With what can I compare this life of mine?
A boat drifting aimlessly on the water.
Ryōkan, 1758–1831, Zen poet,
Sunday quote: What we aim for
Tag: Meditation
trust the process
Alert to the needs of the journey
those on the path of awareness
like swans, glide on,
leaving behind their former resting places
Dhammapada 91
Relaxing into the flow
Everything changes. This is the first law of life. When we resist this truth, we suffer.
But when we relax into the flow of the present – allowing each moment to arise and pass without clinging – we discover a paradoxical stability: the ground of being that never leaves us.
David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change… and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
a real break
What you need,
what we all need, is silence,
Stop the noise in your mind,
in order for the wondrous sounds of life to be heard
Thich Nhat Hahn
No longer expecting
Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama, you know, expecting victory after victory, and you understand deeply that this is not paradise – we somehow embrace the notion that this vale of tears, that it’s perfectable – you’re not gonna get it all straight.
I found that things got a lot easier when I no longer expected to win….
You understand that, you abandon your masterpiece, and you sink into the real masterpiece…
Leonard Cohen
awareness
Suffering does not belong to awareness; it belongs only to the illusory separate self.
When a thought or feeling appears and we say, ‘This is my sadness,’ we have already misidentified awareness as a person who owns an experience.
But awareness itself is free of suffering – it is like the sky that remains untouched by the storm clouds passing through it.
To abide as awareness is to be free of suffering, not because suffering is denied, but because it is no longer claimed as ‘mine‘
Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware
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