Phenomenon are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart.
If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow that never leaves
Dhammapada Twin Verses, 2
A clean bright heart
Tag: Mindfulness
Simple. Be present
I don’t know anything about consciousness.
I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing
Shunryu Suzuki roshi, 1904 – 1971
Your great teacher
What would happen if you put striving aside?
What if your practice was simply being present ?
Just open awareness. Just here. No longer anything to find. Just being present.
And then within that….letting your own heart teach you. Letting your own heart guide you.
What if you trusted that your own heart is really your great teacher?
Henry Shukman, Zen teacher, Mountain Cloud Zen Center
No need to force
The Tao is always at ease.
It overcomes without competing,
arrives without being summoned,
accomplishes without a plan.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 73
Even a brief moment
Even the briefest moment of silence is both
a way of coming into the present
and a way of moving on.
Jon Kabat Zinn
Already there
Choiceless awareness is a quality of mind that is free from making judgments, decisions or generating commentary as it meets with sense experiences. It is a mind that responds to each new moment without the burden of its past history or of making future projections. When the mind no longer clings anywhere, not even to the idea of not clinging anywhere, we realize, either suddenly or gradually, that we truly already are that for which we have been searching
Matthew Flickstein, Meditation teacher, Cultivating Choiceless Awareness
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