Tag: Meditation

Keep believing

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It’s madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn, to give up all dreams because one of them didn’t come true, to give up all attempts because one of them failed. …..

There will always be another opportunity, another friend, another love, a new strength. For every end, there is always a new beginning….. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Hidden in plain sight

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Just as well, with the amount of rain we are getting in Ireland…

I had a discussion with a great master in Japan, and we were talking about the various people who are working to translate the Zen books into English, and he said,”That’s a waste of time.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book. You could use the bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. you could use the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation”.

Alan Watts, In my Own Way

It Should be

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As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be,

You cannot see how it is

Ram Dass

Joy

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84,000 delusions

84,000 lights

84,000 joys abounding 

Saichi Asahara, Jōdo Shinshū [True Pure Land Buddhism] poet, writer and sandal maker

In Buddhism it is said that there are 84,000 doors to Enlightenment

Sunday Quote: A light in the heart

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No striving, no grasping at this or that, no entertaining any self-involved stories whatsoever.

Instead, attention pivots toward a light in the heart in which the ‘field of boundless emptiness’ is revealed.

All questions and doubts are put to rest.

Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091–1157, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk

Fall and rise

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We’re not trying to stand in the middle of something, and know that the situation will pass.

We’re trying to stand in the middle of it and know that our overwhelm will pass.

That’s what’s passing. The situation itself may take a long while, and we have to do some effort in it. But what we’re aimed at, as practitioners, is to first let our overwhelm pass, let it be, let it rise and fall as all emotions do.

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