The goal, if we can speak of a goal on the spiritual path, is not to be attained in the future.
It is the place we start from. It is within us. It is us, our essential self.
We cannot go towards it; we relax back into it
We are revealed as that
Rupert Spira
Seeing all things as equally present
is to cease seeing things
through the lens of their meaning and usefulness to myself
Noelle Oxehandler, Buddhist author
The precious tree of nondual mind
spreads throughout the universe
it bears compassion in flower and fruit,
though there is no other,
and nobody “doing good“
Tilopa, 988 – 1069, Indian tantric master and scholar, influential in the Buddhist Mahāmudrā/ Tibetian tradition
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul.
You are here to realize and honour these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.
John O’Donohue, Anam Chara
Time and again, in practice, all we really have to do is see the part of us that is either fearful or reluctant or objecting.
See that part – the one we think is the problem.
Once we can see that part, the one that we ourselves are objecting to, and believe to be problematic, and the origin of our difficulty in practice – once we see it, we can learn to simply be with it.
No need to do anything about it. Be with it.
Henry Shukman
We experience a lot of moods and external stimuli during any one day. Rather than getting sucked in, can we dwell calmly, simply aware as they rise and pass away?
The mind and the externals are just thus.
The gate of liberation is open.
Dogen
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