

Translation: Ken McLeod in Unfettered Mind

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We will never be here again

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The gods envy us.

They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last.

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.

You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.

Homer, The Iliad

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Sunday Quote: Your Comment

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That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.

“Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

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