Every time you make sense out of reality,
you bump into something that destroys the sense you made.
Anthony de Mello, s.j.
Tag: Mindfulness
Life flows
When effort is needed, effort will appear.
When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself.
You need not push life about.
Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment,
which is the dying now to the now. For living is dying.
Without death life cannot be.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 – 1981, Hindu Non-Dualist teacher
Serene
They don’t grieve over the past,
Nor do they yearn for the future
They live only in the present
That’s why their face is serene
Its from yearning for the future
And grieving over the past
This is how fools become withered
Like a fresh reed that’s been hacked down
The Buddha, Collected Discourses, 1.10
Using wisdom in this present moment
The way of mindfulness is, however, always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.
Then suffering isn’t dependent on the world being good or bad, but on how willing we are to use wisdom in this present moment.
The way out of suffering is now, in being able to see things as they are
Ajahn Sumedho, The Way it Is
Walking in light
A poem for this Easter Monday, traditionally in Italy “Lunedì dell’Angelo”, (Monday of the Angel), a day for going for a walk, remembering the road to Emmaus story in the New Testament
Now you know the worst
we humans have to know
about ourselves, and I am sorry,
for I know that you will be afraid.
To those of our bodies given
without pity to be burned, I know
there is no answer
but loving one another,
even our enemies, and this is hard.
But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine
though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light.
You do not have to walk in darkness.
If you will have the courage for love,
you may walk in light.
Wendell Berry, Now you Know the Worst
Sunday Quote: New worlds
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg, 1923 – 2010, American counterculture poet and author.
