Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Tag: Mindfulness
Where you are
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell.
You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sandheap.
You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain.
Thoreau
Not trying to become
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become
enlightened.
When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah, A Still Forest Pool
Remember
[When we are upset, sad, etc … we can remember]
we are the observers of the conditions —
we are not the conditions themselves.
Ajahn Sumedho
Sunday Quote: No roots
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts.
We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center.
So we lost our center and have to find it again.
Anais Nin
Growing resilience
Each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant.
The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.
Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.
Paulo Coelho, Brida
