Simple words, ongoing challenge….
Do not find fault with the present moment
Keizan Jokin, 1268 – 1325, second great founder of the Sōtō school of Zen
Sunday Quote: Simple words
Tag: Meditation
Completely whole
Intrinsically, we are all completely and perfectly sane. We are enveloped and imbued by this sanity.
But unable to bring ourselves to acknowledge this, we hatch a hodgepodge of beliefs which we embrace and then chase as if they were real, stumbling and falling on the great way.
Dōgen Zenji, 1200 -1253, Japanese Buddhist priest and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.
Time for oneself
Finding yourself doesn’t require that you fly to Tibet, join a convent, or build a meditation room.
Just consistently keep a minimal commitment to empty time.
Martha Beck
The changing of the year
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater.
We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long.
Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.
Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart
Having a happy life
The trick to having a happy life is to remember that it all comes down to what we ourselves make of the life we have.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, Ralph Waldo Emerson says, ” but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger and mosquitoes and silly people.”
Joan Chittister, The Monastic Way, June 2022
Sunday Quote: Choose conscious living
Sit with those who are awake
or the caravan will leave while you are still asleep.
Rumi
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