Life does not get in the way
It is the way
Rebecca Li, Chan meditation teacher
Everyday
Tag: Mindfulness
with nothing
The Absolute works with nothing.
The workshop, the materials are what do not exist.
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Rumi
Stop fighting
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past.
To come into the present is to stop the war.
Jack Kornfield
Joy
Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy.
Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.
It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.
David Steindal-Rast osb
Sunday Quote: Simple words
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
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.
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