The environment we create
will determine what prevails.
In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins
Jane Goodall, 1934 – English primatologist and anthropologist.
What are we nurturing?
Tag: Mindfulness
Unhurried
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work.
Søren Kierkegaard, 1813– 1855), philosopher.
Like an elephant
In one of his insightful talks Zen master Shunryu Suzuki said that in your practice you should walk like an elephant.
It means to move at a comfortable pace. No rushing toward a goal. No push to make it all meaningful. The … texts of Taoism and Zen teach that it’s important to do what you do without trying to accomplish anything.
You don’t have to get anywhere. There are no goals and objectives: nothing to succeed in, and nothing in which to fail. You can sit in your house, as Thoreau did, and be attentive – his suggestion. “We are surrounded by a rich and fertile mystery. May we not probe it, pry into it, employ ourselves about it – a little? . . . If by watching all day and all night I may detect some trace of the Ineffable, then will it not be worth the while to watch?”
Thomas Moore, A Religion of One’s Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World
The voice of the mind
There is nothing more important to true growth
than realizing you are not the voice of the mind –
You are the one who hears it
Michael Singer
What causes our agitation
There is a Noble truth about the arising of suffering:
It arises with a thirst for more, that is …always running here and there.
That is, a thirst for sense-input, a thirst to be something, a thirst to not be something.
The Buddha, The Turning of the Wheel Sutta
Sunday Quote: Underneath all the noise
Water is free from the birth
and death of a wave.
Thich Nhat Hahn
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