If you know that – fundamentally –
there is nothing to seek,
you have settled your affairs.
Rinzai Gigen, died 866
Tag: Mindfulness
Sometimes an empty space is the best response
Sometimes peoples words and actions can agitate and upset us.
We wish to react or maybe get fearful and withdraw.
However, sometimes doing nothing, not reacting or rushing to a definitive judgment, can be the wisest course.
Hold a space. Emptiness and form. Non-doing and doing.
Thirty spokes meet in the hub.
But its where the wheel isn’t
is where it’s useful.
Hollowed out, the clay makes a pot.
Where the clay is not
is where it’s useful.
Cut doors and windows to make a room.
Where the room is not,
there is room for you.
So something is shaped into what is;
but its usefulness comes from what is not.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Just flow with it
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
Sunday Quote: Sunday Morning: Safe
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Unnecessary luggage
He who stands stretching on tiptoe
doesn’t stand firm.
He who rushes all the time
cannot maintain the pace.
He who makes a show
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can’t know who he really is.
He who tries to have power over others
can’t empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.
According to followers of the Tao,
“These are unnecessary luggage.”
They do not bring happiness.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching 24
All work and no play
We don’t stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
