A long weekend here in Ireland.
My home can be anywhere, heaven or earth.
All I need is room in my heart.
And a good source of water, of course.
You need room in your heart . . . a big empty space
To sort out what’s real from what’s not.
Hsu Yun, 1840 – 1959, renowned and influential Chinese Chan Buddhist master
“You know, you’re a little complicated after all”
“Oh no”, she assured him, “I’m not really,
I’m just a – I’m just a whole lot of different people”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
In this whole world, everyone searches for happiness outside, but nobody understands their true self inside. Everybody says, “I, I want this, I am like that” . . . But nobody understands this I.
Before you were born, where did your I come from? When you die, where will your I go? If you sincerely ask, “What am I?”, sooner or later you will run into a wall where all thinking is cut off.
We call this “Don’t know”.
Zen is keeping this Don’t Know Mind always and everywhere.
Seungsahn Haengwon, 1927 – 2004, Korean Seon (Zen) master and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen.
Repeatedly turn the mind toward what is known:
All things are of the nature to change.
Our only inheritance is impermanence and the truth that conditions rise and fall.
Jessica Angima, Kenyan American artist and meditation teacher
Life is not as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
Eckhart Tolle
Look at love – how it tangles
with the one fallen in love
look at spirit – how it fuses with earth
giving it new life.
Why are you so busy with this or that, or good or bad –
pay attention to how things blend.
Why talk about all the known and the unknown –
see how the unknown merges into the known
Rumi, Look at Love [extract]
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