The practice of meditation does not involve discontinuing one’s relationship with oneself and looking for a better person or searching for the possibility of reforming oneself and becoming a better person. The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one’s confusion, chaos, aggression and passion – but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view
Chogyam Trungpa, The Path is the Goal
The moment at which a feeling of pleasure or pain begins to turn into a disturbing emotion is the point at which meditative awareness can be most effective. Before we describe or explain feelings to ourselves, how do they feel? What do we actually experience before we name them and are caught by them? Meditative awareness helps us to know and come into contact with that basic aspect of our experience of feeling.
Martine Bachelor
Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not.
Hearing what is can make you wise.
Hearing what is not can drive you mad
Ghalib, Persian Poet, 1797 – 1869
Love means to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart, without knowing it, from various ills –
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend
Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet
Even if people know that names aren’t reality,
They don’t see that reality itself has no root.
Name … reality … both are beside the point.
Find joy in the ever-shifting flow.
Ryokan
photo Thailand, Quentin and Bianca King,
