To those who will come after, I say
Life is not for waiting.
Rumi, Gnostic Donkeys (2)
Sunday Quote: to the fullest
Tag: Meditation
just listen
I don’t know anything about consciousness.
I just try to teach my students to hear the birds sing.
Shunryu Suzuki.
Acting wisely
The Gita emphasises a state of ‘action in inaction’ (naishkarmya karma)
We exhaust ourselves trying to control outcomes.
The [Bhagavad] Gita reminds us: surrender the illusion of control.
Do your duty impeccably, but let go of how things should turn out.
This is the secret of wise action
Stephen Cope, The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living,
Always here
Peace isn’t a thought or a feeling.
It’s the ground of being that’s always here
when you stop clinging to the noise in your head.
Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence
Like a mother
Almost no one is exempt from trauma. While some people have it in a more pronounced way than others, the unpredictable and unstable nature of things makes life inherently traumatic.
What the Buddha revealed through his dreams was that, true as this may be, the mind, by its very nature, is capable of holding trauma much the way a mother naturally relates to a baby.
One does not have to be helpless and fearful, not does one have to be hostile and self-reverential. the mind knows intuitively how to find a middle path. Its implicit relational capacity is hardwired
Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life
Stuck in repeat
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness.
Of these, only three involve misery or suffering.
Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
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